Legal Instrument - Warrant Appointing a Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead [2016-09-12]

Legal Instrument - Warrant Appointing a Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead [2016-09-12]

House of Commons

Warrant of Philip Hammond appointing David Cameron to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.

Philip Hammond (Chancellor of the Exchequer)

FOI request

2016-09-12

Jason Loch

To all to whom these Presents shall come, the Right Honourable Philip Hammond, Chancellor and Under Treasurer of Her Majesty's Exchequer, sendeth greeting.

Know Ye, that I, the said Right Honourable Philip Hammond have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint David William Donald Cameron to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, with full power and authority to hold and keep Courts, and to do all and every other act and acts, thing and things, which to the said offices of Steward and Bailiff of the Manor aforesaid, or either of them, do belong or in anywise appertain, in as full and ample manner as any former Steward or Bailiff of the said Manor hath lawfully had, received, or enjoyed the same, to have and to hold the said offices of Steward and Bailiff of said Manor, together with all wages, fees, allowances, and other privileges and preeminences whatsoever to the said David William Donald Cameron during Her Majesty's pleasure; and I do hereby authorise and empower the said David William Donald Cameron to demand and receive for Her Majesty's use all Court Rolls and other writings relating to the said Manor from any person or persons having the same in their hands or custody. And all and every such person and persons having the same in their hands or custody are hereby required to deliver up the same to the said David William Donald Cameron provided, nevertheless, that the said David William Donald Cameron shall enter these presents in the office of the proper Auditor within forty days next after the date hereof, and shall yearly return the Court Rolls of the said Manor into the said office of the said Auditor, and account with the said Auditor for all such sum and sums of money as he, the said David William Donald Cameron shall receive for and to Her Majesty's use, within forty days next after the feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel, which shall happen in every year, or else these presents and everything herein contained to be void. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the twelfth day of September in the Sixty Fifth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, and in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Sixteen.

Signed, sealed and delivered (SIGNATURE REDACTED)

in the presence of (SIGNATURE REDACTED)

Printed in Bookman Old Style.

Chancellor's name and style are underlined.

Every occurrence of the appointee's name is in boldface.

MPs technically cannot resign, so a legal fiction is used whereby an MP who wishes to step down is appointed to one of two nominal offices of profit under the Crown--the Stewardship of the Manor of Northstead and the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.