Royal Warrant - Lord Chancellor to Seal Certain Documents Without Warrants [1770-01-18]
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George R
Right Trusty and Welbeloved Councillor We greet You well! Whereas We have been and are like to be much troubled with the pitiful Suits and Petitions, as well of divers of Our loving Subjects that have sustained great Losses and Damages either by Casualty of Fire, Shipwreck, Losses by Sea, or by being taken by Pirates, or Enemies, or for other Occasions, as also Strangers Christians of other Nations who have been or shall be for their Religions Sake enforced to fly hither for Succour or Relief against some Extremities offered to Them in Foreign Parts That We would be graciously pleased to grant Them Letters Patent of Licence under Our Great Seal of England to make Collection of the Voluntary and charitable Alms & Devotion of Our well disposed Subjects without incurring any Penalty, Forfeiture or Danger of Law by the Same. We out of Our Princely Charity and gracious Inclination towards such of Our loving Subjects and Others whose Causes shall in Truth and value appear unto You to be fit to be relieved in that Course as also for the avoiding of Our own trouble in giving several Orders and Warrants for all particular Suits of this kind have thought fit wholly to refer the same to your Consideration. And We do, by these Presents give and grant unto You full Power and Authority in all the Cases aforesaid, or others of the like Nature without expecting any further special Warrant from Us, to give Order and Warrant for Licence in Our Name and under Our Great Seal of Great Britain in the usual Form for Collections to be made in such Counties and Places and for so long a Time as You, in your Discretion shall think fit, according to the Qualities of Persons and Quantity of their Losses, or to the Charges necessary for the Things required to be done any Statute, Law, Ordinance, or Restraint to the Contrary notwithstanding. And for so doing This shall be Your Warrant. And so we bid You Farewell. Given at Our Court at St. James’s the Eighteenth day of January 1770 in the Tenth Year of Our Reign.
By His Majesty’s Command
Weymouth
To Our Right Trusty and Welbeloved
Councillor Charles Yorke, Our
High Chancellor of Great Britain