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Suffolk Records and MSS. Collected and Edited by W. A. Copinger. (H. Sotheran and Co. 218. net per vol.)—This is a very laborious collection of records and other documents relating to the county of Suffolk. It is not a county history, but it furnishes the material for such a work, so far as it is to be found in paper and parchment. We will give a specimen. On p. 213 we find Timworth. First come ten variants of the name. Then "bronze spear head found at"; next is a summary of Domesday Book: Lands of St. Edmund twenty-nine freemen held 31 caru- cates ; John holds six freemen with 1 ear. 6 a. meadow. A church living with 30 acres. Land of Richard, son of Earl Gislebert. Then come later grants of land, notice of law pro- ceedings, "William de Pakeham mentioned," order for filling in of a pond as a nuisance; notice about land; Court of Wards and Liveries ; grant of lands (probably abbey, as time is 3711. VIII.), notice re personal estate of Isabel Gibbon ; " Nich. Bacon's lands to be seized for debt ; order of Local Government Board about highways ; by-laws for schools. Then we have "Manor : worth six marks, held of Abbot of Bury " ; particulars about Timworth Church, mention of parsons ; pedigrees of families ; and so the book goes on. It is a mine out of which the materials for scores of books might easily be extracted. The documents are calendared. To the reader this is tantalizing; but the purpose of the compiler is fulfilled.
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