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            <text>&lt;strong&gt;Victoria&lt;/strong&gt; by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith TO &lt;em&gt;Our right trusty and welbeloved &lt;/em&gt;[sic]&lt;em&gt; Alfred Joseph Stourton de Mowbray Chevalier&lt;/em&gt; Greeting &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt; by reason of certain arduous and urgent affairs concerning Us the state and defence of Our said United Kingdom and the Church We did lately with the advice and consent of our Council ordain our present Parliament to be holden at our City of Westminster on the fifth day of March in the thirty seventh year of our reign which Parliament hath been from that time by several adjournments and prorogations adjourned prorogued and continued to and until the seventeenth day of January instant at our City aforesaid to be then there holden We strictly enjoining command you under the faith and allegiance by which you are bound to Us that considering the difficulty of the said affairs and dangers impending all excuses being laid aside you be personally present at the said day and place with Us and with the Prelates Nobles and Peers of our said Kingdom to treat of the aforesaid affairs and to give your advice and this you may in nowise omit as you tender Us and our honor and the safety and defence of our said Kingdom and Church and the despatch of the said affairs Witness ourself at Westminster the third day of January in the forty first year of our reign&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;C Romilly&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To Our right trusty and well beloved Alfred Joseph Stourton de Mowbray Chevalier&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Writ of Summons to Parliament C ROMILLY&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</text>
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            <text>Written in chancery hand with Lord Mowbray's name in an italic hand.</text>
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            <text>&lt;span&gt;A baron's writ of summons addresses him using his full territorial designation even though it isn't part of his &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;nomen dignitatis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;. "Chevalier" is a relic of the early days of the baronage when the lowest-ranking peers were summoned to Parliament as knights only.&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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              <text>Writ summoning Lord Stourton to a sitting Parliament in the Barony of Mowbray after the termination of its abeyance. </text>
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              <text>Lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Stourton, &lt;em&gt;The History of the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton in the County of Wilts&lt;/em&gt;, vol. 2 (London, 1899), 712; 859.</text>
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              <text>&lt;a href="https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/209" title="Royal Warrant"&gt;Royal Warrant&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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