324 The Ancient Styles and Designations of Persons. 
The inscription on the Earl of Leicester’s son begins as follows :— 
‘“‘ Heere resteth the bodie of the noble impe, Robert of Duddeley, Baron of 
Denbigh, sonne of Robert Earl of Leicester, nephew and heire vnto Ambrose 
Earle of Warwick,” &c. 
The other instance is taken from a translation of “‘ The Thirteene 
Bookes of Aeneidos,” the first to the tenth book by “Thomas 
Phaer, Esq.,” the residue finished by “Thomas Twyne, Doctor in 
Phisicke,” printed in 1607, which has a dedication addressed :— 
“To the right worshipful Maister Robert Sackvill, Esquire, most worthy 
sonne and heire apparant to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Sackvill, Knight, 
Lord Buckhurst.” 
After alluding to the house of Sackville, the writer then adds :— 
“So that in honouring them I must needs love you, and loving them so honour 
you as the rare hope and onely expected Imp of so noble a roote, and heire of 
so auncient a familie.” 
This dedication is dated— 
‘“‘ At my house in Lewis, this first day of January, 1584 :” 
—and concludes— 
_ “Your worship’s most bounden and willing, Tuomas TwYne.” 
Norr.—This translation, with the Dedication, is in the Library of the British 
Museum. 
Mosr NosrE anp Mosr HonoraBte. 
These styles are applied to Marquesses. In all my earlier time, 
as far as I know, Marquesses were addressed as “ The Most Noble;”’ 
and I do not recollect to have seen a Marquis addressed as ‘“ The 
Most Honourable” till within the last twenty or thirty years; but 
I was lately informed by Mr. Courthope, Somerset Herald at the 
Herald’s College, that Marquesses have been long since styled “ The 
Most Honorable.” Two of the most recent instances of the style, 
“The Most Noble,” being applied to Marquesses are in the adver- 
tisements in the Salisbury Journal of June 24, 1854, where a list of 
subscribers is headed, ‘The Most Noble the Marquis of Lansdowne,” 
“The Most Noble the Marquis of Bath ;’’ while the traveller by 
the Great Western Railway will frequently see hampers from 
Tottenham House, with printed directions on them, ‘The Most 
Honorable the Marquis of Ailesbury.” In the Magazine of our own 
