_"Jurat? crede minus:" Epigram._--Can any of your learned readers inform me by whom the following epigram was written? I lately heard it applied, in conversation, to the Jesuits, but I think it is of some antiquity:-- "Jurat? crede minus: non jurat? credere noli: Jurat, non jurat? hostis ab hoste cave." F. R. R. _Meaning of Gulls._--What is the origin of the word "gulls," as applied in Wensleydale (North York) to hasty-pudding, which is a mixture of oatmeal and milk or water boiled? D. 2. _The Family of Don._--Can any of your correspondents furnish me with information regarding the family of Don, of Pitfichie, near Monymusk, Aberdeenshire; or trace how they were connected with the Dons of Newton Don, Roxburghshire? A. A. Abridge. _Wages in the last Century._--I should like to have any particulars of the price of labour at various periods in the last century, especially the wages of domestic servants. May I be permitted to mention that I am collecting anecdotes of the manners and customs, social and domestic, of our grandfathers, and should be much obliged for any curious particulars of their ways of living, their modes of travelling, or any peculiarities of their daily life? I am anxious to form a museum of the characteristic curiosities of the century; its superstitions, its habits, and its diversions. A. A. Abridge. _Woman, Lines on._--Can any of your correspondents inform me who was the author of the following lines:-- "She was ---- But words would fail to tell her worth: think What a woman ought to be, And she was that." They are to be found on several tombstones throughout the country. SCRUTATOR. {144} * * * * * Replies. THE EPISCOPAL MITRE AND PAPAL TIARA. (Vol. iii., p. 62.) In answer to the question of an "INQUIRER" respecting the origin of the peculiar form and first use of the episcopal mitre, I take the liberty of suggesting that it will be found to be of Oriental extraction, and to have descended from that country, either directly, or through the medium of other nations, to the ecclesiastics of Christian Rome. The writers of the Romish, as well as Reformed Churches, now admit, that most, if not all, of the external symbols, whether of dress or ceremonial pageantry, exhibited by the Roman Catholic priesthood, were adopted from the Pagans, under the plea of being "indifferent in themselves, and applicable as symbolical in their own rites and usages" (Marangoni, _Delle cose gentili e profane trasportate nel uso ed ornamento delle chiesi_); in the same manner as many Romish customs were retained at the Reformation for the purpose of inducing the Papists to "come in," and conform to the other changes then made (Southey, _History of the Church_). Thus, while the disciples of Dr. Pusey extract their forms and symbols from the practices of Papal Rome, the disciples of the Pope deduce theirs from the practices of Pagan Rome.