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 478 SHORT NOTICES July The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society for 1920 (Fourth Series, vol. iii) has several articles with new and interesting matter. The Rev. Dr. G. Edmundson, in an account of the voyage of Pedro Texeira on the Amazon in 1637-9, makes use of three new manuscript sources, two at Lisbon and the third in the Rawlinson collection in the Bodleian. Miss Mildred Wretts-Smith draws on manuscripts in the British Museum and the Public Record Office for an account of the Muscovy Company in the second half of the sixteenth century, and Dr. William Rees's study of the Black Death in Wales is based on a careful investigation of records. Miss M. Dormer Harris gives an account of two volumes of correspondence from royal and private persons from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century belonging to the city of Coventry, and the diary of a seventeenth - century mayor. Mr. J. E. Neale's Alexander Prize Essay is a minute study of the Commons' Journals of the Tudor period, tracing the steps by which the house ' entrenched upon the freedom of the clerk in making and preserving his journal '. A. In a paper, with maps, in The Antiquaries Journal, vol. i, no. 2 (London: Milford, 1921), Mr. E. A. Rawlence supports the view that Edington on the Polden Hills, in Somerset, is the site of King Alfred's battle of Ethandun. In the same number Mr. A. F. Major gives arguments against this view. B. Besides communications of domestic interest to the Bodleian Library and bibliographical notes of various kinds, the Bodleian Quarterly Record has a section entitled ' Documents and Records In the number for the first quarter of 1921 (vol. iii, no. 29) are given the statutes of the university collected in the Bodleian MS. e Musaeo 96 (fos. 480a-481), which probably date back to 1275 or earlier, and a draft of heads of statutes for his library made by Sir Thomas Bodley not later than June 1602. C. A considerable portion of the last two numbers of Annales de Bretagne (torn, xxxiv, nos. 2 and 3. Rennes : Plihon et Hommay, 1920) is devoted to the history of the Revolutionary period. Thus M. Leon Dubreuil completes in the latter number his study of Pierre Guyomar, a Guingampais who sat in the Convention and ultimately rallied to the consulate and empire. M. F. Uzureau in no. 3 prints interesting contemporary records of the sufferings of the ' pretres insermentes du Finistere 1791-3 '. Earlier periods are illustrated by M. L. Gaugaud's short but interesting study, partly based on a tract of Dr. Liebermann's, of ' Mentions Anglaises de Saints Bretons et de leurs Reliques '. From it we gather that the cult of Saint Gildas can be traced back in England to the eighth century, that Congresbury owes its name to the Breton saint Congar, and that a parish in the Morbihan, Saint- Jean-Brevelay, is dedicated to the Yorkshire saint whose reputation we should have thought would hardly have extended beyond the north of England. An article by M. E. Deprez on ' Un Pays du Bocage du Massif Armoricain ' is an interesting study by an historian of a book by his geographical colleague at Rennes, which shows a more intimate collaboration of geography and history than is always to be found on this side of the Channel. T. F. T.