Miscellaneous - Earl Marshal's Warrant for Recording the Royal Warrant Declaring the Style, Rank and Precedence of Relatives of Life Peers and Lords of Appeal in Ordinary [1958-07-22]

Miscellaneous - Earl Marshal's Warrant for Recording the Royal Warrant Declaring the Style, Rank and Precedence of Relatives of Life Peers and Lords of Appeal in Ordinary [1958-07-22]

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Warrant of the Duke of Norfolk directing the Officers of Arms to record the Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II declaring the style, rank, and precedence of wives, widows, and children of life peers and Lords of Appeal in Ordinary and of children of life peeresses.

Bernard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (Earl Marshal)

College of Arms I82/142

1958-07-22

Mark Scott

Whereas Her Majesty The Queen by Warrant under Her Royal Signet and Sign Manual bearing date the Twenty-first day of July 1958 hath revoked the Royal Warrants of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria dated the Twenty second day of December 1876 and the Thirtieth day of March 1898 respectively declaring the style, rank, [^&] precedence rights and privileges of the Wives or Widows of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary and the style title rank and precedence of the Children of such Lords of Appeal in Ordinary and hath declared Her Royal Will and Pleasure touching these said matters and whereas She hath further declared Her Royal Will and Pleasure as to the style rank precedence rights and privileges of the Wives or Widows of Life Peers created in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by the Life Peerages Act 1958 and the style title rank and precedence of the Children of such Life Peers and of the Children of Life Peeresses so created And hath moreover signified unto me Her Royal Will and Pleasure that I should see this Order kept and cause the same to be recorded in Her College of Arms I Bernard Marmaduke Duke of Norfolk, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England and One of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council do hereby authorize and require you to cause the said Royal Warrant and these Presents to be recorded in the College of Arms accordingly for which this shall be your Warrant Given under my hand and Seal this twenty second day of July 1958.

Norfolk E.M.

To The Corporation of the Kings Heralds and Pursuivants
of Arms of the College of Arms.

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

There is an interlineation to show where an ampersand was inadvertently omitted by the copyist.