_Governor Brooks_, about a century since, was governor of one of the West India Islands. I have heard Cuba named as his government; and it might have been that, the short time Cuba was in {56} the possession of the English, he was governor of it; but I am uncertain. If any correspondent, versed in West Indian affairs, can give me any particulars of the family and antecedents of the above, or any reference to his services (for I suppose him to have been a military man), it will great oblige TEE BEE. _Old Books._--I notice some of your correspondents, having fancied that they have picked up at some old book-stall an invaluable treasure, are coolly told by others more learned, "It would be a bad exchange for a shilling;" and, again, "If it cost three shillings and sixpence, the purchaser was most unfortunate." May I ask the value of the following? They came into possession of my family about thirty years ago: "Epitome Thesauri antiquitatum hoc est Impp. Rom. orientalium et occidentalium Iconum ex antiquis numismatibus quam fidelissime delineatum. "Ex Musaeo Jacobi de Strada Mantuani Antiquatum. "Lugduni, apud Jacobum de Strada et Thomam Guercinum, MDLIII. (1553). Cum Privilegio Regio." Handsomely got up; gilt edges, pp. 339. Also, "Sommario delle vite de gl'Imperiatore Romani da C. Giolio Cesare sino a Ferdinando II., con le loro effigie Causte dalle Medaglie: In Roma apresso, Lodovico Grignani, MDCXXXVII, pp. 80." BRISTOLIENSIS. _The Privileges of the See of Canterbury._--I find preserved by William of Malmsbury, in his _Chronicle_, book iii., the following letter from Pope Boniface to Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury, respecting the privileges of his see: "Far be it from every Christian, that anything concerning the city of Canterbury be diminished or changed, in present or _future times_, which was appointed by our predecessor Pope Gregory, _however human circumstances may be changed_: but more especially by the authority of St. Peter, the chief of the Apostles, we command and ordain, that the city of Canterbury _shall ever hereafter be esteemed the Metropolitan See_ of all Britain; and we decree and appoint _immutably_, that all the provinces of the kingdom of England shall be subject to the Metropolitan Church of the aforesaid See. And if any one attempt to injure this church, which is more especially under the power and protection of the Holy Roman Church, or to lessen the jurisdiction conceded to it, may GOD expunge him from the book of life; and let him know that he is bound by the sentence of a curse." How can the expressions I have Italicised be reconciled with the creation of the Archiepiscopal See of Westminster? W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun.