Miscellaneous - Warrant for Proclaiming Queen Victoria in Chester [1837-06-20]

Miscellaneous - Warrant for Proclaiming Queen Victoria in Chester [1837-06-20]

Accession

Ceremonial

Privy Council

Warrant of the Lords of the Privy Council directing the Mayor of Chester to proclaim Queen Victoria.

Lord Cottenham (Lord Chancellor)

Thomas Spring Rice (Chancellor of the Exchequer)

Sir John Hobhouse (?) (President of the Board of Control)

Henry, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs)

William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury)

Lord Duncannon (Lord Privy Seal)

Lord John Russell (Secretary of State for the Home Department)

Raab Collection

1837-06-20

Jason Loch

After our hearty Commendations. It having pleased Almighty God to take to His Mercy out of this troublesome Life Our late Sovereign Lord King William the Fourth of Blessed Memory. And thereupon Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria being here proclaimed according to the tenor of the Proclamation signed by Us herewith sent unto you.

We do hereby Will and require you Thomas Dixon forthwith to cause the said Proclamation to be proclaimed and published in the usual places within your jurisdiction with the Solemnities and Ceremonies accustomed on the like occasion. And so, not doubting of your ready compliance herein We bid you heartily farewell.

From the Council Chamber at Kensington.
This 20th day of June 1837.

This document appears to be entirely handwritten, but it uses two different colors of ink. Most of it is written in black ink, but Queen Victoria's name , and the name and office of the recipient are in a brownish ink.

Unlike later examples of this type of Warrant, all the signatories were members of the Government.