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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VII.SEPT. 11,1920.

"Pilgrimage of Grace. The Mansels of Dorset and 'Somerset have furnished many gallant officers r ln the eighteenth and nineteenth century wars

Of the remaining families bearing this name, the most considerable line is that settled in Ireland, who seem to be independent of the family of "Thorpe Malsor. One of them is described as of Celbridge : but the connexion of his property if there is any with that of Esther Vanhomrigh is not stated. Swift appears, be it said in passing, in these pages ; having growled in the Journal to Stella about a poor dinner once given him by Sir Thomas Mansel.

Besides genealogical information these volumes 'Contain many miscellaneous particulars of a curious nature : extraordinary wills, a ghost- story or two, odd personal traits, letters, quota- tions from old papers, and jests. Some of this is not new, but it is welcome and appropriate in its place.

A word must be said about the illustrations : they are abundant and excellently chosen, so that they form a notable and valuable ieatiire of the work, though their reproduction, in a multitude of 'Cases, is below the level which would seem required by the style of the rest of the book.

The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archceological Journal.

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THE Spring number for this year which has just reached our hands contains very full in- teresting notes (illustrated by numerous photo- graphs) on the ' Churches of Waltham St. Lawrence and Hurst,' by Mr. C. E. Keyser. Hurst Church, among many other things, con- tains an hourglass and two circular panels in old glass ; the writer assigns these latter to the early sixteenth century. Lieut.-CoI. Hind, discussing the approximate dates of Weyland Smith's Cave and the White Horse of Berkshire, comes, at the end of a careful review of his material, to the conclusion that the cave, a dolmen of the Long Barrow type, belongs to the Neolithic and pre- Bronze age, and that the Weyland Smith legend and the White Horse are much later, belonging to the Bronze or Iron age. Mr. Field's ' Survey of Wallingford in 1550 ' is continued ; as are also Mr. Preston's account of Sutton Courtenay and Abingdon Abbey and Mrs. Cope's ' Parish Registers of St. Lawrence Reading.'

There are also two seventeenth -century Terriers from the Archdeacon's MSS. in the Bodleian Library sent as examples from a rich .find made by Dr. Patterson Ellis.

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