QUEEN VICTORIA 1880:
Conferred upon Liverpool the title of City as opposed to mere borough. It was closely linked with the foundation of the Bishopric of Liverpool in that year.
VICTORIA BY THE GRACE OF GOD of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith To ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME GREETING WHEREAS the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Liverpool in Our County of Lancaster have by their Memorial humbly represented unto Us that Our Royal Predecessor King John by His Charter dated on or about the twenty-eighth day of August in the ninth year of His Reign was graciously pleased to incorporate the Inhabitants of that Town and Borough and their successors That under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament passed on the sixteenth day of August in the forty second year of Our Reign and intituled "an Act to provide for the Foundation of four new Bishoprics in England" the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have certified to Us under their Common Seal that the Endowment Fund required by the said Act for the foundation of the Bishopric of Liverpool has been provided That the Memorialists prayed if it should please Us by Order in Council to found the said Bishopric that Our Royal Letters Patent authorising the change in the name and denomination of the said Body Corporate and conferring upon Liverpool the title of "City" and declaring that the Memorialists shall be hereafter called and known as "The Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Liverpool" might be issued The Memorialists therefore must humbly prayed that We should be graciously pleased to authorise and direct the issue of a Royal Charter conferring upon Liverpool the Title of City and upon the Memorialists the name and description of "The Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Liverpool" AND WHEREAS the said Bishopric has been duly founded and We are minded to accede to the prayer of the said Memorial Now THEREFORE KNOW YE that We of Our especial grace and favour and mere motion Do by this Our Royal Charter Will Ordain constitute declare and appoint that Our said Borough of Liverpool shall henceforth for the future and for ever hereafter be a CITY and shall be called and styled "THE CITY OF LIVERPOOL IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER" instead of the Borough of Liverpool and shall have all such rank liberties privileges and immunities as are incident to a City AND WE FURTHER DECLARE AND DIRECT that the said Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of Our said Borough of Liverpool shall henceforth and by virtue of this Our Royal Charter be one Body Politic and Corporate by the name and style of "The Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Liverpool" with all such and the same powers and privileges as they have hitherto had as the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Liverpool and as if they had been incorporated by the name of the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Liverpool instead of the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses' of the Borough of Liverpool IN WITNESS whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent WITNESS Ourself at Our Palace at Westminster the eleventh day of May in the forty third year of Our Reign.
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BY HER MAJESTY'S COMAND
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