Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-30
KING EDWARDS TITLE.
History and Explanation of Numer.
Gus Styles for the British
Crown.

The kings title, as brought up to
date, reads a great deal more euphoni-
ously in the vernacular than ''in the
Latin tongue" "Terrarum transmari-
narum quae in ditione sunt Britannica"
is Latin, 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
times have been, indeed, when i'm periaI-
ism by no means commended itself tic
an English Edward, statesman as well
as king. In 1880 it was empha tically de-
clared: "Quod regnum Angliae alb
omni subjectione imperiali sit liberri-
num-" And nearly a century later, a
formal renuncia tion of imperial su-
premacy was actually required of
holy Roman emperor before he was al
lowed to set foot on English soil.
But the imperial idea is as old as
Henry WILL, in whose time empire"
and imperial crown" are words in fire.
quent use. Queen Eliza at her corona
ton was styled empress from the Or
cade isles to the Mountains Pyrene."
And empress" she is styled on Cam.
den's title page.
''Of the united kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland is a 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
remuneration was the employment
thenceforward of English, instead of
French, in the foreign official CORE
spondence of an English government.
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 innova tor, and
signed, sealed and delivered as "king
of England.'
His holiness, Leo x, no doubt con-
ferred the title of defender of the
faith" on Henry VIII. as a marx of the
political approval of the royal authors
Illumination against Luther. The bull
is to be read in facsimile, in II e Foe
dera" of the Useful Rymer. Eut that
1.-The right of that title was fixed in the
crown long before the pope's intended
| dOna ton" 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 1886 to 1868, by the evidence
| of the official register of the order it.
self
"Great Britain" was the emendation
of Elizabeth, who had a 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.. Winwood from
Whitehall, inclosing copy of "procla.
nation published this day of his maj
esty changing his title and taking upon
him the name and title of king of Great
Britain, 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
\ plain and buisnesslike statement
not unsuggestive of the modern deed
poll.
Since the king of England ceased tc
be elector of Hanover, one minor title
has disappeared which used to puzzle
the Gege in the street good deal, say.
the London Pail Mall Gazette. 1t would
be set forth, in initial form, as s. r. 1
A. I. The initials stood for "sarci Ro
mani imperii archi-thesaurus''-a
treasurer of the holy Roman empire, il
fact.
The liege IN the street could hardly
be expected to know that the arch
treasurership in question was an offic,
which had been settled upon the elec
tors of Hanover by reason of their de
scent from Frederick, elector of Pala
tine. So it was, however.
The imperial addition to the title o
an English sovereign is just qnarte,
of century old. In 1876 Mr.. Disrael
might have quoted to his sovereign
line from poet whom he did not mucl
affect perhaps:
Empress, the way is ready and not long
And indeed the time was ripe for E'R
eft T."