—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?
A. B.
Redland, June 5.
[Carwithen, in his History of the Church of England, vol. i. p. 40., speaking of Wolsey's attempt to gain the popedom, says, "His aim was the chair of St. Peter, and to the attainment of his wishes he rendered subservient both the alliances and the enmities of his own country. At home, even the papacy could confer on him no accession of power: he was indeed papa alterius orbis.">[
Mrs. Elstob.
—Mrs. Elstob, the Anglo-Saxon scholar, is stated by a recent reviewer to have passed the period of her seclusion in a village in Wiltshire, until taken notice of by a neighbouring clergyman. What village was this, and who was the clergyman? for other authorities place her at Evesham in Worcestershire.
J. W.