Letters Patent - Conferring City Status on Dunfermline [2022-07-28]
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E LIZABETH · 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 Commonwealth, 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 confer on the Town of Dunfermline in Fife the status of a City. Now Therefore Know Ye that We of Our especial grace and favour and mere motion do by these Presents ordain, declare and direct that the Town of Dunfermline shall henceforth have the status of a City and shall have all such rank liberties privileges and immunities as are incident to a City; IN WITNESS WHEREOF We have ordered the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and made use of in place of the Great Seal of Scotland to be appended hereto. Given at Our Court at St. James's the Twenty-Eighth day of July in the year Two Thousand and Twenty-Two and in the Seventy-First Year of Our Reign.
PER · SIGNATURAM · MANU · S D N · REGINAE · SUPRA · SCRIPTAM
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Royal name begins with a large ornamental letter but it's in the same red ink as the rest of the name. Red ink is also used for "Queen," certain formulaic phrases, "Town of Dunfermline," and the warranty.
Decorative elements used as filler at the end of the lines.
Writing resembles Foundational Hand.
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Traditional Lattin warranty.
Although Queen Elizabeth II signed a Royal Warrant to pass these Letters Patent under the Scottish Seal on July 28, 2022, the sealing process was not finished before her death. King Charles III therefore signed a Warrant on September 28 confirming that the Letters Patent should be sealed as originally planned.