§ MR. R. DUNCAN (Lanarkshire, Govan)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can now make a statement as to the standing of Lyon King-at-Arms in matters of Imperial heraldry.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FORTHE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. HERBERT SAMUEL,) Yorkshire, ClevelandThe Secretary of State has no statement to make, except to say that questions of what he understands the hon. Member to mean by Imperial Heraldry are outside the jurisdiction of the King at-Arms. Arms are granted to a Colony by His Majesty under a Royal Warrant, countersigned by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. All that is done by the Officers of the Earl Marshal's Department is to put into heraldic form the design the colony wishes to adopt, and to see that the King's concession is duly recorded in the Department.
§ MR. R. DUNCANIs the hon. Gentleman aware that on the accession of King James the VI. and I., Imperial heraldy became of moment and required a corresponding status for the heralds of England and Scotland?
§ MR. HERBERT SAMUELI am afraid I had forgotten that.