Letters Patent - Appointment of G. D. Squibb as the Earl Marshal's Surrogate in the High Court of Chivalry [1976-12-01]

Letters Patent - Appointment of G. D. Squibb as the Earl Marshal's Surrogate in the High Court of Chivalry [1976-12-01]

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Letters Patent of the Duke of Norfolk appointing G. D. Squibb as his Surrogate in the High Court of Chivalry.

Miles, 17th Duke of Norfolk (Earl Marshal)

College of Arms I83/338-339

1976-12-01

Mark Scott

Miles Francis Duke of Norfolk, Commander 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 to all and singular to whom these Our Letters Patent shall come Greeting! Know Ye that in the execution of Our Office of Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England We have made nominated and constituted George Drewry Squibb, One of Her Majesty's Counsel, Bachelor of Civil Law and Master of Arts of the University of Oxford, to be Our Lieutenant, Assessor and Surrogate in Our High Court of Chivalry or Court Military and do give and grant to Our said Lieutenant, Assessor, and Surrogate full authority and general Power in Our place and in Our name to proceed in all and singular causes and matters in Our said Court, to issue citations and attachments, to receive all bonds and obligations, to admit libels articles and all other lawful documents, to grant compulsory orders against witnesses and commissions for the examination of witnesses and to administer to them a corporal oath upon the Holy Evangelists and to administer to them at the request of the opposite parties interrogatories upon the libels and matters upon which they are respectively produced, to publish the evidence and depositions of witnesses and to order copies thereof for the parties, to assign times for the hearing of sentences, to give and promulgate definitive sentences in writing and to order the execution thereof, to tax all costs to make interlocutory decrees having the force of definitive sentences, to continue and prorogue Our said Court and all causes and matters therein depending to convenient days and places to be by him ordered, and there and then to summon all parties concerned & generally on our behalf to do all manner of things needful for the expedition of the business of Our said Court as well by Law as by Custom in the like ample manner and form as the Right Honourable Rayner, Baron Goddard, Honorary Doctor of Civil Law, deceased, or the Right Worshipful Sir Edmund Isham, Baronet, Doctor of Civil Law, deceased, or any other Lieutenant, Assessor, or Surrogate in Our said Court heretofore did or might or ought to have done to that end; And We do further Order and enjoin all and singular whomsoever may be concerned to show true obedience to Our said Lieutenant, Assessor, and Surrogate in all things appertaining to the business of Our said Court. Given under Our Hand and Seal this first day of December in the Twenty-fifth 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 One thousand nine hundred and seventy-six.

Norfolk, E.M.

This text is taken from a handwritten transcript of the document and may not reflect the formatting of the original.

Many of the terms used in these Letters Patent will be familiar to students of English ecclesiastical law, as the High Court of Chivalry and the ecclesiastical courts both stemmed from the civil law tradition.