MAYORS —WHAT IS THEIR CORRECT PREFIX?

I wish to ask, of any of your numerous readers, what may be considered the most proper official prefix for Mayors, whether Right Worshipful or Worshipful? Opinions, I find, differ upon the subject. In the *Secretary's Guide*, 5th ed. p. 95. it is said that Mayors are Right Worshipful; the late Mr. Beltz, *Lancaster Herald*, was of opinion that they were Worshipful only; and Mr. Dod, the author of a work on Precedence, &c., in answer to an inquiry on the point, thought that Mayors of *cities* were Right Worshipful, and those of *towns* were only Worshipful. With due deference, however, I am rat…