The Investiture

The Investiture Package

Every conferment is prepared to commission. Fees are expressed in pounds sterling, are payable only after the Council has decided in a petitioner's favour, and are returned in full should the Council decline.

The Register Conferment

The essential ceremony: letters patent, registration and dossier.

£1,450

  • Letters patent engrossed on archival vellum with a hand-struck wax seal
  • Perpetual enrolment in the Golden Register
  • Historical and heraldic dossier of the degree conferred
  • Insured despatch within the United Kingdom
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The Chancellor's Investiture

Letters patent, struck medallion and velvet-lined presentation case.

£3,900

  • Everything included in the Register Conferment
  • Council medallion struck in high relief with crimson ribbon
  • Velvet-lined presentation case bearing the house arms
  • Certificate of verification and extract of the register
  • Insured worldwide despatch
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The Legacy Portfolio

The complete ceremonial estate, prepared for a family lineage.

£9,500

  • Everything included in the Chancellor's Investiture
  • Letters patent in enlarged format within a bespoke leather portfolio
  • A second medallion for a consort or nominated heir
  • Commissioned armorial illumination of the recipient's arms
  • Private ceremonial reading of the letters patent by the Clerk
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Velvet-lined presentation case holding the council medallion, crimson ribbon and sealed vellum letters patent

Craft & Materials

What Arrives at Your Door

The Letters Patent

Engrossed by hand on archival vellum in iron-gall ink, illuminated in the manner of the period and closed with a wax seal struck from the Council's own matrix.

The Medallion

Struck in high relief in bronze alloy, antiqued and finished by hand, suspended from a crimson grosgrain ribbon in the colours of the Chambers.

The Case

A rigid presentation case lined in black velvet, embossed with the house arms and moulded to hold the medallion, ribbon and folded letters patent together.

The Register

The name, degree and date are transcribed into the Golden Register, from which verification is issued to the recipient upon request.

Download the specimen letters patent (PDF)

The specimen is not engrossed and is marked as such; it confers nothing and is offered only so that a petitioner may see the form of the instrument.

Orders & Dignities

Explore Each Order of the Chambers

Each of the five Orders of the Chambers carries its own complete investiture package, with real pricing, a council office and its own letters patent.

View the Orders of the Chambers