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 Rosenmueller (p.
419.), that the Jews attributed horns to Moses "figuratively for
power:"--

"When I was at Rome, among many other visits to the tomb of
Julius II, I went thither once with a Prussian artist, a man of
great genius and vivacity of feeling. As we were gazing on
Michael Angelo's Moses, our conversation turned on the horns and
beard of that stupendous statue of the necessity of each to
support the other; of the superhuman effect of the former, and
the necessity if the existence of both to give a harmony and
_integrity_ both to the image and the feeling excited by it.
Conceive them removed, and the statue would become _un_natural
without being _super_natural. We called to mind the horns of the
rising sun, and I repeated the noble passage from Taylor's _Holy
Dying_. That horns were the emble