05-05-2008, 10:03 AM
Alexander Rex
WHEREAS We did by an Order given in Our Most Honourable Privy Council, bearing date at Our Court of Saint George's Palace the Seventeenth day of April, in the Year of Our Lord Two-thousand and eight, constitute, erect, and establish the Secretary of State for Home Affairs to advise Us upon the appointment of all of Our ministers concerned with his Office, and to execute the duties of any offices within the same which should, from time to time, be vacant; and yet the same office of Secretary of State for Home Affairs aforesaid, as We are informed, shall stand vacant by the determination of Our High Court of Parliament:
KNOW YE NOW that We, of Our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, and of Our Prerogative Royal in this respect, very much confiding in his fidelity, prudence, provident circumspection, and industry, have thought fit to appoint and constitute the same Kieran Penn Nortan, aforesaid to be Our Secretary of State for Home Affairs, enjoying all powers, privileges, and preeminences to the said office under the Laws and Customs of Our Kingdom of Hanover properly appertaining:
AND WE DO strictly enjoining command that he should present himself before Us on the Sixth day of May instant, when it shall be Our gracious pleasure to sit together with the Prelates, Great Men, and Peers of Our Realm in full Parliament, forasmuch as We do evince and design therein to appoint him unto the same office of Secretary of State for Home Affairs aforesaid, in meet obedience to the Laws and Constitutions of Our Realm.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of Our Kingdom of Hanover to be hereunto affixed, Witness Ourself at Our Court at St. George's this Fifth Day of May, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight, and in the Fourth Year of Our Reign.
McQueeny
PER BREVE REGIS
