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Manorial records P. D. A. Harvey British Records Association, Archives and the User No. 5, 1984 viii + 81 pp., illus. £6.75 (£4.50 to members of B.R.A.) Crown Pleas of the Devon Eyre of 1238 Edited by Henry Summerson Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Sodety, New Series, Volume 28, 1985 lii+ 163 pp., map. £8 to non‐members The Brokage Books of Southampton for 1477–8 and 1527–8 Edited by K. F. Stevens. The Book for 1477–8 translated by T. E. Olding Southampton: Southampton Records Series, Volume XXVIII, 1985 xxi + 230 pp. £14 to non‐members Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1485–1558 Edited by R. F. Hunnisett Lewes: Sussex Record Society, Volume 74, 1985 li + 105 pp. £12 to non‐members Calendar of the Court Books of the Borough of Witney 1538–1610 Edited by James L. Bolton and Marjorie M. Maslen Oxfordshire Record Society, Volume LIV, 1985 for 1981 and 1982 xcvii + 260 pp. £12.00 to non‐members (available from the Hon. Secretary, Oxfordshire Record Society, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX1 3BG) Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts Edited by Anthony Palmer Hertfordshire Record Society, Volume 1, 1985 xiii + 216 pp. £10 to non‐members (available from Mrs Val High, Pantiles, Braughing Friars, Ware, Hertfordshire SG11 2NS) A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property Holding in London before the Great Fire Derek Keene and Vanessa Harding London Record Society Publications, Volume XXII, 1985 xix + 248 pp., 2 maps. £12 to non‐members The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: the Blenheim Papers London: The British Library, 1985 [viii] + 932 pp. in 3 vols. £115 The Justicing Notebook of William Hunt 1744–1749 Edited by Elizabeth Crittall Devizes: Wiltshire Record Society, Volume XXXVII, 1982 for 1981 xii + 131 pp., illus. £15 to non‐members (available from M. J. Lansdown, 53 Clarendon Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire) A Calendar of the Flintshire Quarter Sessions Rolls 1747–1752 Compiled by Derrick Pratt Hawarden: Clwyd Record Office, 1983 186 pp., illus. £3.75 Private papers of British diplomats 1782–1900 London: H.M.S.O. for the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Guides to Sources for British History 4, 1985 vii + 80 pp. £5.95 Company Archives. The Survey of the Records of 1,000 of the First Registered Companies in England and Wales Lesley Richmond and Bridget Stockford Aldershot: Gower, 1986 xxi + 593 pp. £45 The Royal Institute of British Architects: A Guide to its Archive and History Angela Mace London and New York, Mansell, 1986 xliv + 378 pp., 27 illustrations. £32.50 Termau Archifau: Archive Terms Anne E. Williams Caernarfon: Gwasanaeth Archifau Gwynedd, Cyngor Sir Gwynedd, 1986 iv + 55pp. £2.95 The management of information from archives Michael Cook Aldershot: Gower, 1986 ix +234 pp. £19.50 A manual of archival description Michael Cook and Kristina Grant with editorial assistance by Pat Starkey British Library Research and Development Report 5867 London: Society of Archivists, 1986 197 pp. £6.00 to members of die Society, £8.50 to non‐members The listing of archival records Edited by David Robinson Society of Archivists, TRC 1, 1986 176 pp. £9.50 to members, £11.50 to non‐members Toward Descriptive Standards: report and recommendations of the Canadian working group on archival descriptive standards Ottawa: Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1985 x + 192 pp. (available free from Terry Eastwood, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Y3) Modern archives administration and records management: a RAMP reader Compiled by Peter Walne with the assistance of a working group of the International Council on Archives for the General Information Programme and UNISIST Paris: UNESCO, 1985 vi + 587 pp. PG1–85/WS/32