St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-22
KING EDWARDS TITLE.
History and Explanation of NumeP-
Gus styles for the British
Crown.

The kings title, as brought up te
date, reads great deal more euphoni
ously in the vernacular than Gin the
Latin tongue" "Terrarum transmari.
narum quae in ditione stunt Britannica
is La tin, no doubt; but that is about all
that can be said for it.
| The imperial character of English
royalty has never, of course, been sc
roundly asserted as now it is. The
times have been, indeed, when imperial
lam by no means commended itself to
an English Edward, statesman as well
as king. In 1880 it was emphatically de-
clared: "Quod regnum Angliae alb
omni subjectione imperial sit iberri-
num-" And nearly century later, a
formal remuneration of imperial SUI
premacy was actually required of a
holy Roman emperor before he was al
lowed to set foot on Englishsoif.
But the imperial idea is as old as
Henry VIII, in whose time empire
and Imperial crown" are words in fire.
quent use. Queen Eliza at her corona
ton was styled compress from the Or
cade isles to the Mountains Pyrene."
And "empress" she is styled on Cam
denis title page.
''Of the united kingdom Of Great
Britain and Ireland" is style some
thing more than a century old. On
January 1, 1901, it took the place of
"Great Britain, France and Ireland"
So was renounced-and not before it
was time-that title of liking of
France which English sovereigns had
born from the forty-third year of Ed
ward III, or for 432 years.
One of the wholesome results of this
renuncia ton was the employment
thenceforward of English, instead of
French, in the foreign official corre-
spondence of an English government.
A Language of diplomacy" of our own
has abundantly proved it's usefulness
since.
Of kings of England, so styled, the
first was Canute. The conqueror was
Rex Anglorum." So was Richard l.,
on his seal, though he figures as "Rex
Angliae" in his charters. His success
sor, John, was the final innovator, and
signed, sealed and delivered as liking
of England" .-z... .a..
His holiness, Leo X.> no doubt con-
ferred the title of defender of the
faith" on Henry VIII. as mark of the
political approval of the royal authors
illumination against Luther. The bull
is to be read in facsimile, in the "Foe-
dera" of the Useful Rymer. But that
"the right Of that title was fixed in the
crown long before the pope's intended
donation" and that the seventh Henry
bore it, was proved to the satisfaction
of Christopher Wren, dean of Windsor
and register of the Order of the Gar
ter from 1885 to 1858, by the evidence
of the official register of the order it.
self.
''Great Britain" was the emendation
of Elizabeth, who had prophetic eye
to future developments. The British
Solomon naturally saw the force of
the new style. He adopted it immedi-
ately. On October %, 1903, Lord Gran
bourne wrote to Mr.. WILDWOOD from
inclosing copy of "procla-
nation published this day of his mai
esty changing his title and taking upon
him the name and title of king of Great
France and Ireland, by which
he henceforth desires to be acknowl-
edged, both at home and abroad, and
that his former titles shall be extinct"
A plain and buisnesslike statement,
not unsuggestive Of the modern deed
poll.
Since the king of England ceased to
be elector of Hanover, one minor title !
has disappeared which used to puzzle
the lege in the street good deal, says