_Petworth Registers_ (Vol. iii., pp. 449. 485.).--The period over which
these Registers extend is thus shown in the Accounts and Papers printed
by order of Parliament in the year 1833, vol. xxxviii. p. 335:--
"County of Sussex.--Arundel Rape.
"Parish Register Books earlier than the new Registers commencing
with A. D. 1813 (according to 52 Geo. III. c. 146.), remain at the
following places:--
"Petworth R. No. I. Bap. Bur. 1559-1794, Marr. 1559-1753; No. II.
Bap. Bur. 1795-1812; Nos. III.-VI., Marr. 1754-1812."
The earlier register-book used by Heylin must have been removed from the
proper custody before the year 1831. If still preserved in any public or
private library it may perhaps reward some reader of "NOTES AND QUERIES"
in the next century by turning up when unsought for. In the mean time,
however, is there no official copy to be found in the Archbishop's
courts at Canterbury?