The Ancient Styles and Designations of Persons. 327 
styled, “Sir John Cross,” “Sir Albert Pell,” and “Sir George 
Rose ;” and not Mr. Justice Cross, Mr. Justice Pell, and Mr. Justice 
Rose: but when the Chief Judge of the Bankruptcy Court, the 
Hon. Thomas Erskine, in addition to that dignity, was appointed a 
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, he was styled “Mr Justice 
Erskine.” 
Very REVEREND. 
This style is now I believe applied to Deans only. In the follow- 
ing instance it occurs on the Monument of a Canon residentiary of 
Salisbury, as given in the History of Salisbury Cathedral before 
cited. The inscription is— 
“Hoe est sacrum depositum Reverendi admodum Magistri Hill in Collegio 
Christi inter! Athenas Oxonienses Studentis, de Knoyle in comitatu Wilts Rec- 
toris, et deinde hujus Ecclesie Canonici Residentiarii, &c. 20 Martii, a.. 
1694-5, obiit & expiravit.” 
which is— 
“To the Memory of the very Reverend Master Richard Hill,” &c. 
Ricutr WorsHIPFUL AND REVEREND Lorp. 
A letter to James Lord Berkeley (who died 22nd Oct. 38 Edw.IV.), 
sent to him by his wife, is addressed— 
“To my right worshipful and reverend lord and husband be these ae ie 
and her ladyship commences her letter— 
“Right worshipful and reverend Lord and husband ;”’ 
and concludes— 
‘Written at London the Wednesday next afore Whitsunday. 
Your wife the Lady of Berkeley.” 
This letter is printed by the Rey. T. D. Fosbroke in his edition 
of Smyth’s Lives of the Berkeley Family, p. 153. 
WorsuHIpruL AND Worsuip. 
The Rey. T. D. Fosbroke, in his edition of the Berkeley MSS. 
(p. 153), says that the “title of Worship and Worshipful” was 
1 Sic orig. 
