Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

* 1842 21 August – The Church of England Diocese of Gibraltar was founded by Letters Patent and took over the pastoral care of the chaplaincies and congregations from Portugal to the Caspian Sea.

The position of prime minister is not outlined in any Canadian constitutional document and is mentioned only in passing in Schedule B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by King George VI.

The Letters of Patent attached to the Act acknowledged Aboriginal ownership and stated that no actions could be undertaken that would affect the rights of any Aboriginal natives of the said province to the actual occupation and enjoyment in their own persons or in the persons of their descendants of any land therein now actually occupied or enjoyed by such natives.

In 1863 that part of New South Wales to the north of South Australia was annexed to South Australia by Letters Patent as the Northern Territory of South Australia, which became shortened to the Northern Territory ( 6 July 1863 ).

British arrangements for the government of South Georgia were first established under the 1843 British Letters Patent.

In 1908 the United Kingdom issued further Letters Patent which established constitutional arrangements for its possessions in the South Atlantic.

The United Kingdom formally annexed the South Sandwich Islands through the 1908 Letters Patent, grouping them with other British-held territory in Antarctica as the Falkland Islands Dependencies.

On 12 January 1938, by Letters Patent, the islands were declared a dependency of Saint Helena.

Although the constitution of Canada states that the " Command-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia, and of all Naval and Military Forces, of and in Canada, is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen ," the governor general acts in her place as Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces and is permitted through the 1947 Letters Patent to use the title Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada.

On 30 November 1917, King George V issued Letters Patent defining who are members of the Royal Family ; the text of the notice from the London Gazette is as follows:

In 1996, Her Majesty The Queen modified these Letters Patent, as was evidenced by this Notice from the London Gazette:

In 1898, Queen Victoria issued Letters Patent that granted the children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales the style Royal Highness, and at the age of two, Albert became " His Royal Highness Prince Albert of York ".

In settling the issue, George's first act as king was to confer upon his brother the title and style " His Royal Highness The Duke of Windsor ", but the Letters Patent creating the dukedom prevented any wife or children from bearing royal styles.

In other words, no reasonable objection could have been taken if the King had decided that his exclusion from the lineal succession excluded him from the right to this title as conferred by the existing Letters Patent.

The right to use this style or title, in our view, is within the prerogative of His Majesty and he has the power to regulate it by Letters Patent generally or in particular circumstances.

If it were used by Princess Elizabeth, it would have degraded her right as a Princess of the United Kingdom unless Letters Patent or Legislation were introduced to the contrary.

As the 1947 Letters Patent issued by King George VI permit the Governor General of Canada to exercise almost all of the monarch's powers in respect of Canada, the viceroy is expected to continue to act as the personal representative of the monarch, and not any regent, even if the monarch is a child or incapacitated.

Officials at Rideau Hall have pointed to the Letters Patent of 1947 as justification for describing the governor general as head of state, but others countered that the document makes no such distinction, either literally or implicitly, nor does it effect an abdication of the sovereign's powers in favour of the viceroy.

" There are also a few duties which must be specifically performed by, or bills that require assent by, the Queen ; these include applying the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada to the appointment papers of governors general, the issuance of Letters Patent, the confirmation of awards of Canadian honours, the approval of any change in her Canadian title, and the creation of new Senate seats.

Examples include the Letters Patent awarded to the " Towns of Brighton and Hove ", the " Town of Wolverhampton " and the " Town of Newport in the County Borough of Newport ".

It originated from Letters Patent ( similar to a royal charter ) granted to the University of Cambridge by Henry VIII in 1534, and has been producing books continuously since the first University Press book was printed in 1584.

University printing did not actually begin in Cambridge until the first practising University Printer, Thomas Thomas, had been appointed in 1583, nearly fifty years after the grant of the Letters Patent.

In those days, the Stationers ’ Company in London jealously guarded its monopoly of printing, which partly explains the delay between the date of the University ’ s Letters Patent and the printing of the first book.

See p. 482 in " Excerpts from Letters to Lady Welby ", Essential Peirce v. 2 .</ ref > Signs also enter into various kinds of meaningful combinations ; Peirce covered both semantic and syntactical issues in his speculative grammar.

She wrote for the Daily Worker and a variety of publications including Decision ( payne ), Life & Letters Today ( London ) for which she covered the People's Olympiad ( Olimpiada Popular, Barcelona ), the Catalonian government's alternative to the Nazis ' 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Berg wrote or dictated nearly 3, 000 " Mo Letters " (" Mo " being abbreviated from his pseudonym " Moses David "), which typically covered spiritual or practical subjects and were used as a way of disseminating and introducing policy and religious doctrine to his followers.

Singer / songwriter Greg Humphreys ' songs have been covered by bands like Hootie and the Blowfish, who used to open for them, and Letters to Cleo.

Many songs for church use bear the title " Hosanna ", including songs written by New Zealand singer Brooke Fraser Ligertwood ( released on the 2007 Hillsong United albums All of the Above and live on Saviour King and covered by the Canadian group Starfield on their album I Will Go ); another song by Paul Baloche on his 2006 album A Greater Song ; another by gospel artist Kirk Franklin, and another by Andrew Peterson on his 2008 album Resurrection Letters II.

Zāhir ud-Dīn Mohammad Bābur, who founded the Mughal dynasty of South Asia kept a journal Bāburnāma ( Chagatai /; literally: " Book of Babur " or " Letters of Babur ") which was written between 1493 and 1529.

Beat writer William Burroughs read a paper by Richard Evans Schultes on the subject and sought out yagé in the early 1950s while traveling through South America in the hopes that it could relieve or cure opiate addiction ( see The Yage Letters ).

The honorary doctorates were Doctor of Divinity from Tennessee Temple Theological Seminary, Doctor of Letters from California Graduate School of Theology, and Doctor of Laws from Central University in Seoul, South Korea.

Spacey was awarded a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa from the London South Bank University in November 2005.

In 1966 the University of New South Wales awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters ( D. Litt ).

In reaction to the New Zealand Company's moves, on 15 June 1839 a new Letters patent was issued to expand the territory of New South Wales to include all of New Zealand.

* General W. T. Sherman as College President: A Collection of Letters, Documents, and Other Material, Chiefly from Private Sources, Relating to the Life and Activities of General William Tecumseh Sherman, to the Early Years of Louisiana State University, and the Stirring Conditions Existing in the South on the Eve of the Civil War ( posthumous, 1912 )

Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940-42.

* South Coast Today Letters from Camp

On 15 June 1839 new Letters Patent were issued to expand the territory of New South Wales to include the entire territory of New Zealand, from latitude 34 ° South to 47 ° 10 ’ South, and from longitude 166 ° 5 ’ East to 179 ° East.

The first was the Letters Patent 1839, in relation to the extension of the boundaries of New South Wales to include the islands of New Zealand.

Two books published posthumously in her husband's name, The Heart of a Soldier, As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Gen ' l George E. Pickett ( published in 1913 ) and Soldier of the South: General Pickett's War Letters to His Wife ( 1928 ), have been described as " unreliable works that were fictionalized by Pickett's wife.