Writ - Life Baron's Writ of Summons to a Sitting Parliament [2022-10-28]

Writ - Life Baron's Writ of Summons to a Sitting Parliament [2022-10-28]

Peerages

House of Lords

Writ summoning Lord Ashcombe to a sitting Parliament.

Crown Office

2022-12-16

T. Onslow

The Crown Office (Forms and Proclamations Rules) Order 1992 as amended by The Crown Office (Forms and Proclamations Rules) (Amendment) Order 2002.

Charles the Third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories King Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith To Our right trusty and well beloved Mark Edward Cubitt of Dorking in Our County of Surrey and Bodiam Castle in Our County of Sussex 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-eighth day of October in the first year of Our Reign

ROMEO

To MARK EDWARD LORD ASHCOMBE

A Writ of Summons to Parliament

ROMEO

L. S.

Printed in Times New Roman.

Royal name and selected incipits are in Gothic font.

There is a circle in the lower left that presumably marks where the Wafer Great Seal would go.

A baron's writ of summons addresses him using his full territorial designation even though it isn't part of his nomen dignitatis. "Chevalier" is a relic of the early days of the baronage when the lowest-ranking peers were summoned to Parliament as knights only.