was that "which shadowed and signified the kingly office of our Saviour Christ," in the apparel of the Jewish high priest, and ordered (Lev. xvi. 4.): and again, in his _Romanae Historiae Anthologia_, Oxford, 1631, lib. iii. sec. 1. cap. 8., he says that the "_Mitra_ did signifie a certaine attire for women's heads, as a coife or such like." For further illustration see Virgil's _AEneid_, lib. iv. l. 216.: "Maeonia mentum mitra crinemque madentem." Again, lib. ix. l. 616.: "Et tunicae manicas et habent redimicula mitrae." During the ennobling of the clergy by the Roman emperors, in the seventh and eighth centuries, a crown was found necessary, and anciently cardinals wore mitres; but, at the council of Lyons, in 1245, they were appointed to wear hats. BLOWEN. _The Episcopal Mitre_ (Vol. iii., p. 62.).--AN INQUIRER will find much curious matter respecting the mitre, collected both from classical writers and antiquaries, in _Explications de plusieurs Textes difficiles de l'Ecriture par le R. P. Dom._ [_Martin_], 4to., a Paris, 1730. To any one ambitious of learnedly occupying some six or seven columns of "NOTES AND QUERIES" the ample foot references are very tempting; I content myself with transcribing two or three of the entries in the index: _"Mitre des anciens, leur nature, et leur forme; etait la {146} marque du Sacerdoce; se portait ordinairement a la tete, et quelquefois aux mains. Forme des mitres dans leur origine, et dans les tems posterieurs,_" &c. This dissertation, which is illustrated by several plates, will repay for the time spent in reading it. I presume INQUIRER is acquainted with Godwyn's _Moses and Aaron_, where he will find something. W. DN. _Episcopal Mitre._--The origin of the peculiar form of the episcopal mitre is the cloven tongues which descended on the Apostles on the day of Pentecost, with the gift of the Holy Spirit. Of this the mitre is an emblem. L. M. M. R. * * * * * DRYDEN'S ESSAY UPON SATIRE. (Vol. ii., pp. 422. 462.) The Query proposed by your correspondent, as to the authorship of the _Essay on Satire_, is a very interesting one, and I am rather surprised that it has not yet been replied to. In favour of your correspondent's view, and I think it is perhaps the strongest argument which can be alleged, is Dean Lockier's remark:-- "Could anything be more impudent than his (Sheffield's) publishing that satire, for writing which Dryden was beaten in Rose Alley (and which was so remarkably known by the name of the 'Rose Alley Satire') as his own? Indeed he made a few alterations in it, but these were only verbal, and generally for the worse."--Spence's _Anecdotes_, edit. Singer, p. 64.