Draft Letters Patent - Commission for Royal Approbation of Bernard Weatherill [1983-06-16]

Draft Letters Patent - Commission for Royal Approbation of Bernard Weatherill [1983-06-16]

Speaker of the House of Commons

House of Lords

Delegating Powers

Draft Commission of Queen Elizabeth II empowering certain peers to signify her approbation of Bernard Weatherill as Speaker of the House of Commons.

Queen Elizabeth II

LCO 6/4383

1983-06-16

Jason Loch

To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas We did lately for divers difficult and pressing affairs concerning Us the state and defence of Our Unite Kingdom and the Church ordain this Our Present Parliament to begin and be holden at Our City of Westminster the fifteenth day of June in the thirty-second year of Our Reign on which day Our said Parliament was begun and holden and is there now holden And Whereas We have been informed that the Lower House of Our said Parliament have lately made choice of Our beloved and faithful Counsellor Bruce Bernard Weatherill in the room of Our beloved and faithful Counsellor George Thomas to be Speaker of the said Lower House of Our said Parliament of which choice We are graciously pleased to approve and to allow and confirm the same And forasmuch as for diverse causes and considerations We cannot conveniently at this time be present in Our Royal Person in Our said Parliament Know Ye that We trusting in the fidelity and care of Our most dear and entirely beloved Son and most faithful Counsellor Charles Philip Arthur George PRINCE OF WALES [above: Prince of Wales] – the Most Reverend Father in God and Our faithful Counsellor Robert Alexander Kennedy Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of All England and Metropolitan – Our well beloved and faithful Counsellors Quintin McGarel Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone Chancellor of Great Britain – Morys George Lyndhurst Lord Aberdare – John Julian Lord Belstead – Charles Franck Lord Byers – Cledwyn Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos – and other Lords of Our Privy Council by the tenor of these Presents do give and grant to them or any three or more of them full power in Our name to declare and notify Our Royal Approbation of the choice of the said Bruce Bernard Weatherill to be Speaker of the said Lower House of Our said Parliament and to allow and confirm the said Bruce Bernard Weatherill to be Speaker of the said Lower House and to do all things in Our said Parliament that may be necessary for declaring Our said Royal Approbation allowance and confirmation of the said Bruce Bernard Weatherill to be Speaker of the said Lower House of Our said Parliament In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent Witness Ourself at Westminster the sixteenth day of June in the thirty-second year of Our Reign

BY THE QUEEN HERSELF – SIGNED WITH HER OWN HAND

OULTON

Sign Manual

This is a draft of the document.

Although the capitalized "PRINCE OF WALES" is struck through and replaced with "Prince of Wales," it's all capitalized in the final version.