BISHOPS AND THEIR PRECEDENCE

Your correspondent ARUN (Vol. ii., p. 254.) states, on the authority of Stephen's *Blackstone*, that— "Bishops are temporal barons, and sit in the House of Peers in right of succession to certain ancient baronies annexed or supposed to be annexed to their episcopal lands." This position, though supported by Lord Coke in more places than one (see *Coke upon Littleton*, 134. *a, b*; 3 *Inst.* 30.; 4 *Inst.* 44.), and adopted by most other legal text-writers on his authority, cannot, it is conceived, be supported. It seems to be clearly ascertained that bishops sat in the great councils of this a…