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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
Our Kings do not bear this title under the authority of Leo the tenth's Bull to Henry VIII. or that of Clement VII. his successor, who confirmed it. Although the original came from the church of Rome, the modern title is thoroughly English, and derived from our own legislature.
page 1 note a Tom. xiii. p. 756, where there is a fac simile engraving of it: but a better has been lately added to the Reports on Publick Records, App. pl. 6. Selden likewise copied it in Tit. Hon. pt. 1. c. 5.
page 3 note a Rym. F. tom. xiv. fol. 14.
page 3 note b Burnet Hist. Ref. v. 1. Coll. pp. 166, 176.
page 4 note a See note (A) at the end.
page 4 note b Co. Lit. 7. b.
page 4 note c Co. Inst. 344. The author considers the subject in another point of view, that this part of the act of Hen. VIII. was not repealed, but only the new treasons which it created.
page 4 note d 20th Oct. 1604. See Book of Procl.
page 5 note a Nouv. Tr. de Diplom. tom. vi. p. 82.
page 5 note b Ibid. p. 48.
page 5 note c Mem. tom. v. p. 376. edit. Godefroi.
page 5 note d Gamier Hist. de France, A. D. 1543.
page 6 note a Ib. tom. ii. p. 183. and Giannone, tom. iii. p. 516.
page 6 note b If the reader desires to see all the historical authorities relating to this article of French antiquity, he should read a learned tract by M. Bonamy, in the 29th volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions, p. 268, to which is annexed a long list of quotations from their publick acts, tending to prove that the title Christianissimus has been often given to the Kings of France from the time of Pepin; and generally and constantly from the time of Lewis the Fat. It is not supposed to have been derived from any positive law or papal Bull. The note (B) at the end of this essay shews instances in which the ancient Kings of England have received it likewise. Selden in treating of this subject in his Titles of Honour, Part 1, chap. v. considers it as originally intended by the Popes to mark an exclusion of paganism or Judaism, which that of Most Catholick in Spain signified against heresy; of which he refers to very ancient examples, even before the Saracen invasion.
page 6 note c Guicciardini, lib. 11mo.
page 6 note d Rym. F. tom. vii. p. 806.
page 7 note a Rym. F. tom. viii. p. 427.
page 7 note b Ib. p. 627.
page 7 note c Parl. Ro. tom. iv. p. 388.
page 7 note d Rym. F. tom. x. p. 776.
page 7 note e Ib. tom. vii. p. 207, 361.
page 8 note a Vol. vi. 99.
page 8 note b Rym. F. tom. xiv. p. 216. Nos Franciscus Dei gratid Francorum Rex Christianissimus, promittimus, &c.
page 8 note c Parl. Ro. vol. v. pp. 40, 45.
page 8 note d Rym. F. tom. xi. p. 484.
page 8 note e Ib. 552.
page 8 note f Parl. Ro. vol. v. 462. Ib. vi. p. 8.
page 8 note g See note (B) at the end of this essay.
page 9 note a Liv. 2. A.D. 1510.
page 9 note b Tit. Hon. part 1. c. 5.
page 9 note (a) Ligue de Camb. liv. 2.
page 10 note (a) Rym. F. tom. ii. p. 114. 514.