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This
procedure may also be used for nationals of other countries who wish
Armorial Bearings.
The
applicant is called "The Petitioner", and should submit a formal
"Petition" to the Lord Lyon King of Arms, drawn up as in the
fictitious specimen. At the top, the Petitioner should state his
Christian names in full and his surname, followed by any rank,
decorations, academic qualifications, profession or occupation, ending
with "residing at . . ." followed by his address in full and the words
"for and in memory of" his chosen ancestor for whom the Arms are being
sought. Beneath "HUMBLY SHEWETH" the Petitioner should set out his
ancestry, back to the ancestor for whom the retrospective Grant is being
sought, in numbered paragraphs in the way explained in the Petition of a
New Grant. This account should be accompanied by Certificates of Birth
and Marriage for each fact, and a separate
Schedule of Proofs. Beneath the last paragraph of the ancestry a
final paragraph should state the Petitioner's wish in the wording shown.
The Petition should then be signed and dated and sent with its
accompanying Certificates and Schedule of Proofs to the Lyon Clerk at
the Court of the Lord Lyon, with a covering letter setting out any ideas
the Petitioner may have about the form of the Arms to be granted. The
Lord Lyon will later write and discuss these with the Petitioner.
When these matters have been agreed, the Lord Lyon will pronounce his
judgement as to the form of the Arms, and instruct Lyon Clerk to prepare
the Letters Patent which is the formal title deed to the Arms. The
Petitioner will then receive from Lyon Clerk a draft text for the
Letters Patent for him to check and approve, and a note of the fees due
to H.M. Treasury and the Herald Painter, which must now be paid. Once
the draft text has been approved and the fees paid, the Lyon Clerk will
in due course send the Petitioner the Letters Patent granting the Arms
to him. A copy of the Arms and the text of the Letters Patent is placed
on record in name of the Petitioner in the Public Register of All Arms
and Bearings in Scotland, and the process is
NOTE:- In the specimen below, the Arms sought for and in memory of
Thomas Augustus Blank will NOT have descended to the Petitioner, because
his father Lieutenant Colonel Harold Andrew Blank was NOT the eldest son
of Thomas Augustus Blank. Lieutenant Colonel Blank was the second son,
and the direct inheritance of the Arms of Thomas Augustus Blank will
have gone off to Lieutenant Colonel Blank's elder brother. Thus the
Petitioner will have to apply further for a Matriculation of Arms.
All his male cousins will be in the same predicament, except the eldest
son of the eldest son of Thomas Augustus Blank. It is not unknown for
such groups of cousins to club together to share the cost of the
retrospective Grant to the ancestor, because thereafter they are all
entitled to Matriculate cadet Arms off the ancestor's which is much less
expensive as is set out in the
Scale of Fees.
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