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 1921 SHORT NOTICES 629 of 113 manuscripts of the Historia Romana of Paul the Deacon, ' a work which throughout the middle ages was, it may be said, the most widely diffused manual of history, from which cultivated people learned what happened in ancient Rome '. This elaborate study was made in preparation for a new edition of the Historia Romana, which Crivellucci did not live to bring out. P. The greater part of vol. 41 of the Bijdragen en Mededeelingen van het Historisch Genootschap gevestigd te Utrecht (Amsterdam : Miiller, 1921) is devoted to the Dutch anabaptists. Mej. G. Grosheide gives a careful edition of the materials in the Amsterdam archives, a few of which have already been printed, relating to the trials of anabaptists there in 1534 and 1535. Dr. A. Hulshof gives the entries in the accounts of the schout of Haarlem which deal with trials and executions of anabaptists from 1533 to 1539, and an index to his own contribution and that of Mej. Grosheide. The only other article is by Professor Blok, who prints an important letter, mentioned by some former historians but hitherto unpublished, in which Aernt Dircxz. van Lei j den, burgomaster of Utrecht, describes to an unnamed friend his mission to William of Orange in 1579 to discuss the prince's attitude to the Union of Utrecht. Q. CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA FOR FORMER NUMBERS , The Stonor Letters and Papers. No. 143, pp. 469-70. Mr. C. L. Kingsford writes : Whether the Stonor Letters are disappointing and whether they compare in interest or importance with the Plumpton Correspondence are matters that I may safely leave to the judgement of others. But when Professor Pollard states that in the former there are only three letters which touch upon other than local affairs, he has overlooked the fact that on p. xxxix of my Introduction I cited no less than eighteen other letters which contain references to political affairs. In this respect there is indeed a close analogy between the two collections, each containing a few letters of marked political importance, with a number of incidental allusions which, if not important, are occasionally valuable. The main interest of both collections consists, however (like that of most similar collections), in the illustration of social history. But whilst in the Plumpton Correspondence legal business is unusually prominent, in the Stonor Letters we have far more varied topics. This is partly due to the fact that the Stonors had great estates in several counties, but also to their concern in public affairs (other than politics). Three of them served as sheriff and have left us an unusual collection of documents relating to the work of their office. Sir William Stonor was more than a country gentleman and courtier, and his position as a merchant of the staple in partnership with Thomas Betson has led to a note- worthy series of letters relating to the wool-trade. Like his ancestor, Edmond de Stonor, he had intimate relations with the university of Oxford, and the letter from Thomas Banke about affairs in the university is as remarkable in its way as the prescription which William Goldwyn wrote for Lady Stonor. Such letters as these — and they do not stand alone — are, I think, sufficient to establish the exceptional value of the Stonor Letters, quite apart from the fact that next to the Paston Letters they form by far the most considerable collection of private correspondence of the fifteenth century that has yet come to light. In the Plumpton Correspondence there are little more than half as many documents of the fifteenth century, and of those only thirty-five are of earlier date than the latest in the Stonor Letters. My chief purpose is, however, concerned with Simon Stallworth's two letters written in June 1483. With reference to one of them Dr. Pollard cites the ' Great Chronicle ' of London as supporting against my conclusions ' the alternative