Letters Patent - Grant of Arms to an Individual [2001-12-12]
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Hubert Chesshyre (Clarenceux King of Arms)
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TO ALL AND SINGULAR To whom these Presents shall come Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones Esquire Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Garter Principal King of Arms and David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre Esquire Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order Clarenceux King of Arms send Greeting! Whereas ARI LEON DANIEL NORMAN of Argenta House Argenta Way in the London Borough of Brent Gentleman Bachelor of Science of Middlesex University Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths hath represented unto the Most Noble Miles Francis Stapleton Duke of Norfolk Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire upon whom has been conferred the Decoration of the Military Cross Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England that he is desirous of having Armorial Bearings established under lawful authority and hath requested the favour of His Grace’s Warrant for Our granting and assigning such Arms and Crest as might be suitable to be borne and used by him and his descendants with their close and proper differences and according to the Laws of Arms And forasmuch as the said Earl Marshal did by Warrant under his hand and Seal bearing date the Fourth day of January 1996 authorise and direct Us to grant and assign such Arms and Crest accordingly Know Ye therefore that We the said Garter and Clarenceux in pursuance of His Grace's Warrant and by virtue of the Letters Patent of Our several Offices granted by The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty to each of us respectively do by these Presents grant and assign unto the said ARI LEON DANIEL NORMAN the Arms following, that is to say Azure a Lion’s Face Argent between in fess two Squirrels respectant sejant erect Or each holding a seven-branch Candlestick Argent and in pale two Lions passant all within an Orle of barbed Wire also Argent And for the Crest upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Azure In front of a Walnut Tree proper fructea Or hanging from a central branch thereof Scales of Justice Argent a Hippopotamus statent Argent resting its dexter forefoot on a brilliant cut Diamond proper Mantled Azure Doubled Argent as are in the margin hereof more clearly depicted and used for ever hereafter by the said ARI LEON DANIEL NORMAN and by his descendants with their due and proper differences according to the Laws of Arms In witness whereof We the said Garter and Clarenceux have to these Presents subscribed Our names and affixed the Seals of Our several Offices this Twelfth day of December in the Fiftieth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith and in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and one.
| (Sgd.) Peter Gwynn-Jones Garter (L. S.) |
(Sgd.) Hubert Chesshyre Clarenceux (L. S.) |
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Document is handwritten in an upright hand. Initial incipit is larger than surrounding text. Initial letter is in red and adorned with a flower while the next letter is in gold. Other incipits are emphasized in the text. Recipient's name is all in capital letters and in red on the first occurrence. Blazon is in blue ink.
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