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chaplains. Perhaps MB. J. T. ABBOTT can say how Dr. Barnard, who was Vicar of Croydon, was related to His Grace, Gr. STBINMAN STEINMAN.

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The readers of Macaulay will be glad to learn that there is now no doubt that the Diary of Narcissus Lut- trell, to which the historian makes such frequent reference, will be given to the press. Immediately after the publi- cation of Mr. Macaulay's third and fourth volumes, ap- plication was made by The Camden Society to the au- thorities of All Souls' College, Oxford, for permission to transcribe and publish the Diary. This has since been followed by a similar application from the Delegates of the University Press ; and as the Camden Society had no object but that of securing its publication, they will, no doubt, very readily withdraw their claim. The rivalry, if it can be so designated, is one creditable to both parties ; and we hope that the present movement by the heads of the Clarendon Press may be looked upon as a proof of the existence among them of an increased interest in English Historical Literature. Perhaps after this we may obtain from the same quarter an edition of Strype worthy of Oxford. The Delegates have only to give'a hint of their intention to produce a revised edition of the various works of this most valuable and industrious writer, under the superintendence of a competent editor, and we feel sure that abundance of materials will soon be placed at his disposal.

Mr. Bohn has unquestionably rendered good service to all antiquaries and students of our early national history, by the publication of the Series, now a very extensive one, of English translations of our monkish chroniclers and annalists, which he has issued in his Antiquarian Library. Valuable as are many of these, there is not among them one more deserving of attention than The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, by Or- dericus Vitalis, of which Mr. Forester's translation, in four volumes, is now completed. Mr. Forester well re- marks that, born in England, and receiving at Shrews- bury the first rudiments of his education, which he com- pleted at Ouche, in Normandy, Ordericus Vitalis, in his personal and literary history, as well as in the annals, which compose the most valuable part of his voluminous work, forms a connecting link between the English and Norman writers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In point of fact, he alternately transports his readers from Normandy to England, and from England to Nor- mandy, two states which may be considered to have formed in his time almost an united kingdom ; and he treats the affairs of both with nearly equal precision. Of the importance with which the writings of Ordericus Vitalis have been regarded by the French antiquaries, we have clear proof in the fact, that within the last thirty years, no less than two distinct editions of them have been published under the auspices of the Historical So- ciety of France. The first, in 1826, was a translation into French, with notes by M. Louis du Bois, with a pre- fatory notice by M. Guizot, which Mr. Forester has translated as an Introduction to his own English ver- sion. The second, which was commenced in 1838, is an edition of the original text, which was confided in the first instance to M. Auguste le Prevost ; who saw twelve books through the press, and was then compelled by loss of sight, to transfer the editorship to M. Leopold Delisle. This gentleman's Essay on the Life, Writings, and Cha-

racter of Ordericus, which is also translated by Mr. Forester, will be read with considerable interest"; and when we add, that the work abounds in illustrative notes, and is completed by the addition of the Chronicle of St. Evroult, by a Chronological Index, and by a very extensive General Index of Matters, we think we have said enough to show how creditable it is both to Mr. Forester, the editor, and Mr. Bohn, the publisher, and how well it deserves a place in every historical library.

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