Miscellaneous - Deputy Earl Marshal's Warrant for Recording the Order in Council Declaring the Precedence of the Speaker of the House of Commons [1919-07-30]

Whereas Sir Almeric William Fitz Roy, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Clerk of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council hath by letter bearing date the second day of June last, signified that one the thirtieth day of May last past His Majesty was pleased by and with the advice of His Privy Council to declare and ordain that the Speaker of the House of Commons should henceforth upon all occasions and in all meetings except where otherwise provided by Act of Parliament have hold and enjoy place, pre-eminence and precedence immediately after the Lord President of the Council.

I, Sir Edmund Bernard Talbot (commonly called Lord Elmund Bernard Talbot) Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Deputy to the Most Noble Bernard Marmaduke, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, to the end that the same may be observed and kept and thar you and all others upon occasion may take full notice and have knowledge thereof, do hereby authorize and require you to cause His Majesty’s said Proclamation [sic], the Letter of the Clerk of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council and these Presents to be recorded in the College of Arms accordingly. For which this shall be your Warrant. Given under my hand and the seal of the Earl Marshal this thirtieth day of July 1919.

Edmund B. Talbot
D. E. M.

To the Kings Heralds and
Pursuivants of Arms