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160 SHORT NOTICES January 1920 Dr. Robert H. Murray, in his Short Guide to the Principal Classes of Documents preserved in the Public Record Office, Dublin (London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1919), has produced a much-needed summary of all the materials preserved in the Dublin Record Office, ' based on the Reports of the Irish Record Commissioners, the Reports of the Deputy Keeper, and personal knowledge '. The documents are grouped according to the office, court, or other body from which they proceed. The period of each series of documents is given, and its character briefly indicated. Calendars and indexes, if in existence, are mentioned, and some useful observations made. In a brief summary of this kind, extending only to 64 pages, much important information is necessarily excluded, and complete accuracy is hardly to be looked for ; but as Dr. Murray generally gives references to his authorities some gaps can be filled and fuller and more exact statements obtained. Thus on p. 24 he says, * The Kilkenny Confederates records comprise the Roll of Associa- tion ', &c., but a reference to the reports of the deputy keeper shows that all the most valuable of these records, including that mentioned, are now missing, and that, not because Colonel Solomon Richards in 1654 * was unable to secure many of them ', but because after they were used at the court of transplantation (1655-6) and carefully indexed, and again used at the court of claims (1662-9) and stored at Dublin, they appear to have been burned, along with many other documents, in the fire that broke out in the council office on 15 April 1711. Hence too, no doubt, it is that several series of existing documents of the privy council commence with the year 1711. When briefly summarizing the contents of the Liber Albus and the Liber Niger of Christ Church (p. 59) reference might have been usefully made to Dr. Lawlor's careful calendars of these collections in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Misprints are few, but we notice on the same page * Carta de Forestra ' and * Confirmation Car- tar um '. G. H. 0. The last volume of the Bijdragen voor Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde (5th ser., vi), besides Dr. Japikse's usual surveys of Dutch historical literature, have several articles of considerable interest. Jonkheer B. M. de Jonge van Ellemeet gives in part 1 an article on the mark- system in Drenthe which supplies a commentary on his map of the marks in Gelderland, Overyssel, and the surrounding districts, recently published in Professor Blok's historical atlas, and gives useful information about the agrarian system, drawn mainly from manuscript sources of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. An elaborate article of Dr. S. P. Haak, in parts 2 and 3, appearing appropriately in the year of Oldenbarneveld's tercentenary, is devoted to proving that the sources of information on the origin of the campaign of 1600 do not warrant the accepted view which attributes to that early date the beginning of the quarrel between Oldenbarneveld and Maurice. C.