806 SHORT NOTICES October at Charing, which was endowed with all the property of Roncesvalles in . The site was bounded by the Strand on the north, the Thames on the south, Buckingham Street on the east, extending westward across Northumberland Avenue. The hospital was surrendered to the Wng in 1544, but is not mentioned in the Valor, and we have little information where its properties lay. Twice the author states without evidence that it had property in Oxford or Oxfordshire, but the former was certainly not the case, and the latter is very unlikely, seeing that there is no mention of it in the Hundred Rolls. The book has no index ; it has some nice illus- trations, especially of the Eleanor Crosses. ' 6. Downloaded from

Students of English medieval society owe much to the cartularies of the religious houses of the Thames valley. The English Register of Oseney Abbey, edited by Andrew Clark (London: Kegan Paul, for the Early

F.nglidh Text Society, Part 1,1907, Part II, 1913), shows that there is still http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/ important material to come from this quarter. The book is a curious parallel to the English Register of Godstow Nunnery, which Dr. Clark edited for the same society. It is a translation, made about 1460, of part of a cartulary, begun between 1280 and 1284, preserved in Christ Church, Oxford. We learn from Dr. Clark that the latter is a recension of an earlier thirteenth-century register now in the British Museum; many original charters are also extant. The interest of the present translation is linguistic

rather than historical, but the documents which are included in the English at University of Birmingham on August 30, 2015 Register are enough to show that the Oseney records emphatically deserve publication in full. The Latin text of the remarkable charter of 1147, by which the citizens of Oxford, ' of the commune of the cite and the yelde of marchauntes' give to Oseney the island of Medley, would lend distinction to any cartulary. The activities of a medieval hundred are so obscure that the explicit record (No. 203) of the definition of a way by the view of this body is very welcome. Of the two volumes devoted to the register, the first consists exclusively of the text; the contents of the second are described as forewords, grammar notes, and indexes. The forewords really mean a singularly thorough introduction to the whole book: pp. xiv- xxiv are in effect an essay on the rural economy of Oxfordshire. The index is meticulous; but the Wyuelcote which occurs on p. 90 and is unindexed should have been identified with the modern Wilcote. F. M. H.

The Royal Manor and Park of , by Mr. R. Stewart-Brown (reprinted from the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and , 1912), is an excellent piece of local history.' The author does not limit himself to his denned subject, and has sound-information to give on the whole parish of Shotwick and some neighbouring townships, but the chief interest of the paper lies in the and its surroundings. Shotwick Castle first appears in the middle of the thirteenth century, as belonging to the Crown and not to the earldom of Chester. It was a small structure, a pentagon of 51 feet on each side, built to guard a ford of the Dee on the English side, a few miles below Chester. It had no military history. It was surrounded by a township of about 1,000 acres, 1914 SHORT NOTICES 307 which was part of the parish of Shotwick. The earliest extent, undated, but about 1300, shows it divided in unusual proportions. Thirty bovates were in demesne, ten were held by free tenants and twenty-fight by bond- uien. The holdings were of one or two bovates in the last case, the free tenants had two or four. There were no fragmentary holding*. In 1327 Edward III imparked almost the whole, and from that time the castle, now a mere dwelling-house, and the park were granted out to a succession of royal tenants. They were granted, for instance, without rent to Sir Hugh Calveley for life in 1385, counting as £36 towards an annual pension of £100 from the king. That au agricultural township so far situated from any Downloaded from royal residence should have been depopulated in this way is strange. Were deer regarded as a more profitable investment than agriculture ? The property was sold by the Crown in 1627. E. W. W.

P. M. Grijpink's Register op de Parochien, AUaren, Vicarieen, en de http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/ Bedienaars zooals die voorkomen in it Middeleeuwsche Rekeningenvan den Officiaal des Aartsdiakens van den Utrechtschen Dom. 1>'« Bed. Quatuor Offida Flandriae, Wallacria, Scaldia, Zuidbevelandia (Amsterdam: van Langenhuysen, 1914) is a list of incumbents for the deaneries approxi- mately coinciding with the modern bishopric of Haarlem. It is based on the accounts of the official of the archdeacon for the fees payable for institu- tions, and collations, and for licences to serve cures by deputy or to make a will. There are presumably no extant registers of institutions for the at University of Birmingham on August 30, 2015 diocese of Utrecht, but a considerable series of these accounts survives in the Utrecht state archives. The lists are arranged by the names of the benefices alphabetically in deaneries, and take the form of a brief Latin calendar of the relevant entries in the accounts. Dutch local historians seem, like those of some English counties, to begin the ecclesi- astical history of parishes at the Reformation. There will soon, we may hope, be no excuse for this. C. J.

In the series of Inventaires des Archives de la Belgique M. A. Verkooren has issued the first volume of the Chartes et Cartuiaires du Luxembourg (Brussels: Guyot, 1914). This volume resembles the corresponding volumes of the Cartulary of Brabant {ante, p. 123) except that it seems of slightly smaller format, and that it deals at the same time with loose charters and cartularies instead of reserving the cartularies for separate treatment. As before, Eucruick has given trouble, but the note on no. 405 might have been spared if M. Verkooren had looked at Le Neve's Fasti. C. J.

The Bibliographie Lorraine for 1912-13 (Paris : Berger-Levrault, 1913), which is as elaborate as its predecessors, contains, inter alia, a careful review by M. R. Parisot of M. Reynaud's Origines de V influence francaise en AUemagne, and a particularly detailed survey of economic literature and reports. H.'

The appearance of a Guide to the Materials in London Archives for the nistory of the United States since 17S3 (Washington: D.C., 1914) calls for