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Scriptures Regis. By T. A. M. Bishop. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1961.86 pp., 40 pls. £3.15s. od. A Newe Booke Of Copies, 1574: A Facsimile Of A Unique Elizabethan Writing Book In The Bodleian Library, Oxford. Edited with an introduction and notes by Berthold Wolpe. London, Oxford University Press, 1962. 100 pp. 30s. The Colonial Office In The Early Nineteenth Century. By D. M. Young. For the Royal Commonwealth Society, by Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1961. x + 310 pp. 35s. Catalogue Of The Manuscripts Of Jeremy Bentham In The Library Of The University College, London. Compiled by A. Taylor Milne. 2nd edit. London, Athlone Press, 1962. vii + 104 pp. 12S. 6d. Captains Outrageous: Seven Centuries Of Piracy. By Neville Williams. London, Barrie & Rockliff, 1961. xii + 243 pp. 8 plates. 25s. (cloth‐bound). Tudor Secretary. Sir William Petre At Court And Home. By F. G. Emmison. London, Longmans, 1961. xx + 364 pp. Mus. 45s. (cloth‐bound). Somerset 1625‐1640. A County'S Government During The ‘Personal Rule‘. By Thomas Garden Barnes. London, Harvard University Press, and Oxford University Press, xiii and 369 pp. Maps. 40s. Guide To The Nottinghamshire County Records Office. By P. A. Kennedy. Nottinghamshire County Council, 1962, xii + 180 pp., 9 pls. 15s. Kentish Sources. Iii. Aspects Of Agriculture And Industry. A Collection of examples from original sources in the Kent Archives Office from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Edited by Elizabeth Melling. Maidstone, Kent County Council. 1961. viii + 150 pp., illus., maps. 6s. 6d. Royal Progress. The Essex Record Office, 1956–61. A Report...by F. G. Emmison...County Archivist. Chelmsford, Essex County Council, 1962. (Essex Record Office Publications No. 37.) 20 pp., illus. 1s. 6d. Preliminary Inventory Of The Records Of The Bureau Of Public Roads. (Record Group 30). Compiled by Truman R. Strobridge. Washington. U.S. National Archives. 1962. (Preliminary Inventories No. 134). National Archives Publication No. 62–5. v + 34 pp.