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Letters Patent relating to the Grant of Arms and Crest to Daniel James Racovolis, Gentleman, dated 30 January 2008[edit | edit source]

(Coll. Arms Grants)

2008 No. 173.114

TO ALL AND SINGULAR to whom these Presents shall come Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones Esquire Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Garter Principal King of Arms David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre Esquire Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Clarenceux King of Arms and Thomas Woodcock Esquire Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order Norroy and Ulster King of Arms

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Margin of the letters patent
Achievement of Arms of Daniel James Racovolis, Gentleman, depicted by Robert Parsons MBE

Whereas DANIEL JAMES RACOVOLIS of Tahara Road Toorak in the State of Victoria in the Commonwealth of Australia Gentleman hath represented unto The Most Noble Edward William Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal that he is desirous of Armorial Bearings established under lawful authority and duly recorded in Her Majesty’s College of Arms and hath requested therefore the favour of His Grace’s Warrant for Our granting and assigning such Arms and Crest as We deem suitable to be borne and used by him and his descendants with due and proper differences and according to the Laws of Arms

And forasmuch as the said Earl Marshal did by Warrant under his hand and Seal bearing date the Thirty-first day of January 2006 authorize and direct Us to grant and assign such Arms and Crest accordingly

Know Ye therefore that We the said Garter Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster in pursuance of His Grace’s Warrant and by virtue of the Letters Patent of Our Several Offices granted by The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty to each of Us respectively do by these Presents grant and assign unto the said DANIEL JAMES RACOVOLIS the Arms following that is to say:- Azure a heraldic Sea-Lion erect Or on a Chief invected Argent three Lozenges Gules And for the Crest Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Azure A demi-Female Figure proper vested Argent cloaked Gules wreathed about the temples with a Wreath of Olive proper supporting with her dexter hand a Portcullis chained Argent and holding in her sinister arm a Fleece Or Mantled Azure lined Argent as are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted[1] to be borne and used for hereof by the said Daniel James Racovolis and his descendants with due and proper differences and according to the Laws of Arms

In Witness whereof We the said Garter Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster have to these Presents subscribed Our names and affixed the Seals of Our several Offices this Thirtieth day of January in the Fifty-sixth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories Head of the Commonwealth and in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and eight.

P. Ll. Gwynn-Jones

Garter

L.S.

D.H.B. Chesshyre

Clarenceux

L.S.

Thomas Woodcock

Norroy and Ulster

L.S.

Recorded in the College of Arms, London

William G. Hunt

Windsor Herald and Registrar


[1] The motto shown beneath the Arms so depicted in the margin of these Letters Patent, persequere ad destinatum, derives from Philippians 3:14, in which Saint Paul the Apostle (Saul of Tarsus) tells his disciples “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”