A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
"THE SPECTATOR," JUNE 24TH, 1837.
It appears that the Queen styles herself " Victoria " without the " Alexandrina." She" signed her name at the Council " Victoria " ; and this rendered alterations necessary in certain documents.
" T.he written rolls of the House of Lords, and the printed forms of the oaths at the House of Commons, described the Queen as her Majesty Alexandrina Victoria ' ; but after the proceedings at the Council, her Majesty having signed Victoria,' it became requisite to alter the forms. In some instances nevi' forrna were provided, but in others there was not time, and the pen was consequently run through the first name, Alexandrina. This was done in several places in the vellum rolls of the House of Lords, and after the morning sitting and the signatures then attached ; and the Lord Chancellor has attached a foot-note to the rolls, recording that such erasures of the name Alexandrina 'were made after the morning sitting, and after the Peens signatures then-affixed had been written. There also became requisite an important and curious interlineation in the oath—namely after the words 'I will bear faith and true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria,' the addition in parenthesis 'saving the right of any issue of his late Majesty King William the. Fourth, which may be bom of his late Majesty's Consort?, With regard to this interlineation the Lord Chancellor has also affixed ' a marginal record, decla-ring- that' it was made previously to the Peers' signatures being attached to such rolls."
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