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are oval flat implements of apparently a light-coloured chert, and 
- for about one-third of their length, at the cutting end, they exhibit 
an extraordinarily brilliant polish. By the kindness of Mr. 
Dixon I was enabled to compare with these implements some of 
_ the best specimens of the Knowle polish, and when held side by 
side in the hand it must be confessed that though the Knowle 
- flints were perhaps the most “glassy,” the American implements 
yan them very close. It seems worth while to point out to en- 
‘quirers into the origin of the Knowle polish the existence of these 
implements, because in their case it seems clear that the polish 
(which is only seen at the cutting end) must have arisen from their 
“use in sandy soil. Their evidence, therefore, so far as it goes, is 
distinctly on the side of the sand polish theory, difficult as that 
. seems to be to accept on some other grounds. 
E. H. Gopparp. 

m. A Case in the Star Chamber. 
HE decrees and orders of the aoe ee Chamber are 
Bicitions are still in existence. arin six bundles of such 
natter were calendared in the 49th Report of the Deputy Keeper 
the Public Records (1888), and this list has been amplified and 
ht down to a later date in a recent volume of the valuable 
series of “ Lists and Indexes” issued from the same office. 
t stray answer is all that remains. We may account ourselves 
