12 MARCH 1937, Page 21

" FIDEI DEFENSOR "

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sit,—It may be true, as your " Notebook " says, that few people know the origin of the King's title Fidel Defensor, but I think still fewer know that after the breach with Rome Pope Paul HI deprived him of the title, which, however, was confirmed to him by Parliament in 1544.—Yours, &c.,