[The Lord Mayor is never sworn as a Privy Councillor; but on the
demise of the Crown attends the meeting, of the Privy Council held
on such occasion, and signs the proclamation of the new Sovereign.
On the accession of William IV., some objection was, we believe,
made to the admission of the Lord Mayor into the Council Chamber,
which was, however, abandoned on an intimation that if the Lord
Mayor was not admitted, he would retire, accompanied by his
officers and the aldermen who were present.]
_Alterius Orbis Papa._--In the Bishop of Exeter's celebrated _Pastoral
Letter_, p. 44., the Archbishop of Canterbury is styled--
"The second spiritual chief of Christendom, _alterius orbis
Papa_."
In conversation a few days since I heard these expressions objected to,
when a gentleman present observed that the title "Alterius orbis Papa"
was conferred by the Bishop of Rome, or Pope of Christendom, on his
confrère of Canterbury, at a very early period. His memory did not
furnish him with the precise date, but he was convinced that such was
the fact as reported in Collier's _Ecclesiastical History_, and seemed
inclined to refer it to a period not long subsequent to the mission of
Augustine.
Is such the fact? or, if not, to whom may the words be ascribed?