The Episcopal Mitre

Godwyn, in his *Moses and Aaron*, London, 1631, b. i., c. 5., says that— "A miter of fine linnen sixteene cubits long, wrapped about his head, and a plate of purple gold, or holy crowne, two fingers broad, whereon was graven Holinesse to the Lord, which was tied with a blew lace upon the forefront of the miter," 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 *Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia*, Oxford, 1631, lib. iii. sec. 1. cap. 8., he says that the "*Mitra* did signifie a certa…