Guy, Thomas, Founder of Guy's Hospital, and M.P. for the Borough of Tamworth, d. s. p. 1724.
—Can any of your readers give information as to the existence of any member of this family in the male line? The senior line of descent from Guy's maternal uncle, John Voughton, became extinct in 1843 upon the decease of Elizabeth, the relict of Dr. Clarke of Weggington, brother of Sir Charles M. Clarke, Bart.
KT.
Episcopal Mitre (Vol. iii., p. 62. et seq.).
—In addition to this Query, which has elicited much to interest one, I beg to know at what date and why the use of the mitre in England was discontinued? At the coronation of George IV. I, for one, was grievously disappointed not to see the whole bench of bishops mitred as well as robed.
S. S.
John Lord Berkeley, Bishop of Ely.
—In the Diary of Dr. Edward Lake, published in the Camden Miscellany, vol. i. p. 16., occur the following paragraphs:—
"Dec. 23. 1677. I administered the sacrament to the Lord John Barclay, being not well."
To the word Barclay, the editor, George Percy Elliott, Esq., has subjoined the following note:—