Royal Warrant - Seeking the Judges' Opinion On the Site of the Former Savoy Hospital [1770-07-07]

Royal Warrant - Seeking the Judges' Opinion On the Site of the Former Savoy Hospital [1770-07-07]

Legal Questions

Duchy of Lancaster

Royal Warrant of King George III directing the Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas and the Barons of the Court of Exchequer to consider whether the site of the Savoy Hospital had reverted to Queen Anne by virtue of the Crown or the Duchy of Lancaster.

King George III

SP 44/379 f.94-95

1770-07-07

Jason Loch

George R.

Right Trusty and Welbeloved Councillors, and Trusty and Welbeloved, We great [sic] You well. Our Will and Pleasure is, That You do, forthwith, take into Your Consideration the Memorial of Our Right Trusty and Welbeloved Councillor Frederick North, commonly called Lord North, First Commissioner of Our Treasury and Chancellor and Under Treasurer of Our Exchequer, and of Our Right Trusty and Welbeloved Councillor James Smith, Lord Strange, Chancellor of Our Dutchy and County Palatine of Lancaster, together with A State of the Case of the Scite of the late Savoy Hospital, and all the adjoining Lands and Houses thereon erected, Parcel of the Possessions of the said Hospital, settled and approved by Council, as well on the Part of the Crown as of the Dutchy of Lancaster, hereunto annexed, and Report to Us Your Opinion, Whether the Scite of the said Hospital of the Savoy, together with all the adjoining Lands, with the Houses thereon erected, reverted to Our late Royal Predecessor Queen Anne, upon the Dissolution of the said Hospital, in Right of Her Crown, or, in Right of the Dutchy of Lancaster, in order That Our Officers in the several Departments of Our Exchequer and Dutchy of Lancaster may be directed to conform Themselves to such Rule as shall appear to be right thereupon. And so We bid you farewell. Given at Our Court at S^t James’s the Seventh day of July 1770 and in the Tenth Year of Our Reign.

To Our Right Trusty & Welbeloved Councillors William Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice and the Rest of the Justices of Our Court of King’s Bench; Our Right Trusty and Welbeloved Councillor, Sir John Eardly [sic] Wilmot Knight, Chief Justice, and the Rest of the Justices of Our Court of Common Pleas; And to Our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir Thomas Parker Knight, Chief Baron, and the Rest of the Barons of Our Court of Exchequer……

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By His Majesty’s Command Weymouth.

Thomas, 3rd Viscount Weymouth (Secretary of State for the Southern Department)

This text is taken from a handwritten transcript of the document in the Secretary of State's Entry Book and may not reflect the formatting of the original.

'Scite' is an obsolete spelling of 'site.'