uld willingly transmit to him a drawing of the objects
mentioned through Mr. Bell, or any other channel deemed more convenient.

A. RICH, JUNR.

_The Episcopal Mitre_ (Vol. iii., p. 62.)--Godwyn, in his _Moses and
Aaron_, London, 1631, b. i., c. 5., says that--

"A miter of fine linnen sixteene cubits long, wrapped about his head,
and a plate of purple gold, or holy crowne, two fingers broad, whereon
was graven Holinesse to the Lord, which was tied with a blew lace upon
the forefront of the miter,"

was that "which shadowed and signified the kingly office of our Saviour
Christ," in the apparel of the Jewish high priest, and ordered (Lev. xvi.
4.): and again, in his _Romanae Historiae Anthologia_, Oxford, 1631, lib.
iii. sec. 1. cap. 8., he says that the

"_Mitra_ did signifie a certaine attire for women's heads, as a coife
or such like."

For further illustration see Virgil's _AEneid_, lib. iv. l. 216.:

"Maeonia mentum mitra crinemque madentem."

Again, lib. ix. l. 616.:

"Et tunicae manicas et habent redimicula mitrae."

During the ennobling of the clergy by the Roman emperors, in the seventh
and eighth centuries, a crown was found necessary, and anciently cardinals
wore mitres; but, at the council of Lyons, in 1245, they were appointed to
wear hats.

BLOWEN.

_The Episcopal Mitre_ (Vol. iii., p. 62.).--AN INQUIRER will find much
curious matter respecting the mitre, collected both from classical writers
and antiquaries, in _Explications de plusieurs Textes difficiles de
l'Ecriture par le R. P. Dom._ [_Martin_], 4to., a Paris, 1730. To any one
ambitious of learnedly occupying some six or seven columns of "NOTES AND
QUERIES" the ample foot references are very tempting; I content myself with
transcribing two or three of the entries in the index:

_"Mitre des anciens, leur nature, et leur forme; etait la {146} marque
du Sacerdoce; se portait ordinairement a la tete, et quelquefois aux
mains. Forme des mitres dans leur origine, et dans les tems
posterieurs,_" &c.

This dissertation, which is illustrated by several plates, will repay for
the time spent in reading it. I presume INQUIRER is acquainted with
Godwyn's _Moses and Aaron_, where he will find something.

W. DN.

_Episcopal Mitre._--The origin of the peculiar form of the episcopal mitre
is the cloven tongues which descended on the Apostles on the day of
Pentecost, with the gift of the Holy Spirit. Of this