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of dy ing of a broken heart , by the Grand Master ' s command received a new number , 113 , still retaining her old and much revered name . Before this happened I went abroad , but after my return from Africa in 1857 , I became , and still am ,

a subscribing member of ToAvnley Parker 1032 , Whittle Springs , Co . Palatine of Lancaster . I fear I have sadly taxed both your time and patience , but I have a deep and earnest interest in the subject Avhich

sometimes makes me forgetful of everything else . Pray accept my best thanks and apologies . Yours very sincerely and fraternally , J . LEYLAND FEILDEN , Roppynden , Burwash , August 1876 .

Reviews.

REVIEWS .

Facsimile of the Original Domesday Booh , or the Great Survey of England , A . D . 180 , in the reign of William the Conqueror , with a Translation . By G . P . HARRISON , Esq . ( Head and Meek , 15 , Wine Office-court , Fleet-street . )

AVE have received the first number of this neAv publication , aud Ave have received it and looked through it with much pleasure and admiration . It is excessively wellprinted , and , being in exact facsimile , is very interesting indeed to every archreolosical student .

There have been , as Ave knoAV , previous issuesof "Domesday , " but this is an attempt to place the work Avithin the reach of many Avhom the expense of obtaining the Avhole work has so far deterred from thinking of purchasin g it . Even now it cannot be

termed exactly a cheap book perse , though cheap , we think , at the price . Such a Avork must needs be expensive . But as this work is in 2 s . 6 d . parts , it enables many readers to purchase who mi ght otherAvise shrink from a large outlay at first .

We now give the English of that interesting facsimile of the Latin , which by the ready kindness of Mr . Meek , decorates our MAGAZINE as an illustration before the title-page .

3 . —THE LAND OF THE BISHOP OP LONDON . In OSSULTON HUNDRED , the Bishop of London holds / STEPNEY for 32 hides . The land is 25 carncates . To the / demesne belong 14 hides , and there are 3 - ploughs there , and the villans have 22 / ploughs . There

are 44 villans each with 1 virgate , and 7 villans each / with half a hide , and 9 villans each with half a virgate , and 46 cottagers / Avith 1 bide pay yearly 30 s . There are 4 mills / Avorth £ 4 16 s . less 4 d . MeadoAV for 25 ploughs' teams . / •Pasture

for the cattle of the toAvn , and 15 s . rent . Wood for 500 pigs / ' and 40 s . rent . In all its profits value . £ 48 , and when / received the same . In the time of King Echvard £ 50 . This mauor Avas , and is , of the

Bishopric . In the same toAvnship Hugh de Berneres holds under the Bishop 5 hides / and I virgate of land . The land is 4 carucates . In demesne 1 plough , and villans have 3 ploughs . / There is one villan Avith half a hiedand 6 villans with 3 virgates , and 2

, borders / Avil . h half a virgate , and 3 cottagers Avith 2- ] - acres , and 1 mill / worth 66 s . 8 d . Meadow for 4 ploughs' teams . AVood for 150 pigs , / and 3-Js . rent . The whole is worth . £ 6 , when received the same . / lathe time of King Edward £ 1 .

OF this manor , Sired held 24 hides . / He Avas a Canon of St . Paul ' s . He could give or sell the same to Avhom he pleased / without the Bishop's leave . In the time of King Echvard the Canons of St . Paul ' s held / 2 £ hides of this demesne for their

food ; and Doding held 1 virgate , / and 1 mill of the Bishop ' s own manor . He could neither give nor sell / the same Avithout his licence .

In the same township the Avife of Bnen holds 5 hides of the Bishop . The land is / 2-J carucates ( or ploughlands ) . In demesne there is 1 plough , and another plough might be made by the villans . There is 1 villan with half a hide , paying yearly 4 s . for his house / and another villan ' with

, half a hide paying 8 s . Roger the Sherifl , / holds half a hide , and 15 borders with 10 acres paying 9 s . / AVood for 60 pigs . Pasture for the cattle of the town , and 5 s . rent . / The Avhole is worth 60 s ., when received the same . In the time of

Kino-Edward 100 s . This land William the Bishop held in demesne on the day in Avhich King Edward