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 Minor Notices 689 April. With respect to the danger of invasion, England's situation then was essentially the same as now; and Knyvett's plan of defense was also a favorite of to-day — a general military training of the citizens. On the technical side Knyvett's treatise is at its weakest. It advocates the use of the antiquated longbow. Knyvett died in 1598, two years after writing this tract, which is printed now for the first time. The manuscript is in the Chetham Library, ^Manchester. Another issue of the same series by the Clarendon Press is a re- print of Pepys's Mcmoires of the Royal Navy, idjp-idSS (London and New York, Henry Frowde, 1906, pp. xviii, 143). A serviceable intro- duction is prefixed by the editor, J. R. Tanner, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Pepys, who wrote his Diary between his twenty- sixth and thirty-sixth years, lived to the age of seventy and was long a valued official in the Admiralty. In 1679 he was driven from office by the Popish Plot. He was recalled by the king in 1684. In the interval the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, with ill results to the navy; and Pepys, as Secretary of the Admiralty, was intimately connected with, and even guided, the subsequent naval re- form. These Mcmoires were published originally by Pepys in June, 1690. They are a defense of his own naval administration prior to 1688, and a criticism of that of his opponents. The treatise contains many details concerning the navy at this period. By Pepys it was intended as a forerunner of his projected Navalia, a general history of the British navy which he never published nor completed. Journals of the Honorable William Hervey. In North America and Europe from 1755 to 1814. 'With Order Books at Montreal 1760- 1763. With Memoir and Notes. Suffolk Green Books, No. XI"V. (Paul and Mathew, Bury St. Edmunds, 1906, *pp. Ixxvi, 548.) Eleven volumes of the Suffolk Green Books have now been published, and vol- umes XL, XII., and XIII. are still in preparation. The volume containing the Journals of William Hervey is numbered XIV.; although there see'ms to be no special reason why the three still unpublished should precede it in the series. There is neither continuity of time nor similarity of subject in the fourteen volumes. All of them are records of Suffolk, or of Suffolk families, and three contain diaries of mem- bers of the Hervey family. Nine are made up of registers, annals, and toml3stones of Suffolk townships, and of subsidy and tax returns, while number XIII., which has yet to appear, contains the records of the Bury Grammar School from Edward 'VI. to Edward VII. The whole series therefore contains merely raw material of history, and this is especially true of the Journals of William Hervey. These journals were contained in fifty-eight note-books, dating from 1755 to 1814, which are in the possession of Lord Bristol as head of the Hervey family. Two years (1764 and 1765) of these sixty years are not represented in the diaries ; and the first two volumes are of doubt-