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NOTICES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS. on the origin of the arms of sonic Snsscx families, in whicli lie enters into some speculations on the autiquity of heraldry. His views on tliat subject have been more fully developed in a pamphlet entitled, " A Plea for the Antiquity of Heraldry," London, J. R. Smith, 1S53. This, as well as the paper just mentioned, is not without interest, though we think a further and more critical investigation of the subject will essentially niudify some of his opinions. The Rev. A. Hussey, in " An Inquiry after the site of Anderida or Andredesceaster," re-asserts the claims of Pevensey to be the place, and advances some additional arguments in support of that con- clusion. To the Rev. G. M. Cooper the volume is indebted for an inte- resting account of Michelham Prior3% in the jturish of Arlington, in which he has brought together a considerable (piantity of material towards a more complete history of it, with a cut of the Piiory seal, which had not been previously published, and some illustrations of the architectural remains. (See woodcuts.) This seal has been engraved from a drawing lUl f5c;il aud countcr-scul of Michelham Priory, Sushox, apjHiiidod to an iiidoiituro, d;itA:d 1370, ill t.l,.: (:ll:iI,t,T Ik.iis,., W.sli,iinst,.r. by Mrs. TJlaauw, whose tasteful pencil has also contributed to the illustra- tions of the Memoir by copies of drawings by Ciimm in the Burrell coUectionfi, Ikiti.ih Museum, which supply so valuable a series of nienio- rials of Sussex antiipiitics in great part now destroyed. The Rev. G. M. Cooper has also furnished a paper on lierwick parochial records, containing some curious particulars exemplifying the practice as to the occupation of land and other usages in a Southdown village, niul some local words. Mr. (i. R. Corner has given a paper on the custum of Bontngh English, by which in some places the youngest eon or his representative inherits JMHtead of the eldest. Though tlie custom is found in most other counties, the Hubject has an appropriateness in n-gard to .'^nssex, in conse(|uenco of the great number of manors that it contains, in whi<'h this custom, or others more or less nisembling it, exist : a list of these manors is appended to the communication. Mr. (Jorncr has, we believe, for some years devoted