I should like to draw readers attention to the publication by the Woolhope Naturalist's Field Club this year of a very valuable book with the above title, edited by the indefatigable Michael Faraday. (Look him up as an author in the online SoG Library Catalogue to see a list of his publications). Despite its name, Herefordshire's Woolhope Naturalist's Field Club, founded in 1851, deals with both the archaeology and local history as well as the natural history of Herefordshire. 'Herefordshire Taxes in the Reign of Henry VIII' is a quite a large book, 10.5" by 7.5" with 474 pages, mainly in double columns of small print. Prepared by the Logaston Press for printing, the ISBN No. is: 0 9505823 2 8. The price is UKP 25 plus postage. For the first time for any county this volume brings together transcripts of all the surviving documents relating to the taxation of Herefordshire between 1509 and 1547. After 34 introductory pages with tables, the Contents lists nearly 30 transcribed documents starting with the 1512 Subsidy Act and ending with the 1545 Subsidy Act: Second Payment in 1547. Many, but not all, of the documents contain lists of individual tax payers by township within hundred - literally thousands of personal names. There is a combined Index of Persons, Places and Subjects, but unfortunately it looks as if the index was drawn up as the documents were transcribed rather after the transcriptions had been typeset. So the index references are not to individual pages in the book but to a Section Reference which is coded to the Year of the Payment, the Hundred, and the Number of the block of text within that Hundred. There is then a Key Table linking these Section-References to the book's Page Numbers. For example: 47Gm7 refers to the 1545 Subsidy Act, Second Payment in 1547, for the Grimsworth Hundred, 7th block of text. From the Key Table we see that this block of text is on page 365 of the book. On looking at this page we see that it refers to the township (also parish in this case) of Bridge Sollers. Six taxpayers are listed. So please don't ask for lookups because it would be a rather time consuming task! And finding the book will be no easy task unless you can get to Hereford. It was only published in August this year and is not listed by Bookfinder, ABE or Amazon at present. The SoG Library Catalogue does not list it yet though they no doubt will in the future. If you want a copy of the book I would suggest that you contact the Woolhope Club. Their published web site does not seem to work at present, but you can get postal details from: http://www.findgroups.org.uk/search_results_detail/7074/ or: http://users.whsmithnet.co.uk/philbufton/Local%20History%20Societies.htm or: http://www.archaeology.co.uk/directory/viewsoc.asp?cat=1&soc=870 I have no idea how many copies of the book are left for sale. Cheers, John John Addis-Smith Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England