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tents, and the large amount of new information to be 

 found in it, there can be little doubt that it will share 

 general favour with its predecessors. 



The Camden Wiscellany, Vol. III., contains four articles : 

 the tirst, Papers relating to Proceedings in the County of 

 Kent, carefully edited by Mr. Almack, gives an authentic 

 account of proceedings in Kent at the beginning of the 

 Civil War, and during the progress of that political storm, 

 from the papers of Thomas Weller of Tonbridge. This 

 is followed by Ancient Biographical Poems on the Duke of 

 Norfolk, Viscount Hereford, the Earls of Essex, and Queen 

 Elizabeth, edited by Mr. Collier with his accustomed care 

 from Cough's Norfolk MSS. in the Bodleian. The MS. 

 was compiled by one " Thomas Brampton " about 1594, 

 and Mr. Collier would be glad to be informed of any 

 biographical particulars of him which may be known to 

 our readers. To Sir F. Madden the Camden Society is 

 indebted for the next paper, A Relation of some Abuses 

 which are committed against the Commonwealth, together 

 with a friendlie Reprehension of the same, composed espe- 

 ciallie for the Benefit of this Countie of Durham^, De- 

 cember 2Gth, 1629. The abuses to which the anonymous 

 writer refers, he classes under four heads, namely, the 

 waste of woods — the pulling down of castles and for- 

 tresses — the decay of martial discipline — and the vani- 

 ties of the people in drinking, smoking, and apparel. The 

 MS. well deserves to be printed. In securing it for the 

 Museum, and then editing it for the Camden Society, Sir 

 F. Madden has done good service. The last and longest 

 communication to the volume is by Mr. J. G. Nichols, 

 who contributes Inventories of the Wardrobes, Plate, 

 Chapel Stuff, ^c, of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, 

 and of the Wardrobe Stuff at Baynard's Castle of Katherine 

 Princess Dowager. These, however, are but as the " one 

 half-penny worth of bread to the intolerable deal of sack," 

 — in Mr. Nichols accompanying Memoir and Letters of 

 the Duke of Richmond. On this introductory paper the 

 editor has bestowed considerable labour: and the result 

 is one of those " historical monographs," which, when well 

 done, are so valuable, and which no one can do better 

 than Mr. John Gough Nichols. 



When will any Chancellor of Exchequer in this 

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 Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, propose to parliament a vote for 

 the expenses of collecting and preserving the ballads of 

 the British Islands? Yet the Danish parliament has 

 done this, and the publication of them has been entrusted 

 to Lieutenant Svend Grundtvig, the grandson of the 

 editor of Beowulf. Three Parts have already appeared. 

 Lieutenant Grundtvig is also, in conjunction with Ion 

 Sigurdson, editing the Old Ballads of Iceland, of which 

 one volume has been published. We hope next week 

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