"Sir John Perrot was the first man of quality whom I find upon the record to have sworn by _God's wounds_. He lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was supposed to be a natural son of Henry VIII., who might also have been his instructor."
_Coins of Constantius II._--The coins of this prince are, from their titles being identical with those of his cousin, very difficult to be distinguished. _My_ only guide is the portrait. Gallus died at twenty-nine; and we may suppose that his coins would present a more youthful portrait than Constantius II. The face of Constantius is long and thin, and is distinguished by the royal diadem. The youthful head resembling Constantius the Great with the laurel crown, _Rev_. Two military figures standing, with spears and bucklers, between them two standards, _Ex._ S M N B., I have arranged in my cabinet, how far rightly I know not, as that of Gallus.
"_She ne'er with treacherous Kiss_" (Vol. ii., p. 136.).--C.A.H. will find the lines,--
in a poem named "Woman," 2nd ed. p. 34., by Eaton Stannard Barrett, Esq., published in 1818, by Henry Colburn, Conduit street.
_California_ (Vol. ii, p. 132.).--Your correspondent E.N.W. will find earlier anticipations of "the golden harvest now gathering in California," in vol. iii. of _Hakluyt's Voyages_, p. 440-442, where an account is given of Sir F. Drake's taking possession of Nova Albion.
"There is no part of earth here to bee taken up, wherein there is not speciall likelihood of gold or silver."
In Callendar's _Voyages_, vol. i. p. 303., and other collections containing Sir F. Drake's voyage to Magellanica, there is the same notice. The earth of the country seemed to promise very rich veins of gold and silver, there being hardly any digging without throwing up some of the ores of them.
_Bishops and their Precedence_ (Vol. ii., pp. 9. 76.)--The precedence of bishops is regulated by the act of 31 Hen. VIII. c. 10., "for placing of the Lords." Bishops are, in fact, temporal barons, and, as stated in Stephen's _Blackstone_, vol. iii. pp. 5, 6., sit in the House of Peers in right of succession to certain ancient baronies annexed, or supposed to be annexed, to their episcopal lands; and as they have in addition high spiritual rank, it is but right they should have place before those who, in temporal rank only, are equal to them. This is, in effect, the meaning of the reason given by Coke in part iii. of the Institutes, p. 361. ed. 1670, where, after noticing the precedence amongst the bishops themselves, namely, 1. The Bishop of London, 2. The Bishop of Durham, 3. The Bishop of Winchester, he observes: