[MR] Heraldic Question (fwd)

[Craig Levin]

Takenoshita:

> Here's a quick (I hope) heraldic question: I know that their Majesties can
> confer a grant of arms without any other attendant award (at least they
> could in the past); is it possible for them to confer a patent of arms
> similarly, without awarding a knighthood/master at arms, Laurel, Pelican,
> Lady of the Rose or royal peerage?  I'm pretty certain it's never been done,
> but is it possible?

Naked grants, as they are called, are certainly in the gift of
the throne, and pretty much always have been (and, barring a
*big* change to either Corpora or Atlantian law, will remain so).
Naked patents are forbidden by Corpora, VIIIA4. 

Pedro

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