Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Conferring City Status On Bangor [2022-12-02]

Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Conferring City Status On Bangor [2022-12-02]

Great Seal of Northern Ireland

Local Government

Northern Ireland

Royal Warrant of King Charles III directing the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to pass Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Northern Ireland conferring City status on the Town of Bangor.

King Charles III

FOI request

2022-12-02

Jason Loch

Bangor

(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 well beloved Counsellor Christopher Heaton-Harris one of Our Principal Secretaries of State GREETING: WE WILL AND COMMAND that under the Great Seal of that part of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland called Northern Ireland remaining in your custody you cause these Our Letters to be made forth Patent in form following:

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 all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second did indicate Her Royal will that for divers good causes and considerations the status of a City be conferred on the Town of Bangor in the County of Down in celebration of Her Platinum Jubilee And whereas the sad demise of Her Late Majesty occurred before Her warrant could be placed under Her Sign Manual to cause Letters Patent conferring the status of a City to be under the Great Seal of Northern Ireland And Whereas We are graciously pleased to confer on the said Town of Bangor the status of a City in order to bring Her Late Majesty’s will into effect Now Therefore Know Ye that We of Our especial grace and favour and mere motion do by these Presents ordain declare and direct that the said Town of Bangor shall henceforth have the status of a City

Given at Our Court at Saint James’s the 2nd day of December two thousand and twenty-two in the first year of Our Reign

BY HIS MAJESTY'S COMMAND

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

This contains a Warrant to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to pass Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Northern Ireland whereby Your Majesty is pleased to confer the status of a City upon the Town of Bangor in Your Majesty's County of Down  And this Warrant is prepared according to Your Majesty’s Royal Command

Signified by Secretary of State

(Sgd.) Chris Heaton-Harris

Clerk of the Crown for Northern Ireland

(Sgd.) Andrew Wells

Chris Heaton-Harris (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland). Instead of signing below "By His Majesty's Command," Heaton-Harris's countersignature appears below "Signified by Secretary of State." This is likely a mistake.

Black and white Royal Arms at the top.

Printed in Times New Roman.

Royal name is capitalized and in boldface.

This document is quite similar to a Warrant for the UK Great Seal (cf. this example) with the key difference being that, instead of being addressed to the Lord Chancellor, it's addressed to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who is the custodian of Northern Ireland's Great Seal. Although contemporary UK Warrants no longer refer to the Lord Chancellor by name, NI Warrants still include the Secretary of State's name. 

While UK Warrants include the surname of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, the Clerk of the Crown for Northern Ireland actually signs this type of Warrant.

While the Lord Chancellor customarily signs a UK Warrant in the lower left in order to authorize the sealing of the document (this is known as the 'recepi'), there is nothing similar on this Warrant.