Royal Warrant - Writ in Acceleration [1992-04-29]

Royal Warrant - Writ in Acceleration [1992-04-29]

Parliament

House of Lords

Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II directing the Lord Chancellor to pass a Writ of Summons under the Great Seal summoning Viscount Cranborne to the House of Lords in his father's Barony of Cecil of Essendon.

Queen Elizabeth II

1992-04-29

Jason Loch

  Right Trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor We greet you well!

  OUR WILL AND PLEASURE is that you make or cause to be made forthwith One Writ of Summons under Our Great Seal to be directed to Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil (commonly called Viscount Cranborne) eldest son and heir apparent of Our Right Trusty and Entirely-beloved Cousin Robert Edward Peter, Marquess of Salisbury, to be personally present with Us and the Prelates, Nobles and Peers of Our Realm at Our Parliament at Westminster and to sit in his father's Barony of Cecil, of Essendon in the County of Rutland.

  AND for so doing this shall be your Warrant.

GIVEN at Our Court at Windsor the twenty-ninth day of April 1992; In the Forty-first year of Our Reign.

By Her Majesty's Command. To Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor James Peter Hymers, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Our Chancellor of Great Britain.

Mackay of Clashfern, C

Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil (Commonly called Viscount Cranborne).

Warrant for WRIT OF SUMMONS.

Lord Mackay of Clashfern (?) (Lord Chancellor)

The formatting of the Warrant is somewhat jumbled. One would normally expect to see Lord Mackay's signature below "By Her Majesty's Command."

This document was published in a Select Committee report so it may not reflect the formatting of the original.

The language of this Warrant is reminiscent of the Warrants for the King's Bill that were issued prior to the Great Seal Act 1884. Similar instruments are still used in connection with certain instruments relating to foreign affairs (cf. the Royal Warrant to Seal Full Powers).