Writ - Life Baron and Marquess's Writ of Summons to a New Parliament [2019-11-06]

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 Faith To Our right trusty and entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr of Monteviot in Roxburghshire Greeting WHEREAS by the Council for certain arduous and urgent affairs concerning Us the state and defence of Our United Kingdom and the Church We have ordered a certain Parliament to be holden on the seventeenth day of December next ensuing and there to treat and have conference with the Prelates Great Men Great Women and Peers of Our Realm We strictly enjoining COMMAND you upon the faith and allegiance by which you are bound to Us that the weightiness of the said affairs and imminent perils considered (waiving all excuses) you be at the said day and place personally present with Us and with the said Prelates Great Men Great Women and Peers 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 sixth day of November in the sixty-eighth year of Our Reign

HEATON

To MICHAEL ANDREW FOSTER JUDE 
LORD KERR OF MONTEVIOT
(MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN)

A Writ of Summons to Parliament


HEATON