Royal C7Larters of the City of Lincoln. Transcribed and translated
with an introduction by Walter Do Gray Birch, LL.D. (Cam- bridge University Press. 12s. not.)—The charter here described, commented on, and translated, together with son e documents of a kindred nature, number twenty-nine, covering a period of not less than five hundred years. The earliest was granted by Henry IT., and is assigned to the year 1151; the latest was the gift of William III., and boars date 1696. The first, it may be noted, refers to privileges possessed by the city in the time of Edward the Confessor. King William's grant to the city was the leave to hold a horse and cattle fair. We have given the barest description of the contents of the book. It ie quite impossible to do justice to the minute care with which it has been put together.
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