Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent conferring City Status on Dunfermline [Demise of the Crown] [2022-09-28]

Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent conferring City Status on Dunfermline [Demise of the Crown] [2022-09-28]

Scottish Seal

Local Government

Royal Warrant of King Charles III directing the Keeper of the Scottish Seal to pass Letters Patent under the Scottish Seal granting City status to Dunfermline in accordance with a Royal Warrant of the late Queen Elizabeth II dated July 28.

King Charles III

C41/346 (National Records of Scotland)

2022-09-30

T. Onslow

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(Sgd.) Charles R

RIGHT TRUSTY and Well-beloved Counsellor We greet you well!

    WHEREAS We are given to understand that there is a Warrant under the sign manual of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second bearing the date of the Twenty Eighth day of July in the year Two Thousand and Twenty Two and in the Seventy-First Year of Her Reign to cause Letters Patent to be made under the Scottish Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and made use of in place of the Great Seal of Scotland conferring on the Town of Dunfermline in Fife the status of a City directed to Our First Minister to the Scottish Executive as Keeper of the Scottish Seal, and to the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland as Deputy Keeper thereof, which Letters Patent are already engrossed for the Scottish Seal and not as yet passed under that Seal:

    NOW for the ease of Our Subjects and for the speedy passing of the same Letters Patent accordingly We have thought fit hereby to give you full power and authority to pass the same with the date of the Twenty Eighth day of July in the year Two Thousand and Twenty Two and in the Seventy-First Year of the Reign of Her Late Majesty if you shall think fit under Our Scottish

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Seal remaining in your Custody.

(Sgd.) Alistair Jack

FOR all which these Our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant.

GIVEN at Our Court at Birkhall
the twenty eighth day of September 2022
in the First Year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty’s Command

Alistair Jack (Secretary of State for Scotland). His countersignature appears above the usual location.

Printed in sanserif font (perhaps Arial).

Capitalized incipits.

Royal Warrant is bound up with the Letters Patent conferring City status on Dunfermline.

Court and date are entered by hand. Court is Birkhall.