160 SHORT NOTICES January 1921 treaties in all countries and m all its aspects ; to most of them is added the press-mark of the book in question in the Library of Congress. The student who uses this work is directed to the pages he wants : he does not even need to use the index, let alone the rest of a book. t J. It will be difficult to tell exactly when the moment has come for enriching our libraries with a new edition of a standard atlas - conforme aux traites de paix ' ; but M. F. Schrader, with an optimism which we hope may be justified by the event, has undertaken the revision of the well-known Atlas Universel de Geographie (Paris : Hachette, 1920) known by his name and that of M. Vivien de Saint-Martin. The maps are being published in groups of three, but not in the order which they will have in the com- pleted work, so that those of which the lines have not yet settled down may possibly be reserved for times of greater certainty. The fifteen we have received all represent countries of stable frontiers. K. Corrections in the Number for October 1920 P. 485. The Early Sheriffs of Norfolk. Mr. Walter Rye writes that there is no foundation for Dr. Round's statement about him contained in the following words : ' although he knows that the Clares, a great baronial house, were quite distinct from the Cleres, a local Norfolk family, he asserts . . .', and that this statement is not borne out by pp. 103-5 of his Norfolk Families, to which reference is made in Dr. Round's foot-note. The words used by Mr. Rye in the passage cited are: 'It is not, however, impossible, and indeed I think it highly probable that the family may be descended from the noble family of de Clare.' Mr. Rye has also submitted arguments to support the identification of the two families. These we do not see our way to publish, but Mr. Rye wishes us to state that he protests against this decision. P. 562, n. 2. Professor Tout writes that ' Lampeter 1332 ' is an error. The reference is to Cat. of Charter Rolls, iv. 219, where a charter of 1331 confirms a charter of 1277 (ibid. ii. 206) granting to the burgesses of Llanbadarn ( = Aberystwyth) the liberties of Montgomery. Grose, to whom reference is made, is wrong. p. 570. Mr. Strickland Gibson points out that Mr. Tait's conjecture about the date of Letter I is supported by a contemporary note on f o. 65. The letter is headed : ' He litere misse sunt ad Vniversitatem Oxoniensem a Comite Wygorniae. Bereworth et Lee procurators. ' Bereworth and Lee appear as proctors under the year 1459 (Wood, Fasti, p. 57).
