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endless heaven and the endless hell. If Joh Wesley's words referred to his brother's hym (published 1749) they would tend to rende this interpretation certain; but the date may make this reference doubtful.

I much fear the Land's End story is a pui myth. A few years ago an autograph lette of Charles Wesley's was reported to hav been discovered in America, assigning th place of composition to a spot, I think, i Georgia ; but internal evidence satisfied m that it was a forgery. See the correspondenc in the Methodist Recorder, October, 1894.

As regards the parallel to "indignan spirit," supposed to be found in Home 4 Douglas,' I would suggest (as far as I ma venture to do so apart from examining th context) that perhaps a common source wa Virgil's line in '^Eneid,' xi. 831, where it i said of the dying Camilla :

Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras.

C. LAWRENCE FOED, B.A. Bath.

The thought of Wesley is the thought o Cowley, who has written the following lines Oh ! life, thou nothing's younger brother 1 Thou weak-built isthmus, that dost proudly rise Up betwixt two eternities, Yet canst not wave nor wind sustain.

E. YARDLEY.

"ALRIGHT " = ALL RIGHT (9 th S. viii. 240, 312 413). I hope MR. BAYNE'S supposition tha " alright " will get into the language instead of " all right " is wrong. My reason is that i; makes a new word with an old meaning, anc the dropping of an I makes learning or spell- ing more difficult. A child then has two tilings to remember instead of one.

RALPH THOMAS.

This was in frequent use in Devonshire twenty years ago. W. CURZON YEO.

Richmond, Surrey.

Edward VI. 's Prayer Book, 1549-52, and Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book, 1559, have "shalbe." W. H. CUMMINGS.

THE MITRE (9 th S. viii. 324). In the authority quoted by your correspondent there is no mention of the fact that from time immemorial the ducal coronet circling the mitre has been borne by the Durham episcopate, who, in addition to their ecclesias- tical titles, were Counts Palatine and Earls of Jedburgh. In their case the coronet sym- bolized the palatinal authority accorded them by reason of the unsettled state of the county and its neighbourhood to the Scottish border. Its use in the archiepiscopal mitre is of comparatively recent origin, and it appears

probable it was annexed in emulation of the Durham bishopric, a proceeding which custom has sanctioned.

The latest representation of an Anglican bishop clad in the ancient vestments occurs on the Harsnett brass in Chigwell Church, Essex, dated 1631. Samuel Harsnett was Archbishop of York, and it is noticeable that the rnitre he bears is without the coronet.

My uncle, Dr. J. Prince Lee, when Bishop of Manchester, and some wags had managed to portray him with cope, staff, and mitre, objected strongly in that, although a cope was admissible, neither staff nor mitre was the legal complement of an Anglican bishop.

HENRY J. LEE.

168, Finborough Road, S.W.

The mitre seems to have sunk into disuse in post-Reformation times, except as an ornament ensigning the arms of the different s, though now it is being revived and worn by some of the bishops of the Anglican Church. Sir Bernard Burke, whom every one must allow to be a high authority on heraldic matters, merely assigns the ducal coronet to the see of Durham, and omits it from the arms of Canterbury and York, where it is usually placed, ana the coronet,
 * rom its having been thus used, I suppose,

entitles them to be styled "Your Grace."

Samuel Seabury, the first bishop of the American Church, consecrated at Aberdeen n 1784, wore the mitre, thus described by Arthur Cleveland Coxe in his ' Christian Ballads ':-

The mitre with its crown of thorn,

Its cross upon the front ; Not for a proud adorning worn,

But for the battle's brunt : This helmet, with salvation's sign,

Of one whose shield was faith ; The crown of him for right divine Who battled unto death !

In an appended note on " crown of thorn " he mitre is thus described : "The mitre is f black satin, adorned with gold-thread eedlework. The cross is embroidered on the ront, and on the reverse a truly significant mblem the crown of thorns." The author tates that he " has placed it in the library f Trinity College, with an appropriate Latin nscription."

There used to be a fine engraving of Bishop eabury in the vestry of St. Andrew's Church, Aberdeen, and I have a photograph of it re- resenting a bluff, hearty-looking man, in his ochet and chimere, but bareheaded. He ied in 1796. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

If the archiepiscopal mitre is in heraldry urrounded by a ducal coronet, it is perhaps