Letters Patent - Conferring City Status on Kingston upon Hull [1897-07-06]

Letters Patent - Conferring City Status on Kingston upon Hull [1897-07-06]

Local Government

Letters Patent of Queen Victoria conferring city status upon the Town and County of Kingston upon Hull.

Queen Victoria

"Letters Patent conferring City Status, 1897," C BRC/32, Hull City Archives, Hull, United Kingdom.

1897-07-06

Jason Loch

Victoria by the Grace of God

of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting: Whereas We for divers good causes and considerations Us thereunto moving are graciously pleased to authorize and direct the issue of a Royal Charter conferring upon the Town and County of Kingston upon Hull the title of City Now therefore Know Ye that We of Our especial grace and favour and mere motion DO by this Our Royal Charter will ordain constitute declare and appoint that Our said Town and County of Kingston upon Hull should henceforth for the future and for ever hereafter be a City and shall be called and styled The City and Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City and County of Kingston upon Hull with all such and the same powers and privileges as they have hitherto had as the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the said Town and County and as if they had been incorporated by the name of the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City and County of Kingston upon Hull instead of the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town and County of Kingston upon Hull In witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent Witness Ourself at Westminster the sixth day of July in the sixty first year of Our reign.

By Warrant under the Queen’s Sign Manual.

Muir Mackenzie

Sign Manual Warrant

Wafer Seal

"Victoria by the Grace of God," incipits, "By" in the warranty, and the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery's name are in a Gothic script.

Rest of the document is written in an ordinary cursive hand with some portions larger for emphasis.

Warranty clause is in both Gothic script and cursive hand.