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debitis usitatis habendis faciendis aut praestandis aut aliquo alioin contrario inde non obstante.
Volumus etiam ac per praesentes concedimus praefatae So-phiae Charlottae comitissae de Leinster, quod habeat et habebithas literas nostras patentes sub magno sigillo nostro MagnaeBritanniae debito modo facto et sigillato absque fine seu feudomagno vel parvo nobis in hanaperio nostro seu alibi ad usumnostrum proinde quoquomodo reddendo seu solvendo.
In cuius rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimuspatentes teste Meipso apud Westmonasterium sexto die Aprilisanno regni nostri octavo.
Per bre de privato sigillo. Wrighte.
(L. S.)
E.
(1723, Februar 22. Der Sophie Charlotte, Baronin von Kiel-mansegg und Gräfin von Leinster, werden aus Anlaß ihrer Erhebungzur Gräfin von Darlington zwei Löwen mit Herzogskronen alsWappenhalter verliehen.)
To all and singulär to whom these presents shall come JohnAnstis esquire Garter principal king of arms sendeth greeting.
Whereas the kings most excellent majesty hath been graciouslypleas’d by letters patent under the great seal of Great Britainbearing date at Westminster the sixth day of April in the eighthyear of his reign to create the reverent honourable Sophia Charlottecountess of Leinster in the kingdom of Ireland a peeress of GreatBritain by the name Stile and title of baroness of Brentford inthe county of Midlesex and countess of Darlington in the countypalatine of Durham with all rights and priviledges thereunto be-longing and it being the indisputable right of the peers andpeeresses of this realm to have supporters to their arms todistinguish them from persons of inferior rank, the said countessof Darlington, did thereupon make application by letter to thereverent honourable Henry earl of Berkshire deputy (with the royalapprobation) to the most noble Thomas duke of Norfolk earlmarshal and hereditary marshal of England for his lordship’swarrant for my devising and assigning unto the said countess ofDarlington such supporters as might be born by the said noble
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