Royal Warrant - Declaring the Precedence of the Lord Speaker [2006-07-04]
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Elizabeth R
Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith to Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin Edward William Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal and Our Hereditary Marshal of England, Greeting! Whereas by Resolution of the House of Lords on the 12th day of July 2005 it was resolved inter alia that the House should elect its own presiding officer and by a further resolution of the House of the 31st day of January 2006 it was resolved that the Report of the Select Committee on the Speakership of the House of Lords be approved and that the title of the Office of the Speaker of the House of Lords shall be Lord Speaker And whereas We deem it expedient that the rank and precedence of the said Lord Speaker shall be established Now Know Ye that We of Our Princely Grace ordain and declare and do by these Presents ordain and declare that the said Lord Speaker shall be so placed in order immediately after the Speaker of the House of Commons Our Will and Pleasure therefore is that you do cause this Our Warrant to 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 fourth day of July 2006 In the fifty-fifth year of Our Reign.
By Her Majesty’s Command
Falconer of Thoroton C
Let this be recorded
Norfolk E. M.