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Boylston Lordsp (being a very high place) two Axe heades of 

 Brass like the former, & now in the custody of M r Agar." 

 The discovery, in this county, of a bronze (brass) sword is an 

 exceptionally rare incident. 



Our Illustrations. — Sir A. Seale Haslam, M.P., and 

 Colonel E. Cotton-Jodrell, C.B., have generously contributed 

 to the expense of illustrating this volume. Mr. A. Victor 

 Haslam has supplied the negatives for the bulk of the plates, 

 and Mr. G. le Blanc Smith those of the fonts. The photo- 

 graphs of the tombs in Darley churchyard are the work of 

 Miss Janet M. Atkinson, of the Rectory, and the Rev. R. L. 

 Farmer, Dr. Brushfield, Mr. P. H. Currey and Mr. Ernest 

 Gunson have contributed the drawings for their respective 

 papers. Finally, the Society will acknowledge its indebtedness 

 to Sir George Sitwell for permission to reproduce his unique 

 painting of Old Derby. 



New Books. — This year has been lavish in Derbyshire 

 literature, but space will only permit a brief notice of a few of 

 the works published. 



Abstracts of Wills of Prerogative Court of Canterbury for the 

 year 1620, edited by J. Henry Lea, and printed for the New 

 England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, 

 Massachusetts. The volume is of upwards of 600 pages, and 

 contains good abstracts of 1,366 wills, including many of Derby- 

 shire testators, and numerous genealogical references to 

 Derbyshire families. 



Mr. Keyser, F.S.A., whose descriptive list of old wall- 

 paintings has long been considered the standard work on the 

 subject, has now published a comprehensive work on Norman 

 Tympana and Lintels, admirably illustrated by photographic 

 enlargements. The total list of such examples of Norman 

 sculpture scarcely exceeds two hundred, and there are one 

 hundred and seventy illustrations in these pages. Several 

 English counties have only one or two instances of these 

 enriched early church doorways, whilst Hertfordshire, Surrey 



