_Bishops and their Precedence_ (Vol. ii., p. 9.).--It may interest your
correspondent E. to refer to a passage in Baker's _Chronicle_, sub anno
1461, p. 204., which would tend to show that the precedency of the
spiritual barons was at that period disputed. That writer says:--
"John Earl of Oxford, with his son Aubrey de Vere, &c., was convicted
of treason and beheaded. John Earl of Oxford, in a former parliament,
had disputed the question concerning the precedency of Temporal and
Spiritual Barons, a bold attempt in those days, and by force of whose
argument Judgment was given for the _Lords Temporal_."
Where will this judgment or any account of the dispute be found?