Royal Warrant - Armorial Bearings for an Adopted Child [2023-02-13]
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L. S.
(Sgd.) Charles R
CHARLES THE THIRD, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories KING, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin Edward William, Duke of Norfolk, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Earl Marshal and Our Hereditary Marshal of England
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WHEREAS by Letters Patent bearing date the twenty-ninth day of January 2016 under the hands and Seals of Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms certain Armorial Bearings were granted unto and to be borne and used by Andrew James Wells and his descendants with due and proper differences and according to the Laws of Arms;
AND WHEREAS pursuant to an Order of the Family Court at Bristol made on the Seventeenth day of August 2017 the Petitioner Andrew James Wells and his wife Sarah Katherine Jessica Wells did
ROYAL LICENCE for the use of the Armorial Bearings of Wells by Elizabeth Zayla Mary Wells.
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adopt a child namely Elizabeth Zayla Mary Wells born on the Twenty-seventh day of January 2016;
AND WHEREAS the said Andrew James Wells hath by his Petition humbly prayed Our Royal Licence and Authority that the Armorial Bearings so granted and assigned may be borne and used by his adopted child Elizabeth Zayla Mary Wells and by her descendants with due and proper differences and according to the Laws of Arms;
NOW KNOW Ye that We of Our Princely Grace and Special Favour have given and granted and do by these Presents give and grant Our Royal Licence and Authority that the said Armorial Bearings with appropriate distinctions may be borne and used by the said Elizabeth Zayla Mary Wells and her descendants with due and proper differences and according to the Laws of Arms the said Armorial Bearings being first duly exemplified according to the Laws of Arms and recorded in Our College of Arms otherwise this Our Licence and Permission to be void and of none effect:
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OUR WILL AND PLEASURE therefore is that you the said Edward William, Duke of Norfolk, to whom the cognizance of matters of this nature doth properly belong, do require and command that this Our Concession and Declaration be recorded in Our College of Arms to the end that Our Officers of Arms and all others upon occasion may take full notice and have knowledge thereof:
AND for so doing this shall be your warrant.
GIVEN at Our Court at Saint James’s
the 13th day of February 2023
In the first Year of Our Reign
By His Majesty’s Command
(Sgd.) Dominic Raab
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