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            <text>&lt;!-- Note: In the original, the underlining of 
     "TO The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty" and "SHEWETH" 
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&lt;p class="page-number" style="text-align:left;"&gt;Page 1&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;TO The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;THE HUMBLE PETITION of&lt;br /&gt;The Most Honourable George Horatio Charles Marquess of Cholmondeley.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SHEWETH&lt;/span&gt;:-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    THAT the Office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England is vested in the Right Honourable Gilbert James Earl of Ancaster the issue of the late Most Honourable Charles Robert Marquess of Lincolnshire K.G. (namely his surviving daughters The Right Honourable Marjorie Cecilia Dowager Baroness Nunburnholme Widow of the late Right Honourable Charles Henry Wellesley Baron Nunburnholme The Honourable Alexandra Augusta Palmer Wife of William Llewellyn Palmer The Right Honourable Rupertia Countess of Dartmouth Wife of The Right Honourable William Earl of Dartmouth G.C.V.O. and The Honourable Victoria Alexandrina Weld-Forester Wife of the Honourable Edric Alfred Cecil Weld-Forester and The Honourable Derek William Charles Keppel Viscount Bury the eldest son and heir of The Honourable Judith Sydney Myra Viscountess Bury formerly the Wife of the Honourable Walter Egerton George Lucian Keppel Viscount Bury) and your Petitioner (who therefore have the right of selecting a Deputy to exercise the said Office such Deputy not being under the degree of Knight and to be approved by Your Majesty.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    THAT by an Instrument under their hands and seals bearing&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;    date the Nineteenth day of May One thousand nine hundred and fifty two the said Gilbert James Earl of Ancaster Marjorie Cecilia Dowager Baroness Nunburnholme Alexandra Augusta Palmer Rupertia Countess of Dartmouth Victoria Alexandrina Weld-Forester Derek William Charles Keppel Viscount Bury and Your Petitioner nominated substituted and appointed Your Petitioner to be during Your Majesty’s reign their sufficient Deputy to perform and execute the said Office and to exercise and enjoy all such rights and privileges and do all such acts and perform all such duties and services as to the said Office belong and appertain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;    YOUR Petitioner therefore humbly prays that Your Majesty may be pleased to approve him so nominated substituted and appointed by the said Instrument to be the sufficient Deputy of the parties thereto and to perform and execute the Office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England as before mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;AND Your Petitioner will ever pray &amp;amp; c.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;CHOLMONDELEY.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="page-number" style="text-align:left;"&gt;Page 3&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;RE: THE OFFICE OF LORD &lt;br /&gt;GREAT CHAMBERLAIN &lt;br /&gt;OF ENGLAND&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;PETITION &lt;br /&gt;of&lt;br /&gt;The Most Honourable George Horatio Charles Marquess of Cholmondeley.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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