_Defender of the Faith_ (Vol. ii., pp. 442. 481.; Vol. iii., pp. 9.
94.).--Should not King Edward the Confessor's claim to _defend the church
as God's Vicar_ be added to the several valuable notices in relation to the
title _Defender of the Faith_, with which some of your learned contributors
have favoured us through your pages?
According to Hoveden, one of the laws adopted from the Anglo-Saxons by
_William_ was:
"Rex autem atque vicarius Ejus ad hoc est constitutus, ut regnum
terrenum, populum Dei, et super omnia _sanctam ecclesiam_, revereatur
et ab injuriatoribus _defendat_," &c.