The Antiquary. Vol. XXX. (Elliot Stock.)—This is a par- ticularly
interesting volume of a periodical which always contains much that is curious and valuable. We may mention "Further Particulars from the Tissington Manuscripts," contributed by Mr. F. Aidan Herbert. Here we have some contemporary testimony to the feeling of the English population about the Jacobite Movement of '45. It became distinctly hostile. Manchester, for instance, received Prince Charles's troops on their advance with enthusiasm, but had changed completely when they were on their retreat, not because they had been beaten, but because they behaved so badly. Mr. Haverfield's "Quarterly Notes on Roman Britain " are as good as usual. Some curious particulars are given about eighteenth-century Visitations of the Diocese of London. The excuse of non-resident rectors that they dread the ague is frequent. Curates were apparently ague-proof. This could hardly have been the result of good living, as the salaries of eighty-six of them averaged only £32 6s. Many of the livings, it must be conceded, were very smalL One gentleman paid his curate "eight shillings per Sunday, which is nearly the full value of the living," another paid £23 with fees, out of a living of £50. The Holy Communion was administered three times a year only in 111 parishes, four times in 117, and never in six. "As far as I could ever learn or know," writes one incumbent, " it has not been administered above once for near these 50 years, and that was on Good Friday, A.D. 1735, by myself." Another says, "Neither of the Churchwardens ever receives it unless to qualify for a place." And the Church survived all this !
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