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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 

 ran 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. GODDARD. 



^ HE decrees and orders of the Court of Star Chamber are 



lost; they were reported as missing in 1719, and no trace 

 of them has been discovered since that time. A very considerable 

 quantity, however, of the pleadings in their court, bills, answers, and 

 depositions are still in existence. Twenty-six bundles of such 

 matter were calendared in the 49th Eeport of the Deputy Keeper 

 of the Public Records (1888), and this list has been amplified and 

 brought down to a later date in a recent volume of the valuable 

 series of " Lists and Indexes " issued from the same office. 



Many of the cases in this collection are incomplete ; a stray bill 

 or stray answer is all that remains. We may account ourselves 



