Royal Warrant - Grants Depending [Great Seal] [New Lord Chancellor] [2003-06-13]
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(Stmp.) L. S.
(Stmp.) ELIZABETH R.
RIGHT TRUSTY and Well-beloved Counsellor We greet you well !
WHEREAS We are given to understand that there are divers Grants, Warrants, Pardons, Licences, Commissions and other things directed to Our late Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, all of which several Warrants are already engrossed for Our Great Seal and some of them dated and not as yet passed under Our Great Seal: For the ease of Our Subjects and for the speedy passing of the same Grants accordingly We have thought fit hereby to give you full power and authority to pass the same Grants if you shall think fit or so many of them as you shall think fit under Our Great Seal remaining in your Custody with the same dates without any alteration thereof or any other dates without any alteration thereof or any other dates after according to your discretion;
AND WHEREAS We are likewise given to understand that there are divers Injunctions, Decrees and Dismissions by Order of Our High Court of Justice given by the Master of
/the Rolls
The Lord Chancellor to pass Grants Depending
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the Rolls and other Commissioners which Injunctions, Decrees and Dismissions ought to be signed by Our Chancellor or Keeper of Our Great Seal for the time being and are not yet signed, We have thought good likewise to give you full power and authority to affirm and subscribe all such Injunctions, Decrees and Dismissions according to the Orders entered concerning the same in the Registers Office of Record or so many of them as you shall think fit without further hearing and to pass such as you shall allow and subscribe unto under Our Great Seal.
FOR all which these Our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant.
GIVEN at Our Court at Saint James’s
the 13th day of June 2003;
in the Fifty-second Year of Our
Reign.
By Her Majesty’s Command
John Prescott
To Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Our High Chancellor of Great Britain
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Special Features
John Prescott's countersignature as First Secretary of State is atypical.
Dating information and John Prescott's signature are all written in the same hand, suggesting they were added by a Crown Office staff member and not original.
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