Ceremonies, Customs and Protocol

• Coronation
• Selected Documents Pertaining to the Titular Dignity of Prince in the British Royal Family since 1714
• Trooping the Colour
  • Extensive commentary (part of the Ministry of Defence's Ceremonial and Heritage page)
  • Some further information (from a site that refers to other ceremonies too)
• The Oath of a Privy Counsellor
• State Opening of Parliament (from The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, May 14th, 1997)
• The Great Seal of the Realm (from The Daily Telegraph, Tuesday, February 16th, 2001)
• Colour film from the 1911 Durbar (from The Sunday Telegraph – March 11th, 2001)
• Erskine May's Constitutional History – At two sites:
  • Site 1: Volume I; Volume II; Volume III; Summary of Contents
  • Site 2: Volume I; Volume II; Volume III; Summary of Contents
• Succession in New Zealand (and elsewhere)
• Gun salutes in British India and neighbouring states
• Oath of Allegiance – from the Home Office: Home > Laws & Policy > Policy instructions > NIs > L-P > Oath of Allegiance (Form and Procedure)

• Roll of the Peerage
  • Royal Warrant creating the Roll (from "Warrants Under the Royal Sign Manual" in The London Gazette, June 11th, 2004)
• Hereditary Peerage Association
• Abeyances determined (from "Crown Office", in The London Gazette):
  • Barony of Howard de Walden by Royal Warrant dated June 25th, 2004 (July 14th, 2004)
  • Barony of Herbert by Royal Warrant dated January 10th, 2002 (February 14th, 2002); also use of the surname of Herbert and the arms, crest and badge of Herbert (December 4th, 2002)
  • Baronies of Botreaux and Hastings (abeyant 1920), and Stanley (abeyant 1594) – March 7th, 1921 (March 8th, 1921)
  • Baronies of Hungerford and de Moleyns (abeyant 1920), and Strange of Knokin (abeyant 1594) – February 24th, 1921 (February 25th, 1921)
  • Barony of Furnivall (abeyant 1777) – May 3rd, 1913 (May 20th, 1913)
• Change of title, rank, place, pre-eminence and precedence (from "Change of Name and/or Arms" in The London Gazette) – this list is extensive and is therefore kept elsewhere
• Change of Arms
  • Lord Howard de Walden and Seaford – April 21st, 1917 (June 5th, 1917)
• Royal Warrant on the styles and courtesy titles of the adopted children of peers (from "Warrants Under the Royal Sign Manual" in The London Gazette, June 2nd, 2004)
• Legislation relating to the House of Lords and the peerage (mirror site)
• "thePeerage.com" – "A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe"
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
• Newsgroup:
  • Peerage News – Much up-to-date genealogical information
• Death of Harold Brooks-Baker – obituary

• Roll of the Baronetage
  • Royal Warrant creating the Roll (in a notice dated February 11th, 1910) (from The London Gazette, Tuesday, February 15th, 1910)
  • Standing Council of the Baronetage
• Badge – Warrant of King George V authorising a badge for baronets other than baronets of Scotland (Issue 33493 of The London Gazette, Friday, May 10th, 1929)

• Scottish Barony Titles – this site sells such titles, much of the information there though is of interest
• Use of Foreign Titles in U.K. – under Home > Laws & Policy > Policy instructions > NIs > R-U > Titles (Foreign) on the Home Office's web-site

• Official rules for Royal Proclamations, letters patent for creating peers, summoning bishops, etc. (Statutory Instruments from Her Majesty's Stationery Office)
• 1988: Forms and Proclamations Rules and Schedules
• 1992: Forms and Proclamations Rules and Schedules
• 1996: Forms and Proclamations Rules
• 2000: Forms and Proclamations Rules
• Writ of acceleration
• Letters Patent, Warrants, etc.
• Royal Charters
• The Worshipful Company of Upholders – 1668
• Treaty between the King of Great Britain and the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel, 1740
• University of East Anglia – 1964 [PDF file]
• Charter of Incorporation of the British Computer Society –1984
• Treaties

Many counties have web sites giving details of their Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff. Some just give the names of the current holders of the post; others, however, give more general details (history, resposibilities, etc.). (The office of High Sheriff is very ancient and has been in existence for about a thousand years.)

• On the web site of the Monarchy
• General: 1911 Encyclopaedia
• The Lieutenancy (i.e. the office of Lord Lieutenant):– List
• The Shrievality (i.e. the office of High Sheriff):–
  • Cheshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire

Parliamentary

• House of Lords
  • Ceremony of Introduction
• House of Commons [All PDF files]
  • The Outlawries Bill
  • The Speaker of the House of Commons – including dress
  • The Father of the House
  • Church of England Measures
  • Public Petitions in the House of Commons
  • Private Bills
  • The Chiltern Hundreds – how M.P.s can resign
  • A Brief Chronology of the House of Commons
  • The Palace of Westminster
  • The Clerk of the House – including dress
  • Some Traditions and Customs of the House of Commons

• Oxford
  • At Magdalen College
• Cambridge
  • The Proctors
  • Lists of Officers – Administrative Officers includes Chancellor, Proctors, Esquire Bedells, Orator et sim.
  • Miscellaneous (including The Way Things Were)
• St Andrews
  • Three maces – excellent photographs of the maces of the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Canon Law and of St Salvator's College
• Glasgow
  • Who, Where and When: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow – much interesting material
  • University's own tartan
• Wales
  • Mace – one of several pages on regalia
• Liverpool
  • University regalia
• Southampton
  • Mace
  • Description by the late Dr Franklyn of a University's ideal Esquire Bedell … and diary of a real one!
• Hull
  • Mace

• The Legal Year and the Lord Chancellor's Breakfast
• Judges' Lodgings
• Precedence of the Lord Chief Justice – The London Gazette, Friday, November 30th, 2007, Number 58529

• In Canada – an extensive site
• A Canadian view of British customs
• State Protocol of the Russian Federation

Precedence

• In 1818 – with links (at the bottom of the page) to other pages of interest at the same site

• Official Website of The Confederation of the Cinque Ports
• Appointment of New Warden
  • Appointment of Lord Warden (from The Daily Telegraph, Friday, July 30th, 2004)
  • Appointment of Lord Warden, December 10th, 2004 (from The London Gazette, Wednesday, December 15th, 2004)

• Civic
• Ecclesiastical
  • Forms of Address
• The City of London
  • Livery Companies
• Swan Upping
  • Details, 1997
• Feudalism

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