¹ There is a brief note on abbreviations, giving a few titles of books and periodicals, without place or date of publication, but there are many footnotes which may puzzle the stranger. It may not be easy, in an American or Australian library, to identify P.N. Cambs. (E.P.N.S.), P.R.S., Arundel MS. 350, C.J., Cur. Reg. R., 31st Rep. Com. Char., Trans. C.B.S., C.U.R. without fuller guidance. Nor is there any bibliography, but from the copious footnotes one could be constructed of great worth, for the documentation is careful and adequate and it is seldom that insignificant or misleading authorities are cited.

Misprints in so large a volume are infrequent, but some deserve correction: ‘Nuremburg’ for ‘Nuremberg’ p. 94; Canteb. for Cantab (three times on p. 161); ‘if’ for ‘of’ on p. 350; Bye-laws are sometimes thus spelt and sometimes By-laws (pp. 33, 101, 491); ‘p. 8’ on p. 327 should be ‘p. 11’; Richard Crashaw is so spelt on p. 337 and Crashawe on p. 349; Jessup (p. 425) should be Jessopp, Hardwicke (p. 447) is more correctly Hardwick, and ‘equal’ should be read for ‘equals’ (p. 491).

Similarly there has been rather too little attempt to reconcile conflicting statements, e.g. the King’s Mill is demolished in 1927 on p. 64 and in 1928 on p. 101, Thomas Goodwin dies in 1633 on p. 125 and in 1634 on p. 196, the duke of Buckingham gives the University manuscripts on p. 195 which on p. 134 came four years after his death from his widow. An index is promised; it is urgently needed, for without it much is lost.