_Three Dukes_ (Vol. ii., p. 9.).--I should like a more satisfactory
answer to this Query than that I given by C. (Vol. ii., p. 46.). I can
give the I names of _two_ of the Dukes (viz. Monmouth and Albermarle);
but who was the _third_, and where can a _detailed account_ of the
transaction be found? In Wades' _British History chronologically
arranged_, 3rd edit. p. 230, is the following paragraph under the date
of Feb. 28, 1671 (that is, 1670-1):--
"The Duke of Monmouth, who had contrived the outrage on
Coventry, in a drunken frolic with the young Duke of Albemarle
and others, deliberately kills a ward-beadle. Charles, to save
his son, pardoned all the murderers."
The date given in the _State Poems_ is Sunday
morning, Feb. 26th, 1670-71. Mr. Lister, in his
_Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon_ (vol. ii. p. 492.),
alludes to the affair:--
"The King's illegitimate son Monmouth, in company with the young
Duke of Albemarle and others, kills a watchman, who begs for
mercy, and the King pardons all the murderers."
C.H. Cooper
Cambridge, June 24, 1850.
_Bishops and their Precedence_ (Vol. ii., p. 9.).--I believe bishops
have their precedence because they are both _temporal_ and _spiritual_
barons. Some I years ago, I took the following note from the
_Gentleman's Mag_. for a year between 1790 and 1800; I cannot say
positively what year (for I was very young at the time, and
unfortunately omitted to "note" it):--
"Every Bishop has a temporal barony annexed to his see. The
Bishop of Durham is Earl of Sudbury and Baron Evenwood; and the
Bishop of Norwich is Baron of Northwalsham."
Query, where may the accounts of the respective baronies of the
bishoprics be found?
HENRY KERSLEY.
_Why Moses represented with Horns_.--Your correspondent H.W. (Vol. i, p.
420.) refers the origin of what he calls the strange practice of making
Moses appear horned to a mistranslation in the Vulgate. I send you an
extract from Coleridge which suggests something more profound the such
an accidental cause; and explains the statement of Rosenmüller (p.
419.), that the Jews attributed horns to Moses "figuratively for
power:"--
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