Gleanings from the Municipal and Cathedral Records of Exeter. By
W. Cotton, F.S.A., and the Venerable Archdeacon Woolicombe. (James Townsend, Exeter.)—Both the Chapter and the Corporation of Exeter seem to be well furnished with ancient records. The former, Arch- bishop Woollcombe tells us, possesses more than 6,000 documents. Among these are three charters, granted by Ethelred the Unready, Runt, and Edward the Confessor respectively ; the "Fabric Rolls "of the Cathedral, containing an account of all the outlay on the Cathedral, and extending, with but few interruptions, from 1279 to 1514; and the Register of Chapter proceedings, from 1383 down to the present time. This is a very rich store indeed. What is possessed by the Corporation we are not told, but this body also is richly furnished. The consequence is that the volume before us is full of curious interest. "The Siege of Exeter in 1549" and " Exeter during the Great Rebellion " are papers which owe much of their value to the curious information supplied from these treasures of antiquity.
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