Royal Warrant - Accession Day Services [2022-09-17]

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Title

Royal Warrant - Accession Day Services [2022-09-17]

Subject

Ecclesiastical
Liturgy

Description

Royal Warrant of King Charles III approving new Accession Day services.

Creator

King Charles III

Source

FOI request

Date

2022-09-17

Contributor

T. Onslow

Coverage

England

Royal Warrant Item Type Metadata

Transcript

Page 1

(Sgd.) Charles R

WHEREAS by Royal Warrant dated the twenty-sixth day of July one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight certain Forms of Prayer and Service were made for the sixth day of February annually to be printed and published and annexed to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and Liturgy of the Church of England to be used yearly in all Churches and Chapels within the Provinces of Canterbury and York:

AND that in the prayers for or referring to the Sovereign or other members of the Royal Family contained in any form of service authorised for use in the Church of England, the names may be altered, and any other necessary alterations made, from time to time as the circumstances require by Royal Warrant, and those prayers as so altered shall be used thereafter:

NOW Our Will and Pleasure is that the said forms of prayer and service be discontinued; and that the forms of prayer and service hereunto annexed be forthwith printed and published and annexed to

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the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and Liturgy of the Church of England or other authorised forms of service including those set out in the Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England to be used yearly on the eighth day of September in all Churches and Chapels within the Provinces of Canterbury and York.

Given at Our Court at Saint James’s

the 17th day of September 2022

In the first Year of Our Reign

By His Majesty’s Command.

(Sgd.) Brandon Lewis

L. S.

Countersigner

Brandon Lewis (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice)

Seal Affixed

Second Seal (Black?)

Seal is likely black because of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II.

Ornamentation

Incipits are capitalized.

Special Features

Day and month are printed in a sanserif font instead of being entered by hand.

The second clause appears to be a new addition as it wasn't present in Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Warrant of 1958. Similar language appears in King Charles III's Royal Warrant issued the same day making changes to the prayers for the Royal Family, though in that instrument there is an explicit reference to section 1(7) of the Church of England (Worship and Doctrine) Measure 1974.

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Citation

King Charles III, “Royal Warrant - Accession Day Services [2022-09-17],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/48.

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