Miscellaneous - Draft Address from the Convocation of Canterbury [1960-05-11]
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CONVOCATION OF CANTERBURY
To The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty
We Your Majesty’s faithful subjects the Archbishop Bishops and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury in Convocation assembled humbly represent to Your Majesty that in obedience to Your Majesty’s Royal Writ we have conferred together and considered certain difficult and urgent affairs concerning Your Majesty the security and defence of the Church of England and the peace and tranquility public good and defence of Your Majesty’s kingdom and subjects. And particularly we have conferred together and considered the amendment of Canon Number 143 so far as it relates to representation of the Clergy in the Lower House of Convocation of the Province of Canterbury and we submit herewith to Your Majesty the amendment as agreed upon as follows:--
CANON ON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE CLERGY
IN THE LOWER HOUSE OF CONVOCATION.
To add after paragraph (2) a new paragraph (3) as follows:--
The Chaplain of the Fleet, the Chaplain General to the Forces and the Chaplain-in-Chief, Royal Air Force
To renumber paragraph (3) paragraph (4)
We humbly pray that Your Majesty will be Graciously Pleased to grant to us Your Majesty’s Royal Assent and Licence to make promulge and execute the foregoing amendment of the said Canon
Dated this eleventh day of May One thousand nine hundred and sixty and in the ninth year of Your Majesty’s Reign
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Heading, superscription, incipits, date, and signatories' titles are underlined, perhaps for emphasis in the final document.
Paragraphs end with lines that were likely transformed into 'filler lines' as a stylistic flourish in the final document.
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