14 ACCOUNT OF THE CLASSES 



The Commercial Relations of England and 

 Portugal, 1 200-1 807. By A. B. Wallis Chapman, 

 D.Sc. (Econ.), and V. M. Shillington, D.Sc. (Econ., 

 1907. 



The Council in the Marches of Wales. By 

 C. A. J. Skeel, D.Litt. 1904. 



The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of 

 Common Fields. By Gilbert Slater, M.A. 



The Commercial Relations between England 



and Ireland. By A. E. Murray, D.Sc. (Econ.). 



1903. 



(/) The Library of the London School of Economics 



contains a useful collection of historical works, 



especially for the study of Economic History, and a 



large collection of maps. It also possesses probably 



the most extensive collection of Facsimiles of MSS. for 



academic instruction to be found in this country. (See 



Appendix II.) These are available on loan to students, 



and are used by them for exercises, which are corrected 



by the Lecturer, a practice which forms an important 



feature of the course of instruction. 



II. 



The instruction given in this School of the University 

 of London since the year 1896, in Advanced History 

 and the Auxiliary Studies of History, has always been 

 of both a theoretical and practical character. 



In the first place there are the Courses of Lectures 

 on the cognate subjects of Palaeography, Diplomatic 

 and Historical Sources. Again, each of these Courses 

 is supplemented by Practical Instruction in the shape 

 of exercises or theses, and exhibitions of MSS. or 

 books, as well as by Seminars, in which the Transcrip- 

 tion and Editing of some historical text is carried out 

 under the supervision of the Lecturer. For academic 



