While Cranmer was following Charles through Italy, he received a royal letter dated 1 October 1532 informing him that he had been appointed the new Archbishop of Canterbury, following the death of archbishop William Warham.

He received a letter of rejection, written by a royal functionary, thanking him for his interest.

) Another royal letter, dated October 1501, gave Vasco da Gama the personal right to intervene and exercise a determining role on any future India-bound fleet.

Vasco da Gama invoked his royal letter to take command of the 4th India Armada, secheduled to set out in 1502, with the explicit aim of taking revenge upon the Zamorin and force him to submit to Portuguese terms.

With the royal letter in hand, mobs forcibly closed Franciscan abbeys all over Denmark.

Charles prepared for a counter-revolutionary invasion of France, but after a letter by Marie Antoinette postponed it to after the royal family had escaped France.

By Louis's reign, Bastille prisoners were detained using a " lettre de cachet ", " a letter under royal seal ", issued by the king and countersigned by a minister, ordering a named person to be held.

:" The first pope who used it in an official act and relied upon it, was Leo IX ; in a letter of 1054 to Michael Cærularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, he cites the " Donatio " to show that the Holy See possessed both an earthly and a heavenly imperium, the royal priesthood.

According to Horowitz, the quality of the writing indicates that this was a royal inscription, apparently a letter from the a king of Jerusalem to the pharaoh in Egypt.

For this use, the military ensign would have a white field included with a golden marker: For the Harbour pilots ( as of 1881, based on a proposal of 1825 ) an anchor with a star ; for the Customs ( as of 1844 ) the letter " T " topped a royal crown ; for the Royal Mail ( as of 1844 ) a postal horn with a royal crown.

), Churchill, accompanied by some 400 officers and men, slipped from the royal camp and rode towards William in Axminster, leaving behind him a letter of apology and self-justification:

Coke then successively restricted the definition of treason and declared a royal letter illegal, leading to his dismissal from the bench on 14 November 1616.

While all the other judges " succumbed to royal pressure and, throwing themselves on their knees, prayed for pardon ", Coke defended the letter and stated that " When the case happens I shall do that which shall be fit for a judge to do ".

The first pope who used it in an official act and relied upon, Leo IX, cites the " Donatio " in a letter of 1054 to Michael Cærularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, to show that the Holy See possessed both an earthly and a heavenly imperium, the royal priesthood.

John Slezer | Slezer's Edinburgh Castle c. 1693 depicting the Scottish Union Flag. Despite the drawings described in this letter as showing drafts of the two new patterns, together with any royal response to the complaint which may have accompanied them, having been lost in a fire, other evidence exists, at least on paper, of a Scottish variant whereby the Scottish cross appears uppermost.

Sessions conferred with Chief Justice Hopkins and lawyer John Cole, and with Moses Brown the four men drafted a letter to Massachusetts ' statesman Samuel Adams, who replied, urging Rhode Island to remain defiant, or at least to stall matters by appealing the creation of the royal commission.

The Copenhagen government, which in May 1851 made an abortive attempt to come to an understanding with the inhabitants of the duchies by convening an assembly of notables at Flensburg, issued on December 6, 1851 a project for the future organisation of the monarchy on the basis of the equality of its constituent states, with a common ministry ; and on January 28, 1852 a royal letter announced the institution of a unitary state which, while maintaining the fundamental constitution of Denmark, would increase the parliamentary powers of the estates of the two duchies.

The legality of this constitution was disputed by the two German great powers, on the ground that the estates of the duchies had not been consulted as promised in the royal letter of December 6, 1851.

The royal letter of 14 February 1861, which was written even before the Civil War started, took some time to arrive in Washington DC, and by the time it reached its destination, President Buchanan was not in office any longer.

( Text of the royal letter here ..) Lincoln, who succeeded Buchanan, is said to have been asked what the elephants could be used for, and in reply he said that he did not know, unless " they were used to stamp out the rebellion.

There is, however, no evidence that Harclay received the royal letter in time to arrive at the battlefield any earlier than he did.

In August 2010, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, Al-Fayed revealed that he had burnt Harrods royal warrants, after taking them down in 2000.

The viceroy had the casket opened, and gave the saint's body his baton, royal credentials, and a letter asking the saint's support.

Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, a British resident in Florence, recalled in a letter that " The common people are convinced she went off in a hurricane of wind ; a most violent one began this morning and lasted for about two hours, and now the sun shines as bright as ever ..." The royal line of the House of Medici went extinct with her death.

Found in a Hattic royal tomb dated about 2500 BC, at Alaca Höyük in northern Anatolia, the dagger has a smelted iron blade and a bronze handle.

In 1910, G. A. Reisner found sixty-three inscribed potsherds while excavating the royal palace at Samaria, which were later dated to the reign of Jeroboam II and mention regnal years extending from the ninth to the 17th of his reign.

They discovered a royal burial, its timbers recently dated as cut to about 740 BC complete with remains of the funeral feast and " the best collection of Iron Age drinking vessels ever uncovered ".

Most of the royal tombs were dated to about 2600 BC.

The Catholic Monarchs chose the city of Granada as their burial site by a royal decree dated September 13, 1504.

Gold Scythian pectoral, or neckpiece, from a royal kurgan in Tolstaya Mogila, Yenakiieve | Ordžonikidze, Ukraine, dated to the second half of the 4th century BC.

Thanks to the discovery of papyrus trial transcripts ( dated to Ramesses III ), it is now known that there was a plot against his life as a result of a royal harem conspiracy during a celebration at Medinet Habu.

The manor was granted to the Abbey in 1189, although a royal charter dated 1133 speaks of burgesses in the town.

Discovery of Altar 21 leading to the reexamination of the “ Classic hiatus ”; Painted Tomb of a royal woman found at Caana, dated to A. D. 634.

Image: AlexandropolKurganBeforeExcavation1852-6. gif | Scythian royal Alexandropol ( Ukraine ) kurgan C14 dated 394 – 366 BC, before excavation in 1852 – 6.

His chief wife, Tiye, is known to have outlived him for at least twelve years as she is mentioned in several Amarna letters dated from her son's reign as well as depicted at a dinner table with Akhenaten and his royal family in scenes from the tomb of Huya, which were made during Year 9 and Year 12 of her son's reign.

) They show the last appearance of the royal family as a whole ( that is: Akhenaten and his chief-queen Nefertiti, together with their six daughters ), which scholars have dated to their satisfaction.

In Letters Patent dated 20 November 1917, George V undertook further restructuring of the royal styles and titles by restricting the titles of Prince or Princess and the style of Royal Highness to the children of the sovereign, the children of the sovereign's sons, and the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

" The lack of dated inscriptions for Horemheb after his Year 14 also explains the unfinished state of Horemheb's royal KV57 tomb --" a fact not taken into account by any of those defending a long reign 26 or 27 years.

The papal bull was obtained in 1494, and the royal charter which made Aberdeen the seat of a university is dated 1498.

By royal charter dated 29 October 1900 the borough was granted the title City of Westminster.

In the first year of his reign, the royal heralds were incorporated under Royal charter dated 2 March 1484, under the Latin name " Le Garter regis armorum Anglicorum, regis armorum partium Australium, regis armorum partium Borealium, regis armorum Wallæ et heraldorum, prosecutorum, sive pursevandorum armorum.

Four of these tablets list rations of oil and barley given to various individuals — including the deposed King Jehoiachin — by Nebuchadnezzar from the royal storehouses, dated five years after Jehoiachin was taken captive.

The earliest known document that makes mention of David is the royal charter of his father, George II of Georgia ( r. 1072 – 1089 ), granted to the Mghvime monastery and dated to 1073.

In his Sinicae historiae decas prima ( first published in Munich in 1658 ), Martino Martini ( 1614 – 1661 ) dated the royal ascension of Huangdi to 2697 BC, but started the Chinese calendar with the reign of Fuxi, which he claimed started in 2952 BC.

A document dated 1529 mentions Gombert as magister puerorum (" master of the boys ") for the royal chapel.

During her tenure as queen, royal charters were dated with both her regnal year and that of the king.

Scientiae thesaurus mirabilis, the royal charter announcing the institution of the University was dated 1 March of that year, although efforts had been made at least since 1288 to create this first University in Portugal ; it is thus one the oldest of such establishments in the Iberian Peninsula.