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1913 Grant of Badge

Inscription of the Mace

TO ALL AND SINGULAR to whom these Presents shall come.

Sir Alfred Scott Scott-Gatty; Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Garter Principal King of Arms, Williant Henry Weldon, Esquire, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Clarenceux King of Arms, and Henry Farnham Burke, Esquire, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Norroy King of Arms, SEND GREETING WHEREAS Henry William Spowart, Acting Town Clerk of the BOROUGH OF LLANELLY in the County of Carmarthen, bath represented unto The Most Noble Henry, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and One of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, that the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the said Borough of Llanelly are a Corporation and bear and use Armorial Ensigns on their Seals, Shields or otherwise, and being desirous of having a Badge or Device granted to them under lawful authority, the said Henry William Spowart therefore requested on behalf of the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses the favour of His Grace’s Warrant for Our granting and assigning such a Device or Badge as may be proper to be borne and used by them and their successors on their Standards or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms AND FORASMUCH as the said Earl Marshal did by Warrant under his hand and seal bearing date the Eighth day of September last authorise and direct US to grant and assign such Device or Badge accordingly, KNOW YE THEREFORE that We the said Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy in pursuance of His Grace’s Warrant and by virtue of the Letters Patent of Our several Offices to each of Us respectively granted do by these Presents grant and assign unto the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the BOROUGH OF LLANELLY the following DEVICE OR BADGE to be used on their Standard or otherwise as is more plainly depicted in the margin hereof, that is to say:-

IN FRONT OF TWO MINER’S PICK-AXES IN SALTIRE AND WITHIN A STEPNEY MOTOR WHEEL A WOODEN BOX CONTAINING A SHEET OF TIN-PLATE ALL PROPER to be borne and used for every hereafter by the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Llanelly and their successors according to the Laws of Arms IN WITNESS whereof We the said Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy Kings of Arms have to these Presents subscribed

Our names and affixed the Seals of Our several Offices this Twenty-second day of October in the Fourth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord, George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, etc., and in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

A. S. SCOTT-GATTY (Garter)

WILLIAM H. WELDON (Clarenceux)

H. FARNHAM BURKE (Norroy)

RECORDED in the College of Arms, London.

CHARLES H. ATHILL, Richmond Herald, Registrar.

Inscription of the Mace

This Silver Mace was presented on the Tenth August, 1914, to the Corporation of Llanelly by Dame Catharine Meriel Lady Howard (the first Mayoress of the Borough).

It is copied from one made in 1681 by Benjamin Pyne, an eminent London Silversmith, to the order of the Earl of Stafford for the Manor of Thornbury, in Gloucester.

Sir Edward Stafford Howard, KCB, the first Mayor of Llanelly, died in office and Lady Howard was elected mayor in his stead on the 16th day of May, 1916.

Councillor Edgar Thomas was elected to the office of Mayor on the 1st April, 1974 following the Grant of Crest of the Charter of Incorporation of 1974.