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Anglo‐Saxon Charters II: Charters of Burton Abbey Edited by P. H. Sawyer Published for The British Academy by the Oxford University Press, 1979 lix+93 pp. £15 The Life of Ailred of Rievaulx by Walter Daniel Edited and translated by Sir Maurice Powicke Reprinted, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978 cii+88 pp. £8.50 The Letters of John of Salisbury II: The Later Letters (1163–1180) Edited by W. J. Millor, S.J., and C. N. L. Brooke Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1979 lxxxvii+861 pp. £35 Lacock Abbey Charters Edited by Kenneth H. Rogers Wiltshire Record Society, vol. xxxiv for 1978 Devizes, 1979 vi + 147pp. £7 plus postage to non‐members (Obtainable from M. J. Lansdown, 53 Clarendon Road, Trowbridge) Curia Regis Rolls of the Reign of Henry III, vol. XVI, 1237–42 Edited by L. C. Hector London, HMSO, 1979 Iiii+698 pp. £50 The Merioneth Lay Subsidy Roll 1292—3 Edited by K. Williams‐Jones Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law Series, No. 29 Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1976 cxlix + 136 pp. £6 Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants, Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Edited by F. G. Emmison Chelmsford, Essex County Council, 1978 x+361 pp., map. £6.75 plus 75P postage Calendar of Assize Records, Kent Indictments, Elizabeth I Edited by J. S. Cockburn HMSO, 1979 vii + 703 pp. £50 Marston Moor, 2 July 1644: the sources and the site P. R. Newman York, Borthwick Institute Research Paper no. 53, 1978 46 pp. 8op plus 10p postage The Queen Anne Churches. A catalogue of the papers in Lambeth Palace Library of the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches in London and Westminster 1711–1759 Compiled by E. G. W. Bill with an introduction by Howard Colvin London, Mansell, 1979 xxiv + 255 pp. £21.50 Bristol inns and alehouses in the mid‐eighteenth century Edited by Patrick McGrath and Mary E. Williams Bristol, 1979 61 pp. £1 plus 30p postage (obtainable from Bristol Record Office) History of Chesterfield, vol. III. Early Victorian Chesterfield J. M. Bestall and D. V. Fowkes Borough of Chesterfield, 1978 xii + 139 pp., illus. No price given The West Riding County Council, 1889–1974: historical studies B. J. Barber and M. W. Beresford West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, 1979 iv + 271 pp., map. £5.50 The Officers of the Commons Philip Marsden London, HMSO, 1979 262 pp. £3.95 paperback Constitutional Relations between Britain and India. The Transfer of Power 1942–7. Vol. VIII. The Interim Government 3 July ‐ I November 1946 Edited by N. Mansergh and Penderel Moon London, HMSO, 1979 xciv + 899 pp. £35 David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents Compiled by G. W. Clendennen assisted by I. C. Cunningham Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland for the David Livingstone Documentation Project, 1979 xxiv+348 pp., illus. £3 Northern Business Histories, a bibliography Edited by D.J. Rowe London, Library Association, Reference, Special & Information Section, 1979 viii + 191 pp. £27.50 (£22 to L. A. members) (Orders to Mrs F. V. Winkworth, 16 Springfield, Ovington, Northumberland NE42 6eh) Manuscript Solicitation for Libraries, Special Collections, Museums, and Archives Edward C. Kemp Littleton, Colorado, Libraries Unlimited Inc., 1978. $21.00 Automation, Machine‐Readable Records and Archival Administration: an annotated bibliography Compiled and edited by Richard M. Kesner for the Society of American Archivists, 1980 72 pp. $4 to SAA members, $6 to non‐members Registers and records. Sources of information (Oyez Practice Notes 4.9) Trevor M. Aldridge London, Oyez Publishing, 3rd edition 1976 xii + 107 pp. £4.95