The Victoria History of the Counties of England: General Introduction Edited by R. B. Pugh Published for the Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press, 1970. xi+282 pp. £5. Building Accounts of King Henry III Edited by H. M. Colvin Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1971 xvi+472 pp. illus., plans. £7. Court rolls of the Wiltshire manors of Adam de Stratton Edited by Ralph B. Pugh Devizes, Wiltshire Record Society vol. xxiv, 1970. viii‐+‐224 pp. Copies are obtainable from Mr. M. J. Lansdown, 37 Hilperton Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, for £2.50 excluding postage. An Edition of the Cartulary of Burscough Priory Transcribed, edited and introduced by A. N. Webb Chetham Society, 3rd Series, xviii, Manchester, 1970. viii + 297 pp., map, geneals. £4. Anglo‐Scottish Relations 1174–1328: Some Selected Documents Edited and translated by E. L. G. Stones Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1970. lvi+380 pp., 1 pl. £4. English cursive book hands 1250–1500 M. B. Parkes Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1969. xxxii + 24 pp., 24 pls. £2.50. Niccolo Machiavelli, The first Decennale, a facsimile of the first edition of February, 1306 Harvard University Press. London, Oxford University Press, 1970. 34 pp. £2.40. Oxford Life in Oxford Archives W. A. Pantin Oxford University Press, 1972. x+123 pp., 1 plate. £2. Southwark and the City David J. Johnson Published for the Corporation of London by the Oxford University Press, 1969. xiv + 441 pp., 8 pls., map. £3.15. Early Essex Town Meetings : Braintree 1619–1636: Finckingfield 1626–1634 Edited, with an Introduction by F. G. Emmison Phillimore, London and Chichester, 1970. xviii+147 pp. 3 pls. £1.75. The Tyne, 1800–1850 M. R. Savage and A. G. Thompson (compilers) University of Newcastle, Archive Teaching Units, No. 5, 1970. 80p. Distributed by Harold Hill, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4SL The Rise of a Central Authority for English Education A. S. Bishop Cambridge, at the University Press, 1971. ix+313 pp. £4–20. Guide to the Historical Manuscripts in the National Archives of Rhodesia T. W. Baxter and E. E. Burke Salisbury, National Archives of Rhodesia, 1970. Rhodesian $8.00. The Politics of Grand Strategy—Britain and France Prepare for War, 1904–1914. Samuel R. Williamson Harvard University Press. London, Oxford University Press, 1970. xiv + 409 pp. £6. Dictionary of Russian Historical Terms from the Eleventh Century to 1917 Compiled by Sergei G. Pushkarev Edited by George Vernadsky and Ralph T. Fisher, Jr. Yale University Press, 1970. xi+199 pp.