_Vox Populi Vox Dei_,--about the origin of which saying "QUÆSITOR"
asks (No. 21. p. 321.),--were the words chosen by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Simon Mepham, as his text for the sermon which he preached
when Edward III. was called to the throne, from which the nation had
pulled down his father, Edward II. This we learn from Walsingham, who
says:
"Archiepiscopus verò Cantuariæ præsenti consensit electioni,
ut omnes prælati et archiepiscopus quidem assumpto themate,
_Vox populi Vox Dei_, sermonem fecit populo, exhortans
omnes ut apud regem regum intercederent pro electo."--Tho.
Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._ ed. Camden, p. 126.