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Chaucer Life Records. Edited by Martin M. Crow and Clair C. Olson from materials compiled by John M. Manly and Edith Rickert with the assistance of Lilian J. Redstone and others. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1966. xxvi + 629 pp. £5. 5s. The Chronicle and Political Papers of King Edward vi. Edited by W. K. Jordan. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1966. xxxiii + 214 pp. £1. 10s. Catalogue of Essex Parish Records. 1240–1894: with a supplement on Nonconformist, Charities, Societies and Schools records, 1341–1963. Prepared by F. G. Emison. Essex County Council, Essex Record Office Publications, No. 7, Second (revised) Edition, 1966. 269 pp. 43s. post free from Essex Record Office. Devon Inventories of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Edited with an Introduction by Margaret Cash. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, New Series, vol. 11, 1966. xxv + 206 pp. 40s. (available from Mrs. Miller, c/o Devon and Exeter Institution, 7 The Close, Exeter). A Companion to Arber: Being a Calendar of Documents in Edward Arber'S Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554‐1640, With Text and Calendar of Supplementary Documents. Edited by W. W. Greg. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1967. vii +451 pp. £5. 15s. 6d. The Rulers of London 1660–1689: a Biographical Record of the Aldermen and Common Councilmen of the City of London. By J. R. Woodhead. London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1965. 204 pp. £4. 4s., cloth bound, and £3. 3s., paper bound. Audley End: The Restoration of 1762–1797. By J. D. Williams. Essex Record Office Publications, Chelmsford, 1966. ix + 71 pp. 23s. post free from Essex Record Office. Archives and Local History. By F. G. Emmison. London, Methuen, 1966. xvi + 112 pp., 32 pls. 30s. cloth bound, School edition 18s. 6d. In Search of Ancestry. By G. Hamilton‐Edwards. London, Michael Joseph, 1966. 255 pp., 4 pls. 30s. For History's Sake: The Preservation and Publication of North Carolina History, 1663–1903. By H. G. Jones. North Carolina Press, and London, Oxford University Press, 1967. xvi + 319 pp., 6 pls. 60s. Lord Elgin and the Marbles. By William St. Clair. Oxford University Press, 1967. x + 309 pp. 42s. Organization and Revolution: Working‐Glass Associations in the German Revolutions of 1848–1849. By P. H. Noyes. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1966. x + 434 pp. 80s. ($10.00). Permanence. By Jerry Byrne and Jack Weiner. Bibliog. Series No. 213/64. The Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wis., U.S.A. $8.00. The Aging and Preservation of Paper: A Development Study. By J. S. M. Venter. Timber Research Unit, South African C.S.I.R., P.O. Box 395, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. Not for sale.