It is one advantage of the proposed plan, that it may be tried on
almost any scale. A society so constituted would NOT begin its existence
{481} with great promises of returns to subscribers, and heavy engagements
to printers, papermakers, and editors. Its only _necessary_ expenses would
be those of _management_; and if the society were very small, these
expenses would be so too. It is, indeed, hardly possible to imagine that
they should be such as not to leave something to be funded for future use,
if they did not furnish means for immediate display; but it seems better to
wait patiently until such real substantial support is guaranteed as may
prevent all apprehension on that score.
S.R. MAITLAND.
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DEFENDER OF THE FAITH.
(Vol. ii., p. 442.)
It is quite startling to be told that the title of "Defender of the Faith"
was used by any royal predecessor of Henry VIII.
Selden (_Titles of Honour_, ed 1631, p. 54) says:
"The beginning and ground of that attribute of DEFENDER OF THE FAITH,
which hath been perpetually, in the later ages, added to the style of
the kings of England, (not only in the first person, but frequent also
in the second and in the third, as common use shows in the formality of
instruments of conveyance, leases and such like) is most certainly
known.
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