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1920 REVIEWS OF BOOKS 133 than to publish a transcript of it. One may be allowed to lay down three desiderata : (1) approximate dates should be assigned to all deeds that are not dated ; (2) where the originals of the deeds exist, these should be printed in place of the transcript in the chartulary, and where the originals are lost but independent transcripts exist, these should be collated with the chartulary ; (3) the chartulary should, if possible, be supplemented by any additional title-deeds that can be derived from other sources. Mr. Atkinson's edition of the first volume of Furness failed in these respects, and has been rightly criticized because he omitted to make use of the original monastic deeds among the records of the duchy of Lancaster in the Public Record Office. The originals of about a third of the deeds entered in the coucher-book still survive, and not only provide a better text than John Stell's transcript, but supply the full list of witnesses which Stell usually abridges or entirely omits. Mr. Brownbill not only adopts a better method in his edition of the second volume, but makes full amends for the deficiencies of the first volume by an ample series of notes and additions to it (pp. 729-808). He also gives as separate appendices an interesting series of Irish charters and of documents relating to the Isle of Man, to which the abbots of Furness had the right of appointing a bishop, and prints a selection of ministers' accounts, court-rolls, and ancient petitions of the abbey. Perhaps additional illustrative matter might have been obtained from the little known and little used books of the Land Revenue Office which are rich in material for the history of monastic properties immediately before and after the suppression. Part III of Mr. Brownbill's work contains, in addition to the appendices already noticed, two ex- cellently constructed indexes and a first-rate review of the charters con- tained in the body of the work. Mr. Brownbill's * observations ' on the charters render any detailed notice of the contents of the chartulary unnecessary. It is sufficient to say that the Yorkshire and Cumberland charters in part II are decidedly superior in interest to the Lancashire charters of part I. In those of Cumberland especially with their descriptions of fell and tarn, one catches a breath of the moorland air which blows about the Cistercian world. And, to instance a single charter, it would be difficult to equal the charm of the terrible Latinity in which Alan, son of Uctred, makes provision for his old age (p. 442). There is nothing new under the sun. Here we meet not only with old age pensions but with workmen's compensation (p. 545). Yorkshire squires were fox-hunting in Lonsdale in the reign of King John (p. 293). Under the high-sounding medieval name of Johannes Graindeorge (p. 460) we meet with an old friend, to wit, John Barleycorn. Did the descendants of William Wagesper (p. 419) leave the West Riding for Worcestershire, and settle (with a slight change of surname) in Stratford- on-Avon ? H. H. E. Craster. The Reign of Henry the Fifth. By James Hamilton Wylie, M.A., D.Litt. (Cambridge : University Press, 1919.) All that Dr. Wylie wrote was so distinguished by enthusiasm lor his fiubject and labour in research that we welcome the second volume of