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I speak, of course, of Roman Catholic churches ; 

 but I believe that in the Protestant congregations 

 in France, the rule of the separation of the sexes 

 has always been observed. 



In the island of Guernsey it has been usual, 

 although the custom is now beginning to be broken 

 through, for the men to communicate before the 

 women. As the Presbyterian discipline was in- 

 troduced into that island from France and Geneva, 

 and prevailed there from the time of the Reform- 

 ation until the Restoration of Charles II., it is 

 Erobable that this usage is a remnant of therule 

 y which the sexes were separated during divine 

 service. Edgar MacCulloch. 



Guernsey. 



Costume of the Clergy not Enarean (Vol. ix., 

 p. 101.). — A. CM. has no other authority for 

 calling the cassock and girdle of the clergy " effe- 

 minate," or " a relique of the ancient priestly pre- 

 dilection for female attire," than the contrast to 

 the close-fitting skin-tight fashion adopted by 

 modern European tailors ; the same might be 

 said of any flowing kind of robe, such as the 

 Eastern costume, or that of the English judges, 

 which as nearly approaches to the cassock and 

 cincture as possible. In a late number of the 

 Illustrated London News will be found drawings 

 from the new statues of the kings of England lately 

 erected in the new Houses of Parliament : of, I 

 think, twelve there represented, eight have a " pet- 

 ticoat-like cassock," or frock, and of course for 

 convenience a girdle. 



Can any of your correspondents inform us 

 when the cassock was introduced as an ecclesias- 

 tical dress, whether it was then worn by persons 

 of other vocations, and what was the ecclesiastical 

 costume (if any) which it superseded ? H. P. 



Inedited Letter of Lord Nelson (Vol. ix., 

 p. 241.). — On behalf of the precious pages of 

 " N. & Q.," I beg leave to protest against printing 

 as inedited what a very slight degree of research 

 would have found to have been long since pub- 

 lished. The letter in question will be found in 

 Clarke and M' Arthur's Life of Nelson, vol. ii. 

 p. 431., and in Nicolas' s Nelson Despatches, 

 vol. vii. p. 75. 



I am induced to notice this especially, in the 

 hope that Mb. Jacob, who promises us future 

 communications of the same class, may previously 

 satisfy himself that they are inedited. C. 



Views in London by Canaletto (Vol. ix., p. 106.). 

 — In reply to the inquiry of your correspondent 

 Gondola, with respect to views of London painted 

 by Canaletto, whose announcement of them he 

 quotes, I beg to inform him that 1 have in my 

 collection one of these views, " The Thames from 

 the Temple Gardens," in which it is curious to 



trace, in Thames wherries, grave Templars, and 

 London atmosphere, the hand that was usually 

 employed on gondolas, maskers, and Italian skies. 

 I believe that others of his London views are in 

 the collections of the Dukes of Northumberland 

 and Buccleuch. Edmund Phipps. 



Park Lane. 



Richard Geering (Vol. viii., p. 504.). — I thank 

 Julia R. Bockett for her Reply ; and if H. C. C. 

 will send me a copy of the Geering pedigree and 

 arms, I shall feel much obliged, and should I suc- 

 ceed in discovering any particulars of Richard's 

 ancestry, I shall willingly communicate the result 

 to him. I have already sent you my name and 

 address, but not for publication ; and I added a 

 stamped envelope, in case any person wished to 

 communicate directly with me. I can have no 

 objection to your giving my address privately to 

 any one, but being " unknown to fame," I prefer 

 retaining in your pages the incognito I have as- 

 sumed. I quite agree with the remarks of H. B. C. 

 and Mr. King, Vol. viii., pp. 112. 182. 



Y. S. M. 



Grafts and the Parent Tree (Vol. vii., pp. 365. 

 436. 486.536.). — I was equally surprised with 

 H. C. K. at the dictum of Mr. Ingleby, that 

 " grafts after some fifteen years wear themselves 

 out," but the ground for such a belief is fairly 

 suggested by J. G. (p. 536.), otherwise I am afraid 

 the almost universal experience of orchardists 

 would contradict Mr. Ingleby's theory. The 

 " Ross Nonpareil," a well-known and valuable 

 fruit, was, like the Ribston Pippin, singular to 

 say, raised from Normandy seed. The fact has 

 been often told to me by a gentleman who died 

 several years since, at a very advanced age, in the 

 town of New Ross, co. Wexford. He perfectly 

 remembered the original tree standing in the 

 garden attached to the endowed school in that 

 town, where it had been originally planted by Sir 

 John Ivory, the son or grandson of a Cromwellian 

 settler, who raised it from seed, at the commence- 

 ment of the eighteenth century ; and who left his 

 own dwelling-house in New Ross to be a school, 

 and endowed it out of his estates. The tree has 

 long since decayed, but its innumerable grafted 

 successors are in the most flourishing condition. 

 The flavour of this apple lies chiefly in its rind. 



Y.S.M. 



Golden Tooth (Vol. viii., p. 382.). — I recollect 

 very well, when a boy, trying to keep my tongue 

 out of the cavity from whence a tooth had been 

 extracted, in the hope of acquiring the golden 

 tooth promised to me by my old nurse, and after 

 several attempts having succeeded in refraining 

 for four-and-twenty hours (the period required to 

 elapse), and no gold tooth appearing, I well re- 

 member my disgust and disappointment. This 



