and as evidence of the price of provisions and other articles, wine, servants' wages, &c. at the time, it is extremely useful. In the margin the names of the guests at dinner and supper on each day are recorded, and it altogether exhibits a curious picture of the manners of the Elizabethan age. It must be at once obvious, that Manuscripts which throw light upon British History, but which are not sufficiently popular to enable a bookseller to print them, ought to be published by the Society incorporated for the sole purpose of advancing "the study of Antiquity, and the history of former times," and to which we are indebted for two of the volumes which have been alluded to; but the zeal which caused them to be edited has unfortunately long since evaporated. If it be thought impossible for the Society of Antiquaries to publish all the MSS. which have been enumerated, the most striking entries, and a summary of the expences of different departments might, at least, be extracted from them. The objection that few of its Fellows would undertake the trouble of editing such works without some pecuniary advantage, may be met by the remark, that it possesses two paid Secretaries, who are alike distinguished for their literary productions; or, if the duties of these officers be too severe to admit of their doing so, by asking whether it would not be a far more legitimate application of its funds to appoint persons to prepare such MSS. for the press, and to remunerate them for their labours, than to waste the Society's resources, by publishing useless articles, because they are gratuitous contributions; and still more, by inquiring whether the cost of producing such compilations, with illustrative notes, would not confer infinitely more honor upon that body, and tend in a greater degree to advance the objects for which it exists, than a heavy expenditure on useless engravings?