A particularly fine and exhaustive topographical work has recently appeared entitled _The Records of Wroxall_. Wroxall Priory, Warwickshire, was a small house of Benedictine nuns with an interesting history. In these pages full extracts are given (with one overlooked omission) of all the visitations of the priory recorded in the Worcester diocesan registers. The earliest of these is 1268, and the latest in 1433. There are fourteen recorded visitations in all, made either by the Bishop or by the prior of Worcester’s Commissaries _sede vacante_, and in only three of the fourteen was any evil detected--namely, in 1323, 1339, and 1410. Yet Wroxall is by far the worst case of any nunnery in the Worcester diocese, so far as extant visits are concerned. Its character was remarkably good on the eve of its suppression. Henry VIII.’s own Commissioners of 1536, six in number, reported that the nuns then numbered five with the prioress, and were all “off good converssacion and lyvyng, and all desyer yf the house be suppressed to be sent to other religious houses.” The priory itself is described as “a propre litle house, and in convenyent and good repaire.” The writer of this Wroxall book, who is evidently not desirous to go beyond the truth, has failed to find a scrap of evidence between the visitation of 1433 and that of 1536; and yet, although not a breath of scandal is known to have rested on the nuns of Wroxall since 1410, he actually ventures thus to libel the last days of this house entirely out of his own imagination: “Idleness had crept within its walls, together with the vices of the world; it had become more a source of danger than a blessing to the community itself and to the public outside.” Such an unsupported statement is a blot on the book where it occurs, and it is cited here as a proof of the usual unfairness of the average English mind, saturated with over three centuries of reckless misrepresentation, when it approaches the question of the vowed religious life. During the vacancy between the death of Archbishop Morton in October, 1500, and the election of his successor in the following April, the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, asserted his right to hold metropolitical visitations _sede vacante_. At this time the sees of Winchester and Ely were also both vacant, and Dr. Hede, as commissary of the prior, made a visitation tour of both dioceses. The results, giving the details of the individual statements of the inmates, are extant in a volume at Canterbury, which, it is hoped, may ere long be printed. The record of this series of visits, unknown save perhaps to half-a-dozen ecclesiologists, is of considerable value in bearing remarkable witness to the general integrity of the religious houses. Such evidence is all the more valuable, because of the obvious thoroughness of the work undertaken by Dr. Hede; in a single case, the large nunnery of Romsey, there was a sad scandal, and the investigation led to the dismissal of the abbess.