2 OCTOBER 1909, Page 13

REGISTER OF 1 tiel PARISH OF KNODISHALL.

Register of the Parish of Knodishall, 1566-1705. Transcribed and Edited by Arthur T. Winn, MA. (Balinese and Sons. 6s. net.) —We are alsvays grateful to those who take the trouble to transcribe the parish registers. But it would have been well if Mr. l'irmn could have contrived to tell us a little more about Knodishall (a Suffolk village of between four and five hundred inhabitants near Saxmundham). A list of lords of tho manor and of rectors would have been interesting. Who was Jonas Grimsby, who writes that "they are trarspass that rid on hors bak or goo with cart with out our leave that occupy the said lands," and goes on to give the names of three good people that "doe ussully ask leave" ? There are various curiosities in the book. So Thomas Toye, rector of Buxlow, agrees to pay William Thorn of Leiston 25s. for sixty apple-trees, receiving 6d. back for each tree wanting if the proper number of the beat trees are not to be found.