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 318 SHORT NOTICES April 621). Part 98 consists of an edition, by Mr. Hamilton Thompson, of the registers of the archdeaconry of Richmond, or rather (for the originals can no longer be traced) of Matthew Hutton's abstract of them in the Harleian collection. The registers here given are those of Arch- deacons Charleton (1361-83), Dalby (1391-1400), and Bowet (1418-42). It is sad to think that the later registers of 1442-84, which were in existence in 1853, have also disappeared. Richmond was altogether an exceptional archdeaconry, for, as Mr. Hamilton Thompson explains in his historical introduction, * the archdeacon's position was all but episco- pal ' ; he held among other unwonted privileges the right of institution to benefices ; and Ms archdeaconry was itself the size of an ordinary diocese, covering a great part of the North Riding, part of the West Riding, the northern portion of Lancashire, and the southern portions of Westmorland and Cumberland. Mr. Hamilton Thompson copiously annotates the text of the registers and appends biographical sketches of the more important clerics who figure therein. Of the various short articles which fall in Part 99 much the most interesting is Mr. H. F. Killick's edition of the life of Sir Marmaduke Rawden, London merchant and Cavalier defender of Basing House. The biography was composed by Sir Marmaduke's nephew and namesake (whose own life has been pub- lished by the Camden Society) as part of his memoirs of the Rawden family. These memoirs, which seem to have been lost from sight since they were utilized in Wootton's Baronage in 1741, have turned up in the earl of Loudoun's possession and doubtless merit publication as a whole. Another long article, by Mr. John Bilson, occupies almost the whole of Part 100: its subject is the parochial church of St. Mary at Beverley, a fine church not to be confused with Beverley Minster. Mr. Bilson's architectural account, amply illustrated by photographs and detail drawings, forms an admirable example of the method by which to trace the historical development of an ecclesiastical fabric. We have also received, but reserve for future treatment, Part 101 (the first part of vol. xxxv), a report on the excavation of the Roman fort of Slack. H. H. E. C. The 1920 volume of the William Salt Society's Collections for a History of Staffordshire is even more restricted in size than its predecessor, and is issued in paper covers. It is exclusively devoted to the continuation of Colonel Wedgwood's excellent Staffordshire Parliamentary History, and covers the period 1603 to 1715. The biographies of local members are well done, and will afford notable corrections for the Dictionary of National Biography, whenever that work is seriously brought up to date. The author again acknowledges his indebtedness to Mr. Pink and Mr. Beaven. The arrangement of the lives, according to the time when a member first represents a Staffordshire constituency, has its advantages, but will require at the end careful indexing. Contested elections in the boroughs are meticulously recorded ; there were next to none of them to record in the county. Colonel Wedgwood makes heroic efforts to place his members in their proper party, but in an age when party was fluid and inchoate, his danger is of giving a precision to their views which they would have been astonished to discover. An interesting excursus shows that there