This a late period English text, but I cannot recall the specific sources I was referencing.
No scroll image is available, but the Calligrapher and Illuminator was Shauna MacKenzie O’Dowd.
Scroll Text:
The monarch’s most royal majesty, by the advice of their most honourable council, intending the advancement of the true honour of the Society, the promotion of service throughout their realms and dominions, and to recognize the works of one so deserving, doth minister unto their loving subjects these Injunctions hereafter following. All which Injunctions their majesties willeth and commandeth their loving subjects obediently to receive, and truly to observe and keep, every man and woman in their offices, degrees, and states, as they will avoid their majesty’s displeasure, and pains of the same hereafter expressed.
- The first is that all princes, dukes, counts, barons, lords, deans, archdeacons, parsons, and vicars, and all other persons shall recognize the works of our beloved Mary Theophania Hunn, for she has laboured long in the service of the Kingdom to the uttermost of her wit, knowledge, and learning, purely and sincerely, and without any dissimulation.
- Besides this, that we elevate her to the Order of the Pelican that her example may serve to inspire all others to goodness, health, and service.
- Item, that she shall bear arms by letters patent, to whit, Pean, a bear sejant erect supported on a bee skep Or.
All which and singular Injunctions their majesties ministers unto their loving subjects, straitly charging and commanding them to observe and keep the same upon pain of deprivation, sequestration of fruits and benefices, suspension, and such other coercion, as to justices, or other having jurisdiction, whom their majesties have appointed, or shall appoint for the due execution of the same, shall be seen convenient; charging and commanding them to see these Injunctions observed and kept of all persons being under their jurisdiction, as they will answer to their majesties for the contrary.
So ordered by their most royal majesties, Ioannes and Honig, on the third day of June, AS LII, upon the Investiture of the Baron and Baroness of Bhakail.
