Medieval religious houses in Scotland with an appendix on the houses in the Isle of Man

health rules are reminiscent of the Regimen sanitatis Salerni. Some of the material was borrowed, such as proverbs from Dryden, Pope, La Rochefoucauld and Rabelais. Franklin continually added and revised, and some of his statements found their way into common American parlance. The last number (1758) contained a series of adages entitled 'The way to wealth' and this appeared even in Chinese, Russian and Welsh. As a reflection of the popular needs of mid-eighteenth-century America, Britain and France, Franklin's almanacks are important social documents of general and particular knowledge. Their reproduction in the present form, which first appeared in 1964, is, therefore, welcome, although the much-acclaimed coloured plates in this edition are not especially attractive.