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dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket, presumably by William de Tracy, and enlarged into a priory by William de Courtenay. The nave and tower, the barn and refectory arc, we are told, all that remain. Of these the nave is now occupied as a farmhouse, which, under the conditions, ought to be haunted, if ever building was; "the base of the tower is a cellar! the refectory a shelter for carts!" To the height of sixty-five feet the tower still rises. If we would believe local tradition, the chancel owed its disappearance to that famous destroyer Cromwell. Shorn as it is of its pinnacles, the tower looks in the etching we have not seen the building itself very graceful. Its position is lonely within sound, but scarcely within sight, of the sea " at the back of the bleak downs of Middle Hope." We have already commended this book to all interested in ecclesiastical architecture, and have only to con- gratulate Mr. Piper on the sustained beauty and interest of the work.

The Pirate. By Sir Walter Scott. Edited by

Andrew Lang. (Nimmo.)

THE thirteenth volume of the reissue of the "Border" edition of the Waverley novels consists of "The Pirate,' which is issued with Mr. Lang's copyright introduction and notes, and with the ten illustrations of Mr. Lockhart Bogle, Mr. Herbert Dicksee, and other artists. Mr. Lang's comments upon this imaginative work of the great romancer will be read with constant interest and gain. The scenes of adventure are spirited and in Scott's best vein, and the descriptions of scenery have a charm wholly their own. One or two of the comic characters are bores. Scott seems to have felt it his duty to introduce almost always a being of this description. One chief fault is that Scott holds himself bound to make Cleveland, pirate as he is, use in his wooing language as severely respectful and proper as Scott would himself have employed. Cleveland's addresses to his mistress "fair Minna," " lovely Minna" are sadly wanting in spontaneity and warmth. ' The Pirate ' is a fine book, how'ever, and will be welcome in its new and attractive shape.

The Elizabethan Clergy and the Settlement of Religion, 1558-1564. By Henry Gee, B.D., F.S.A. (Oxford, Clarendon Press. )

IT has long been a controverted point what propor- tion of the clergy of the Anglican Church refused to conform to the new regime under Elizabeth, when the reformed liturgy was fully established. The esti- mate has varied, according to the bias of different writers, from 177 up to 1,000. Mr. Gee has turned his special attention to the elucidation of the matter, and gives us in this volume the results of his patient and minute investigations. It is satisfactory to find that the Reformation was, as often has been asserted, the work of the clergy as much as of the laity, and that the number of those who declined to accept the Elizabethan settlement was compara- tively insignificant. It turns out that all the tra- ditional calculations put forward by Dodd, Strype, D'Ewes, Camden, and Allen are in a concatenation, and ultimately traceable to the one fons et origo in Nicolas Sanders. That eminent controversialist, in his 'De Visibili Monarchia,' 1571, compiled a list of clergy who had been deprived of their preferment for nonconformity, and he numbered them at 194.

Mr. Gee, in order to obtain an independent and, as he holds, a more trustworthy basis of inquiry,

has consulted the bishops' registers so far as they are available ; but, unfortunately, only about half the dioceses are so represented. Working on this imperfect basis, he finds that during the first six years of Elizabeth's reign the number of clergy who were deprived from any cause whatever was 480. For various reasons, which he assigns, a very largo proportion of these names have to be eliminated, so that not more than about 200, he calculates, within this period were actually deprived on account of refusal to conform. The concfusion is that the vast majority of the Elizabethan clergy acquiesced in the national movement and joined in casting off the Papal allegiance. Consequently Roman Catholic writers who speak of "a multitude," or "about 1,000," as having been ejected from their livings, are guilty of much exaggeration. Future historians and students of ecclesiastical history will find their labours economized by Mr. Gee's careful monograph, which gives all the justificative lists and documents.

WE hear that Mr. Andrew Tuer's much-run-after ' Forgotten Children's Books ' is to be followed by a second quaintly illustrated volume from the Leadenhall Press, this time of complete instead of fragmentary stories. Most of the tales are quite unknown to the present generation. Mr. Tuer's collection of early children s books is said to be the finest in the country.

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ALF. J. KINO ("Punch; or, the London Chari- vari"). The second title was given in imitation of a French comic paper so named. For signification of word consult 'Hist. Eng. Diet.,' Littre's French dictionary, and ' N. & Q.,' 8 th S. ix. 117.

B. R. THORNTON ("Gretna Green Marriages"). See 7 th S. iii. 89; 8 th S. ix. 61, 149, 389; xi. 294, 338, 511 ; xii. 170, 331, 411.

ERRATA. P. 465, col. 1, 1. 4, for "Guilbert" read Gilbert. P. 476, col. 1, 1. 6 from foot, for " now" read not.

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