Miscellaneous - Patent Roll Entry for the Letters Patent Appointing Lord Belstead as Lord Privy Seal [1988-01-19]

Miscellaneous - Patent Roll Entry for the Letters Patent Appointing Lord Belstead as Lord Privy Seal [1988-01-19]

Great Seal

Ministerial Appointments

Patent Roll entry for the Letters Patent appointing Lord Belstead as Lord Privy Seal.

Crown Office

LCO 6/4342

1988-01-19

Jason Loch

To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas We did by Our Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our Realm bearing date at Westminster the eighteenth day of June in the thirty-sixth year of Our Reign constitute and appoint Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor John Wakeham to be Keeper of Our Privy Seal during Our Pleasure Now Know Ye that We trusting in the wisdom and fidelity of Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor John Julian Baron Belstead of Our especial grace do by these Presents constitute and appoint him to be Keeper of Our Privy Seal To hold and exercise the said Office during Our Pleasure Together with all salaries fees authorities and advantages due and of right belonging thereto

In Witness etc. Witness etc.

The nineteenth day of January

By Her Majesty's Command

This is the Patent Roll Entry. It's technically a record of the Warrant which is why it ends with "By Her Majesty's Command." However, it does not include the greeting clause addressed to the Lord Chancellor, the date clause, or the docquet. It also does not identify the person who procured the Warrant or who countersigned it. Patent Roll entries are sent to the National Archives at the end of each regnal year (along with the original Warrants) for permanent retention.