# Archaeological Journal/Volume 11/Recent Historical and Archaeological Publications (Part 1)

Recent Historical and Archaeological Publications.
Ordericus Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy; translated with notes and the Introduction of Guizot, by T. Forester, M.A. Vol. II. Post 8vo. (Bohn's Antiquarian Library.)
Ingulph, Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland, with the Continuations by Peter of Blois and other writers. Translated with notes by H. T. Riley. Post 8vo. (Bohn's Antiquarian Library.)
Lives of the Princesses of England, by Mrs. Everett Green, Vol. V., comprising Memoirs of Mary Tudor, third daughter of Henry VII., and of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia. Portraits. H. Colburn.
Contributions to Literature, by Mark Antony Lower, F.S.A., comprising Essays on Local Nomenclature; on the Battle of Hastings; on the Iron Works of the South of England; on Yew-trees in Church-yards; Antiquarian Pilgrimage in Normandy, &c. Post 8vo. Woodcuts. 7s. 6d.
Topographer and Genealogist. Part XIII, Commencing Vol. III. Edited by John Gough Nichols, Esq., F.S.A. Contents; Account of the Manor of Apuldrefield, in Kent; Petition from Wotton Basset, relative to the right of the Burgesses to free pasture in Fasterne Park; Memoranda in Heraldry, from Le Neve's MSS.; On the descent of William of Wykeham; Indenture regarding lands in Cirencester, &c. 8vo. 3s. 6d.
British Archaeological Association, Journal, No. 35, October, 1853. Address by the President at the Rochester Congress; Historical sketch of Rochester Castle; Memoir of Gundulph, bishop of Rochester; Rochester Cathedral; Leeds Castle, Kent; the Dutch expedition to the Medway in 1667; On the origin and antiquity of playing cards; Documents relating to the Spanish Armada and the defences of the Thames and Medway; Proceedings of the Rochester Congress.—No. 36, January, 1854. Genealogical and heraldic Notices of the Earls of Kent. Romney Marsh. Proceedings of the Rochester Congress, (continued) and of the Association.
Numismatic Chronicle, edited by J. Y. Akerman, Sec. Soc. Ant., No. 62. Coins of Agrippias Cæsarea; Find of Anglo-Saxon coins in the Isle of Man; Uncertain coins of the Anglo-Saxon period; Bactrian coins; Remarks on the copper coinage of the Byzantine Emperors ; On coins of Ceylon, with remarks on the so-called ring-money and fish-hook money of that island.—No. 63. Coin pedigrees; Uncertain Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Danish coin; Ring-money, as a medium of exchange; Unpublished coins of Carausius; Unpublished varieties of rare coins; Silver coin attributed to Dubnovellaunus; Remarks on fish-hook money; Early Celtic coins found in Kent, &c.
Remains of Pagan Saxondom, principally from Tumuli in England. By J. Y. Akerman, Sec. Soc. Ant. 4to. J. Russell Smith. Each part contains two coloured plates.—Part VII. Bronze bucket found at Cuddesden, Oxfordshire; Fibula found near Billesdon, Leicestershire.—Part VIII. Fraj;nients from a tumulus at Caenby, Lincolnshire, presented to the British Museum by the Rev. E. Jarvis. Portion of a very large jewelled fibula from a tumulus at Ingarsby, Leicestershire.—Part IX. Glass drinking vessels from cemeteries in Kent; Fibulæ found near Rugby.
Collectanea Antiqua. Etchings and Notices of ancient remains. By Charles Roach Smith. Vol. III. Part II. Printed for the Subscribers only. Sarcophagus and Roman remains found near the Minories, Loudon; Roman leaden coffins; Brass trumpet, ​found at Romney, Kent; Bronze Romano-British scabbard and iron sword, found in the Thames; Notes on antiquities in France, Lillebonne, its Roman theatre, sculptures, &c. Vieux, near Caen; statue and inscription known as the marble of Thorigny, sculptures, &c. Roman buildings at Jublains. Fourteen plates, and woodcuts. 8vo. Subscribers' names received by the Author, 5, Liverpool Street, City.
Illustrations of Ancient Art, selected from objects discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum. By the Rev. E. Trollope, F.S.A. Forty-five plates, comprising specimens of arms, armour, jewellery, furniture, vases, &.c. London, G. Bell, 4to. 1l. 1s.
Wanderings of an Antiquary; chiefly upon the traces of the Romans in Britain, comprising notices of the Roman iron district of the Forest of Dean; Kenchester, Verulamium, Sandwich and the Kentish Coast, Pevensey, the Roman potteries on the Medway, Kits Coty House, Isurium, Bramber Castle, Bignor, Stonehenge, and Old Sarum. By Thomas Wright, F.S.A. Post 8vo. Nichols and Sons. 8s.
Henry Shaw.—Specimens of tile pavements, drawn from existing authorities. No. V. 4to. Contents, large plate exhibiting a moiety of the rich pavement of the Chapter House, Westminster, thirteenth century; examples on a larger scale; tiles of same period from Winchester Cathedral, St. Mary's, Salehurst, Dunkeswell, and Romsey; examples of fourteenth century, from Worcester Cathedral, Dyrham and Bakewell. Each number comprises five plates printed in colours, and reproducing as closely as possible the effect of the original tiles.
Dictionary of Terms in Art; including all such as are employed in painting, sculpture and engraving, relating to colours and artistic implements, and also to costume, armour, vases, sacred or domestic implements, &c. Edited and illustrated by F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A. To be completed in twelve monthly parts, at 1s. Post 8vo. Virtue and Hall.
Cambridgeshire.—Publications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Ancient Cambridgeshire, or an attempt to trace Roman and other ancient roads that passed through the county of Cambridge; with a record of the the places where Roman coins and other remains have been found. By Charles C. Babington, M.A. (Map of Roman roads, &c.)—Fragment of a Greco-Egyptian work upon magic, from a papyrus in the British Museum. By C. W. Goodwin, M.A.—Report and communications made to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in the year 1852-1853.
Devonshire.—A Guide, containing a short historical sketch of Lynton and places adjacent in North Devon, including Ilfracombe. By T. H. Cooper. 12mo.
Essex.—Colchester Castle not a Roman Temple; a review of a lecture by the Rev. H. Jenkins; with an appendix. By the Rev. E. L. Cutts. With several Illustrations. 8vo. George Bell.
Gloucestershire.—Memorials of the Canynges family and their times: their claim to be regarded as founders of Westbury College and Redcliffe Church examined; Memoranda relating to Chatterton, &c, with illustrations. By George Pryce. Royal 8vo. London: Houlston, Paternoster-row. 10s. 6d.
——— Bristol Cathedral; a history of its antiquities and monuments. By Peter Leversage, Barrister-at-law. Second Edition, woodcuts. 8vo. Clifton.
London.—Inscriptions and devices in the Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London, with an historical sketch of the building and the prisoners formerly confined therein. Collected from state papers, &c., by W. Robertson Dick. Thirty-one lithographic plates. Published by P. Ramage, Tower of London. 4to.
Norfolk.—History of great Yarmouth. By Henry Manship, Town Clerk, temp. Elizabeth. Edited by Charles J. Palmer, F.S.A. Great Yarmouth, L. A. Meall; London, J. Russell Smith, 4to. Illustrated with views, an ancient plan of the town, representations of the Borough seals, corporation plate, insignia, &c. A valuable mass of information is comprised in the editor's appendix and notes, and he purposes to publish a supplementary volume, for which abundant materials are prepared.
Northumberland.—Notices of Roman Inscriptions discovered in Northumberland. By the Rev. T. Surridge, L.L.D. Royal 4to. Plates. Longman.
Somersetshire.—Lecture on tile Roman antiquities of Bath; the walls, temples, and some other vestiges of the Roman period. By the Rev. H. M. Scarth. 8vo. Bath, Peach, Bridge-street. The profits of the sale of this memoir are to he applied in aid of the Local Museum of Antiquities.
Warwickshire.—History of the Holtes of Aston, with description of Aston Hall, Warwickshire. By A. Davidson, with illustrations by Allan Everitt. Birmingham: Everitt. ​Wiltshire.—The Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, published under the direction of the Society formed in that county in 1853. Devizes: H. Bull. London: G Bell, J. R. Smith. No. 1, March, 1854, 8vo. Issued gratis to Members. Contents,—Rules of the Society, &c. Account of the Inaugural Meeting, and address from the President, G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., M.P.; Queries relating to the Archæology, Topography, &c, of Wilts; Ancient Wiltshire Customs, &c.
———— Guide to Farleigh Castle; containing a description of the ruins, the chapel and monuments, and the parish church. By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 8vo. J. Russell Smith.
———— History of Marlborough, Selkley, Savernak and Tottenham. By J. Waylen, Esq. Demy 8vo. J. Russell Smith.
Yorkshire.—The antiquities of the Borough of Leeds described and illustrated. By James Wardell. 8vo. J. R. Smith.
Wales.—Archæologia Cambrensis. Journal of the Cambrian Archæological Association. New Series. No. 16. October, 1853. Account of Newton Nottage, Glamorgan. Carn Goch, Caermarthenshire. Notes of certain desiderata in the study and preservation of Welsh antiquities. Early remains in the Great Isle of Arran. Report of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Association, held at Brecon. No. 17. January, 1854. Conway Castle, with a Plan and illustrations by Rev. C. Hartshorne; Customs of the Lordship of Crickhowel; Brecon Priory; Welsh Wakes; George Owen's MSS.; Architectural Antiquities of Monmouthshire; Extracts from Liber Communis of St. David's Cathedral; Chapel of St. Mary, Aberystwitb. 8vo. Tenby; R. Mason. Christ's College.
———— Brecon; its past history and present capabilities considered, with reference to a bill now before parliament. By the Rev. W. Basil Jones, M.A. Longman. Tenby: R. Mason.
———— Welsh Sketches, Third Series. Contents:—Edward the Black Prince; Owen Glendower; Mediæval Bardism; The Welsh Church. 8vo. London: Darling.
———— The Cambrian Journal, published by the Cambrian Institute, and issued gratis to members of that Society. Annual Subscriptions, 10s. Subscribers' names received by Mr. Mason, Tenby.
Ulster Journal of Archæology. Quarterly, Archer, Belfast; J. R. Smith, London. 4to. Annual Subscription, 12s. Contents of No. 4, October, 1853. Metropolitan Visitation of Derry in 1397; Battle of Lisnegarvey, 1641; English Settlements in county Antrim and Down; Silver Seal of Hugh O'Neill, king of Ulster, formerly at Strawberry Hill; Original Documents illustrative of Irish History; The Bell of St. Mura (two plates); Examination of a sepulchral mound in King's county; French settlers in Ireland; Irish Library, No. 1, bibliographical notices of works on Irish history or antiquities; Notes and Queries, &c. No. 5, January, 1854. Signatures of Irish chiefs and English commanders in Ulster, t. Elizabeth; Ballads on the Battle of the Boyne; Ancient chapel on St. John's Point, county Down; Ulster Roll of Gaol Delivery, 1615; Local tokens issued in Ulster; Note on Primate Colton's Visitation, 1397, and on Notaries Public (plate of Notarial marks); Tennekille Castle, Queen's county, and the Mac Donnells (section, plans, &c.) with notes on Irish Castles, Constables of Castles, &c.; Itinerary of Father Edmund Mac Cana, about 1643, in the Brussels Library; Irish Ogham Inscriptions.
Sigilla Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ.—The Episcopal and Capitular seals of the Irish Cathedral Churches Illustrated. By Richard Caulfield, A.B. Part II. Waterford, Lismore and Cork. M'Glashan, Dublin; J. R. Smith, London. 1s. 6d. Two lithographic pages representing Ecclesiastical seals, virges and the crosier of Lismore.
PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION.
Annual Meeting at Chichester, 1853. Report of the Proceedings at the Meeting of the Institute in Sussex, with abstracts of the Memoirs communicated to the sections, and Catalogue of the Temporary Museum; with illustrations. 8vo. Subscribers' names received at the office of the Institute, or by Mr. J. Russell Smith.
Miscellanea Graphica. A Collection of ancient, Mediæval, and Renaissance Remains in the possession of Lord Londesborough; illustrated by F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A. To be published in quarterly parts. Royal 4to., each part containing four plates, of which one in Chromolithography, representing jewellery, plate, arms and armour, and miscellaneous antiquities. London: Chapman and Hall.
​Architectural History of Chichester Cathedral, by the Rev. R. Willis; the Architectural History of Boxprove Priory, by the Rev. J. L. Petit; Architectural History of New Shoreham Church, and the Church architecture of Sussex, by Edmund Sharpe. Royal 4to. To be published by Mr. W. H. Mason, Chichester. Price 30s.
Castles and Convents of Norfolk. Being notices of many of the most important remains of antiquity in the county. By Henry Harrod, Hon. Sec. of the Norfolk Archæological Society. 1 Vol. 8vo. With plans and illustrations. To be published by Mr. Muskett, Norwich. Large paper, 1l. 1s. Small paper, 15s. (By Subscription.)