By the KING
A PROCLAMATION,
Declaring His Majesty’s Pleasure concerning the Royal Style and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and its Dependencies, and also the Ensigns, Armorial Flags, and Banners thereof.
GEORGE R.
WHEREAS by the First Article of the Articles of Union of Great Britain and Ireland, ratified and confirmed by Two Acts of Parliament, the one passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, and the other in the Parliament of Ireland, and respectively intituled, “An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland,” it was declared, That the said Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland should, upon this Day, being the First Day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and one, for ever after be united into one Kingdom, by the Name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and that the Royal Style and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the said United Kingdom and its Dependencies, and also the Ensigns, Armorial Flags, and Banners thereof, should be such as We, by Our Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the said United Kingdom, should appoint; We have thought fit, by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, to appoint and declare that Our Royal Style and Titles shall henceforth be accepted, taken, and used as the same are set forth in Manner and Form following; that is to say, the same shall be expressed in the Latin Tongue by these Words:
“GEORGIUS TERTIUS Dei Gratia Britanniarum Rex, Fidei Defensor:”
And in the English Tongue, by these Words:
“GEORGE the THIRD by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith.”
And that the Arms or Ensigns Armorial of the said United Kingdom shall be Quarterly; First and Fourth, England; Second, Scotland; Third, Ireland; and it is Our Will and Pleasure that there shall be borne therewith on an Escocheon of Pretence the Arms of Our Dominions in Germany, ensigned with the Electoral Bonnet; and it is Our Will and Pleasure that the Standard of the said United Kingdom shall be the same Quarterings as are hereinbefore declared to be the Arms or Ensigns Armorial of the said United Kingdom, with the Escocheon of Pretence thereon hereinbefore described: And that the Union Flag shall be Azure, the Crosses Saltires of St. Andrew and St. Patrick Quarterly per Saltire, counterchanged Argent and Gules; the latter fimbriated of the Second, surmounted by the Cross of St. George of the Third, fimbriated as the Saltire: And Our Will and Pleasure further is, that the Style and Titles aforesaid, and also the Arms or Ensigns Armorial aforesaid, shall be used henceforth, as far as conveniently may be, on all Occasions wherein Our Royal Style and Titles, and Arms or Ensigns Armorial ought to be used. But nevertheless it is Our Will and Pleasure, that all such Gold, Silver, and Copper Monies as, on the Day before this First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and one, were current and lawful Monies of Great Britain, and all such Gold, Silver, and Copper Monies as shall, on or after this Day, be coined by our Authority with the like Impressions, until Our Will and Pleasure shall be otherwise declared, shall be deemed and taken to be current and lawful Monies of the said United Kingdom in Great Britain; and that all such Gold, Silver, and Copper Monies as, on the Day before this First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and one, were current and lawful Monies of Ireland, and all such Gold, and Silver, and Copper Monies as shall, on or after this Day, be coined by Our Authority, with the like Impressions, until Our Will and Pleasure shall be otherwise declared, shall be deemed and taken to be current and lawful Monies of the said United Kingdom in Ireland; and all such Monies as shall have been coined for and issued in any of the Dominions of the said United Kingdom, and declared by Our Proclamation to be current and lawful Money of such Dominions, respectively bearing Our Style, or Titles, or Arms, or Ensigns Armorial, or any Part or Parts thereof, and all Monies which shall hereafter be coined and issued according to such Proclamations, shall continue to be lawful and current Money of such Dominions respectively, notwithstanding such Change in Our Style, Titles, and Arms, or Armorial Bearings respectively as aforesaid, until Our Pleasure shall be further declared thereupon. And all and every such Monies as aforesaid shall be received and taken in Payment in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, and in the Dominions thereunto belonging, after the Date of this Our Proclamation, in such Manner and as of the like Value and Denomination as the same were received and taken before the Date hereof. And it is also Our Will and Pleasure that the several Dies and Marks which have been used to denote the Stamp Duties, and all other Stamps and Marks and Instruments which before the issuing of this Our Proclamation shall have been in actual Use for any public Purpose, and in which Our Royal Style and Titles, or Our Arms or Ensigns Armorial, or any Parts or Part thereof respectively, may be expressed, shall not, by reason of this Our Proclamation or any Thing therein contained, be changed or altered until the same may be conveniently so changed or altered, or until Our Pleasure shall be further declared thereupon; but that all such Dies, Stamps, Marks, and Instruments respectively bearing Our Royal Style and Titles, or Arms or Ensigns Armorial used before this First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and one, or any Parts or Part of such Style, Titles, or of such Arms or Ensigns Armorial, shall have the like Force and Effect as the same had before the said First Day of January instant.
Given at Our Court at St. James’s, the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and one, in the Forty-first Year of Our Reign.