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 314 SHORT NOTICES April To an English reader this report, with its excellent index, appears a little extravagant considering the cost of printing and paper. We have full details of acquisitions by purchase or otherwise, of gifts to the libraries, and even of the names and objects of literary inquirers for each repository. It emphasizes the contrast of English and continental ideas of policy in these matters. Documents in the state archives may there be of private origin and even purchased. They may be transmitted for literary pur- poses from one repository to another. Nor does the doctrine of custody seem to have taken a firm hold of Belgian archivists, since the archivist of Liege seems to desire to abstract from their home at Vienna the appeal cases before the aulic council which affect places now in Belgium, and asserts that the corresponding step has been taken of dismembering the records of the imperial court at Wetzlar. This is, of course, completely contrary to the doctrine of respect des fonds which we owe to Wailly. C. J. The report described above names six works printed during the period of the war. Of these two, Inventaire des Chartes et Cartulaires du Luxem- bourg, tomes ii-iv, by A. Verkooren (Brussels : Guyot, 1915, 1916, and 1917) and his similar work, Inventaire des Chartes et Cartulaires des Duches de Brabant, de Limbourg, et des Pays d'Outre-Meuse, tomes vi-vii (Brussels : Hayez, 1917), have already been sufficiently described in the notices of the earlier volumes in this Keview. 1 We need only note in the former the will of John of Bohemia (ii, no. 784) in 1340 with its bequests for the compensation of the Rhenish nobles who had suffered losses in the war against the English, and an allusion in a document of 1376 (no. 1205) to the resistance made by the duke of Brabant to the march of the ' great companies '. The corresponding volumes for Brabant have a few references to Froissart, and two or three to an English archer ' Wilcock ', who seems to have been a person of some impor- tance in the Low Countries in 1376. Both these books are elaborately indexed : indeed the number of variant spellings, each occupying a separate line, seems somewhat excessive. A good point is the use of special type in indexing inscriptions on seals. These two ' Inventaires ' are of course full calendars, giving the substance of the documents listed. C. J. Of the less elaborate lists, the most interesting is M. Hubert Nelis's Chambre des Comptes de Lille, Catalogue des Chartes du Sceau de V Audience, tome i (Brussels : Goemaere, 1915), which contains an account of a collec- tion of documents removed from Lille in 1772, under the treaty of 1769 between France and Austria. These consist of (1) accounts by the ' Au- dienciers ' who received the dues of the great and privy seals respectively ; (2) warrants for the issue of letters under those seals ; (3) letters sealed and not called for, brought into the Chambre des Comptes in discharge of the ' audiencier ' ; (4) other letters coming into the Chambre des Comptes as vouchers of other accountants who had paid out money under their authority. The first and third classes thus correspond to the accounts of the keeper of the hanaper in this country, and the original letters 1 Ante, xxix. 123, 807.