Marriage of Bishops (Vol. iv., p. 57.).
—A. B. C. will find his questions fully answered in Henry Wharton's tract, entitled A Treatise of the Celibacy of the Clergy, wherein its Rise and Progress are historically considered, 1688, 4to. pp. 168. There is also another treatise on the same subject, entitled An Answer to a Discourse concerning the Celibacy of the Clergy, by E. Tully, 1687, in reply to Abraham Woodhead.
E. C. HARRINGTON.
The Close, Exeter, July 28. 1851.
"The Right divine of Kings to govern wrong" (Vol. iii., p. 494.).
—The same idea as that conveyed in this line is frequently expressed, though not in precisely the same words, in Defoe's Jure Divino, a poem which contains many vigorous and spirited passages; but I do not believe that Pope gave the line as a quotation at all, or that it is other, as far as he is concerned, than original. The inverted commas merely denote that this line is the termination of the goddess's speech. The punctuation is not very correct in any of the editions of the Dunciad; and sometimes inverted commas occur at the end of the last line of a speech, and sometimes both at the beginning and end of the line.
JAMES CROSSLEY.
Equestrian Statues (Vol. iii., p. 494.).
—In reply to F. M.'s Query respecting the Duke of Wellington's statue being the only equestrian one erected to a subject in her Majesty's dominions, I may mention that there is one erected in Cavendish Square to William Duke of Cumberland, who, though of the blood royal, was yet a subject.
D. K.