CHAPTERS IN THE ADMINIST.RATIVEHI $ TORY Op MEDIAEVAL ENGLAND
By Professor Tout The late Professor Tout's pioneer. work, modestly entitled Chapters on the Administrative History of Mediaeval England,
revealed-I-or the first time' the inner Working of the adrenals.'
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tration in the thirteenth and fourteenth century and made clear the importance of the little-known departments of the Wardrobe and the Chamber. Its five volumes, containing an immense mass of facts taken from the national records, are
now made more manageable by the truly remarkable indei
which, with lists of official, fills a sixth volume (Manchester' University Press, 40s.). : Miss Mabel :H: Mills, who has compiled this index, deserves warm commendation on her skill and patience. It seems to contain a reference to every. thing that the student could ,possibly want to find, and its arrangenient -is"MOSt-scholai,: -Professor Tait's' work has given a new importance to the study of our mediaeval history, and thrown light especially on the baffling obscurities of the reigns of Edward II and Richard II.
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