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Deputation from the Court of Lieutenancy of the City of London, [at Windsor Castle], 1850. 'The City of London, the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge...laid before their Sovereign [Queen Victoria] the expression of their indignation at the endeavour by the Bishop of Rome [the Pope] to exercise a power which the realm of England has almost ignored...the Right Hon. J. S. Wortley, the Recorder, then read, in audible tones, the address of the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.