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Somersetshire Parishes. By Arthur L. Humphreys. 2 vols. (187 Piccadilly.

..t2 7s. 6d. net.)—The sub-title of this book is "A Handbook of Historical Reference to All Places in the County." We may take "Clevedon" as an example. Here the references are (1) Registers; (2) Court Roll of Clivedon, 1321; (3) Rental of Manor of Clyvedon, 1338; (4) Compotas Roll of " prePositi " of Clevydon, 1389-90, 1396-7; (5) Clevedon Award, 1801; (6). Church, description; (7) Clevedon Court, description in recent newspapers ; (8) Sea-walls, 28 Charles II.; (9) Actions ;

(10) Biographies, twenty-four in number, from 1650 downwards ;

(11) Wills, between thirty and forty, from 1419 downwards. Bath, as may readily be imagined, occupies more than forty pages.