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 480 SHORT NOTICES July 1921 Dr. Albert Buchi in vol. xviii, no. 2, the chronicle of Nicod du Chastel (1435- 52), of which the manuscript formerly belonged to Sir Thomas Philipps and is now at Freiburg. Two articles in vol. xvii give considerable new materials for nineteenth-century history, that of Dr. Arnold Winkler on Austrian policy towards the Sonderbund, and that of Dr. Alfred Stern on political refugees in Zurich after the revolutions of 1848 and 1849. We have received the issue for 1918 of the Bibliographie der Schweizer- geschichte, which is published as a supplement to the Anzeiger. D. The second instalment of M. Victor van Berchem's study of the relations between Geneva and the Swiss in the fifteenth century appears in the Jahrbuch fur Schweizerische Geschichte, vol. xlv (Zurich : Beer, 1920), together with an article of Dr. Karl Meyer on Italian influences on the rise of the Eidgenossenschaft, one on the names ' Chateau d'Oex, Ogo, Vecht- land ', by Dr. Gustav Schnurer, and a fourth, on WilliMc? Pirckheimer and the town of Nuremberg, by Dr. Emil Reicke. E. CORRECTION IN THE NUMBER FOR OCTOBER 1919 Pp. 586-8. Mr. J. E. Neale writes that the number of bills quashed by Queen Elizabeth in the parliament of 1597/8 (estimated in these pages at ten, but with a reservation regarding the reliability of our sources) is now finally settled by the discovery amongst the Burghley papers at the British Museum (Lansdowne MS. 83, fos. 207-8) of a contemporary list of the bills passed that session, with the response of the queen added in a different hand in the margin against each, except only the two subsidy bills and the act of pardon. At the foot in the marginal hand is the note, 1 43. assented unto 12. refused by her Ma tle '. The two bills, in addition to the ten previously given, which have the response ' La R. s'aduisera ', are : An act concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger merchants strangers. An act for confirmation of statutes merchants acknowledged in the town corporate of Newcastle upon Tyne. The list is apparently an official one, such as must have been prepared at the end of each session. CORRECTION IN THE JANUARY NUMBER Pp. 53-7. Miss Hilda Johnstone writes : In my note on the chronology of the parliament of Lincoln of 1316 the only example I could give of the use of Carnis- privium for days between Quinquagesima Sunday and Ash Wednesday was taken from a French source. I can now give an English instance, occurring in a household roll for the twelfth year of Edward I, viz. 1283-4 (Excheq. Accts. 351/13, m. 3). In the left-hand of the four columns into which the roll is divided the clerk noted any facts he chose as to time or place. Opposite the entry for Tuesday, 22 February, he wrote Carnisprivium ; opposite Wednesday, 23 February, Hie ineipit dies Cinerum.