Exeter Domesday (Fol. 189); the canons being therein said to hold "a manor called Langarroc, the same which the Saint Karantocus held; on the day King Edward died". ("Terra Sancti Carantochi Canonici Sancti Carantochi habent unam mansionem quæ vocatur Langaroc quam tenuit idem Sanctus eà die quà rex Edwardus fuit vivus et mortuus".)

In this connection I will quote the account given by Bale, who, although not always a veracious chronicler, is in this instance confirmed by reliable statements of other authorities, and who writes to this effect :

"This collegiate church (St. Carantoc) had great revenues belonging to it, since it is rated in the Pope's Annat (Domesday) higher than any other church in Cornwall. The nine prebends extant in the church were thus rated. They were John de Woolrington, John de Cottelyn, Nicholas Strange, John de Ingham, Ralph de Trethewick, David de Monton, William de Pateford, John Lovell, John de Glasney. The rates in all were £19 3s. 4d. The first endowed college in England (or Europe, as Camden saith), was Balliol College in Oxford (1260); next, Merton College (1274); and yet he contradicts himself, and tells us that there was a college of priests at Launceston, or St. Stephens, before the Norman Conquest; another at St. Germans, founded by King Canutus, A.D. 1002, as our chronologers tell us-and as sure I am, there was another at St. Neots long before; also another at Burgan, A.D. 930; and, to speak uprightly, this college of Crantock may pretend to as much antiquity as any college in Oxford, since it appears to have had great revenues at the time of the inquisition before-mentioned, viz. in 1294, though it had been so unfortunate as not to have been so long-lived, by reason of the great quantities of sea-sand blown up from the Gannell Creek by the wind (as Hollingshead saith), the place where it stood is now scarce discernable-only a consecrated arched well bears the name of St. Ambrose's Well, contiguous therewith. The vicarage church of Crantock is commonly called Lan-Guerra, or Lun-Gorra : that is to say, the Bay Temple or church, and is suitable also to its name, situate upon a large meadow of very

might well be imitated by the proprietors of other great newspapers in other counties. At the beginning of this year, with commendable enterprise, they commissioned Mr. T. Hugh Bryant to write a series of Papers on the Parish Churches of Norfolk; and these have been

appearing, with illustrations of each church described, in the columns of their journal from week to week. This handsome little book is the first outcome of their efforts, and they do not mean to cease until every church and parish has been included. Sixteen parishes are comprised in the Hundred of Wayland, which lies in the mid-western portion of the county, and on each of these. Mr. Bryant writes in a graphic and spirited manner, giving the salient points of interest in the history of the parishes, with, in many cases, a list of the incumbents from the earliest known date, and, so far as we have been able to

judge, an accurate description of the architectural details of the churches. He has gone to original sources, and is not a mere compiler, and we congratulate him on his work. Norfolk, as is well known, is a land of fine churches, being especially rich in Early Perpendicular : for in the fifteenth century, in spite of the desolating effects produced by the Wars of the Roses in other districts (which Norfolk appears to have escaped) a great wave of church building and church restoration seems to have flooded East Anglia. The most splendid specimens are to come; but the Hundred of which this booklet treats contains some characteristic examples. The illustrations are good, artistic and clear. By the courtesy of the proprietors we are enabled to include two: Scoulton Church, which is Early English throughout, except for the octagon surmounting the tower, which is Perpendicular. The reader will notice the square tower, with its peculiarly massive buttresses and the thatched roof. The other illustration is of Rockland Church, with its Norman round tower, surmounted also by an octagon; this, and the fine windows in the nave are Perpendicular, while the roof is again thatched.

To all lovers of parish history and church architecture, whether in Norfolk or out of it, this will form an interesting and attractive series of books.

The Church Treasury of History, Custom, and Folk-lore, etc. Edited by WM. ANDREWS (London: William Andrews and Co., 5, Farringdon Avenue, 1898. 78. 6d.). This is another of Mr. Andrews' well-known series of books dealing with antiquarian subjects in a popular way. Just as England in Days of Old, and the series of Byegones, dealt with the general fund of archæological lore, always choosing the quaint and the curious and the out-of-the-way rather than the more obvious or the merely historical, and always treating every subject in an easily readable and interesting manner, so in this book, which seems to be a sequel to one previously published, Antiquities and Curiosities of the Church, we find the same method of treatment, and the same choice and variety of subject. Nothing comes amiss to the facile pens of Mr. Andrews and his able coadjutors, and whether they discourse on Stave-kirks, or Holy Wells, or Pilgrims' Signs, or Knight Templars, or Animals of the Church in Stone, Wood and Bronze, or Human Skin fastened to Church Doors (the latter a truly gruesome subject, but all too real a fact, as several church doors could testify, in the Middle Ages), there is the same tranquil flow, the same fascinating attractiveness in the style; so that the least antiquarian of readers is drawn on in spite of himself, and learns to take an interest in details of the life of England and her Church in olden days which he might otherwise never acquire. The writers never dive to the depths of a subject, or probe to its hidden mysteries; but in skimming the surface and sipping the honey by the way-honey sometimes mixed with gall-they are doing a good and useful work in the popularising of archæological