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rebuke should they bring the " nasty things " to 

 the cottage door. This was told me several 

 years ago by Professor James Buckman, who 

 added that the country people had often expressed 

 their surprise at seeing him when botanising with 

 a bunch of the proscribed flowers in his hand. 

 The Gloucestershire name sounds very like the 

 "Dead Men's Fingers" of Shakspeare's "cold 

 maids." W. J. Bernhaed Smith. 



Temple. 



ENGLISH bishops' MITRES, ETC. 



(Vol. X., p. 87.) 



In a woodcut in King Edward's Catechism, 

 1548, representing the presentation of a Bible to 

 the King, the bishops wear mitres and all the 

 ancient vestments. 



I find no reference to the mitre in any formu- 

 lary of the Reformed Church. The pastoral staff 

 is mentioned in the first ordination book of King 

 Edward, 1549, but not in the second, 1552. It 

 was at that time doubtless laid aside. 



" Horned prelates " of course appeared again 

 during the reign of Mary. Oglethorpe no doubt 

 wore a mitre at the semi-popish coronation of 

 Elizabeth, for it is stated that IBonner's vestments 

 were borrowed for the occasion. I do not suppose 

 that mitres have ever been used by English bishops 

 since that time. In 1561, good bishop Pilkington, 

 of Durham, expressly says that the bishops " have 

 not the cruche [crook] and mitre as the old bishops 

 had" (Works, P. S. 584.) ; and again he says that 

 he " has neither cruche nor mitre " (lb. 587.). 



The recumbent effigy of Bishop Montagu, at 

 Bath (1618), is, if I mistake not, mitred. That 

 of Bishop Andrewes in Southwark (1626) is not. 

 The monumental brass of Archbishop Harsnet 

 (1631) represents that prelate in a mitre (Brasses, 

 Camb. Camd. Soc). Such instances as this do 

 not, however, prove that mitres were actually 

 worn by the individuals commemorated. There 

 were, I believe, no mitres at the coronation of 

 James II. (see Sandford) ; at that of William 

 and Mary, the bishops carried their caps. No 

 mitres are to be seen in the large print of the pro- 

 cession engraved by Sam. Moore. 



Mitres of gilt metal are, or were, suspended 

 over the tombs of Bishops Morley and Mews at 

 Winchester (1684, 1706). I remember seeing 

 one of them a few years ago. 



With respect to the coronation of George II., I 

 believe Mr. Eraser must be misinformed. 



The mitre commonly borne at the funerals of 

 the bishops of Bristol was destroyed in the Reform 

 riots. There was consequently no mitre at the 

 funeral of Bishop Gray in 1834. (Memoir in 

 Gent. Mag.) 



The use of the mitre as an heraldic distinction 

 has been uninterrupted. I may remark that the 

 coronet around the mitres of archbishops is a re- 

 cent and unauthorised innovation. That distinc- 

 tion, and also a plume of feathers issuing from the 

 sinister side, seem, however, to have formerly per- 

 tained to the princely mitre of Durham. (JRoll of 

 Arms, 1515, Willement.) aktp. 



In Winchester Cathedral, the mitres of Morley 

 (1684) and Mews (1706) were suspended over their 

 tombs, in 1814. They are of silver-gilt, the same 

 material of which Matthew Wren's mitre was made. 

 Bishops wore their mitres at the coronations of 

 George III., Queen Elizabeth, and Edward VI. 

 Mitres were borne at the funerals of the follow- 

 ing prelates : Duppa, 1662 ; Juxon, 1663 ; Frewen, 

 1664 ; Wren, 1667 ; Cosin, 1671 ; Trelawney, 

 1721 ; Lindsay, 1724. The effigies of these 

 bishops are mitred : Goodrich, 1552 ; Magrath, 

 1622 ; Hacket, 1670 ; Lamplugh, 1691 ; Sheldon, 

 1677 ; Hoadley and Porteus. I believe that the 

 mitre, usually set on the bier of the bishops of 

 Bristol, was burned by the rioters only some years 

 since. At New College, Oxford, portions of the 

 mitre of the munificent founder, William of Wyke- 

 ham, are preserved. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A, 



Pastoral Staff (Vol. x., p. 102.). —In 1559 the 

 fact is mentioned that no pastoral staff was given to 

 Abp. Parker at his consecration, Dec. 17: "Ad 

 reliqua Communionis solemnia pergit Cicestrensis, 

 nullum Archiepiscopo tradens pastorale baculum." 

 The Ordinal used on this occasion was the Second 

 Booh of King Edward VI., a. d. 1552 : in it the 

 tradition of the pastoral staff was omitted ; it had 

 been retained in the first Ordinal of 1549. Queen 

 Elizabeth directed the former Ordinal to be used 

 after June 24, 1559. It is remarkable that Bishop 

 Barlow continued one portion of the rubric of 

 1549, by wearing a cope of silk, while he neglected 

 the use of the pastoral staff. When that ex- 

 pressive symbol of authority and discipline was put 

 into the hands of the bishop, the words still in 

 use, from " Be to the flock of Christ a shepherd" 

 to "our Lord," were said. During the reign 

 of Edward VI., according to the Ordinal of 1549, 

 after the consecration of Bishop Poynet, the fol- 

 lowing prelates were ordained : John Hooper, 

 March 8, 1550 ; Miles Coverdale and John Scory, 

 Aug. 30, 1551 ; John Taylor, June 26, 1552. On 

 and after All Saints Day, 1552, the Second Book 

 of Edward VI. was directed to be used. (See 

 The English Ordinal, its History, Validity, and 

 Catholicity, 1851, pp. 295—301.) No rubric of 

 the reformed Ordinal directed the use of unction 

 or the tradition of the mitre. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M. A, 



