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NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. the main stream of the riei' Thames from that village to the monastery of Abingdon, about A.D. 1125, by Vincent then abbot. Similar instances on a smaller scale may be frequently met with, but this was an unusually bold one. The very curious cotemporary ])oem on the building of Culham bridge in the time of Henry Y. is given entire, and carefully collated with the ori- ginal manuscript : it had been previously printed in Leland's Itinerary, but with some verbal errors, now corrected : it is perhaps the most curious document of the kind that is extant. The history of the ma- nor of Waterpery and the family of Fitz-Elis is very carefully made out from the Norman conquest to the present time, almost entirely from original do- cuments, and does much credit to the industrj- of the vicar, Mr. Baron; it is a useful monograph, and makes us wish that the au- i thor could be induced to J imdertake the history of the county ; the result of such laborious researches should not be limited to the history of a single ob- scure village and an ex- I tinct family. We observe nl.<o that the work is in- debted to Sir Honry Ellis for much valuable assist- ance. His account of Els- field is reprinted with some iinprovcmenls. and the lists of the presentations to several other churches are su])p!ied by him ; these often afibrd the best and almost the only clue to further information. The curious palympsest brass at Waterpery has been already mentioned in this Journal. The will of Walter Curzon in 1526, the person to whose memory this brass was laid down, is printed entire, and contains some instructions for repairs of the church. Heraldry, which had been rather neglected in the early j^arts of the Guide, comes in tor its full share of attention in the latter part, as at Milton and Waterpery, and is made to assist considerably in elucidating the history. We sincerely hope that this work will receive the encouragement it deserves from the public, and that the Society will be enabled to pursue their plan, and other Societies induced to follow their example. Monument, of iitz-nlis, Waterpesy Churcli.