Royal Warrant - Appointing Wales Herald of Arms [1963-08-03]
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Title
Royal Warrant - Appointing Wales Herald of Arms [1963-08-03]
Subject
Heraldry
Description
Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II appointing Francis Jones as Wales Herald of Arms.
Creator
Queen Elizabeth II
Source
College of Arms I82/316-317
Date
1963-08-03
Contributor
Mark Scott
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Transcript
Elizabeth R.
Elizabeth 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 Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin and Counsellor Bernard Marmaduke Duke of Norfolk Knight of Our Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Earl Marshal and [^Our] Hereditary Marshal of England, Greeting! Whereas it appears by an Instrument under your hand and Seal bearing date the Thirty-first day of July 1963, that being well satisfied with the abilities of Francis Jones, Esquire, upon whom has been conferred the Territorial Decoration, sometime a Major in Our Territorial Army, and with his desire to improve his skill and knowledge in the art and science of Heraldry you for his encouragement therein had nominated and appointed him a Herald Extraordinary by the name of Wales Herald of Arms to the end that he may obtain Our Warrant to be fully invested with all the rights privileges pre-eminences and advantages of such Herald Extraordinary: We approving the character you have given of him are graciously pleased to condescend thereto: and it is Our Will and Pleasure and We do hereby authorize and require you in Our name to create him the said Francis Jones Herald Extraordinary by the name of Wales Herald of Arms to the end that he may be thereby qualified to have exercise and enjoy all rights, privileges, pre-eminences and advantages whatsoever belonging to such Herald of Arms Extraordinary in as ample and beneficial a manner as any other hath heretofore held exercised and enjoyed, or of right ought to have held exercised and enjoyed the same. And for so doing this shall be your Warrant. Given at Our Court at Saint James's the Third day of August 1963, in the Twelfth year of Our Reign.
Let this Warrant be recorded in the College of Arms.
Elizabeth 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 Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin and Counsellor Bernard Marmaduke Duke of Norfolk Knight of Our Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Earl Marshal and [^Our] Hereditary Marshal of England, Greeting! Whereas it appears by an Instrument under your hand and Seal bearing date the Thirty-first day of July 1963, that being well satisfied with the abilities of Francis Jones, Esquire, upon whom has been conferred the Territorial Decoration, sometime a Major in Our Territorial Army, and with his desire to improve his skill and knowledge in the art and science of Heraldry you for his encouragement therein had nominated and appointed him a Herald Extraordinary by the name of Wales Herald of Arms to the end that he may obtain Our Warrant to be fully invested with all the rights privileges pre-eminences and advantages of such Herald Extraordinary: We approving the character you have given of him are graciously pleased to condescend thereto: and it is Our Will and Pleasure and We do hereby authorize and require you in Our name to create him the said Francis Jones Herald Extraordinary by the name of Wales Herald of Arms to the end that he may be thereby qualified to have exercise and enjoy all rights, privileges, pre-eminences and advantages whatsoever belonging to such Herald of Arms Extraordinary in as ample and beneficial a manner as any other hath heretofore held exercised and enjoyed, or of right ought to have held exercised and enjoyed the same. And for so doing this shall be your Warrant. Given at Our Court at Saint James's the Third day of August 1963, in the Twelfth year of Our Reign.
By Her Majesty's Command
Henry Brooke
Let this Warrant be recorded in the College of Arms.
Norfolk, E.M.
Countersigner
Henry Brooke (Secretary of State for the Home Department)
Ornamentation
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Citation
Queen Elizabeth II, “Royal Warrant - Appointing Wales Herald of Arms [1963-08-03],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/449.