No student of Edward I's rule in Gascony can fail to be struck by the close resemblance between his policy there and in England; especially in his relations with the feudal nobility and in his encouragement of the towns and of the burgesses.

The commercial relations of England with Muscovy have been already investigated at various times by the author of this paper, by Professor Scott, by Dr. Gerson, in America, and lately by Miss Mildred Wretts-Smith; but the relations of Holland with Muscovy are, I believe, still little known.

Few stories in English Economic History are better known than that of the Peasants' Revolt at St. Albans. Wat Tyler's dramatic career is indeed more familiar, but its interest has long been recognised as more strictly political than social. Kent was rising against taxation and an unpopular foreign policy rather than against manorial conditions. The maxim “In Kent there is no villenage” had just enough truth in it to put the Kentish men on a different footing from their brothers in other counties.

The Public Record Office possesses, among the archives of the Duchy of Lancaster, two wardrobe accounts, dealing with the expenses of Henry Earl of Derby's travels in the years 1390–3. The documents, unique of their kind, present an accurate picture of the means of transport and accommodation available to travellers in the later middle ages ; and, though lacking the personal, picturesque side of travel-memoirs, preserve for that very reason a truer picture of that kind of undertaking which provided so large a part of the interests and amenities of life.

During the schism in the papacy, when France recognised the pope at Avignon and England the pope at Rome, the relations between Cluny and the English province were broken off completely; Urban VI and Boniface IX put the English Cluniacs under the provisional government of the archbishop of Canterbury and the priors of Thetford and Bermondsey, who nominated priors as vacancies occurred and summoned provincial chapters. When England and France both recognised Pope Alexander V in 1409 and the schism came to an end, it was not possible to revert to the earlier relations between the mother-houses in France and their dependencies in England. National feeling against French superiors had been intensified by the long wars, and some French monasteries had sold their English possessions. The abbots of Cluny aimed at recovering all the rights which they had lost during the wars and the schism.

Mr. F. W. Buckler has put forth a theory to account for the Indian Mutiny, or, rather, has unearthed and elevated to the dignity of an hypothesis an assertion made by some of the mutineers at the time of the Mutiny, namely, that the East India Company rebelled against the King of Delhi and that the native soldiers were in duty bound to rally round him against the rebel Company.