874. KERRY, CHARLES. A history of Peak forest. Derbysh. Archæol, and Nat. Hist. Soc., Journal, xv. 67-98. London, etc., 1893.

875. PEGGE, SAMUEL. An historical account of Beauchief abbey. London, 1801.

Consists mainly of an abstract of its chartulary.

876. USSHER, RICHARD. An historical sketch of the parish of Croxall [with an appendix of charters, etc.]. London, 1881.

Devonshire.

See No. 70.

877. DYMOND, ROBERT. The history of the parish of St. Petrock, Exeter. Devon. Assoc. for Advancement of Science, etc., Trans., xiv. 402-92. Plymouth, 1882.-Published separately, Exeter, 1889.

Contains extracts from the churchwardens' accounts, 1425-1692. 878. GRIBBLE, J. B. Memorials of Barnstaple. Barnstaple, 1830.

878a. HAMILTON, ADAM. History of St. Mary's abbey of Buckfast (Devon), A.D. 760-1906. Buckfastleigh, [1907].

878b. HOOKER (or VOWELL), JOHN. The antique description and account of the city of Exeter. Exeter, 1765.-New edition in progress, ed. W. J. Harte: Hooker's History of Exeter. Devon and Cornwall Record Soc. [Exeter, 1907- ]

879. MOORE, S. A. A short history of the rights of common upon the forest of Dartmoor and the commons of Devon. Report of S. A. Moore to the committee, and [an] appendix of documents. Dartmoor Preservation Assoc. Plymouth, 1890.

Valuable.

880. OLIVER, GEORGE. History of Exeter. Exeter, 1821.— [New edition, by E. Smirke], 1861.-Index, by J. S. Attwood, 1884.

881. Lives of the bishops of Exeter, and a history of the cathedral [with a valuable appendix, containing fabric rolls, charters, etc.]. Exeter, 1861.-Index, by J. S. Attwood, 1887. See also his Monasticon Diocesis Exoniensis (No. 624).

882. REYNOLDS, H. [E.] A short history of the ancient diocese of Exeter. Exeter, 1895.

883. *Rowe, J. B. Contributions to a history of the Cistercian houses of Devon. Plymouth, 1878.

Contains many extracts from the public records.

884. ROWE, SAMUEL. A perambulation of the forest of Dartmoor. Plymouth, [1848]; 3rd edition, Exeter, 1896.

Ch. xiii. Historical documents. Valuable.

885. WORTH, R. N. History of Plymouth. Plymouth, 1871; other editions, 1873, 1890.

Dorset.

See No. 71.

886. HUTCHINS, JOHN. The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset. 2 vols. London, 1774.-3rd edition, by William Shipp and J. W. Hodson, 4 vols., Westminster, 1861-70. Valuable.

887. BOND, THOMAS. History and description of Corfe Castle. London, etc., 1883.

888. [SMART, T. W. W.] Chronicle of Cranborne: account of the town, lordship, and chase. London, etc., 1841. Contains many extracts from records.

an

889. SYDENHAM, JOHN. The history of the town and county of Poole. Poole, etc., 1839.

890. WATSON, E. W. Ashmore: a history of the parish. Gloucester, 1890.

891. WEST, WILLIAM. A history of Cranborne chase. Gillingham, 1816.

M

Durham.

For the history of the palatinate, see also Nos. 833, 1045a, 2346.

892. HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM. The history and antiquities of the county palatine of Durham. 3 vols. Newcastle, 1785-94. His account of the bishops of Durham is particularly valuable.

893. *LAPSLEY, G. T. The county palatine of Durham a study in constitutional history. New York, etc., 1900.

894. SURTEES, ROBERT. The history and antiquities of the county palatine of Durham. 4 vols. London, 1816-40.— New edition in progress: vols. i.-iii. (districts of Sunderland, Gateshead, and Hartlepool), Sunderland, 1908-12.

895. BRADSHAW, F[REDERICK]. The decline and fall of serfdom in Durham. Soc. of Antiq. of Newcastle, Archæologia Æliana, 3rd series, iv. 91-105. Newcastle, 1908.

896. RAINE, JAMES. A brief historical account of the episcopal castle, or palace, of Auckland. Durham, 1852.

897. SHARP, CUTHBERT. History of Hartlepool: a reprint of the original work published in 1816, with a supplemental history to 1851. Hartlepool, 1851.

Essex.

See No. 71a.

History and antiquities of the London, 1768; reprinted, Chelmsford,

898. MORANT, PHILIP. county of Essex. 2 vols. 1816.

898a. CLARK, ANDREW. Serfdom on an Essex manor [Chatham hall], 1308-78.

1905.

English Hist. Review, xx. 479-83. London,

899. CROMWELL, THOMAS. History and description of the borough of Colchester. 2 vols. London, etc., 1825.

900. *FISHER, W. R. The forest of Essex: its history, laws, administration, and ancient customs. London, etc., 1887.

Perambulation of 1301, pp. 393-9. Fisher's book is supplemented by J. H. Round's essay on the same subject, in Journal of the British Archæological Association, new series, 1897, iii. 36-42.

901. [GOUGH, RICHARD.] The history and antiquities of Pleshy. London, 1803.

Statutes of the gild of All Saints in the church of Morton, 1473, Pp. 113-32.

902. [GRIFFIN], RICHARD, Lord BRAYBROOKE. Audley End and Saffron Walden. London, 1836.

History of

Extracts from churchwardens' accounts of Walden, 1439-85, pp. 219-27.

902a. Hall (The) of Lawford hall.

London, 1891.

Deals with manorial history.

*

[By F. M. Nichols.]

903. History of Colchester castle. [By J. H. Round ?] Colchester, 1882.

Gloucestershire.

See No. 72.

904. ATKYNS, ROBERT. The ancient and present state of Gloucestershire. London, 1712; 2nd edition, 1768.

2 vols.

904a. BIGLAND, RALPH. Historical, monumental, and genealogical collections relative to the county of Gloucester. London, 1786-92.

Devoted mainly to monumental inscriptions, genealogical tables, etc. For an index of the heraldry, by F. Were, see Bristol and Glouc. Archæol. Soc., Trans., 1905, xxviii. 147-510.

905. FOSBROKE, T. D. Abstracts of records and manuscripts respecting the county of Gloucester. [Half-title: History of Gloucestershire.] 2 vols. Gloucester, etc., 1807.

906. [RUDDER, SAMUEL.] A new history of Gloucestershire. Cirencester, 1779.

Contains a facsimile copy of the Domesday for Gloucestershire, and an appendix of documents.

906a. BADDELEY, W. ST. CLAIR. A Cotteswold being the history of Painswick. Gloucester, etc., 1907.

manor,

907. BARTLEET, S. E. The manor and borough of Chipping Campden. Bristol and Glouc. Archæol. Soc., Trans., ix. 134–95, 354-5. Bristol, [1885].

908. BENNETT, JAMES. The history of Tewkesbury. Tewkesbury, 1830; abridged edition, 1835.

909. BRAINE, A. The history of Kingswood forest. London, etc., 1891.

910. *ELLACOMBE, H. T. The history of the parish of Bitton. 2 pts. Exeter, 1881-83.

Contains court rolls, wills, inquests post mortem, etc.

911. FOSBROKE, T. D. An original history of the city of Gloucester. London, 1819.

912. FULLER, E. A. Cirencester: manor and town. Bristol and Glouc. Archæol. Soc., Trans., ix. 298-344. Bristol, [1885].

For other interesting papers by the same writer, on the gild merchant and customary tenants in Cirencester, see ibid., ii. 285–319; xviii. 32-74, 175-6; xx. 114-26.

913. NICHOLLS, H. G. The forest of Dean. London, 1858. Meagre for the medieval period. See Miss Bazeley's valuable paper in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, 1910, xxxiii. 153-286.

914. NICHOLLS, J. F., and TAYLOR, JOHN. Bristol, past and present. 3 vols. Bristol, 1881-82.

915. SEYER, SAMUEL. Memoirs, historical and topographical, of Bristol. 2 vols. Bristol, 1821-23.

The best history of Bristol.

916. SMYTH, JOHN. The Berkeley MSS. Vol. iii.: A description of the hundred of Berkeley, ed. John Maclean. Bristol and Glouc. Archæol. Soc. Gloucester, 1885.

Contains a valuable account of manorial history.

See No. 3042.

917. WEARE, G. E. Collectanea relating to the Bristol

friars minors. Bristol, 1893.