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            <text>Home Office&lt;br /&gt;Queen Anne's Gate London SW1H9AT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sir Colin Cole KCVO, TD, FSA&lt;br /&gt;The College of Arms&lt;br /&gt;Queen Victoria Street&lt;br /&gt;London EC4&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;11 March 1987&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Sir&lt;br /&gt;I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit, for your information, copies of an Address to Her Majesty on the subject of Peerages in Abeyance which has recently been voted by the House of Lords, and of Her Majesty's reply thereto, and to request that you will so good as to communicate Her Majesty's Commands to the officers of the College of Arms in order that they may be duly borne in mind in dealing with any business before the College relating to claims to peerages in abeyance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;I am Sir,&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;Your obedient Servant,&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;P.D. Goldsmith&lt;/div&gt;</text>
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