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witnessed at one of these markets. Sir Philip de Limbury, who lived at Luton, was " a man of extreme pride and haughtiness." He seized upon John Moot, the cellarer of St. Alban's, who was quietly riding through the town, and without any charge against him thrust him into the pillory in sight of all the market folk. What was the cause of the outrage we do not know ; perhaps it was the outcome of some quarrel about tithes. The abbot would have prosecuted Limbury, and it might have gone hard with him had not the Duke of Lancaster interposed and brought about a settlement. The delinquent had to make an offering at the altar, and, as was to be expected in those times, some- thing akin to a miracle occurred on the occasion. This probably took place in Luton Church, but the offering may have been made at St. Alban's.

The only fault we have to find with this in- teresting book is that the index is not an adequate key to its contents. When the conclud- ing volume is issued, which we hope may be very soon, it is much to be desired that a complete index may be made to the two series.

The Cathedral Church of St. Paul. By the Rev.

Arthur Dimock, M.A. (Bell & Sons.) THIS volume of Mr. Dimock's constitutes the latest issue of Bell's convenient and trustworthy " Cathe- dral Series." It is practically divided into two portions, the first half descriptive of "Old St. Paul's," to give the name by which it is generally known to the fine building destroyed in the Great Fire, the second, naturally, concerned with Wren's masterpiece. Such particulars as survive are also supplied of previous edifices on the same site, from the traditionary Temple of Diana Venatrix, which may well have existed on the spot, to the church of Bishop Elfstan, which replacing a still earlier building, burnt in 962 was itself consumed in 1086 or 1087. Materials for the purpose are not wanting, and from these Mr. Dimock has compiled a history succinct but adequate. Illustrations of " Old St. Paul's" are reproduced from drawings of Hollar. Wren's designs for the modern building, stored in the library of All Souls' College, Oxford, have been used with permission, and other views have been taken from photographs. A volume not inferior in interest or value to its predecessors has thus been obtained, and the visitor to the great City fane is provided with a trustworthy and an excellent guide. Knowledge concerning St. Paul's, in spite of fami- liarity with the edifice, and in spite also of all that has been written and read about its history, is not universal, and it is with some surprise that we hear how, in the time of Queen Mary, in presence of Bonner in his mitre and the chapter in their copes, with garlands of roses on their heads, a buck was slain within the choir, and its head on a pole carried before the processional cross to the west door, where a horn, answered from different parts of the City, was blown. So late a survival of pagan ceremonial is sufficiently strange.

The Clergy Directory and Parish Guide for 1900.

(Phillips.)

WE have received the latest issue of this best and most convenient of clerical directories, and find it once more fulfil all its promises. It supplies a full alphabetical list of the clergy, a list of parishes and parochial districts, a patrons' list, the diocesan and cathedral establishments, and a list of societies connected with the Church of England. Special

attention is called to the parish directory, in which are noted all alterations effected by Orders in Council as published in the London Gazette, includ- ing the conjunctions and sub-divisions of parishes and other matters affecting the outward organiza- tion of the Church.

WE have received the Antiquary for the first three months of the year, and find several papers of interest in it. One of the best of these is 'Some Early Eighteenth-Century Inventories,' by W. J. Kaye, F.S.A., in the February part of the maga- zine, and there is in the same number a very interest- ing article on ' Fairy Mounds,' by David McRitchie, which extends into the March portion of the publication. This paper should be read by all students of folk-lore, more especially those who devote their attention to fairy-lore. Mr. R. C. Hope, in the March number, continues his series of papers on 'The Holy Wells of Ireland.' Readers of ' N. & Q.' who have been interested in the discussion going on in its pages of late upon ' Green ' will be pleased to read an account in this article of a fairy mound in Perthshire, the inhabitants of which wore garments of "the fairies' fatal green."

THE second volume of the new Oxford edition of Burnet's ' History of My Own Time,' edited by Mr. Osmund Airy, will be published at once by the Clarendon Press. It brings the narrative down to the death of Charles II., and contains a full index to Burnet's account of his reign. It is a matter for regret that Mr. Airy's engagements as H.M. In- spector of Schools at Birmingham will not permit him to continue his work on Burnet.

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