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	Great Seal of the Realm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The obverse represents the Queen on horseback in the uniform of the Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards, and is inscribed "ELIZABETH.
		Under today's implementation of the Great Seal, seals of dark green wax are affixed to documents authorizing the promotion of individuals to the peerage, blue seals authorize actions relating to the royal family, and scarlet seals appoint bishops and implement various other affairs of state.
		It was formerly treason to forge the Great Seal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_Realm (545 words)

	Lord Chancellor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He is a Great Officer of State, and is appointed by the Sovereign on the advice of the Prime Minister and is, by convention, always a peer, although there is no legal impediment to the appointment of a commoner.
		Custody of the Great Seal of the Realm is entrusted to the Lord Chancellor.
		The precedence of a Lord Keeper of the Great Seal is equivalent to that of a Lord Chancellor.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Lord_Chancellor (4338 words)

	The Monarchy Today > Great Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Great Seal of the Realm is the chief seal of the Crown, used to show the monarch's approval of important State documents.
		The Great Seal matrix is used to create seals for a range of documents requiring royal approval, including letters patent, Royal proclamations, commissions, some writs (such as writs for the election of Members of Parliament), and the documents which give power to sign and ratify treaties.
		Dark green seals are affixed to letters patent which elevate individuals to the peerage; blue seals are used for documents relating to the close members of the Royal Family; and scarlet red is used for documents appointing a bishop and for most other patents.
	www.royalinsight.gov.uk /output/page323.asp (480 words)

	Lord Keeper of the Great Seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and later of Great Britain, was formerly an officer of the English Crown charged with physical custody of the Great Seal of England.
		The seal, adopted by Edward the Confessor was at first entrusted to a chancellor for keeping.
		Consequently, it became not unusual to place the personal custody of the great seal in the hands of a vice-chancellor or keeper; this, too, was the practice followed during a temporary vacancy in the chancellorship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Keeper (306 words)

	Alexander the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Philip's dream, he sealed her womb with the seal of the lion.
		Modern opinion on Alexander has run the gamut from the idea that he believed he was on a divinely-inspired mission to unite the human race, to the view that he was the ancient world's equivalent of Napoleon I of France or Adolf Hitler, a megalomaniac bent on world domination.
		To Zoroastrians, on the other hand, he is remembered as the destroyer of their first great empire and as the leveller of Persepolis.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_the_Great (5771 words)

	Kids' Zone > In the spotlight > The Great Seal of the Realm
		The Great Seal of the Realm is used to show that the king or queen has approved important documents about public matters.
		The seal meant that the king did not need to sign every official document in person; approval could be carried out by someone the king trusted with his seal.
		This is the Latin form of The Queen's formal title: Elizabeth II by the Grace of God of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
	www.royal.gov.uk /textonly/Page1702.asp (726 words)

	Great Seal of the Realm -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Only one mold of the Great Seal exists at a time, and since the wax used for the Great Seal has a high (The temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid) melting point, the silver plates that cast the Seal eventually wear out.
		(Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)) Queen Victoria had to select four different Great Seal designs during the sixty-three years of her reign.
		This simpler version is used for royal proclamations, letters patent granting the (Click link for more info and facts about royal assent) royal assent, writs of summons to Parliament and for licences for the election of bishops and commissions of the peace.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/great_seal_of_the_realm.htm (527 words)

	Great_Seal_of_the_Irish_Free_State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Great Seal of the Irish Free State (Irish: Séala Mor do Shaorstát Eireann) was the official seal which replaced the Great Seal of the Realm used to seal official documents of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann) by the Governor-General.
		The Great Seal is currently kept at National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks, Dublin.
		After Constitution of Ireland was enacted the Presidential Seal was struck as a replacement to the Great Seal.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Great_Seal_of_the_Irish_Free_State (141 words)

	UC Berkeley Center for Forestry: Horace Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Visitors to these great wonders of nature rapidly spread the story of their majesty and glory to the eastern states and to the nation's capital.
		Let me teach this class to know the flicker, the great crested flycatcher, the chickadee and other birds that are needed to protect the crops of the parents who will send their children.
		Great dams were built on many rivers of the west, canals cut the hills, and dry grass and sagebrush lands of the desert were made to "bloom like the rose".
	www.cnr.berkeley.edu /forestry/lectures/albright/1961albright.html (8028 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| New seal of approval for Queen
		THE Great Seal of the Realm, used to formally elect MPs, proclaim royal marriages and ratify treaties, is to be replaced for the first time in the Queen's reign.
		Yesterday the Queen approved the commission of a new seal to be designed by the sculptor James Butler.
		The Great Seal of the Realm originated in the reign of Edward the Confessor during the 11th century to prevent forgery and tampering.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/16/nseal16.xml (168 words)

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		In describing to us the great obligation, and strong condition, the people were wont to put upon their kings, To observe the ancient fundamental laws, and free customs of this land, which were handed down from one age to another.
		But some are ready to object, "That the Great Charter consisting as well of religious as civil rights, the former having received an alteration, there is the same reason, why the latter may have the like." To which we answer, That the reason of alteration cannot he the same, therefore the consequence is false.
		That this Great Charter, and the Charter of Forest, are properly the common law of this land, or the law is common to all the people thereof." 4.
	www.constitution.org /trials/penn/penn-mead.txt (11536 words)

	Irish Free State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Irish Free State (Irish: Saorstát Éireann) was (1922–1937) the name of the state comprising the 26 of Ireland's 32 counties which were separated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and Irish Republic representatives in London on December 6, 1921.
		The unprecedented abandonment of the use of the British Great Seal of the Realm and its replacement by the Great Seal of the Irish Free State, which the King awarded to his Irish Kingdom as King of Ireland, again in 1931.
		(The Irish Seal consisted of a picture of 'King George V of Ireland' enthroned on one side, with the Irish state Harp and the words Saorstát Éireann (Irish-Gaelic for Irish Free State) on the reverse.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Irish_Free_State (2245 words)

	Cretian Realm of the Forgotten Goddesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		May also be the name of the Great Goddess of Life, Death and Reincarnation of the Minoan Crete.
		She is flanked by antithetic lions, beyond which are a shrine on one side and a saluting male on the other.
		A second seal from Knossos shows a capped female with a staff walking next to a lion, another pose of the same Mistress of Animals figure.
	inanna.virtualave.net /cretian.html (311 words)

	Great Seal of the Realm - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Great Seal of the Realm - Open Encyclopedia
		The Great Seal of the Realm is a British institution by which the monarch can authorise official documents without having to sign each document individually.
		Today the Great Seal of the Realm is administered by the Lord Chancellor, an office currently held by Lord Falconer of Thoroton.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Great_Seal_of_the_Realm (326 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Act of Settlement 1701 - A695441
		The sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland must not involve the country in wars to defend the territories of foreign monarchs.
		Following the Act of Union, 1707 the Great Seal of England was superceded by the Great Seal of the Realm, which is also now known as the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
		The Great Seal of the Realm is traditionally held by the Lord Chancellor.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A695441 (950 words)

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		A letter is still extant in which the young lady described with great vivacity the roar of the populace, the blaze in the streets, the throng in the presence chamber, the beauty of Mary, and the expression which ennobled and softened the harsh features of William.
		But a very different training was necessary to form a great minister for foreign affairs; and the Revolution had on a sudden placed England in a situation in which the services of a great minister for foreign affairs were indispensable to her.
		After some delay the Seal was confided to a commission of eminent lawyers, with Maynard at their head.23 The choice of judges did honour to the new government.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext01/3hoej10.txt (18997 words)

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		It was idle to repeat the names of great battles won, in the middle ages, by men who did not make war their chief calling; those battles proved only that one militia might beat another, and not that a militia could beat a regular army.
		The ministers were in a great strait; the public feeling was strong; a general election was approaching; it was dangerous and it would probably be vain to encounter the prevailing sentiment directly.
		The flames broke in on the south of that beautiful hall, and were with great difficulty extinguished by the exertions of the guards, to whom Cutts, mindful of his honourable nickname of the Salamander, set as good an example on this night of terror as he had set in the breach of Namur.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext01/5hoej11.txt (20498 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Admitting, that the King of Great Britain was enthroned by virtue of an act of parliament, and that he is King of America, because he is King of Great-Britain, yet the act of parliament is not the efficient cause of his being the King of America: It is only the occasion of it.
		The constitution of Great Britain is very properly called a limitted monarchy, the people having reserved to themselves a share in the legislature, as a check upon the regal authority, to prevent its degenerating into despotism and tyranny.
		There might be a great dissimilarity between the laws of Virginia and those of Great Britain, and yet not an absolute contrariety; so that the clause in question is not explicit, or determinate enough to authorize the conclusion drawn from it.
	www.founding.com /library/lbody.cfm?id=148&parent=56 (17964 words)

	Irish Free State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1918 the majority of Irish seats in the Westminster parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were won (mainly without contests) by Sinn Féin, a previously monarchist party that under Eamon de Valera's leadership from 1917 had campaigned for an Irish republic.
		(The Irish Seal consisted of a picture of 'King George V of Ireland' enthroned on one side, with the Irish state Harp and the words Saorstát Éireann (gaelic for Irish Free State) on the reverse.
		As a result, if Collins in 1921 described the Treaty as the 'freedom to achieve freedom', all the changes, the last being the awarding of the Irish Great Seal (the first in Commonwealth history), Ireland had fully achieved de jure independence exactly ten years after the Treaty that promised it.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/i/ir/irish_free_state.html (2113 words)

	Case of William Penn and William Mead (1670)
		Besides, their continuance there, was not in contempt, but by the permission of the chief officer present, that came there by the king's authority; nor is it for the honour of the king that such persons should be said to act in contempt of his laws, as only meet to honour God and his laws.
		That this Great Charter, and the Charter of Forest, are properly the common law of this land, or the law is common to all the people thereof."
		By which he doubtless intended fundamental laws, since it may be the great advantage of countries, sometimes to suspend the execution of temporary laws.
	www.constitution.org /trials/penn/penn-mead.htm (12035 words)

	George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the summer of 1788, the disease took a great toll on the King's mental health, but he was nonetheless able to discharge some of his duties.
		But no document could empower the Lords Commissioners to act unless the Great Seal of the Realm was affixed to it.
		Pitt and his fellow ministers ignored the last requirement and instructed the Lord Chancellor to affix the Great Seal without the King's consent.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom (2793 words)

	The Prince of Wales - About the Prince (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Prince was installed as Great Master on 28th May, 1975.
		This ancient title, held by those who ruled the Western Isles as vassals of the King of Scotland, was annexed to the Crown by James V of Scotland in 1540, to be passed to his heirs.
		The hereditary office of Great (or High) Steward dates from the 12th Century.
	princeofwales.gov.uk /about/bio_titles.html (1052 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Some give the first Chancellor of England as Angmendus, in 605.
		The importance of the office is reflected by the Statute of Treasons 1351, which makes it high treason to slay the Lord Chancellor.
		Further amendments were made in the House of Lords; the bill is now in the House of Commons and it remains to be seen what the final outcome will be.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lord-High-Chancellor-of-Great-Britain (4345 words)

	Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Crown Office The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 12 October 2005 to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon Michael...
		Crown Office 10 October 2005 The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 10 October 2005 to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life...
		Crown Office The QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 5 October 2005 to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon Dame Ruth...
	www.gazettes-online.co.uk /notices.asp?webType=2&CategoryId=GC1108 (406 words)

	Royal Styles and Titles of Great Britain
		I have not found any proclamation concerning the style or the arms of the sovereign or the kingdom, or the flag (for which a proclamation of 1606 already existed).
		And our will and pleasure further is, that the stile and titles aforesiad, and also the arms or ensigns armorial aforesaid, shall be used henceforth, as far as conveniently may be, on all occasions wherein our royal stile and titles and arms or ensigns armorial ought to be used.
		It shall be lawful for His Most Gracious Majesty, by His Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the Realm, issued within six months after the passing of this Act, to make such alteration in the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown as to His Majesty may seem fit.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/britain/britstyles.htm (2363 words)

	ipedia.com: Great Seal of the Irish Free State Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		REVERSE The Great Seal of the Irish Free State was the Great Seal which replaced the Great Seal of the Realm used to seal official documents of the Irish Free State.
		Great Seal of the Irish Free State Article - ipedia.com
		The Great Seal of the Irish Free State was the Great Seal which replaced the Great Seal of the Realm used to seal official documents of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann).
	www.ipedia.com /great_seal_of_the_irish_free_state.html (196 words)

	Symbols and their meaning
		The patterns of the labyrinth are similar in design and conception to the mandalas of South Asian Buddhism, which are physical representations of the spiritual realm designed to aid in meditation.
		The double-headed eagle in the center is a Masonic seal.
		A universal symbol of the sun, mystical rebirth, resurrection and immortality, this legendary red "fire bird" was believed to die in its self-made flames periodically (each hundred years, according to some sources) then rise again out of its own ashes.
	www.crossroad.to /Books/symbols1.html (5904 words)

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