In Australia, all states now use Your Honour as the form of address for magistrates (the same as has always been used for judges in higher courts).
[citation needed] The term worship implies that citizens give or attribute special worth or esteem (worthship) to their first-citizen or mayor.
W or RW)[3][4] is an honorific style of address for all lord mayors and mayors of specific cities including the original Cinque Ports (Sandwich, Hythe, Dover, Romney and Hastings).
Some historic boroughs, such as Shrewsbury and Atcham[5] in Shropshire, also address their mayors by this prefix.
A Chancellor's role as a judge, presiding over any consistory or ecclesiastical court, determines that the individual should be styled in this manner.