CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906 — Page 181

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EDWARD by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom

of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions

beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith &c., &c., &c.

To the Most Reverend Father in God Randall Thomas by

Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Pri-

mate of All England and Metropolitan,

Greeting:

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the fifth year of the

Reign of Our Royal Predecessor intituled "An Act to

"amend An Act made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign

"of His Majesty King George the Third intituled An Act

"to empower the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Arch-

"bishop of York for the time being to consecrate to the

"Office of a Bishop persons being subjects or citizens

*of Countries out of His Majesty's Dominions" (herein-

after called the said Act') it was amongst other things

enacted that it should be lawful, Our licence by warrant

under Our Royal Signet and Sign Manual being first ob-

tained, to consecrate British Subjects or the Subjects

or Citizens of any Foreign Kingdom or State to be

Bishops