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1922 SHORT NOTICES 147 case only is a girl apprenticed to learn a trade, that of a wool-comber. On p. 53 a word occurs that is not found in the New English Dictionary, a ' jour- ney-maid ', evidently a variant for one of those ' charmaids ' whom the assembly was bent on driving into regular service. Of special interest are the entries which deal with the commercial relations between Southampton and foreign parts. Eight Southampton men joined the Spanish Company which received its charter in 1605, and of these, three were among the first assistants of the company. No fewer than twenty-five Southampton men joined the French Company formed in 1606. The Bristol merchants had refused to join, being suspicious of the ' politic devices of the merchants of London, who for their own singular gain do always seek to suppress our charters and privileges for trade of merchandise '. The Southampton merchants were doubtless afraid of being shut out of the French trade altogether if they held aloof from the new company. In the early seven- teenth century Southampton was one of the chief ports whence ships went to Newfoundland for fish and train oil. From Southampton in 1610 Lord de la Warr set out on the voyage that was to ensure the prosperity of the Virginia settlement : he was already a burgess, and received a hogs- head of sack as a parting gift. The associations of Southampton with the Mayflower expedition naturally receive attention : the discussion whether the Mayflower of 16 tons mentioned in the mayor's accounts for 1610 is the Mayflower of the Pilgrim Fathers brings out some points of interest which supplement Mr. Marsden's article ' The Mayflower ' in this Review l and Dr. Rendel Harris's The Last of the Mayflower. Dr. Horrocks also discusses the connexion with Southampton of John Alden, and suggests that he may have been the son of George Alden of All Saints within the Bar, a fletcher or arrow-maker, whose name appears in the ' stall and art ' lists from 1587 to 1620, and who may have died while the Mayflower and the Speedwell were lying in Southampton Water. In conclusion attention should be drawn to a very interesting note on p. 37, which for the first time makes it clear that Southampton sent one ship, the Angel, to serve against the Armada, under the captaincy of Lauraunce Prowse. C. A. J. S. The Mayflower Tercentenary has produced a number of pamphlets which add something to Mr. W. H. Burgess's Life of John Robinson. The most solid of these is Mr. Champlin Burrage's An Answer to John Robinson of Leyden by a Puritan Friend (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1920), printed from a manuscript of 1609 in the Bodleian Library. The arguments are what would be expected ; the interest lies in the allusions to Robinson's career at Norwich. His adversary, reproaching him for his secession from non-conforming Anglicanism, mentions some incidents of his preachership at St. Andrew's in that city. Dr. Rendel Harris has published four Souvenirs of the Mayflower Tercen- tenary, with facsimiles (Manchester : University Press, 1920), and Dr. Eekhof of Leyden University Three Unknown Documents concerning the Pilgrim Fathers in Holland (The Hague : Nijhoff, 1920), again with iacsimiles of signatures from notarial acts at Leyden. No doubt the importance of the event justifies this elaboration. E. 1 Ante, xix. 669 ff. L2