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 NOTES AND QUERIES, po s. vn. JUKE 22, 1907.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

LIBER MEMORANDORUM ECCLESIE DE BERNEWELLE.

Edited by John Willis Clark, M.A., Registrar^ of the University of Cambridge. With an introduction by the late Professor F. W. Maitland.

The manuscript of this work, the greater part of which is now printed for the first time, is preserved in the British Museum " the book of those things relating to the Church of Barnwell which are worthy of recollection." Written in 1295-6, " to help our bretheren, both present and to come, when difficulties arise, and they

Demy 8vo are persecuted by a cruel world," the manuscript is the principal authority for the

~L^s net history of the great Augustinian Priory at Barnwell near Cambridge. It has often

been quoted, as the matter it contains is of the most varied nature and interest. Besides Professor Maitland's brilliant introductory essay the volume includes a further introduction by the editor, dealing with the manuscript and its contents, the succession of the Priors and the circumstances of the Priory.

A HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ST. MARY, ROTHERHITHE.

By E. J. Beck, M.A., Rector of Rotherhithe and Honorary Canon of Southwark.

The memorials of the parish of St. Mary, Rotherhithe, which are preserved in this book are the fruit of some thirty-five years' research and form material for a

Demy ovo history of a town of no commonplace character, although little known to the

47 plates 2 maps great world which lies so near to ic. The book, which is well illustrated, contains

10s net a chapter on the Geology of the Thames Valley and of Rotherhithe by the

Rev. T. G. Bonney, F.R.J3. and much antiquarian and historical lore of interest

to archaeologists and others.

KINSHIP ORGANISATIONS AND GROUP MARRIAGE IN

AUSTRALIA. By Northcote W. Thomas, M.A.

An interesting survey of our present knowledge of Australian kinship organisa- Demy 8vo tions which throws light on some of the problems of primitive sociology.

1 Mans " ^ h * as * s neet ted to account for admiration of the industry, knowledge, and

systematic skill exhibited by Mr. Thomas in his masterly collection from very many sources, British and foreign, of his facts, illustrated by sketch maps and tabulated statements." Morning Post.

THE POEMS OF WILLIAM DUNBAR. With introduction,

notes, and glossary by H. Bellyse Baildon, M.A., Ph.D.

The desirability of a new edition of the works of the Scottish poet William.

Crown 8vo Dunbar arises from the fact that existing editions are both difficult and costly to

procure ; the present edition brings his works within easy reach of all students and lovers of literature. In his introduction the editor has given a list of the sources on which we have to depend for the text, some information as to the spelling and pronunciation of Middle Scotch in Dunbar's time, and a short account of his life.

PHOTOGRAVURE FACSIMILES OF RARE BOOKS printed in

England in the Fifteenth Century.

The following facsimiles have just been published in this series: 9, THE Volumes ABBAYE OF THE HOLY GHOST (Wynkyn de Worde, 1496), 12s. 6d. net : and

just published munn OF THE FRERB AND THE BOYE (Wynkyn de

Earlier volumes of the series, already published, are : 1. Chaucer's Story of Queen Anelida and the false Arcite (Caxton, 1477) ; 2, Augustini Dacti Libellus (The Schoolmaster Printer at St. Alba,ns, 1479), 15s. net ; 3, Lydgate's Temple of glas

_ . . (Caxton, 1477), 12s. 6d. net; 4, Betson's Rygkt profytable treatyse (Wynkyn de

Earlier volumes Worde, 1500), 15s. net; 5, Lydgate's Assemble of goddes (Wynkyn de Worde, 1500),

17s. 6d. net ; 6, Benet Burgh's Parmis Cato, Magnus Cato (Caxton, 1477), 15s. net ; 7, Lydgate's Lytell Treatise of the Horse, the Sheep, and the Ghoos (Wynkyn de Worde, 1499), 10s. net ; and 8, Lydgate's Churl and the Bird (Caxton, 1478), 10s. net. When complete the series will comprise twelve facsimiles of rare fifteenth- century books printed in England, and now in the University Library at Cambridge.

_, ... Subscribers to the whole series of twelve volumes are entitled to a reduction of

one-fifth of the published price, which in no case will exceed twenty shillings net. The few copies that remain of No. 1 are now reserved for subscribers to th& complete series, to whom its special price is 8s. net.

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