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 628 SHORT NOTICES October 'accounts is not yet on the level of efficiency which has been attained in other departments of local history. The ' Court Book of the Manor of Bramhall, 1632-1657 ', edited by Mr. H. W. Clemesha, and ' Records of some Salford Portmoots in the Sixteenth Century ', edited by Mr. Tait, illustrate our meaning : Mr. Tait prints his records in full, Mr. Clemesha has certain subjects relating to manorial life which he desires to examine, and gives extracts relating to them. The other item, ' Latin Verses and Speeches by Scholars of the Manchester Grammar School, 1640 and 1750-1800', is not of sufficient literary or historical interest to have been printed in this series. J. E. W. W. Several important historical articles are to be found in the July number of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, (vol. vi, no. 3), amongst which we would call attention especially to Professor Tout's lecture on ' The Place of St. Thomas of Canterbury in History ' and to Professor Powicke's ' Ailred of Rievaulx and his Biographer, Walter Daniel ', which latter is a companion study to the same author's article on Maurice of Rievaulx. 1 L. To the August number of The Month Mr. Egerton Beck contributes an article on medieval monastic morality, a reply, based on an examination of the printed visitations of English Benedictine houses, to some of the contentions of Mr. G. G. Coulton's Medieval Studies. M. In the first three numbers of the Revue d'Histoire Ecclesiastique for this year (vol. xvii) M. Paul Fournier, who has done more than any living man for the investigation of the sources of the early canonical compilations, explores the elements out of which the Collectio duodecim Partium was formed. He takes it to have been made in Fraiiconia or Bavaria between about 1020 and 1050, and to have been designed to assist the movement for reform on the lines favoured by the Emperors Henry II and Henry III. The analysis of the structure of the collection is of great value. In nos. 2-3 of the same volume M. M. Viller begins a discussion of the question of the union of the churches from the council of Lyons (1274) to that of Florence (1438). N. In Analecta Bollandiana, xxxix. 1, 2, Father Delehaye examines the history of the terms Martyr and Confessor, and Father Peeters collects evidence of the ways in which the former was translated into oriental languages. In another paper Father Coens prints the Life and Translation of St. Hilary of Oize, near Le Mans, from the Bodleian MS. Douce 226 : the Life is a fiction of the twelfth century, and the saint, an alleged godson of his great namesake of Poitiers, probably never existed. Dom Quentin prints the various forms in which the list of the martyrs of Lyons, of a.d. 177, is transmitted, and attempts a reconstruction of it. 0. The principal paper in the Bullettino delV Istituto storico Italiano, no. 40 (1921), is a descriptive catalogue by the late Amedeo Crivellucci 1 P. 17, above.