_Ambassadors addressed as Peers_ (Vol. v., p. 213.).--I must leave you
to judge whether a reference to Howell's _Familiar Letters_ is likely to
be new to your correspondent MR. J. G. NICHOLS, or of any service to him
in his inquiry on this subject. His note reminded me that Howell had
respectfully used the words "My Lord," and "Your Lordship," apparently
in the modern sense of "Your Excellency," in his letters to the Right
Hon. Sir Peter Wichts, and to the Right Hon. Sir Sackvill Crow,
ambassadors at Constantinople. See Howell's _Familiar Letters_, Part I.
Letters 115. 130.; Part II. Letters 18. 27.