Writ - Writ in Acceleration for Viscount Cranborne [1992-04-29]

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Title

Writ - Writ in Acceleration for Viscount Cranborne [1992-04-29]

Subject

Peerages
House of Lords

Description

Writ in Acceleration of Queen Elizabeth II summoning Viscount Cranborne to the House of Lords in his father's Barony of Cecil of Essendon.

Creator

Queen Elizabeth II

Date

1992-04-29

Contributor

Jason Loch

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Transcript

  Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith To Our right trusty and well beloved Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil of Essendon in Our County of Rutland Chevalier

  Greeting Whereas Our Parliament for arduous and urgent affairs concerning Us the state and defence of Our United Kingdom and the Church is now met at Our City of Westminster We strictly enjoining command you upon the faith and allegiance by which you are bound to Us that considering the difficulty of the said affairs and dangers impending (waiving all excuses) you be personally present at Our aforesaid Parliament with Us and with the Prelates Nobles and Peers of Our said Kingdom to treat and give your counsel upon the affairs aforesaid And this as you regard Us and Our honour and the safety and defence of the said Kingdom and Church and dispatch of the said affairs in nowise do you omit Witness Ourself at Westminster the twenty-ninth day of April in the forty-first year of Our Reign.

LEGG

To Robert Michael James Lord Cecil

(Viscount Cranborne)

Special Features

This was the last Writ in Acceleration issued.

Citation

Queen Elizabeth II, “Writ - Writ in Acceleration for Viscount Cranborne [1992-04-29],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/126.

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