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	The Royal Warrant Holders Association
		The earliest recorded Royal Charter was granted to the Weavers’ Company in 1155 by Henry II.
		By the 15th century Royal tradesmen were recognised by means of a Royal Warrant of Appointment - a practice that continues to this day.
		Charles II’s list of Royal tradesmen in 1684 included a Sword Cutter, an Operator for the Teeth, and a Goffe-club Maker, whilst among the tradesmen supplying the Royal Household in 1789 were a pin maker, a mole taker, a card maker and a rat catcher.
	www.royalwarrant.org /history.asp (310 words)

	Royal Charter - AIB History
		Royal Charters, granted by the sovereign on the advice of the Privy Council, have a history dating back to the 13th century.
		Royal Charters were at one time the only means of incorporating a body, but there are now other means (the formation of a Pty Ltd company for example), so the grant of new Charters is comparatively rare.
		When the Royal Charter was granted letters of congratulation were received from the former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, the serving Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand, all State Premiers, and most of the related professional associations in Australia and overseas.
	www.aib.org.au /about/AIB-RoyalCharter.htm (610 words)

	Charter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charters were issued in medieval times by Royal decree, perhaps giving a particular town the right to hold a weekly market, or to levy a toll on a road or bridge.
		A charter is a legally binding document incorporating an organization or institution and specifying its purpose, remit or bylaws.
		A charter colony is a type of colony that was established by a group of settlers that received a charter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charter (366 words)

	Royal Charter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Royal Charter is a charter given by a monarch to legitimize an incorporated body, such as a city, company, university or such.
		Most recently Inverness, Brighton and Hove and Wolverhampton were given their charters to celebrate the millennium, and Preston, Stirling, Newport, Lisburn and Newry to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2002.
		The BBC operates under a Royal Charter which lasts for a limited period of ten years, after which it is renewed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Charter (430 words)

	BBC - About the BBC - Charter and Agreement
		The BBC is constitutionally established by a Royal Charter.
		The new Royal Charter was granted to the BBC on 19 September 2006.
		Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.
	www.bbc.co.uk /info/policies/charter (128 words)

	What is a Royal Charter? - Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
		A Royal Charter is a way of incorporating a body, that is turning it from a collection of individuals into a single legal entity.
		Royal Charters were at one time the only means of incorporating a body, but there are now other means (becoming a registered company, for example), so the grant of new Charters is comparatively rare.
		New grants of Royal Charters are these days reserved for eminent professional bodies or charities which have a solid record of achievement and are financially sound.
	www.icaa.org.au /about/index.cfm?menu=310&id=A106117032 (197 words)

	Royal Ambassador Charter
		Consequently, the officers must be aware of all the responsibilities of the Royal Ambassadors during graduation.
		Royal Ambassadors give campus tours for admissions, provide tours and assistance at open houses and freshmen preview days, offer their rooms for prospective student overnight stays, and assist at other campus activities or special occasions such as lectures and convocations for special guests as deemed necessary by the University of Scranton.
		For outdoor commencement ceremonies, the attire shall be the Ambassador’s sweater and hat, a white shirt, and white slacks or a skirt.
	academic.uofs.edu /organization/royamb/charter.htm (1533 words)

	Telynau Royal Charter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Charter was purchased to bring the best Section B bloodlines from Wales to the United States to impact the Welsh pony world.
		Charter has proven to be THE cross for daughters of Talybont Quicksilver and Farmore Publicity and for other well-bred mares.
		Telynau Royal Charter has the same wonderful temperament typical of the ponies of Farmore Farms where stallions are handled and regularly ridden by children.
	www.farmorefarms.com /charter/charter.htm (548 words)

	Chartered Institute of Public Relations
		Charters are only granted to professional bodies or organisations that have a solid record of achievement, that represent a field of activity which is unique and not covered by other professional bodies, that can demonstrate they work in the public interest, and that demonstrate pre-eminence, stability and permanence in their particular field.
		The Privy Council has granted a Royal Charter to the Institute because it recognises that it is in the public interest to have a Chartered Institute responsible for leading the PR industry.
		Having a Chartered body for the industry will help employers, clients and the general public to distinguish between those practitioners who are accountable and willing to abide by a code of conduct and those who are not.
	www.ipr.org.uk /charterspecial/questions.asp (814 words)

	The Wreck of the Royal charter
		We need scarcely observe that all on board the Royal Charter were animated by the hope of arriving safe at Liverpool, from the circumstances of not a breath disturbing the water when she steamed off the shores of Ireland”.
		At one time this memorial was in the church over the mass grave of the unidentified victims of the Royal Charter but it was moved out in the early part of the 20th century.
		After the service it was discovered that the dedication had taken place of the 145th anniversary of the Royal Charter's departure from Melbourne, Australia, on its fateful final journey.
	www.royalcharterchurch.org.uk /wreck.html (0 words)

	Men Behind the Masque - Structure of borough government
		efore these charters the towns were governed by royally-appointed reeves, whose basic duties were: to arrange the collection of revenues with which they were to pay the firma burgi; to preside in the court; and to execute royal commands.
		he effect of royal charters granting self-government was not to alter radically the existing executive structure but to place the executive more under control of the borough community.[26] Whether the size of the executive remained unchanged is less certain.
		The 1204 charter granted a prepositus,[43] though whether an officer of that title was ever elected or local arrangements substituted a mayor from the beginning is difficult to say.
	www.trytel.com /~tristan/towns/mc1_pt1.html (986 words)

	Brief history of the Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The origins of the Royal Society lie in an "invisible college" of natural philosophers who began meeting in the mid-1640s to discuss the ideas of Francis Bacon.
		At first apparently nameless, the name The Royal Society first appears in print in 1661, and in the second Royal Charter of 1663 the Society is referred to as ’The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge’.
		In 1662 the Society was permitted by Royal Charter to publish and the first two books it produced were John Evelyn’s Sylva and Micrographia by Robert Hooke.
	www.royalsoc.ac.uk /page.asp?id=2176 (673 words)

	Royal Coach Tours : San Jose Charter Bus Tour Company
		Royal Coach Tours takes pride in operating the cleanest and most spacious bus transportation service in San Jose.
		Royal Coach transportation from conventions to meeting facilities is the number one way to transport large groups.
		Royal Coach's fleet of over 25 coaches, are clean and well maintained with various floor plans to meet nearly every client need.
	sanjose.com /charter-bus (0 words)

	Royal Charter and Bye-Laws
		RICS is incorporated by Royal Charter, which sets out the objects of the Institution and requires it to “maintain and promote the usefulness of the profession for the public advantage.”
		In practice, the Charter means that important changes to the RICS constitution – its Bye-Laws - have to be ratified by the UK government, through the Privy Council, even after they have been approved by a majority of RICS members voting at a General Meeting.
		The continued demand for Royal Charters, which may seem an antiquated concept, shows that they retain their cachet in the modern professional world as a “gold standard” of excellence and integrity.
	www.rics.org /AboutRICS/RICSProfessionalRegulationandConsumerProtection/royal_charter.htm?WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished%2cPresentationUnpublished%2cPresentationUnpublished%2cPresentationUnpublished%2cPresentationUnpublished%2cPresentationUnpublished%2cpresentatio%2cpresentatio (176 words)

	The Charter of Dartmouth College
		Wheelock sent it to The Royal Governor of the Province of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, during August, and Wentworth granted the charter to Dartmouth College on December 13, 1769.
		This act was the last royal chartering of a college in the North American Colonies that would become the United States: the crown itself or colonial governments had granted eight charters earlier, of which seven had so far created institutions in operation.
		The charter is important to the school as well as to legal history, since it is the document around which the Dartmouth College Case revolved.
	www.dartmo.com /charter (2398 words)

	BSI Royal Charter - information for the news media (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BSI was granted its Royal Charter in 1929 and is known worldwide for its Kitemark of product excellence and as a global leader in setting quality, safety and service standards for industry and commerce.
		Royal Charters, granted by the British sovereign on the advice of the UK Privy Council, have a history which dates back to the 13th century.
		Today, though Charters are still occasionally granted to cities, new Charters are normally reserved for bodies that work in the public interest.
	www.bsi-global.com /News/Releases/2002/December/n3f030ebe0339e.xalter (182 words)

	charter. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It may be issued by the sovereign body of a state to a local governing body, university, or other corporation or by the constituted authority of a society or order to a local unit.
		Chartered companies held broad powers of trade and government by royal charter.
		In colonial America, chartered colonies were in theory, and to an extent in fact, less subject to royal interference than were royal colonies.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ch/charter.html (154 words)

	souvenir document to celebrate Royal Charter
		The Royal Charter from King George V was presented to the town by the Right Honourable Earl of Derby.
		The charter gave the district the status of a municipal borough.
		His majesty granted the charter at Westminster by warrant under the King's Sign Manual on August 7, 1935 and it was presented to the town in September 1935.
	members.aol.com /jhigson224/local_history/Radcliffe/d2r.html (1793 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		The Prince of Wales is to charter a flight to the US for his first official foreign tour with the Duchess of Cornwall, at an estimated cost to the taxpayer of £300,000, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
		The move to charter a Boeing 757 will inevitably lead to widespread accusations of extravagance from Left-wing MPs, but royal aides have defended the decision, saying that it would cost only "marginally" more than using scheduled flights.
		Royal aides, however, said such criticisms of the trip, which the Prince undertakes at the request of the Government to promote British interests abroad, were unfair.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/09/nchas09.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/09/ixhome.html (522 words)

	Chartered Management Institute - Chartered Management Institute - Royal charter
		The grant of a Royal Charter to the Institute was formally approved by the Privy Council on 12 February 2002.
		The Charter came into force on 1 April 2002, when the former Institute of Management ceased to exist and the Chartered Management Institute was born.
		The quest for chartered status gained momentum in late 1999, when Council invited all members to express their views on charter and asked for a mandate to move ahead with a submission to the Privy Council.
	www.managers.org.uk /content_general_3.aspx?id=3:296&id=3:7 (725 words)

	DUR-towns (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the 13th century Hartlepool belonged to the Bruces's of Annandale in Scotland, the progenitors of the royal family of that name.
		It received a charter of incorporation in 1850, and is divided into three wards, governed by a mayor, eight aldermen, and twenty-four councillors.
		In the preamble of the charter it is stated to have been a borough from time immemorial under the name of New Monkwearmouth, and to have been in the enjoyment of various liberties and free customs conferred by the bishops of Durham.
	www.original-indexes.demon.co.uk /DUR/DUR-town.htm (5742 words)

	Royal Charters
		In English history Charters are associated with the delegation of authority and were used by medieval Kings and their descendants to give some powers of self rule to the urban communities.
		The Charter of Elizabeth I in 1600, defines the corporate body as the Mayor and the Charter of Charles II in 1682 included Gosport in the liberties of Portsmouth.
		The last charter to be granted was on the 1st April 1974, by Queen Elizabeth II and granted the status of CITY to portsmouth and therefore brought to an end 800 years of the tradition of Royal Charters.
	www.portsmouth.history.cwc.net /firstchart.htm (475 words)

	BBC: Royal Charter: 11 Dec 2003: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		The BBC's Royal Charter—the seventh in the history of the corporation—is due to expire on
		Charter review will be characterised by our openness, our efforts to engage as broad a section of the population as we can, and our commitment to listen to what people have to say.
		Charter review gives the whole country an opportunity to have its say about the kind of BBC it wants for the future.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?id=2003-12-11a.83.1 (410 words)

	Royal Insight > Out and About > Visit to Staffordshire, 31 March 2006.
		The day began at the Collegiate Church of St Mary in the centre of the town, where Her Majesty and His Royal Highness attended a service of thanksgiving for the anniversary and unveiled a new stained glass window dedicated to the town's shoe and boot industry.
		The Royal party was played out of the church by the Cannock Highland Pipe Band and the Massed Band of the Prince of Wales Regiment, which had been entertaining the crowd during the service.
		Royal charters were issued to give a town or body the blessing of the Monarchy, and came with certain privileges, such as using the Royal coat of arms or the word 'Royal' in the town's name.
	www.royal.gov.uk /OutPut/Page5157.asp (289 words)

	Queen's University Royal Charter
		Queen's University at Kingston was created by Royal Charter at the hand of Queen Victoria in 1841.
		The Royal Charter, has been amended from time to time over the intervening years, most significantly in 1912 and most recently in 1996 when the composition of the Board of Trustees was expanded to include students, faculty and staff.
		In order to make the Charter, and the amendments to that document, more readily accessible to and understandable by the University community, we have created a consolidated Royal Charter.
	www.queensu.ca /secretariat/RCharter.html (1489 words)

	Royal Wings - About Royal Wings (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Royal Wings today, is more motivated and more aimed to dominate the chartering business and to continue being the best of all.
		A transition into a low cost charter operation with modern fleet was implemented to further support the charter business and compete effectively and efficiently.
		Royal Wings, the airline that hold the full meaning of “Chartering the world together”.
	www.royalwings.com.jo /about_us.shtm (289 words)

	Royal Charter of The Boy Scouts Association - ScoutDocs
		This act makes reference to the Royal Charter and created what is now referred to as Scouts Canada as a branch of The Boy Scouts Association.
		The Royal Charter has been amended several times, but not until after the passage of the Statute of Westminster, 1931, so these amendments do not have effect in Canada.
		Here is the text of the original 1912 Royal Charter, which remains the legal basis for Scouts Canada.
	scoutdocs.ca /Scouts_Canada_Act_/Royal_Charter.php (1380 words)

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