A collection of early Anglo-Saxon charters, those of Abingdon Abbey, has been issued in the ‘Rolls Series’ in two volumes.[6] Other Anglo-Saxon documents have been printed and translated at various times. Domesday Survey has been reproduced by a photographic process, and is extremely clear and well executed; it is also published in four volumes in a more readable type, but still abbreviated. Each county can be obtained in a separate volume. The translations are not given; this for the student is rather an advantage than otherwise. No subject has been more studied than Domesday Book. Translations, explanations and dictionaries have been written upon it. These are very valuable as explaining the obscure points and giving the modern acreage, as compared with the carucate, bovate and hide. To understand a county history these must be closely compared. Many of the manors named in the old Survey are now lost. It must be remembered that waste lands and commons were not always mentioned, nor were churches or any property which was not taxable. For this reason Domesday often disappoints us by its meagreness of detail, but it forms the beginning or basis from which an inquiry may be started, and to pursue it through the centuries which followed, the public rolls and manuscripts are the only means of information; of these Domesday will prove valuable as a key. The really practical book on old English writing best known and most popular, because neither complicated nor expensive, is Wright’s ‘Court-hand Restored,’ price £1, compiled in 1846 to meet a long-felt want, for Latin having ceased as the law language, lawyers no longer were obliged to know old legal forms and words as part of their profession, although they often felt the need of understanding them where any search through old deeds was requisite. Since then this book has passed through nine editions, the last of which was brought out in 1879, edited and improved by Mr. C. T. Martin, of the Public Record Office.[7] It contains alphabets in all styles, facsimiles of all classes of English writing, with translations, a glossary of obsolete words and place-names, supplying a valuable textbook to paleography, giving the reader all the information necessary for studying old deeds. Since then (1892) Mr. Martin has compiled a fuller and more elaborate glossary, called ‘The Record Interpreter,’ 10s. 6d. The amateur will need no other books if he is provided with these two volumes. A list of abbreviations taken from the Pipe Rolls was issued among the yearly volumes of the Pipe Rolls Society, price 12s. 6d. The fourth volume of ‘The Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense,’ edited by the late Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, in the Rolls Series of ‘Chronicles and Memorials,’ also contains a list of contracted words and their explanations. Its price is 10s. 6d.