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between those years either, nor, indeed, was a pastoral staff or crosier carried by any bishop whose portrait is extant. The late Bishop of Lincoln is the first Anglican bishop I have been able to find whose portrait shows him habited in a cope and bearing his pastoral staff as wejl, though portraits of bishops in copes are not uncommon.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

I think the antiquary quoted by MR. BASKERVILLE is right as regards the pectoral cross. Its use is a product of the Anglo- Catholic revival. Indeed, it is not very ancient elsewhere, as it is first mentioned as an episcopal ornament by Innocent III. (1198). The first Church of 'England bishop who wore one was, I think, Bishop Chris- topher Wordsworth, of Lincoln. No doubt Bishop Creighton wore (occasionally) a mitre and cope. So do some other Anglican pre- lates; but neither mitre, stole, alb, girdle, maniple, chasuble, dalmatic, nor tunicle was ever worn by bishop or priest in the Church of England from the days of Elizabeth until their sporadic appearance within the last sixty years. Copes were worn at coronations. The cope, however, is neither episcopal nor priestly. Any choirman, any choirboy, may wear one, as I have before pointed out in N. & Q.' I do not believe that there is any portrait extant of a Church of England prelate, between Elizabeth and Victoria, wearing any other dress than the usual episcopal habit, rochet, chemise, scarf, bands, and perhaps academical hood. A wig may be added until, and including, Archbishop John Bird Sumner. Nor do I believe that any prelate wore more than that usual epis- copal habit from the Elizabethan settlement until the Victorian revival. But if portrait exist or use be proved, I shall be happy to he ,ar it. GEORGE ANGUS.

ot. Andrews, N.B.

KEV. F. BARLOW, OF BURTON (9 th S. viii. 144). -.As the parish of Burton, Pembroke- shire, is in the immediate neighbourhood of Laurennv, which was the property of the barlow family, it is not unlikely that the author W. B. H. is anxious to locate was a scion ot this house ; but an examination of the register would settle the question.

EDWARD LAW.

The first edition of the peerage by the above was issued 1772-3, the second in 1775. in the first he has acted up to his resolution ' to disclose the weakness of the head when encircled by the diadem," for in vol i pp. 23-9 is given an account of the intrigue of the Duke of Cumberland with Lady

Grosvenor, with copies of fourteen letter which passed between them. As a work of reference its standard is low when compared with Collins. Brydges's 'Biographical Peer- age ' is more of an anecdotical character, in- troducing sidelights which give information respecting the peers that does not add credit to them, and has caused the work to be called the scandalous chronicle. Sir Egerton, being engaged with other literary work, put the latter portion (Ireland) into the hands of another writer. At the end of Mr. Barlow's peerage is a list of subscribers which men- tions two Barlows of Bristol and Stowmarket, who may be connexions of the above named, but I cannot find any definite information respecting him. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

ROBERT JOHNSON, SHERIFF OF LONDON, 1617 (9 th S. vii. 228, 313, 413). Referring to my reply at the second of the above references, I may state that, in order (if possible) to set at rest all doubts in this matter, I have since examined Harl. MS. (Brit. Mus.) 390, fo. 136 being the original from which the letter to the Rev. Joseph Mead, of Chr. Coll., Camb., dated " London Octob. 6. 1626," as contained in 'The Court and Times of Charles I.,' and quoted by me, was printed and find as follows :

" The Bishop of Ely died on thursday betweene 4 & 5 a clock in the morning. Alderman Cockin also is dead, & Alderman Johnson dyed on munday suddainly, having eaten grapes at Bow, as he was stepping into his Coach."

The Monday referred to was 2 October. But to obtain corroboration of this date of John- son's death, as well as to ascertain his place or places of residence, his lands, &c., I sought and found in P.R.O., London, his Inq. p.m. Of this I carefully examined both the some- what defaced original enrolled in Chancery (2 Car. I., part iii., No. 155) and the more perfect transcript in Court of Wards and Liveries (2 & 3 Car. I., Bundle 44, No. 73), and with most satisfactory results, showing that "Robert Johnson. Cit. & Aid. of London," died on that date, and that Martha, then wife of Timothy Middleton, was his sole daughter and heir, and was of the age of twenty-six years "and more" at the time of her father's death ; that he resided in a " great messuage," formed of two houses, one of which was called "the White Legg," in "West Cheape al's Cheapside in parish of S fc Mary at Bowe in City of London," and also in a "Capital Messuage in Fouremill Street in parish of Bromely al's Brome- ley S fc Leonard, co. Middlesex," of both of which, together with various other lands,