to Robert Lauder the younger. The deed is written in Norman-French, and, as the editor points out, is on that account alone a great curiosity, as Norman-French was never the legal tongue in Scotland. The deeds, at least of the Lowlands, were composed either in Latin or in the kindly "braid Scottis," which was then the language of literature and of the Court. Mr. WallaceJames opines, as the document is dated at Berwickon-Tweed, a local scrivener may have drawn it; if so it would not have been unnatural for him to use the language to which he was accustomed. A notarial instrument of 1589 furnishes an illustration of the Scottish feudal law with regard to marriage, which was in some respects different from, and, as we think, even more fraught with mischief than, our own. Over the Border a superior lord had a right of nominating a spouse to his vassal, and though there were certain restrictions of this arbitrary power into which we cannot enter, the vassal was commonly bound to wed the woman provided for him or to pay a heavy fine. There is a painfully interesting record of a trial of a woman for infanticide in 1612. A certain Margaret Alexander was charged with murdering her two illegitimate children. So far as we can gather from the evidence the poor creature was guilty. The punishment meted out to her was revoltingly savage. We should not have expected to come upon such refinement of cruelty at so late a date. This document is interesting not only as an illustration of manners, but also as a sample of the Scottish dialect when James VI. was king. The documents which Mr. Wallace-James has collected contain two examples of brothers of the same Christian name. The Sources of Archbishop Parker's Collection of MSS. at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. With a Reprint of the Catalogue of Thomas Markaunt's Library. By Montague Rhodes James, Litt. D. (Cambridge, Antiquarian Society.) THIS pamphlet is far more valuable than its title indicates. Catalogues of manuscripts are always to be treasured; but in this case we have something more. Mr. James in his introduction points out how important it is that every one of our older manuscripts should be carefully examined, and the history of each traced, so far as possible. The monastic libraries were richly stored with books; but when the crash came they were scattered and, for the most part, destroyed. The commissioners sent out both to destroy the monasteries and to purify the universities were as reckless as the similar men employed on like errands in France at a later period, and the results have been much the same. Better times have come, and every intelligent person will now agree with Mr. James that no effort should be spared to find out, when possible, what were the original homes of the manuscripts we still possess. This is not a mere sentimental inquiry, though from that point of view alone it is by no means to be despised. If we knew where was the first home of a manuscript, we might often make a shrewd guess, and sometimes be quite sure, for whom or by whose hand it was written. No. 46 of the Parker Collection is a copy of the Polycraticus' and Metalogicon' of John of Salisbury, and Mr. James has proved almost to demonstration that it is the identical volume given by its author to Thomas à Becket, the murdered archbishop. Every possessor of manuscripts or librarian having the custody of such treasures should not fail to study Mr. James's introductory pages. He will, we are sure, rise from their perusal with an increased love for his treasures. 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