Carrick Pursuivant

"We Thomas Robert, Earl of Kinnoul Sco, Lord Lyon King of Arms, considering that the office of Carrick Pursuivant is now vacant in our hands and at our gift and disposal by the promotion to the office of Islay Herald of Henry Wilson Esquire late Carrick Pursuivant at arms, and being sufficiently informed of the literature, qualifications and good conversation of Our Lovite Mr Archibald Thorburn, Clerk in the Feind (?) Office, Edinburgh, and of his ability to discharge the office and duty of a Pursuivant at Arms; Therefore Witt ye us after due trial and examination taken of the literature and qualifications of the said Mr Archibald Thorburn, and having found him apt, able, and sufficiently qualified to perform all the duties which are requisite for a Pursuivant, to have Admitted and Received, Likeas we hereby Admit and Receive the said Archibald Thorburn to the office of a Pursuivant at Arms, and we will and ordain that in all times coming he shall be styled and entitled "Carrick Pursuivant" during all the days of his lifetime;- And we do hereby Give and Dispone to him the said office with All and Sundry honours, dignities, fees, casualties, profits and duties pertaining and belonging thereto during all the days of his lifetime as said is: Which Admission the said Archibald Thorburn hath accepted and hereby accepts, Promising faithfully to discharge in person the several duties thereof whenever he shall be required and called upon so to do, unless prevented by indisposition or necessary absence in the country for the time, in which event he hereby engages to procure a respectable person to discharge the said duties for him, with full power to the said Archibald Thorburn to bruik, exerce, possess and enjoy the said office of Pursuivant sicklike and as freely in all respects as any others his predecessors Carrick Pursuivants have formerly bruiked and possessed the same in any time bygone: And We Ordain these presents to be recorded in the Lyon Court Books conform to the order observed in such cases:- And We consent to the Registration hereof in the Books of Council and Session, Books of Exchequer in Scotland, or any other register necessary therein to remain for preservation and thereto Constitute Our Procurators. In witness whereof these presents written upon duly stamped parchment conform to law by Daniel Stewart, Clerk in the General Registry Office of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) and to which we have ordered the Seal of Our Office to be appended are subscribed by George Burnett Esquire, Advocate, Our Depute, At Edinburgh the first day of November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four years, before these Witnesses the said Daniel Stewart and Robert Riddle Stodart, Lyon Clerk Depute

Daniel Stewart, Witness

R R Stodart, Witness

George Burnett

Exchequer Chambers Edinburgh

9th January 1865

Recorded in the Office of the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrances

Adam C. Linfrine (?)

Chief Clerk"