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a court roll (1507) of another Barley manor, that of Minchionbury, belonging to the convent of Chatteris. The amount of hold- ing varies from one of ten acreware to one of five or nine acreware. Suggestions as to exact meaning would be helpful. The sug- gestion that it may be a land measure (vide 'Cambridge Antiquarian Communications,' vol. vi. No. 1) seems out of the question. There is no indication that a "ware acre" was larger than the statute acre.

As to "mollond," it is connected with "molman," which I find in Leley's edition of Wharton's 'Law Lexicon' as a man subject to do service. We have the custo- mary services of " two molmen " mentioned as part of the valuation of another Barley manor. In Blomefield's 'Norfolk' (vol. i. pp. 295-6, first ed., 1739) there is given from the Ely Register an entry dealing with the manor of Bridgham, to the effect that the tenants paid "34 days' work, called studework, which is done by molmen" and " the molmen, in number 70, were obliged to make up 15 carriages, and attend them, to carry in the lord's corn." In 'Cambridge Antiq. Comm.,' iv. 97, allusion is made to tenures of lands called terrce wara and terras, de bondage from the court roll of the manor of Littleport in the Isle of Ely (1316-27). Does not this look as though " acreware " was to be connected not with the Norman-French term " warectum," or terra warata, but with A.-S. wara, defence (Profs. Maitland and Vinogradoff suggest it), as protecting itself against the payment of geld, being exempted ; while " mollond," like terrce, de bondage, had to bear the customary burdens of taxation, as "molmen" had to give customary services? I see Vinogradoff notices a class of tenants as being "soke- manni qui vocantur molmen."

J. FROME WILKINSON, F.S.A. Barley Rectory, Royston, Herts.

MAXWELL'S 'HERODIAN.' There is a good notice of James Maxwell in the ' Dic- tionary of National Biography,' and my present desire is merely to indicate some points of interest connected with his trans- lation of Herodian. At the end of the volume (p. 110 of bk. vi.) is this note :

"Augustam Herodiani Historian! vertebat I.M. Facultatis Art. in vtraq, Academia Mr: & Augus- tissimi (olim) Regis lacobi (in Provincia Eborum) Delegatus."

This official employment, whatever it may have been, is not mentioned by his bio- grapher. The title-page is a masterpiece in its way :

"Herodian of Alexandria His History of twenty Roman Caesars and Emperors (of his time). Relating

the Strange Coniunctures and Accidents of State, that hapned in Europe, Asia, and Afrike, in the Reuolution of Seuenty Yeeres. Interlaced with Speeches, Antiquities, Court-Passages, Prodigies, Embassies, Sieges, Surprizes, Battels, Conquests, and Triumphs. Wherein is also declared the most Solemne Deification of the Roman Emperours and Empresses. And the Martiall Honor and Heroicke Valor of the ancient Southerne and Northerne Britans. Interpreted out of the Greeke Originall. (London : printed for Hugh Perry at the Harrow in Britaines Burse 1629.)"

Maxwell's spelling is not always commend- able, but it is interesting to note that he has anticipated the American fashion of discard- ing the u in such words as valor and honor. More interesting than the title-page is the dedication :

To the most August, most Sacred, and Victorious

Heroina,

Mother to innumerable braue Mo- narks, Princes, Peeres, and Chieffs ;

Diva Britannia : Empresse of all Hands ; Queene of France and Ireland ; Princesse of *Palestine, Virginia, Guia- na, *Cyprus, New-England, &c. Soueraigne of the 200. lies of the He- brides, Orcades, &c. Lady of the Ocean ;

Regent of the Atlantike Empire : I consecrate this

Imperiall,

Impartiall, and Incomparable

History of that Graue Senator,

and Noble Statist,

Herodian.

In the margin is the following note, with references preceding the words "Palestine" and "Cyprus":

"* Rich. I. purchased it of Guy the last K. of lerusalem. Rich. I. conquered it in his returne from Palestine. It contained anciently nine King- domes. Vid. Cluverij Introduct. Geograph. li. 5. c. 26."

Could the most modern apostle of Imperialism excel this ? WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Moss Side, Manchester.

GARRICK'S ' JUBILEE.' At Drury Lane on 14 October, 1769, was performed for the first time 'The Jubilee,' consisting of dialogue written by Garrick, songs, and a pageant. The songs were printed in 1778, but the dia- logue "was never printed the D. L.

manuscript was burnt with the theatre in 1809. Elliston borrowed the Bath copy, and lost it" (Genest, v. 256). For the perform- ance at Covent Garden, 23 April, 1816, "the dialogue of the 'Jubilee' is said to have been furnished by Kemble from his manuscript copy " (Genest, viii. 551).

Whether Kemble's MS. is still in existence I do not know, and Mr, Joseph Knight, in his