Ecclesiae Londino - Bataute Archivwm. Edidit Joannes Henri- etta Hessels. (Cambridge University
Press.) — Under this title are published four volumes, or to speak more accurately,
three volumes, of which one is in two parts, human nature, or possibly the binders, refusing an undivided mass of more than three thousand pages. Volume the first contains letters written by Abraham Ortelius (1628-1598), or addressed to him, and letters written to a nephew, Jacobus Colins, surnamed Ortelianus (1563-1628), with a few miscellaneous documents which somehow came into possession of the two. The second volume is occupied with letters and other documents concerning the history of the Dutch Church in London and of various members of it. The first is from the pen of Martin Bucer, and, though bearing no address, was written to one Joannes Utenhove, of Ghent, who had left his native place to avoid persecution. It bears the date of 1544. Among the latest is one from Theddon Beza (here spelt Beya) to the Consistory of the Dutch Church. It is written (in Dutch) from Geneva, and pictures the deplorable condition in which that town then was. Volume three in its two parts contains more than four thousand documents of various kinds, bearing mainly on the subject of volumes one and two. This work, which is published by the Dutch Church, is a collection of very great historical interest. The enterprise of the community and the industry and learning of the editor who has carried out its design, deserve the heartiest commendation. We can but regret the impossibility of giving the work anything like an adequate notice.
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