Aug. 23. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



137 



Paris, 1586), Lib. v. Indict, xiv. ep. 5.; Lib. vii. 

 ladict. i. ep. 5. ; Lib. ix. Indict, vi. ep. 8. ; Lib. xi. 

 Indict, vi. ep. 8. I will give a short specimen from 

 the first and last Letters: 



" Exccllentias vestrjB pra;dican(lam ac Deo placitam 

 bonitatem et gubernacula regni tcstantur et educatio 

 fidei manifestat."— Co/. 766. 



" Inter alia bona lioc apud vos pra; ceteris tenet 

 principatum, quod in mediis liujus mundi fliictibus, 

 qui regentis anlmos turbii'.enta solent vexatione con- 

 fundere, ita cor ad Divini cultus amorem et venerabi- 

 lium loeoruni disponendam quietam reducitis ac si 

 vos nulla alia cura sollicitet." — Col. 1061. 



Much of her merit, in the eyes of Gregory, 

 arose from her abjuration of Arianism, and the 

 patronage she extended to religious houses. At 

 the same time, it is impossible to acquit her of the 

 serious charges under which she labours. 



" EUe est difFamee," says Moreri, " dans les ecrits 

 des autres auteurs, par sa cruaute, sa vengeance, son 

 avarice, et son impudicite. " 



C. H. 



St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. 



XORD MAYOR NOT A PRIVT COUNCILLOR. 



(Vol. iv., p. 9.) 



I entirely dissent from your correspondent's 

 statements that " the Lord JNIayor is no more a 

 privy councillor than he is Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury." rirst, as to the argument on which 

 your correspondent's conclusion is founded. He 

 assumes first that the title of Lord is a mere 

 courtesy title ; and, secondly, that it is because of 

 this courtesy title that the Mayor is deemed a 

 privy councillor. The second assumption is the 

 erroneous one. It is not necessai-y to have the 

 courtesy title of Lord in order to be a privy coun- 

 cillor ; nor are all courtesy lords styled Right 

 Ilonorables. Your correspondent's assertion in 

 this respect is a curious blunder, which every day's 

 experience contradicts. No one styles a courtesy 

 Lord " Right Honorable "' except such persons as 

 will persist in the equally aljsurd blunder of 

 calling a Marquis " Llost Noble." The Boards of 

 the Treasury and Admiralty are not designated 

 "Right II()norable"merely because of the courtesy 

 title of " Lord" being attached to their corporate 

 name, but because these Boards are respectively 

 the equivalents of the Lord High Treasurer and 

 Lord High Admiral, each of whom was always a 

 member of the sovereign's Council. No individual 

 member of the Board is, by membership, "Right 

 Hon." Your correspondent's precedent is equally 

 inconclusive on tJie subject. He says, " ^Ir. Ilarley, 

 then (1708) Lord Mayor of London, was sworn 

 of His Majesty's most honorable Privy Council." 

 This precedent does not prove the argument; and 



for this simple reason, that the individual who 

 holds the office is not " Right Honorable," but the 

 officer is. Mr. Harley was not, as an individual, 

 a privy councillor, till he was made one : he could 

 only have appeared in council as " the Lord 

 Mayor," and not as " Mr. Harley." The descrip- 

 tion, therefore, of " The Right Honorable A. B., 

 Lord Mayor," which has probably misled your 

 correspondent, is, like the " Most Noble the Mar- 

 quis," a blunder of ignorant flattery ; the correct 

 description being ""A. B., the Right Honorable 

 the Lord Mayor:" or rather, the A. B. ought to 

 be suppressed, except the individual, for a parti- 

 cular reason, is to be personally designated, and 

 the style should be written, "Tlie Right Honorable 

 the Lord Mayor." This distinction between the 

 officer and the man is almost universal in our 

 system. Our Judges are Lords in court (yet, 

 by-the-byc, this courtesy " Lord" does not give 

 any one of them at any time the title of Right 

 Honorable, another instance of the fallacy of your 

 correspondent's reasoning), and they are Sirs in 

 individual designation. In Scotland the Judges 

 assume the titles of Baronies during their tenure 

 of office, but become mere Esquires on surrender 

 of it. The Lord Mayor is always summoned to 

 the council on the accession of a new sovereign, 

 and was formerly, when his office was of greater 

 practical importance than at present, accustomed 

 to put his name very high on the list of signatures 

 attached to the declaration of accession. A com- 

 moner might by the bare delivery of the great 

 seal become " Lord" in the Court of Chancery, 

 and be the President of the House of Lords, 

 where he would sit by virtue of his office, without 

 having any title to speak or vote. ilr. Henry 

 Brougham did so for one if not two nights before 

 his p.'itent of peerage was completed. The same 

 distinction between officer and individual applies 

 to the Lord Mayor, who is Right Honorable as 

 Lord Mayor, but in no other way whatever. 



L. J\l. 



C0WPJ3R OR COOPER. 



(Vol. iv., pp. 24. 93.) 

 The poet's family was originally of Stroode in 

 Slinfold, Sussex, not Kent, as Lord Campbell 

 {Lives of the Chan., vol. iv. p. 258.) states, and spelt 

 their names Cooper. The first person who altered 

 the spelling was John Cooper of London, father 

 of the first baronet, and he probably adopted the 

 spelling in afilictation of the Noi-man spelling; 

 the family having in those days been styled Le 

 Cupere, Ciiper, and Coui)re in Norman-French, 

 and Cuparius in Latin, as may be seen by the 

 grants made to Battle Abbey. The pronunciation 

 was never changed. All the Sussex branches 

 continued the spelling of Cooper until the time of 

 Henry Cowper of Stroode, who died 170G. In 



