Chapter XVII: Appendix: Great Precedence Question

The great question relative to precedence which agitated the cities of Dublin and Edinburgh in 1863, arose at the presentation of addresses to the Queen at Windsor by the respective corporations of those two cities, on the occasion of the marriage of the Prince of Wales, when the corporation of Dublin was given precedence, under protest on the part of the corporation of Edinburgh.

The question was subsequently referred to the chief Irish heraldic authority, the Ulster King of Arms, Sir Bernard Burke, LL.D., and the report which Ulster thereupon wrote was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed. Ulster begins by stating that

“The claim of Edinburgh to the higher precedence is made to rest on the following reasons:--1. The Scottish Act of Union being earlier in date than the Irish Act of Union. 2. The arms of Scotland being quartered in the royal shield before the arms of Ireland. 3. By the Acts of Union of Scotland and Ireland, the Peers of Scotland taking rank before the Peers of Ireland.”

However, “Dublin founds its claim to precedence on broader and more intelligible grounds; viz.--1. Prescriptive right of Dublin as second city in the dominion of England from the reign of King Henry II., a right unaffected in any way by the Acts of Union. 2. Greater antiquity of the city of Dublin. 3. Greater antiquity of the charters of incorporation of the city of Dublin. 4. Seat of Government and the Viceroyalty being still retained in Dublin. 5. Greater and more dignified privileges of the corporation of Dublin.”

Ulster then shows that the quartering of the royal arms, which were capriciously varied at different periods, proves nothing in favour of Edinburgh; and that, by her Act of Union, Scotland was amalgamated with England as Great Britain; while Ireland, though united, preserved in her union a quasi separate position, being still a viceroyalty, with a vice-king and court, having their capital in Dublin.

He concludes by urging that, from the Lord Mayor and Corporation of Dublin being privileged to present their addresses to the Sovereign on the throne at St. James’s, Edinburgh not having that privilege,--and from the immense antiquity of the city of Dublin, Dublin is clearly entitled to precedence.

Sir George Grey transmitted this report of Ulster to Garter-King-of-Arms, Sir Charles Young, D.C.L., F.S.A.; Garter gave an opinion, which was also ordered by the House of Commons to be printed. Garter, in his opinion, inclines in favour of Edinburgh, on the grounds--1st, That Scotland occupies the second quarter in the royal shield; 2nd, that England itself became on the accession of James I. an “appanage of the Scottish crown;” 3rd, that as the peers of Scotland were given special precedence by the Irish Act of Union, all other precedence followed “by analogy;” and 4th, that the Mayor of Dublin was not “Lord” Mayor till 1665, while Maitland avers that the style of “Lord” Provost was enjoyed by the chief magistrate of Edinburgh in 1609.

A remark of Sir George Grey’s in the House of Commons, wrongly reported, led to the belief that this opinion of Garter was to decide the question. But, on the contrary, the discussion was continued.

Ulster gave, in reply to Garter, a second opinion, which was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed. In his further observations Ulster commences by saying: “The point at issue is not a question of nationalities, or of the relative superiority of Ireland over Scotland, or Scotland over Ireland. That question, a very invidious one, is not now raised, and will, I trust, never be: the only result which could arise from such a discussion would be to wound the feelings and love of country of one or other of two very sensitive peoples.... The only question to be determined is simply which of the two corporations has the higher precedence?--a right to be determined by municipal charters, royal grants, and other legal evidence.” Ulster then still insists on the far longer existence of Dublin. He repudiates the idea altogether that England was an “appanage” of Scotland, any more than France was an appanage of Navarre, when Henry IV., King of the latter country, inherited the crown of France. Appanage has not that meaning. Garter is wrong as to the date of the Mayor of Dublin being “Lord” Mayor in 1665: he was made so by Charles I. 29th July, 1642, while the Provost was not “Lord” Provost till 1667. Ulster concludes for Dublin, on the greater antiquity of Dublin’s charters over those of Edinburgh, on it being contrary to all law to construe acts of Parliament “by analogy,” and on the undoubted fact, that George IV. conferred in 1821 on Dublin, which Sir Robert Peel emphatically styled “the second city of the Empire,” the exclusive (except as to the city of London) honour of presenting addresses to the Sovereign on the throne at Windsor or St. James’s.

With these observations of Ulster the question rests in abeyance.

FOOTNOTES:

[22] The Bishop has elsewhere observed, with respect to what he terms “the prescriptive rights of the Church,” that, “there always must be subjects upon which good men, from the mere natural law of the mind contemplating one side of a subject with greater interest than another, will arrive at different conclusions.”

[23] See _Times_, May 2nd and 5th, 1863.

[24]

“Atheist, use thine eyes;
And having view’d the order of the skies,
Think (if thou canst) that matter blindly hurl’d
Without a guide, should frame this wondrous world.”

_Creech._

[25] In Blackfriars: originally the Palace of Bridewell, and subsequently a House of Correction.

[26] See the beautiful poem entitled, “Intimations of Immortality.”

INDEX.

Accidents on Railways, 200.
Accommodation Bill, never sign, 168.
Adams, President, Ancestry of, 18.
Advocate, Payment of, 109.
Age of the People, 233.
Air, Fresh, Worth of, 241.
America, Discovery of, 79.
Ancestors of Washington, 16.
Ancestry of President Adams, 18.
Anti-Corn Law League, Origin of, 37.
Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords, 108.
Archæology and Manufactures, 229.
Aristocracy, the word, 99.
Armstrong, Sir W., on “Seeds of Invention,” 176.
Arrest of the Body after Death, 133.
Art, Good and Cheap, 230.
Arts, False, advancing True, 247.
Astronomy, Limitations of, 213.
Atheism, Folly of, 276.
Attorney, do not make your Son, 108.
Augustine, St., Mission of, 77.

Bacon, Roger, Science of, 173.
Balloon Ascents, High Temperatures in, 218.
Bank Failures, Losses by, 165.
Bar, Success at, Secret of, 107.
Barometer for Farmers, 222.
Baronetcy, Expense of, 97.
Bayonet, History of the, 228.
Benefit of Clergy, 116.
Bidder, Mr. George, C.E., 146.
Blindness, on, 235.
Bonaparte, the House of, 20.
Border Marriages, 120.
Bowyer, Sir George, on Public Executions, 143, 144.
Brain Disease, Dr. Forbes Winslow on, 257.
Brass, Antiquity of, 191.
Bridewell of the City of London, 135.
Britain, Great, on the World’s Map, 80.
Britain, Roman Civilization of, 61.
Brodie, Sir B., on Mind and Organization, 253.
Brunswick, House of, and Casting Vote, 78.
Burial of Sir John Moore, 15.
Burying Gold and Silver, 155.

Calculation, Mental, Precocious, 146.
Cambridge Man, 76.
Cancer, Remedies for, 245.
Catholic Emancipation and Sir Robert Peel, 53.
Castlereagh, Lord, at the Congress of Vienna, 33.
Cato-street Conspiracy, the, 34.
Cavour’s Estimate of Napoleon III., 51.
Celtes, what are they? 60.
Centre of the Earth, 206.
Change of Surname, 102.
Changes, a few of the World’s, 55.
Chartists, the, in 1848, 41.
Christmas, Past and Present, 266.
Church, Compulsory Attendance at, 117.
Civilization, the Lowest, 67.
Civilization, true Source of, 66.
Crown, the Imperial State, 93.
Coal-mine, deepest in England, 188.
Coal Resources, our, 185-189.
Coal, Theory of, 185.
Coburg, House of, 53.
Cockfighting, Law against, 136.
Coin, Counterfeit, 161.
Coinage, Wear and Tear of, 161.
Coleridge, Sir John, on Trial by Jury, 112.
Colonial Empire, British, 82.
Comfort, what is it? 69.
Common Law, 104.
Concrete not new, 190.
Congregational Church, First in England, 276.
Conscience, Liberty of, 281.
Conscience, the National, 11.
Consumption not hopeless, 238.
Convicts, What is to be done with our, 138.
Cooling of the Earth, 207.
Copper-sheathing Ships’ bottoms, 190.
Copper-smelting, 191.
Copyright, the Law of, 124.
Correlation of Physical Forces, 180.
Coup d’Etat Predictions, 44.
Cross, Mark of the, 118.
Crowns, English, 93.
Curiosities of the Exchequer, 151.
Curiosities of the Statute Law, 105.
“Custom, the Queen of the World,” 74.

Death-bed of the Doubting, 269.
Death-Warrants, 140.
Deodands, Law of, 132.
Despot deceived, 66.
Deville, the Phrenologist, 254.
Diamond, Brilliancy of, 191.
“Dieu et mon Droit,” 91.
Distances measured, 149.
Discoverers, not Inventors, 172.
Doubt, our Age of, 270.
Doubt about Religion, 267.
Druids, and their Healing Art, 245.

Earth, Cooling of the, 207.
Earth and Man compared, 206.
Earth, how it was peopled, 57.
Earth, Centre of the, 206.
Earth, Distance of, from the Sun, 215.
Earth’s Surface, Inequalities of, 210.
Earth, why presumed to be Solid, 206.
Education, Christian, 283.
Egyptology, what is it? 271.
Eloquence of the Day, 6.
Employment, giving, 168.
Enamel, French, 232.
Enghien, the Duke of, 24.
English People, the, 84.
English, what they owe to Naturalized Foreigners, 203.
Evidence, what is it? 110.
Exchequer, Curiosities of, 151.
Executions, Public, 142.

Feasts, Moveable, 266.
Fees, Ecclesiastical, 153.
Field-Marshal, the rank, 101.
Fitzroy, Admiral, on the Weather, 218.
Flint, use of, in Pottery, 197.
Foot, the Roman, 147.
“Fourth Estate, the,” 5.
Fractured Leg, how restored, 246.
Freedom, Love of, 65.
Free-speaking, Whately on, 9.
French Emperorship, Revival of, 43.
Friendly Societies’ Laws, 166.

Game Laws, the, 139.
Gardens, Law of, 131.
Gavelkind Customs, 126.
Geology, Revelations of, 58.
George III., what drove him mad, 27.
Gibbet, the Last in England, 141.
Glory of the Past, 72.
Gold and Silver, burying, 155-157.
Gold seeking, Results of, 157.
Gold, Standard, 162.
“Great Events from Little Causes spring,” 76.
Gretna Green Marriages, 120.
Growth, Geological, 204.
Guilds, Ancient and Modern Benefit Clubs, 75.
Gunpowder, Philosophy of, 192.
Gustavus III. of Sweden, 38.

Hair suddenly changing Colour, 237.
Half-mad, the, 258.
Hands, why do we shake? 67.
Head, Sir F., on Public Executions, 142.
Hearing, Sense of, 234.
Heart, the Human, 234.
Heat and Motion, Identity of, 208.
Heat, Universal Source of, 209.
Heir to the British Throne always in Opposition, 4.
Heralds’ College, 86.
Heraldry, Worth of, 85.
Hoarding Money, 157.
Holding over after Lease, 125.
Hop Duty, Abolition of, 125.
Horse-power, calculation of, 198.
Horses, Value of, 166.

Icebergs and the Weather, 223.
Ignorance and Irresponsibility, 137.
Imitative Gold Chains, 232.
Imperial State Crown, the, 93.
“Implements in the Drift,” 205.
“In the Beginning,” 279.
Innate Ideas and Pre-existence of Souls, 277.
Insanity, Causes of, 256.
Insurance, Origin of, 163.
Insurance Policies, 130.
Invasion of England, 47.
Invasion of England projected by Napoleon I., 21.
Invasions and Railways, 202.
Inventions and Discoveries, contemporary, 227.
Irish, the, and Potatoes, 81.
Irish-speaking Population, 81.
Irish Titles of Honour, 87.
Irish Union, the, 19.
Iron as a Building Material, 189.

Jerusalem and Nimroud, 272.
Jewellery, Imitative, 231.
Job, the Book of, 285.
Judge’s Black Cap, origin of, 141.
Judgments, Awful, 282.
Jurors, Attendance of, 113.
Justice, Cupar and Jedburgh, 138.
Jury, Trial by, 111.

King’s-Book, the, 116.
King and Queen, 89.
Knighthood, Expense of, 97.

Law, Statute and Common, 104.
Legal Hints, 129.
Legitimacy and Government, 5.
Lenses, Burning, 182.
Leonard’s, St., Lord, his Handy-Book, 129.
Leopold, King of the Belgians, 54.
Libel, the Law of, 113.
Libel, Propagation of, 115.
Liberty of Conscience, 281.
Life, Periods and Conditions of, 233.
Life, Uncertainty of, 262.
Life, What do we know of it, 70.
Light, Velocity of, how measured, 216.
Lightning, Death by, 226.
Lightning, Force of, 226.
Lime, Phosphate of, what is it? 194.
London, Ancient and Modern, 81.
London, the See of, 96.
Loot, derivation of, 229.
Lottery, the First, 160.
Louis Philippe, Fall of, 40.
Lucifer Match, Safety, 195.
Luxury, what is it? 70.

Machiavelism, 9.
Majesty, title of, 90.
Marriage Fines, 119.
Marriage Law of England, 118.
Marriage, Solemnization of, 123.
Marriages, Irregular, 120.
Martyrs, Religious, Last, in England, 281.
May Fair Marriages, 120.
Mechanical Arts, the, 178.
Mechanical Effects, Imposing, 197.
Medicine, brief History of, 248.
Medicine, what has Science done for it? 249.
Melbourne, Lord, Statesmanship of, 44.
Metals, Precious, What becomes of, 158.
Meteorological Observations, Value of, 218.
Methylated Spirit, 193.
Militia, what it can do, 48.
Mind and Organization, Relations of, 253.
Mineralogy, Uses of, 185.
Mining, Vicissitudes of, 183-185.
Ministries, Whig and Tory, 2.
Money, Interest of, 162, 163.
Money Panic of 1832, 36.
Moonlight and Blindness, 227.
Moonlight, Effect of, on Vegetation, 227.
Moore, Sir John, Burial of, 15.
Moveable Feasts, 266.
Mutiny at the Nore, 52.

Napoleon I., Downfal of, predicted, 29.
Napoleon III., Estimate of, by Count Cavour, 51.
Napoleon III., early Life of, 43.
“Nation of Shopkeepers,” 12.
National Conscience, 11.
Nature’s Ventilation, 240.
Naval Heroes, 50.
Northwick, Lord, his Pictures, 133.
Numbers descriptive of Distance, 146.

Observance, Ungraceful, 45.
Oil, Effect of, in stilling Waves, 180.
Opinion, Popular, Worth of, 8.
Over-Speculation, 165.
Oxford, Bishop of, on Rationalism, 273.
Oxford, Bishop of, on Religious Doubt, 267-270.
Oxford Man and Cambridge Man, 75.

Pardon, Queen’s, 140.
Parliament, Placemen in, 99.
Parliament, Precedence in, 99.
Parliament, Seats in, sold, 99.
Parliament, Speakers of, 10.
Partition of Poland, 46.
Past, the Guide for the Present, 79.
Patents, Object of, 177.
Patriot, the truest, the greatest Hero, 71.
Peace Statesmanship, 15.
Pear-flavouring, New, 192.
Peel, Sir Robert, and Catholic Emancipation, 53.
Peers, New, 100.
Pensions, Noteworthy, 56.
Perfumes, Nature of, 239.
Perspective, what is it? 181.
Philosopher and Historian, the, 1.
Philosophers, the old, 71.
Physic, Element of, in Medical Practice, 250.
Physician, the best, 260.
Physicians’ Fees, 251.
Pillory, the, in England, 139.
Pitt, Mr., Last Moments of, 25.
Pitting in Small-pox prevented, 251.
Poisoning, Remedy for, 259.
Poland, the Partition of, 46.
Political Cunning, 100.
Politics not yet a Science, 1.
Popular Opinion, Worth of, 8.
Potatoes the national food of the Irish, 81.
Pottery, Manufacture of, 196.
Precedence of Dublin and Edinburgh, 287.
Preferment, Church, 15.
Press, Power of the, 6.
Press, Writing for the, 6.
Principal and Agent, 129.
Protectionist Party, 4.
Psalms, the Book of, 283.
Punishment, Baron Alderson on, 145.

Queen Anne’s Bounty, 154.
Queen’s Messengers, 95.
Queen’s Serjeants, Queen’s Counsel, and Serjeants-at-Law, 107.
Queen, Presents and Letters to, 95.
Queen’s State Crown, 93.
Quietus and Bodkin, 153.
Quipus, the Peruvian, 148.

Railway Accidents, 200.
Railway, Social Effect of the, 200.
Railways, British, and Roman Roads, 62.
Railways and Invasions, 202.
Rain, and St. Swithun, 224.
Rainfall in London, 225.
Rainy Saints’ Days, 225.
Rationalism, what is it? 273.
Rats and Ratting, Political, 4.
Recreations of the People, 244.
Rector, Induction of, 115.
Religion, Doubt about, 267-270.
Religious Forebodings, 275.
Rent, Origin of, 150.
Republic, Worth of a, 14.
Revenue, Public, what becomes of, 153.
Revolutions, Great Sufferer by, 37.
Revolutions, Results of, 13.
Roman Civilization of Britain, 61.
Roman Roads and British Railways, 62.
Russell Family, the, 100.
Russia, how bound to Germany, 50.

Sabbath for Professional Men, 278.
“Safe Men” for Office, 14.
Safety Match, the, 195.
Salutation, Various Modes of, 68.
“Sangrado, Dr.,” original of, 247.
Sanitary Hints, 242.
Saxons, Domestic Life of, 64.
Sceptics, Hint to, 271.
Science, the One, 174.
Science, Practical, 178.
Science, Social, Changes in, 171.
Science, what has it accomplished? 171.
Scotch Thistle, 88.
Sea, Chemistry of, 212.
Seas, Heavy, and Large Vessels, 199.
Sea, its Perils, 213.
“Seeds of Invention,” 176.
“Seeing is believing,” 255.
Servants’ Characters, 131.
Shamrock, the, 87.
Ships, Sheathing with Copper, 190.
Shorthand Writers, 7.
Shyness, how it spoils Enjoyment, 73.
Sky, Beauty of the, 217.
Sky, Blue Colour of, 216.
Sleeping and Dreaming, 236.
Sleeping, Position in, 237.
Souls, Pre-existence of, 277.
Sovereign, Coinage of, 160.
Speakers of the Houses of Parliament, 10.
Special Pleading, what was it? 110.
Spectacles, How to wear, 183.
Spirit, Methylated, 193.
Spontaneous Generation, 181.
“Star-spangled Banner” of the United States, 18.
Statute Law, 104.
Steam-boat, the First, 198.
Stereoscope, the, 182.
Stockbrokers, 164.
Stone Age, the, 59, 205.
Storm Glass, 223.
Sudden Deaths, various, 262-265.
Suicides, Motives for, 259.
Sun-force, on, 175.
Sun, Distance of, from the Earth, 215.
Surgery, Improved, 246.
Surname, Change of, 102.
Swithun, St., his true history, 224.

Tally, antiquity of the, 152.
Teeth, Care of the, 234.
Telegram, Origin of, 229.
Theology, what is it? 274.
Theory and Practice, 177.
Thistle, the Scotch, 88.
Ticket-of-Leave Men, 137.
Tory Ministry, 2.
Town and Country Air, 243.
Treasure-Trove, Usage of, 126-129.
Trial, what is it? 111.
Trial by Jury, 111.
Tribute-money, 159.
Trinity High-Water Mark, 150.

Underneath the Skin, 253.
Union, the Irish, 19.
Union-Jack, the, 101.
Utter-Barristers, 109.

Ventilation, Artificial, 241.
Victoria, 92.
Vienna Congress, Lord Castlereagh at, 33.
Vitiating a Sale, 130.
Votes, memorable, 78.

Wages heightened by Machinery, 167.
Wales, Prince of, his Plume and Motto, 91.
Wars by trivial Causes, 77.
Washington, Ancestors of, 16.
Water, Running Force of, 180.
Waterloo, Battle of, 31, 32.
Waterloo, Prince of, 96.
Watt and Telford compared, 177.
“We,” the Royal, 90.
Weather Signs, various, 220-222.
Weights and Measures, Uniformity of, 149.
Wellington’s Defence of the Waterloo Campaign, 32.
Wellington’s Military Administration, 38.
Wellington predicts the Peninsular Campaign, 30.
Whig and Tory Ministries, 2.
Whiteboys, 49.
Wild Oats, 73.
Will, Duty of Making, 133.
Will, Don’t make your own, 134.
Wills, making of, 170.
Wills, a Year’s, 169.
Wood, how long will it last? 194.
Wood, what is it? 194.
Wounds, Compensation for, 260.
Wounds, New Remedy for, 260.

Yellow Fever, Cure for, 240.

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