https://cbaionline.org/corpus/files/original/a32c362349803e09b6abba877de7328f.pdf 61441bbe7cd0a84c6a77180cb8361588 Royal Instructions Instructions are directions to royal representatives that govern the use of their powers. Transcript A transcript of the document. <div class="instrument private-instructions" style="line-height:1.6;"> <div class="page"> <div style="text-align:left;font-weight:bold;">Page 1</div> <div style="text-align:left;margin-top:0.25em;">[Watermark: Specimen]</div>  <div style="text-align:right;margin-top:0.75em;"> <p>(Sgd.) <em>Elizabeth R</em></p> </div>  <p style="text-indent:4em;margin-top:1.5em;margin-bottom:1em;">PRIVATE INSTRUCTIONS to Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor Sir James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Knight of Our Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Our High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.</p>  <div style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:2em;"> <p style="margin:0;">Given at Our Court at <em>Buckingham Palace</em></p> <p style="margin:0;">this <em>Tenth</em> day of <em>December</em> 2014</p> <p style="margin:0;">in the sixty-third year of Our Reign.</p> </div> </div>  <div style="border-top:2px solid #000;margin:2em 0;"></div>  <div class="page"> <div style="text-align:left;font-weight:bold;">Page 2</div> <div style="text-align:left;margin-top:0.25em;">[Watermark: Specimen]</div> <ol style="margin-top:1.5em;padding-left:2.2em;"> <li style="margin-bottom:1em;">You are at the opening of the Assembly to assure them of Our great sense of their steady and firm zeal for Our service and of Our resolution to maintain Presbyterian Church Government in Scotland.</li> <li style="margin-bottom:1em;">In matters of difficulty you are to advise with such of the Ministers of Our Crown or Members of the Assembly as you shall think fit.</li> <li style="margin-bottom:1em;">The Assembly having passed the usual Act fixing the date of the next Assembly, the Moderator having addressed you, you are to reply, concluding: <br /><br />“Right Honourable and Well-beloved, your labours are now at an end, and I shall inform Her Majesty that, having concluded the business for which you assembled, you have passed an Act appointing the next General Assembly to be held upon _____; and now in The Queen’s name I bid you farewell”.</li> </ol>  <div style="text-align:center;margin-top:2em;"> <p>(Sgd.) <em>ER</em></p> </div> </div> </div> Countersigner The individual who countersigned the Warrant. None. Special Features This is a place to enter any distinguishing features. Queen Elizabeth II has signed at the top of the first page and initialed at the bottom of the second. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Royal Instructions - Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland [2014-12-10] Subject The topic of the resource Ecclesiastical General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Description An account of the resource Queen Elizabeth II's Private Instructions to the Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Queen Elizabeth II Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived FOI request Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014-12-10 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jason Loch Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Scotland Relation A related resource These Instructions were submitted alongside a <a href="https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/99" title="Royal Warrant">Royal Warrant.</a> Church of Scotland Monarch Royal Prerogative