served in bundles or on files; (3) Books of entries, containing memorandum of acts, etc., entered by officers of the court; (4) State papers, which form a distinct branch of the records."

The publications of the Commission include The Correspondence of Henry VIII. (abstracted in No. XXII), The Statutes of the Realm (No. XLVIII, C, a), The Doomsday Book (No. XCI, D), Ancient Laws and Institutes (No. XCI, A), and various other important publications, notably indexes, catalogues, and transcripts. See Record Commission Catalogue (Macmillan & Co. will send on request). See Handbook to the Public Records, ed. F. S. Thomas, Lond. 1853, and Guide to Principal Classes of Documents preserved in Public Record office, ed. R. S. Bird.

(ROLLS SERIES. See No. XXX.)

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ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

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This society was founded in London, in 1868. Its publications are varied in subject and of unequal value. They furnish, however, much information of importance that is not elsewhere obtainable. Consult the publications of the Royal Society (not to be confounded with No. LXI) for history of the progress of science. See note to No. XV.

SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

This society was instituted, in 1886, at Edinburgh for the purpose of discovering and printing, under selected editorship, unpublished documents illustrative of the civil, religious, and social history of Scotland. Its publications are valuable. See note to No. XV.

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SCRIPTORES

The items under this head are numerous. In the various series may be found, with scant exceptions, all the texts of the writers of the pre-printing epoch in English history. The student should be informed as to the contents of the various series and their critical value. See No. VIII. The names of the principal sets are here given.

(a) Scriptores post Bedam, ed. Savile. London, 1596. Frankfort, 1601.

(b) Scriptores Decem, Historia Anglicana, ed. Twysden. London, 1652.

(c) Scriptores Rerum Anglicarum, ed. Fulman. Oxford, 1684.

(d) Scriptores XV, Historia Britannica, Saxonicæ, Anglo-Danica, ed. Gale. Oxford, 1691.

(e) Scriptures Varii, Historic Anglicana, ed. Sparkes. London, 1723.

(f) Scriptores Vetustiores, Rerum Britannicarum, id est Angliæ, Scotia, vicinarumque insularum ac regionum, ed. Commelin. Heidelberg, 1587.

(g) Scriptores Normanniæ, ed. Duchesne. Paris, 1619. (h) Scriptores Veteres rerum Hibernicarum, ed. O'Conor. Buckingham, 1804-1806.

(i) Scriptores Rerum Danicarum Medii Ævi, ed. Langebek. Hafiniæ, 1772.

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SELDEN SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

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This society was founded, in 1887, for the purpose of encouraging the study and advancing the knowledge of the history of English Law. Its objects in detail are "the printing of manuscript and of new editions and translations of books having an important bearing on English legal history; the collection of materials for dictionaries of Anglo-French and of law terms; the collection of materials for a history of English law," etc. etc. The works of the society are of the highest importance. See note to No. XV.

SPALDING CLUB PUBLICATIONS.

This Club was instituted at Aberdeen, 1839, for the purpose of printing the historical, ecclesiastical, genealogical, topographical, and literary remains of the North-Eastern counties of Scotland. See Nos. VIII, X, and the society catalogues. In connection with Scottish history, see the Scottish Burgh Record Society (note to No. XV).

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SURTEES SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

This society was instituted at Durham, 1834, for the purpose of publishing inedited manuscripts illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the East between the Humber and the Firth of Forth, and on the West between the Mersey and the Clyde the ancient kingdom of Northumbria. The publications of this society are interesting and of peculiar value within its chosen field. See Soc. Catgs., also Nos. VIII and X, and note to No. XV.

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THESAURUS NOVUS ANECDOTORUM: Complectens Regum ac Principum, aliorumque Virorum illustrium Epistolas et Diplomata bene multa. Prodiit nunc primum studio et opera Domni Edmundi Martene et Domni Ursini Durand... 1717.

Contains much interesting material. For catalogue, see No. VIII, also No. LXIX.

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TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS

(4) RYMER'S FEDERA: Fœdera, Conventiones, literæ, et cujuscumque generis Acta Publica, inter Reges Angliæ et alios quosvis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes, vel communitates . . ., ed. T. Rymer (14 vols.), R. Sanderson (last 6 vols.). London, 1704-35. Several other editions. The best is that edited by A. Clarke and others for Record Commission. The Series is indexed and commented upon in Syllabus of Documents in Rymer's Fœdera, ed. T. D. Hardy. No. XXXI. 1869-85.

Rymer's Fœdera commences with 1101 and concludes with 1654. It is invaluable in its chosen field, which, as stated in the instructions to Thomas Rymer, the historiographer royal, was: the transcription and publication of all leagues, treaties, alliances, capitulations, and confederacies which had at any time been made between the crown of England and other kingdoms. The last volume of Fœdera is not full, and the work must be supplemented by No. LXVIII, B.

(B) DUMONT'S: Corps Universel Diplomatique du Droit des Gens: Contenant un Recueil des Traitez d'Alliance, de Paix, de Trève, de Neutralité, de Commerce, d'Echange, etc., etc., depuis le Règne de l'Empereur Charlemagne jusques à présent, par J. Dumont. Continued by Barbeyrac and Rousset. Amsterdam, 1739.

This work continues the record of treaties from 315 to 1730. Then consult No. LXVIII, C. See also Histoire des Traités de Paix et autres negotiations du dix-septième siècle, depuis la paix de Veruins jusqu'à la paix de Nimigue, Amsterdam, 1725. Also Négotiations Secrètes, The Hague, 1725-1726.

(C) WENCK'S: Corpus Juris Gentium Recentissimi e tabulariorum exemplorumque fide dignorum monumentis

compositus... Fred. Aug. Gid. Wenkii... Tomus Primus continens diplomata inde ab anno MDCCXXXV usque ad annum MDCCXLII. Lipsæ, MDCCLXXXI. [II, 1743 to 1753. III, 1753 to 1772.]

The student will next consult No. LXVIII, D.

(D) MARTEN'S RECUEIL and continuations: Recueil de Traités d'Alliance, de Paix, de Trève, de Neutralité, de Commerce, de Limites, d'Echange, etc., et plusieurs autres actes servant à la connaissance des relations étrangères des Puissances et états de l'Europe tant dans leur rapport mutuel que dans celui envers les Puissances et états dans d'autres parties du Globe depuis 1761 jusqu'à présent [1708], par Geo. Fréd. de Martens. Seconde édition, revue et augmentée. Göttingen, 1817.

(E) Nouveau Recueil... depuis 1808 jusqu'à présent [1874]... Martens [to 1817 continuations by Murhard, Samwer and Hopfe.

(F) Nouveau Suppléments au Recueil de Traités, by Murhard [covers 1761-1839].

(G) Nouveau Recueil Général . . . Continuation du Grand Recueil [that of Martens et al.]... Deuxième Série [by Samwer, Hopfe and Stoerk]. Göttingen and Leipzig, 1876 et seq. Covers period from 1853 to date and still in progress.

Full indexes and extensive supplements accompany these volumes (D) to (G) inclusive.

(H) HERTSLET'S COMMERCIAL TREATIES: A Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions and Reciprocal Regulations at present subsisting between Great Britain and Foreign Powers and of the Laws, Decrees and Orders in Council concerning the same; as far as they relate to Commerce and Navigation, to the Repression and Abolition of the Slave Trade and to the Privileges and Interests of the subjects, of the high contracting parties. Compiled from authentic documents by Lewis Hertslet, Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, foreign office. London, 1840-1885.

This important series has a full double index, arranged by subjects and by dates. Various other series of treaties have been published; see note in Encyclopedia Britannica. 9th edition. -At present, all treaties, not secret, are published in the London Gazette and in Parliamentary reports.

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VETERUM SCRIPTORUM et Monumentorum, Historicorum, Dogmaticorum, Moralium, Amplissima Collectio. Complectens Regum et Principum aliorumque virorum illustrium Epistolas et Diplomata bene multa. Prodiit nunc primum studeo et opera Domni Edmundi Martene, et Domni Ursini Durand, presbyterorum et monachorum Benedictinorum e Congregratione S. Mauri. Paris, 1724.

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Contains a mass of material. See No. LXVII. For contents, see No. VIII.

WELSH MANUSCRIPTS.

The four principal societies for the publication of Welsh manuscripts are:

(a) Cambrian Archæological Association, inst. 1846. (b) Cambrian Institute, inst. 1853.

(c) Cymmrodorion or Metropolitan Cambrian Institute, 1751, revived 1820.

(d) Welsh Manuscripts' Society, inst. 1837.

During the activity of these societies they published many valuable works. See No. VIII and No. X. For publications, see note to No. XV.

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Year Books: Les reports des cases argué et adjudgé... London, 1678-80.

The scope of this series extends from Edw. II. to Hen. VIII. For year books antedating Edw. II., see No. XXXI. In this series also appear various Year Books of Edw. III.

In addition to the series and collections given, the student is referred to the additional series and to the publications of private presses, catalogued in Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual (No. X), Hardy's Descriptive Catalogue (No. VIII), Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica (No. IX), The English Catalogue (No. XI), and the Official Year Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. London, ann. since 1884.