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Reviews and Book Notices. 



The 14th volume of the Transactions of the East Riding Anti = 

 quartan Society * worthily maintains the traditions of excellence set by its 

 predecessors. The volume opens with an appreciative notice of the late 

 Lord Liverpool, by whose death the Society has sustained a grievous loss — - 

 the descendant of one of the oldest Derbyshire families, many of whose 

 monuments can still be seen in the Churches of Tideswell and Bakewell. 



The Rev. E. Maule Cole contributes a short article upon the Roman 

 coins found on the Wolds, and it certainly comes as a surprise that more 

 than 14,000 have been noted within this limited area — a proof, if any were 

 necessary, of the encouragement to trade and commerce given by the 

 Roman occupation. It is sad to think hov/ frequently finds of coins have 

 been thoughtlessly scattered, and much of the valuable historic evidence 

 which a careful scrutiny might have given, has been thereby lost. Of 

 10,256 coins from the Cowlam find, which were sold to a dealer in London, 

 only 100 units came back again to the North. It is perhaps vain to hope 

 to arouse the * archaeologic spirit ' which will see in antiquities a value 

 other than that of the market, but the multiplication of local Museums 

 has already done something to stir up patriotic sentiment, and to secure 

 from destruction a moiety of the relics which turn up from time to time. 

 Articles such as that of Mr. T. Sheppard upon the Archaeological discoveries 

 in East Yorkshire do much to help in this direction. By providing a 

 catalogue of the finds in the locality, he has conferred a boon upon all who 

 are interested in pre-historic archaeology. Had Hull possessed a Muni- 

 cipal Museum when the Wallis collection was dispersed, and a curator 

 with a tithe of the energy possessed by the present holder of that office, 

 what a magnificent series of antiquities could now be displayed ! What 

 would not York give now to obtain the two valuable collections of coins 

 and Roman antiquities offered to the City as a gift in 1743 by Dr. Burton 

 (the prototype of 'Dr. Slop' in 'Tristram Shandy'), when the gift was 

 declined. 



Mr. Sheppard rightly draws attention to the important discovery of 

 the pile-dwellings at Ulrome and other spots in Holderness, to which too 

 little attention has hitherto been paid. It is to be hoped that a systematic 

 exploration of these sites will be instituted at some future date. It may 

 be remarked in connection with the human skeletons found in the peat, 

 that the antiquary should follow the Virgilian advice, nimiuni ne crede- 

 colori, for bones buried in peat for a century will be as discoloured as those 

 buried for a millenium, and no sound conclusion can be drawn from their 

 colour. 



Mr. W. H. Stevenson's article on the place-name Filey is unconvincing, 

 for the greater part is taken up with a consideration of the common ter- 

 minal — ley, whilst the more important component — Fi — is only guessed, 

 at, and the derivation from ' fifel ' is surely too far-fetched for acceptance. 



In the notes on Scarborough Castle, Mr. W. Stevenson makes a state- 

 ment which requires some emendation (page 14). Tutbury, in Stafford- 

 shire, did not bear the name Burton in pre-Conquest times. According 

 to Domesday, Henry de Ferrers held the Castle of Toteberie, which stood, 

 however, within the Manor of Burton {Burtone in qua sedet ejus Castellum). 

 The town of Burton is five miles distant from Tutbury. Of Tickhill, 

 which is not in Derbyshire, but to which was attached the bailiwick of 

 Scarsdale in that County, it is hardly accurate to state that the former 

 name was Dadesley. All that can be said is that under the name Dadesleia, 

 Domesday groups the manors and holdings, which in later times were 

 grouped under the name Tickhill. 



Miss Eleanor Lloyd's transcript of Yorkshire Subsidy Rolls is a very 

 useful and interesting piece of work. It is hard to imagine anything 

 more likely to alienate the goodwill of the subjects, or to put loyalty to 

 a severer test than this royal method of securing cash euphemistically 

 called ' a loan.' The strength and character of the opposition may be 

 gauged by the names of those who refused payment. The longest article 



Naturalist, 



