Collectanea. Second Series. Edited by Montague Burrows, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—In
this volume, printed for the Oxford Historical Society, antiquarians, especially if they have any eon- nectioa with Oxford, will find not a little matter of varied interest. The first, largest, and generally most important paper in the volume is Mr. Octavims Oglo's history of the "Oxford Market." Mr. Ogle is a "Clerk of the Market," an office through which the University exercises a paternal jurisdiction over the dealers in produce—butter short in weight, for instance, is sum- marily confiscated—and he has devoted to his work an industry and knowledge that deserve the highest praise. In his second section, "The Topography of the Market," Mr. Ogle quotes from the MSS. of Anthony Wood a very curious and complete account. One of its notabilia is an order of King Edward in 1379 for- bidding slaughter-houses within the city. The townsfolk remon- strated, but were compelled to submit. Anthony Wood's account is supplemented by records of later date, reaching down to 1774, when the new market was erected at a cost of .23,842 10s. Section iii. is devoted to "The Assise of Victuals, Licenses, and the Clerkship of the Market." Much interesting matter bearing on the relations between "Town and Gown" may here be found. Section iv. gives a list of University officials. Their duties in past times were much more extensive than they are now. There were special officers to look after wine and beer. Among the various matters in the appendices, we observe, under date 1698-99, "a measure of the several sorts of fish to be sold in the market." It is interesting to compare this with that of the bye- laws of the Thames Conservancy. It runs thus: "Salmon, 16 in.; pike (from eye to tayle), 10; barbels, 12; troute, 8; chub, 12; perch, 8; roch and dace, 6." Professor Holland writes of "The University of Oxford in the Twelfth Century," quoting largely from contemporary documents. "The Friars Preachers v. the University" is the subject of the next paper. Dr. Adolf Neubauer contributes "Notes on the Jews in Oxford," a paper full of interest, sometimes, indeed, of a very lurid kind. In 1222, for instance, a certain deacon was accused of having submitted to circumcision for love that he had of a certain Jewess, and being convicted, was degraded and burnt. In 1248, we find the King forbidding the Jews to exact more than 43 per cont. interest. A catalogue of the books of William Groeyn (1520), with a memoir; "Table-Talk and Papers of Bishop Hough ;" "Extracts from the Gentleman's Maga- zine relating to Oxford (1731-1800) ;" and some details about John Dome's "Day-Book" (Dome was a bookseller in the sixteenth century), make up the volume.
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