23 APRIL 1921, Page 24

The English Historical Review for April has a notable article

by Dr. R. A. Newhall on " The War Finances of Henry V. and the Duke of Bedford," in the years 1417-24, when Normandy was conquered and held. Henry V. was evidently a most capable ruler as well as a good soldier, for he was never in want of money, and contrived to support his army by regular taxes levied first at home and then in the occupied duchy. Mr. J. A. Twemlow shows that " Bay-salt " in the later Middle Ages originally meant salt from the Baie do Bourgneuf, Loire Inferieure, where salt was made from the sea-water.