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jewelled coronet and "collar of garters" which Sir Thomas Bullen, p. 127, is depicted as wearing, are not included in the "full insignia of the Garter."

The book, which is a crown 8vo of xvi and 197 pages, contains seventy-eight nice illustrations of rubbings and a satisfactory Index.

ThM, Mending of Life. With an Introduction by

Dundas Harford. (H. R. Allenson, Is. Qd. net.) WE have here in a modernized form from the Cambridge MS. the ' Be Emendatione Vitse ' of Richard Rolle of Hampole. As Mr. Harford says in his Introduction : "In the fifteenth century Rolle was probably the most popular and widely read of all English religious writers. Between sixty and seventy manuscript copies of the ' Emendatio Vitse ' alone, to say nothing of his other works, have survived, while of Thomas a Kempis's com- plete ' Imitation ' there remain in England only five MS. copies in Latin and one in Greek."

The outline of Rolle's life is by this time familiar to those who have followed with interest the republication of his different works which of late has been fairly frequent. He \vas born about the year 1300 at Thornton in Yorkshire, and was sent as a youth to Oxford by Archdeacon Nevile. On leaving Oxford he returned to the neighbourhood of his old home, and for nearly three years he lived there the ascetic life of the solitary hermit. He seems to have spent some years in mission tours, and he finally settled down as the spiritual adviser of the Cistercian nuns at Hampole, where he died in 1349.

Mr. Harford expresses his indebtedness to Mr. J. A. Herbert of the British Museum, to Miss Evelyn Underbill, and to Mr. Alfred Rogers of the University Library, who made for him a transcript of the MS', at Cambridge. We hope that Mr. Har- ford will give us, as he promises, the fuller history of Rolle's life as a hermit.

A Gypsy bibliography. By George F. Black,

Ph.D. (Quaritch, 15.s.)

THIS Bibliography, published by Mr. Quaritch for the members of the Gypsy Lore Society, is a most valuable contribution to gipsy literature, and Dr. Black of the New York Public Library deserves great praise for the labour he has bestowed upon its production. There must be in all nearly five thousand works mentioned. George Borrow tops the list with 106 ; under Francis Groome there are 32, and under Watts- Dunton 17. Sorrow's ' Bible in Spain ' was published by Murray in 3 vols. on the 10th of December, 1842, in an edition of 1,000 copies. In the January following a second edition of 1,000 was issued ; in March, a third, and in June a fourth. In July there was a fifth edition of 750. After this Murray included it in his " Home and Colonial Library."

The aim of Dr. Black's work is "to give an account of the literature of the gypsies, good, bad, and indifferent. A complete bibliography of the subject, it is needless to say, is impossible, the indirect material being so abundant." Of the titles included in the list, the greater number have been copied from the works themselves, and every care has been taken to assure accuracy. Among the many friends Dr. Black thanks for their aid we find Mr. Winstedt, Mr. Wellstood, Dr. Varr6, Mr. Scott Macfie, and Mr. Gilliat- Srnith. There is a Subject Index of 24 pages.

Romance Tiles of Chertsey Abbey. (Wells

Gardner & Co., Is. net.)

THIS booklet is an abridgment, made by Miss Lucy Wheeler, of ' Pavement Tiles from Chertsey Abbey,' by Mr. Man waring Shurlock. The larger work was published in 1885 at a guinea. To it the author devoted the leisure hours of a very busy life. Mr. Shurlock was a good friend to Chertsey, and this little work has been brought out by his friends to keep him in remembrance. There are nine illus- trations, including a * Triptych of Tiles from Chertsey Abbey, Thirteenth Century.'

The Antiquary for February contains an account of Stoughtpn, in Surrey, by the Rev., J. B. McGovern, in which he states : " To the antiquary this place-name includes a locality that is almost unique in its blending of the modern with the ancient. For while church, and parish, and village are creations of the nineteenth and twentieth cen- turies, the history of the district reaches back to the Conqueror's days, and its independent manor- ship to the year of Runnymede." A brass plate in Stoke Church contains the following remarkable punning epitaph on Sir Lawrence Stoughton, who died in 1613, and his wife Rose (ob. c. 1630), wherein the changes are rung upon the "Stough- tonia. Laurus," " Pulchra Rosa" (Rose and Law- rence seem to have been favourites with the family) :^-

F,n hoc Lauretuno dices, dicasque Rosetum, Hie Rosa radices, hie quoque Laurus agit ! Mr. Worley concludes his notice of the Church of St. Michael, Paternoster Royal, to which we have previously referred. Mr. Roessler de Graville writes on Thomas Basin (1412-91), and an illustra- tion is given of the window in Caudebec Church in which the bishop is represented in his robe of red purple.

F. G. D. Forwarded.

MB. H. TAYLOR. Many thanks for the pedigree of the Taylors of Ongar.

MR. A. J. BANNATYNE. See 8 S. iii. 364 ; iv. 110; 11 S. vii.349.

CORRIGENDUM. MR. J. S. UDAL writes :

"ERASMUS'S PARAPHRASE UPON THE NEW TESTAMENT (11 S. viii. 510). There is an im- portant erratum, or omission, in 1. 19, col. 2., of p. 512. Between the word ' before ' and the figures ' 1539-41 ' should be inserted the figures and words following : 4 1549, since the seven editions of the Great Bible in.' By some mistake, in my copy- ing or otherwise, a whole line has been lett put ; and of course the correction makes a great differ- ence, as the passage is inaccurate as it stands. The President (Mr. Nelson Richardson) of the Dorset Field Club, whose words I was quoting, and to whom I had sent a copy of ' N. & Q.' containing my article, has himself pointed the omission out to me, and has suggested its correction. This I am sure you will gladly do, and I offer many apologies -for the occasion.

"The whole sentence should therefore run: ' No complete Bible had been printed before 1549, since the seven editions of the Great Bible in 1539-41, the last years of Henry VIIl.'s reign having only produced New Testaments. '