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  3. Correspondance . - 1835-1864
  4. Lettre de Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine au Duc de Norfolk . - Retranscriptions [196-] (original créé en [1854?])
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Lettre de Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine au Duc de Norfolk . - Retranscriptions [196-] (original créé en [1854?])

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Ville de Montréal. Section des archives via Archives de Montréal (Ville de Montréal)
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Retranscriptions [196-] (original créé en [1854?]) (indexed as 1960)
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Deux retranscriptions d'une lettre de La Fontaine au sujet de l'octroi du titre de baron. Titre basé sur le contenu des pièces. Les documents sont en anglais. Les pièces portaient originellement le numéro 000759C.
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This is a typed letter on white paper, photographed straight on, with a handwritten reference number in the top right corner and a faint watermark reading Archives de la Ville de Montréal in the lower right. The letter is addressed to the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshall, and is written in English as a formal memorial beginning with 'Sheweth' and ending with the sign-off 'And your Grace's Memorialist shall etc.' followed by initials. The body text is a request concerning the granting of a baronetcy and the enrolment of arms in the College of Arms.Described automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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To the most noble Henry Charles Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshall and hereditary Marshall of England, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter.The Memorial of Louis Hyppolite Lafontaine of Montreal in the Province of Canada, Esquire, Chief Justice of the Queen's-Bench for Lower-Canada.Sheweth,And your Grace's Memorialist shall etc.That Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to signify Her Royal intention to advance your Memorialist to the Dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, whereby it becomes necessary that his Armorial Ensigns should be duly enrolled in the College of Arms. He therefore requests the favour of your Grace's Warrant to the Kings of Arms for their granting and assigning such Arms and crest as may be proper to be borne by him and his Descendants with due and proper differences according to the laws of arms.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
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