We have received the sixth half-yearly volume of The Antiquary
a Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past. (Elliot Stock.)—It is full of interesting matter. Among the articles may be mentioned " The Domesday of Colchester," "Accounts of Henry IV." (Henry's expenditure seems to have been considerably in excess of his income), " The Great Case of the Impositions" (impositions may be described as extraordinary customs dues), and " Guernsey Folk-lore." Some of the shorter notes are very valuable. Here, for instance, is one, on the " value of land in Warwickshire." At Claverdon, in that county, is the tomb of a certain John Matthews, who died in the reign of Henry VII., leaving an estate for the repair of the parish church. The income derived from this estate has been inscribed on the tomb from time to time, and the record stands thus :—" 1617, 12 nobles (El); 1707, £12 ; 1825, £78 ; 1868, £130." The value of land has certainly increased in a much larger proportion than the value of money.
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