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were, with the exception of Vol. xi, continued through the whole series to Vol. xxv, inclusive. In Vol. ii. we have a paper on Papists and Recusants in Sussex in 1587, and another on Hastings Castle, Rape, and Town. In Vol. iii, an elaborate paper on The Lewknor Pedigree. In Vol. iv, Extracts from Account Books of the Everenden and Frewen Families. Queen Elizabeth's Visits to Sussex supply him with material for his paper in Vol. v, and to Vol. vi. he contributes a paper on the Liberties and Franchises within the Rape of Hastings. Vol. vii. contains his interesting paper On the Retention of British and Saxon Names in Sussex. Vol. viii. is enriched by his exhaustive paper on The Families of Braose (of Chesworth) and Hoo; and another entitled Notices of Winchelsea in and after the Fifteenth Century. To Vol. ix. his contributions are Annotations on Dr. Smart's extracts from the MSS. of Samuel Jeake; and Brambletye Chantry and Sedition in Sussex in 1579. In Vol. x. is his paper on Smuggling in Sussex, a paper curiously suggestive of the contrast between a state of things, the latter days of which some of our old South Coast dwellers yet living can remember, and the present. Vol. x. also contains a paper on Tokens Struck in Sussex in the Eighteenth Century. A paper on Proofs of Age of Sussex Families will be found in Vol. xii, which is supplemented by a short paper on the same subject in Vol. xv. The Oxenbridges of Brede Place, and of Boston, Massachusetts, one of his best articles, will also be found in Vol. xii. Vol. xiii. contains a List of Grants to Tipper and Dawe; another on Protestant Refugees in Sussex; and a third on Letters and Will of Andrew Borde. Vol. xiv. contains Notices of Hastings (a partnership paper by himself and Mr. Thomas Ross) and one On the Marriage Settlement of Isabella Poynings and William de Cricketot. In Vol. xv. have have the Poynings Pedigree; a paper on the Bonvilles of Halnaker; and a third of considerable interest on Sussex Men at Agincourt. In Vol. xvi. are papers on the Social Condition of the People in Sussex; and on Bramber, its Castle, Elections, &c. In Vol. xvii. he edits Mr. Sharpe's Notes on Ninfield and its Registers; contributes a paper by himself on Produce of