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The statement that appeared in the daily papers 

 a few days since, of the robbery of the register 

 books from a church at the West end, will further 

 tend to prove that, under the present arrange- 

 ment, these important documents, even when best 

 taken care of, have not that security they deserve. 



My proposal would but very slightly interfere 

 with existing interests, and the expense would be 

 very trifling. New books must of course be sup- 

 plied to every church, before the old ones are 

 taken away. 



If no one can propose a better plan than mine, 

 I trust we shall see the matter brought before 

 Parliament ere very long : and that we may have 

 to thank the open pages of "N. & Q," for having 

 an Act passed of such national importance. 



W. (Bombay). 



London. 



Continuation of " Candide" (2"'^ S. ii. 229.) — 

 The following extract from the Preface to the 

 edition of Voltaire's Works, published at Paris 

 1829, by Lefevre, and edited by M. Beuchot, will 

 perhaps supply your correspondent with the in- 

 formation he requires : — 



" C'est a Thorel de Campigneulles, mort en 1809, qu'on 

 attribue une Seconde partie de Candide, publiee en 1761, 

 et plusieurs fois reimprimee h, la suite de I'ouvrage de 

 Voltaire, comme ^tant de lui. On I'a meme admisc dans 

 une (Edition intituMe, 'Collection complete des Q'^uvres 

 4^ M. de Voltaire, 1764, in 12.' L'e'dition de Candide, 

 1778, avec des figures dessinees et gravees par Daniel 

 Chodowicky, contient les deux parties." 



J. MiDDIiEMORE. 



Griffin's Hill, Northfield. 



St. Peter, with a dosed Book (2"^ S. ii. 268.) — 

 A book is not considered a distinguishing emblem 

 in the hand of a saint, except in a few instances 

 where it is manifestly significant. It is usually 

 given to apostles and bishops, as to preachers of 

 the word; also to abbesses and nuns as devoted 

 to holy meditation on sacred truths. I am aware 

 of only one instance where St. Peter carries a 

 book, which is on the rood-screen in the church 

 at Trunch, in Norfolk. In this case he holds 

 iin open book with these words written upon it : 

 Credo in Deum Patrem Omnipotentem. St. Paul, 

 on the same screen, bears, as usual, a sword and 

 book clasped. F. C. H. 



Royal Privileges at Universities (2""^ S. ii. 270.) 

 — If persons, who can prove a descent from our 

 kings in the female line, can claim either a univer- 

 sity degree, or any other privilege, then the so 

 privileged class is an enormously numerous one. 

 Any reader of Burke's Royal Families can testify 

 to this. No old family of gentle blood, able to 

 run up fifteen or twenty generations, can well 

 escape some sort of legitimate descent from our 

 Norman and Plantagenet kings. Many families 

 can trace half a dozen such. I do not refer to 



the comparatively newly rich or lately ennobled, 

 but to the old landed gentry — the "knightly 

 families," as heralds call them. A facetious 

 Lancashire friend once talked of offering a reward 

 for the discovery of any Radcliffe who really pro- 

 fessed NOT to be " descended from the Derwent- 

 water family." To find a gentleman of family who 

 could not trace, through the many mothers in his 

 pedigree, some sort of a descent from royalty, 

 would be even more difficult still. P. P. 



Heraldry of the Channel Islands (2"'' S. ii. 270.) 

 — The arms of many of the families in these 

 islands are not to be found in the Heralds' Col- 

 lege of England, and the reason is very obvious. 

 These islands are all that remain to the Crown of 

 England of the ancient Dutchy of Normandy, 

 but they form no part of the realm of England. 

 The English College of Heralds has therefore no 

 more jurisdiction in the islands than it has in 

 Scotland or Ireland. Some families, however, 

 especially such as have settled in England, and 

 acquired property there, have registered their 

 arms in the English Heralds' Office. 



The early date (the reign of King John) at 

 which these islands were severed from Normandy 

 by the loss of that province to the kings of Eng- 

 land, affords a sufficient reason why the arms of 

 families in the Channel Islands should not be 

 found in collections of Norman arms. Neverthe- 

 less, the arms of De Carteret of Jersey are identical 

 with those of a Norman knight of that name who 

 fought in the first crusade; and the arms of a fa- 

 mily of the name of De Saumaresq, now extinct, 

 but formerly residing near the town of Valognes 

 in Normandy, bear too close a resemblance to the 

 arms of the Guernsey family of De Sausmarez to 

 leave a doubt as to the common origin of the two 

 families. 



At present almost the only authority for the 

 arms borne by Channel Islands families are tra- 

 dition and a few impressions of seals appended to 

 ancient documents. Epgar MacCuli.och. 



Guernsey. 



Winchester Epitaphs (2'"i S. ii. 195. 280.) — In 

 reply to the Query of Patonce, I beg to say, 

 that the only memorial in brass now existing in 

 Winchester Cathedral is the one of Lieut.-colonel 

 Boles. The Cathedral Registers are under the 

 charge of the Rev. W. N. Hooper, the Precentor, 

 who would, no doubt, answer any inquiry ad- 

 dressed to him. I am not able to say whether the 

 registers go back so far as 1578. W^. H. Gunner. 



Alpaca (2"*^ S. ii. 167.) — Haughmond will find 

 a very interesting account of the introduction and 

 manufacture of alpaca wool in Dickens' Household 

 Words, vol. vi. p. 250. K. H. 



Kensington. 



