1914 SHORT NOTICES 401 frequently enrolled here. The unfamiliarity of names and conditions in Ponthieu have put some difficulties in the editor's way. ' Sheriff' and ' shrievalties', for vicomte •and vicomtes in that county, show a certain misunderstanding (pp. 281, 466, &c.). ' Tri3tre' (p. 281) is Le Titre, and might have been indexed thus. The text is to be appreciated, and it is no doubt the desire for uniformity with earlier volumes which gives it its one defect—a certain intricacy and lack of clearness. The form ' writ Downloaded from de intendendo ', for example, would be an improvement upon the cumbrous ' order ... to be intendant' which frequently occurs. It has been adopted in other calendars, and might well be U3ed here also. H. J. http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/ Marsiglio of Padua's Defensor Pads has been the subject of repeated study for thirty or forty years past, but the work itself has never been printed since the seventeenth century. It was therefore a good idea of Professor Alexander Cartellieri, of Jena, not to anticipate the promised edition in the Monumenta Germanise, but to supply a working text of the first book by a facsimile of the editio princeps of 1522. The reproduction is very successfully done, and the work is published at a cheap price (Leipzig : Dyk, 1913). " N. at University of Tennessee ? Knoxville Libraries on August 17, 2015 In his Notes on the Organization of the Mason's Craft in England (Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. vi. London: Milford, s.a.)—a paper read last year at the International Congress of Historical Studies— Archdeacon Cunningham has thrown an interesting light on the existence of masons' lodges, their relations with their employers, and the conditions under which they worked, from the records of Canterbury and York. The preamble to the statute 3 Henry VI, cap. i, reveals the fact that masons were then holding something corresponding to a trade union congress which defeated the object of the Statute of Labourers. ' 0. The third volume of M. Henri Hauser's Sources de THistoire de France, XVIe Siecle (Paris : Picard, 1912), contains an excellent critical biblio- graphy of the wars of religion. It is certainly the best of the three volumes contributed by the learned professor of the university of Dijon, who was extremely well prepared by his past works on that period. The characters of this time are well denned in the first pages, and the general view of the different historical documents to be used is a good introduction to the several parts of the book. The critical sense of the historian is dis- played in the study and characterization as well of the ' pamphlets' and ' plaquettes' as of the best-known writers such as Brantome, Monluc, Pierre de l'Estoile, <fcc.; and the number of documents which have been looked through by Professor Hauser is very considerable : there are 1,155 for the history of the ware of religion only, carefully divided into four sections— histoirts, sources documentaires, pamphlets et plaquettes, sources Hrangerts. Among the points dealt with, special attention should be paid to the docu- ments concerning the St. Bartholomew which constitutes the greatest part of section iv. It is gratifying to note that Professor Hauser has a.wide knowledge of the English books bearing on that period and that he quotes VOL. XXDC.—NO. C3OV. D d.