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 1922 REVIEWS OF BOOKS 273 other topics. The rebuilding of the college in the eighteenth century has made an account of the older buildings of particular interest and importance. The original buildings are carefully described, and the process by which they were replaced in the course of fifty years from the date of Wren's first design in 1682 is set forth in detail and admirably illustrated. There is indeed no topic bearing on the history of the college, its growth, its social life, the distinction of its members, which does not receive ample treatment ; and on all such subjects the notes and appendixes furnish abundant illustration. There is little if anything which can have escaped the author's search. There is a will of Provost Muskham in the London Husting Rolls, 1 but it is only of interest as showing that he was a benefactor of Elsing Spittle. Of Thomas Cartwright there are some interesting notices in Mr. C. T. Gatty's recent history of Mary Davies and the Manor ofEbury, to which of course Dr. Magrath could not have had access. One might perhaps wish that the provost's modesty had permitted him to give a fuller narrative of his own long tenure of his office. Special attention must be directed to the appendixes on the materials for the history, and on the site of the college ; and also to the text of the earliest ' Long Roll ', for the year 1347-8, which, like other documents of its class, contains a mass of details trifling in themselves but collectively invaluable. Queen Anne's letter on behalf of the college, written about 1384, must be one of the most ancient English documents of its kind now extant. To the lavish and beautiful illustrations reference has already been made ; one cannot say more than that they and the text which they so well illustrate are worthy of one another. C. L. KINGSFORD. Calendar of Inquisitions. Vol. x, Edward III. (London : Stationery Office, 1921.) THE effects of the war and of the economies enforced among its results have been less than one would expect upon the valuable series of calendars compiled at the Public Record Office. To students, however, at a distance, who are so dependent upon them, it will be unwelcome news that their price, as with other publications, will henceforth have to be raised. The series which deals with the inquisitions held after death is of interest to many more than genealogists and topographers : an index of subjects which extends to thirteen double-column pages illustrates the great variety of subjects on which light is thrown by the patient labours of the Record Office staff. Under the heading of ' services ' alone we have more than eight columns ; students of names and of English words, of manorial customs, of ecclesiastical practices, and of social life will all find something to their taste. On two subjects we are here given an increasing amount of information ; one of these is the practice of recording births (not baptisms) and sometimes deaths in sundry church books ; the other is the development of returning heirship to the deceased under fines and settlements as well as heirship in blood. For instance, John de Nevill, the last of the Nevills ' of Essex ', died in 1358, and the returns to the inquisitions held thereupon show that, although his kinsman, 1 Sharpe, Calendar of Wills in the Court of Husting, i. 684. VOL. XXXVH. NO. CXLVI. T