REVIEWS

1. AUCHTERMUCHTY MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. A Preliminary List of the Church and Churchyard Memorials (1992). By Mark A Bonthrone (021). This complete transcription of Auchtermuchty Churchyard, carried out in Easter 1992, complements, updates and extends the partial survey carried out in 1971 on behalf of the Scottish Genealogy Society. by John & Sheila Mitchell, and included in their "Monumental Inscriptions (pre-1855) East Fife." This work is therefore a new and complete transcription of ALL monuments and inscriptions, both pre and post 1855.

2. AUCHTERMUCHTY DEATHS, 1701-185l (1992). Edited by Mark A Bonthrone (021). There are no surviving death registers for Auchtermuchty Parish for the period 1667 - 1817, when a new burial register begins. Mr Bonthrone's listing attempts to fill this gap by extracting and arranging chronologically any reference to a death or burial which appears in ANY of the parish records for this period. In the main these references are mortcloth payments, which were recorded in the parish records from c 1744 until 1817, when a separate burial register begins. A complete transcript of this new burial register for the years 1817-1833, with appended entries for 1834, 1846 and 1851 has also been included.

3. THE MARINERS OF ST ANDREWS AND THE EAST OF FIFE, 1600-1700 (1992) . Edited by David Dobson. 'The shipmasters of St Andrews, Crail, Kilrenny, Cellardyke, Easter and Wester Anstruther, Pittenweem, St Monance, and Elie were increasingly involved in international trade, carrying Fife coal, salt, fish, etc, to ports such as Rotterdam, Bordeaux, Cadiz, Riga, Stockholm, Gothenborg, Danzig, La Rochelle, and London ... During periods of warfare, several local skippers,were licensed as privateers to attack enemy vessels, while throughout the period any vessel entering the Bay of Biscay or beyond was subject to attack from Moorish pirates. The records of the Privy Council and of the Churches contain numerous appeals for funds to liberate Scottish seamen captured and imprisoned by Turkish pirates ... This publication attempts to bring together in a concise form such information that is available identifying the skippers, their vessels and crews." Available from The Scottish Genealogy Society, 15 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL, price £2.50, as is a companion volume in the series, THE MARINERS OF KIRKCALDY AND WEST FIFE, 1600 -1700, price £4.50.

4. THE SCOTTISH CORONATION JOURNEY OF KING CHARLES 1 (1993). By Robert & Lindsay Brydon. Attempts are now under way to locate the wreck of the Burntisland Ferry, which sank in the Firth of Forth on 10th July 1633, carrying the baggage waggons of King Charles I. This new work outlines the Royal Coronation Tour, and is available from Sporting Partnership, Wemyss House, Wemyss Road, Dysart, Kirkcaldy, price £3.50 [UK post, add 50p]