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 480 SHORT NOTICES July 1920 tions will have value for the study of a period which needs illumination. To no. 39 Mr. F. 0. Dentz contributes Major John Scott's account of Surinam before the Dutch conquest, of which the existing printed copies are very scarce, with notes and an index, supplemented in the next number by a collection of the references to Surinam in the publications of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. Another contribution in the English language is the reprint of Fynes Moryson's account of his travels in the United Provinces and of Dutch manners and customs (no. 39). Mr. J. N. Jacobsen Jensen, who edits the piece, shows that Moryson has received very little attention in Holland, but one is surprised by his statement that there is only one copy of the Itinerary in any Dutch library. The reprinting is not, however, superfluous, because it gives a better and fuller text of the Dutch section of the fourth part of Moryson's work than that of Mr. Charles Hughes's Shakespeare'' s Europe. It may be doubted whether some of the passages included from other parts of the work are relevant to Holland : when Moryson bought a ' Dutch ' book in Lubeck (p. 218), it was very likely in High Dutch or German, Dr. Geyl, who collated the text of Moryson for this edition, contributes to no. 38 some papers from the Record Office in London dealing with naval affairs in 1667, which have since been covered by the more comprehensive collection edited by Dr. Colenbrander. Two contributions of interest for the economic historian are those in no. 37 by Dr. S. van Brakel on commercial partnerships in the seventeenth century, drawn from notarial archives, and by Mr. N. W. Posthumus of reports from the towns of Holland on the state of the textile industry in 1663. G. N. C. The Archivio deUa R. Societd Romana di Storia Patria, xlii. 1, 2 (1919), contains an elaborate article by Signor R. Cessi on the schism of Laurentius and the beginnings of the political doctrine of the Roman church. A short paper in the same number on Hadrian di Castello by the late Marquess Alessandro Ferrajoli is of interest for English readers, for it prints the cardinal's deed of gift, 7 March 1505, of his palace at Rome to Eang Henry VII, not, as has been stated, to Henry VIII. In this document he mentions his appointment to the see of Hereford, but not that to Bath and Wells, to which he was translated some months before. W. CORRECTION IN THE APRIL NUMBER. P. 167, note 4. For Printed by Guilhiermoz, pp. 281 ff. read Printed in Haskins, Norman Institutions, pp. 281 ff.