Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-01-31
TITLES OF LONG AGO
Some Of the Ancient Styles OF
Royal SaIutation.
FANTASTIC AND RIDICULOUS.

TAN tHSJfO ANU ntDlVuLOoSs
IN Spain at One Time the AppsIIa'
tions Applied TO the King Became
So serviIs That Philip III. Sup
pressed ThemLcaesar and the Title
"Demisod."
Ehenstone in his quaint essay on
Adventure" printed with long SIS In
the year 1902. says. ut Is a very
convenient piece of knowledge for
a person upon a journey to know
the complications with which It Is
proper to address those he happens to
meet by the way" The author found
himself well or i'll used in proportion
as he happened or not to suit his salu-
tations to peoples IDEAS Of their own
rank.
"It may not be imprudent," he says,
ito accost passenger with tide su'
perior to what he may appear to claim.
This will seldom fall to diffuse won
derful alacrity in his countenance ana
be perhaps method Of securing you
from any mistake OF greater impor-
lance. / was led into these observa-
tions.r he remarks, "by some solicit
tudes / lately underwent on account
Of my ignorance In these peculiarities'
Being somewhat more versed In books
than I can pretend to be in the orders
Of men, it was my fortune to under
take journey which was to perform
by means of inquiries" After enumer-
attng the mishaps that befell him On
account Of misplacing the titles
"friend," honest friend" honest
man." dame" madam" "sir, " sweet
heart" etc., he says naively that he
was within foot Of rushing down q
precipice by calling another "for-
sooth."
"When you reflect upon this subject"
he continues, addressing the public OF
his day as sympathetic friend, learn
to be wise from others harm and do
not forget to observe decorum ON ev-
cry occasion. In the meantime you
may If you please consider the vast
Importance of superior titles when
there is no one 80 inconsiderable but
there is also mind 1t can influence
The Princess Elizabeth in an I'M
dated letter from "Hatflde" sends by
request her picture to Queen Mary and
concludes the carefully worded epistle
with: "And thus I WIN Grobiing your
majestic l fere) end with my most
humble thankes, beseching God long
to preserve, you to his honor, to your
consort, to the realme's profit and to my
Joy. Your Maiestie's most humble SIS
ter and seruante."
ct. Folk tells us, says the elder Dis
raeli, that kings were usually ADDRESS
ed by the titles of most iilustfious,
your serenity or your grace. The APP
pellation Of your majesty was estab-
lished by that Ttberfus Of France.
Louis XVI, whose manners were CT
the most sordid nature. So distinct
were once the tides Of highness and
excellence that when Don Juan, broth
er of Philip H., was permitted to take
up the latter and the city Of Granada
saluted him as your highness 1t occa-
stoned such serious jealousies at court
that had he persisted In 1t he would
have been condemned for treason.
Until the reign Of Constantine the
prefix illustrious belonged only to
those who had made splendid reputa-
ton in arms or In letters.
In Spain the affectation Of titles
grew to such degree that Philip LII.
published an act which forbade sefviie
and ridiculous attributes, reducing
them to the simple ''the king our lord"
Ferdinand and Isabella were high
nesses only. Francis L., who styled
himself the first gentleman In his king
dom, saluted Henry VIII. as your mai
esty.
Ancient Portuguese writer's give fan'
tastic accounts Of the kingdom OF MO-
nomotapa, "a native African kingdom
famous for its gold mines, lying In
the lower Zambezi basin and chiefly
In the present Mashonaland. The king
of this region is surrounded by mu-
sicians and poets, who thrive IN his
atmosphere and who adulate him by
such refined batteries as the lord OF
the sun and moon. great magician ana
great thief.
"The king of Persia Is called branch
of honor, mirror Of virtue, rose OF de-
light His majesty Of Ava Is called
God and in his correspondence with
royalty styles himself king Of kings
and insists upon being obeyed, as he
attends to the preservation OF animals
AN ambiguous conclusion, to which
foreign royalty might reasonably OBJ
ject. He Is also regulator Of the sea-
sons, the absolute master Of the ebb
and flow of the sea. brother to the
sun and king of the four and twenty
umbrellas. To mark his dignity tha
four and twenty useful and often pie
beian articles are always carried be.
fore the august monarch.
1.-THE most striking titles Of the king
of Achem are sovereign Of the uni
verse. whose body Is as luminous as
the sun, whom God created to be as
accomplished as the moon at her plen-
itude, whose eye glitters like the north
ern star; king as spiritual as a ball
is round, who when he rises shades all
his people,"
In the age of Augustulus your eter-
nifty" and "your perpetuity" were not
unusual titles. A law Of Theodore the
Great begins. 'Tf any magistrate, after
having concluded public work. put
his name rather than that Of our per-
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