15 MARCH 1930, Page 36

• Mr. T. Walter Hall haS earned- the gratitude of

students of local history, especially in and= near Sheffield, . by his Descriptive Catalogue of Land Charters from the Bosaille and Lindsay Collections (Sheffield : J. W. Northend, 20s.). His abstracts in English are carefully done and well annotated. The most notable items relate to Waldershelf Manor, to the north of Sheffield, which for three centuries was held by the Knights Hospitallers, who had a preceptory at Newland, near Halifax. The book is illustrated with photographs and drawings of old houses and with a representation of the double crosses which signified that the lands of the Hospitallers

were tithe-free. * * * *