GRAVES MEMOIRS OF THE CIVIL WAR. By F. A. Bates.
(Blackwood. 68s.)-Mr. Bates's substantial quarto is not, as the title might suggest, a dissertation on tombs such as Old Mortality might have enjoyed, but a learned contri- bution to the history of the Graves family or families. The first part is a scholarly memoir of Colonel Richard Graves, who fought for the Parliament from 1642 to 1647, commanded the escort which brought King Charles as a prisoner from the Scottish camp to llolmby House and then, quarrelling with the Independents, fled to Holland to join Prince Charles, in whose service he was captured at Worcester. The second part gives particulars of Thomas and Mary Graves of Waterford, who were Royalists and suffered for their cause. The third part is a detailed biography of Richard Graves of Lincoln's Inn and Richmond, a busy Parliamentary lawyer who took an active part in the administrative and legal work of the Commonwealth. He speculated in Irish land and in the draining of the Fens, and bought an estate at Mickleton in Gloucestershire. The author prints many papers relating to these persons, with abstracts of wills, and gives elaborate pedigree charts which are excellent of their kind.
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