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154 THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY MARCH 13 1948

JUSTICE AND THE COMMON MAN BOOKS RECEIVED r- WESTHOUSE-S. C. RirrCLIFF and H. C. JOHNSON (Editors): WlUwick County Records.

Vol. vil, Quarter Sessions Records, Baster, 1674, to Easter, 1682_ Records Committee of the Warwick.shfrc County Council, Shire HaU, Warwick. lOs. 6d.

(The inclusion of Q book in ibis list does' not preclude its subselJlUnI reviewl

It is now widely recognized that there are few classes of document more valuable for social history than those connected with the local administra­tion of justice, and the day is happily past when, as the late Dr. 1. C. Cox remarked, such record s were" in the great majority of cases in so much confusion as to be practically useless for any literary purpose."

The first six volumes of Warwick COllnty Records gave an almost complete transcript of the proceedings in Quarter Sessions from the year 1625, but the latest addition to the series provides a calendar and abstract ratiler than a copy, whieh, in existing conditions, is undoubtedly the best method of presen_ tation. As is proper in dealing wi th sub­joclS upon which little information is available in the ordinary text-bookS, the editors have given their body a long head and a long tail-the introduction, appen· dices and indexes QCCUDY almost exactly the same number of paa;es as the actual text-and thus the reader can obtain with ease a grasp of the setting both historical and topographical, in which the activities

~~kth~a~e:~~C:~hj:~~rler, ~~fi!s~:~~ facility, to such names and subjects as particu larly in terest him. The intro­duction includes ~n account of reli~ious persecution ' in the count~ imme<lIately after the passing of the Test Act, as well

~tir~n H~xuce!ltenWa~~f~~y a~J ~~e o&fC::cii thcre. which stood on the site now occu­pied by the Counly Buildings. TIlere is also a useful summary of evidence (or and aga inst the Compton Return as an index of the strength of nonconformilY in 1676, and the editors agree with Mr. S. A. Peyton that generally speaking its fiaures may be accepted as reliable.

The eight years covered by this volume were momentous! and national events are widely reflected III its pages. Constant renewals of the CommU:sion of the Peace,

~?:ain~~!~ s=k oei'~f.euefn~~~!i~ei~~~: ference of the Privy Council in local affairs. The enforcernent of me penal laws against recusants and noncon· formists 5CeOlS, in this county at least, to have been the consequence of external pressure upon local authorities, and the evidence points to the concluson that .. thou~h most of the known Roman Catholics in ~e' county were at some time during these years requircd to ~ive an accou nt of themselves, yet at no lime were they vigorously persocuted, while against Protestant dissenters the laws were enforced by the Warwickshire Bench, as ·by others, with great moderation."

This may have been partly due to the fact thai Roman Catholicism was stronger here than in most other parts of England. Many of the Catholics were influential and respected, such as the .. Great Sheldon .. and the gentle poet of Poles­worth, Sir Aston Cockayne (whose Christian name, by the way, appears here as Austin), and we know from other evidence that in the ordinary affairs of life they lived on excellent terms with their Anglican neighbours.

But it is the common folk , with their usually venial offences, who fill the majori ty of these records. Such are the Allesley weaver who refused to take a parish apprentice, lhe unlicensed ale­sellers, the poor vagrants, the Yilla~ers who neglected to repair the ki na;'s hl~h­way, and the woman accused of stealtng a tenpenny smock. These are the .people whom Sir William Dugdale met III the Janes and villnges and growing towns of Warwicksh ire and, with the aid of this book and a little imagination, we can meet them too.

~~~.~ E. D. (Compiler and Qr!fJ;~':.1 ~s"f",:. co~tr~~el~~~ :Editor). Bamboo. Lotus tmd PDlm. annotated by Ln&. Charles I t was redis~ 1\n Anthology of the Far East,-South- ooven:d in 1934 artcr having been lost East Aiia and the ' Pacific. 7t x 5. sight of lor three hundred years, The dis.. ib~~~d. lUusuated. William Hodge. W:'~~f K~ut~~~, !;{ ex~~i~'~~ :C~~L~

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