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 1922 SHORT NOTICES 159 trades that are being practised are those of bowyers and fletchers. The occasion of the controversy was the arrest on Easter day, 1575, of twenty- seven Dutch anabaptists at their worship, two of whom were burned in Smithfield, the rest being banished save a few who recanted. Dr. Albert Peel's learned notes give much information about the beginning of Baptists in England. There is a useful article on dissent in Worcestershire in the seventeenth century, which would have been improved had the writer been more familiar with the general history of the time. There is also a good paper on Baptists in the colonies till 1750, which shows how they were persecuted in New England like the Quakers, and traces the influence of Welsh and German immigrants. The writer says that ' every German Baptist community crossed the ocean, leaving none at all in their former land '. This was in response to Penn's invitation, and refers to Baptists strictly so called, and not to the Mennonites. I. Mr. Egerton Beck's article in The Month which we noticed in our last number 1 has been followed by a controversy, partly public and partly private, for which we must refer our readers to More Roman Catholic History (London : Simpkin, Marshall, 1921), which is no. 15 of Dr. Coulton's Medieval Studies. J. Professor Jorga continues the publication of both the Rumanian Academy's Bulletin de la Section Historique 2 and the Bulletin de VInstitut pour V Etude de I'Europe Sud-Orientale, the former of which is in its ninth and the latter in its eighth year. While the latest number of the former, that for the first half of 1921, contains an interesting article by M. Demetre Onciul on ' The Phases of the Historical Development of the Rumanian People and State ', the latter, which is invaluable for all students of Balkan history and politics, has in its latest monthly issue for August-September 1921 some interesting data from Professor Guyon's Balcanica on the history of Albanian immigration into southern Italy from 1448 to 1774. W. M. Amongst the articles in recent numbers of Bijdragen voor Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde, three of Professor Blok's deserve notice. In the first (V e Reeks, Deel vii) he vindicates the claim of William the Silent to be regarded as the founder of the Union of Utrecht ; in the same volume he gives an account of the education of William III from 1659 to 1662, and in Deel viii he deals with the captivity of Philip William of Orange in Spain. In the former volume Dr. A. C. Bouwman discusses the earliest charters of the abbey of Marienweerd, which belong to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and Mr. J. E. Elias continues his naval articles. In a long article of which there is one part in each volume, Dr. J. S. Theissen analyses the attitude of the republic in the year 1684, emphasizing especially the difficulties and shortcomings of the constitution. % G. N. C. The Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis published in Groningen has com- pleted its thirty-sixth volume, but its form has been much changed since 1 Ante, xxxvi. 628. 2 Ante, xxix. 618; xxx. 758; xxxi. 528; xxxvi. 310.