The Act requires certain dispensations to be confirmed by Letters Patent. There's no warranty; perhaps the Lord Chancellor can issue these instruments without a command from the Sovereign. 🤔 2/2 cbaionline.org/corpus/items...

Oh, thank you! I'll have to add those to the CBAI.

And the people who *do* see these instruments probably aren't too fussed by the lack of punctuation. I wouldn't be surprised if many people don't even read their patents. For them, the patent is a symbol rather than a text to be read. 3/3

In practice, many Letters Patent are produced for a fairly limited audience. Most are never formally published, so unless someone makes a FOIA request, they won't be seen by anyone except the recipient and their circle. 2/3

Adding punctuation wouldn't necessarily require a formal announcement. As far as I know, there's no explicit rule banning it or anything like that. It's simply a case of the Crown Office doing things the way they've always been done. Readability may not even be a major concern. 1/3

It wouldn't be the first time!

That's actually unusual--Warrants normally use Bookman Old Style.

It's the Second Seal.

That's a welcome change, though given the decline in gazetting, it's probably not as impactful as it would have been 20+ years ago.

It wasn't a courtesy title. His peerages were conferred on him by Letters Patent and he had a seat in the House of Lords until 1999.

I could see how the traditional arguments against disclosing honors-related material would still apply. If the decision-makers need a safe space in which to discuss the merits of giving someone an honor, one could argue they also need a space in which to discuss the merits of taking one away.