Continuity of the institution
Role of the Grand Chancellor
The Grand Chancellor assists the Lord of Regality of Slains in administering the House. He chairs the Council and countersigns the official acts concerning the Orders and the archives. It is by his hand that decrees take force, that insignia are conferred and that patents are sealed in the name of the Lord.
Keeper of the archives, the Chancery preserves the documentary memory of the House: the record of the feudal dignity, its entry in the Scottish Barony Register and the matriculation of arms by the Court of the Lord Lyon. It safeguards the coherence of the heraldic function, the faithfulness of the acts and the continuity of an institution whose roots reach back to the Barony of 1314.
His first mission: to ensure the transmission of traditions and the quality of admissions. It maintains the Register of decorations, examines the applications to both Orders and guarantees that every distinction conferred takes its place in the long memory of honour of Slains.