grant a subsidy (_Ibid._, 493.); and
Henry VI., in the twentieth year of his reign, acts as keeper of the
Christian faith. (_Rot. Parl._, v. 61.)

In the admonition used in the investiture of a knight with the insignia of
the Garter, he is told to take the crimson robe, and being therewith
defended, to be bold to fight and shed his blood for Christ's faith, the
liberties of the Church, and the defence of the oppressed. In this sense,
the sovereign and every knight became a sworn defender of the faith. Can
this duty have come to be popularly attributed as part of the royal style
and title?

The Bull of Leo X., which confers the title on Henry VIII. personally, does
not make it inheritable by his successors, so that none but that king
himself could claim the honour. The Bull granted two years afterwards by
Clement VII. merely confirms the grant of Pope Leo to the king himself. It
was given, as we know, for his assertion of doctrines of the Church of
Rome; yet he retained it after his separation from the Roman Catholic
communion, and after it had been formally revoked and withdrawn by Pope
Paul III. in the twenty-seventh year of Henry VIII., upon the king's
apostacy in turning suppressor of religious houses. In 1543, the
Reformation legislature and the Anti-papal king, without condescending to
notice any Papal Bulls, assumed to treat the title that the Pope had given
and taken away as a subject of Parliamentary gift, and annexed it for ever
to the English crown by the statute 35 Hen. VIII. c. 3., from which I make
the following extract, as its language bears upon the question:

"Where our most dread, &c., lord the king, hath heretofore been, and is
justly, lawfully, and notoriously knowen, named, published, and
declared to be King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the
Faith, and the Church of England and also of Ireland, in earth supreme
head; and hath justly and lawfully used the title and name thereof as
to his Grace appertaineth. Be it enacted, &c., that all and singular
his Graces' subject, &c., shall from henceforth accept and take the
same his Majesty's style ... viz., in the English tongue by these
words, Henry the Eighth, by the grace of God King of England, France,
and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and
also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head; and that the said style,
&c., shall be, &c., united {482} and annexed for ever