TO ALL AND SINGULAR AS Well Noblemen as Gentlemen and others to whom
these Presents shall come, I Captain NEVILE RODWELL WILKINSON, F.S.A.,
A.R.E., Ulster King of Arms and Principal Herald of All Ireland, Registrar of the Most
Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, send due Salutation and Greeting. WHEREAS application
hath been made unto me by SIR FREDERIC FITZJAMES CULLINAN of 55
Fitzwilliam Square in the City of Dublin, Knight, Companion of the Most Honourable Order
of the Bath, setting forth that he is the only surviving son of Patrick Maxwell
Cullinan, of Harmony House, Ennis in the County of Clare, Esquire, Bachelor of
Medicine in the University of Dublin, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland,
and a Justice of the Peace for the said County, who was fourth son of Denis Cullinan of
Kilnacully, eldest son of Roger Cullinan of Drumcliffe both in the said County
of Clare, Gentlemen, all deceased, and that being desirous that Armorial Ensigns may be
duly marshalled and assigned by lawful authority unto him and his posterity such as
without injury or prejudice to any other he and they may bear and advance, and that the
same may be registered and recorded in the Office of Ulster King of Arms in Ireland to the
end that the officers of Arms there and all others upon occasion may take full notice and
have knowledge thereof, he hath therefore prayed that I would grant and assign unto him
and unto them such Armorial Ensigns as he and they may for ever hereafter lawfully use and
bear. Know Ye therefore that I the said Ulster King of Arms having taken the request of
the said applicant into consideration and hearing circumstances am pleased to comply
therewith and by virtue of the power unto me given by His Majesty’s Royal Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called Ireland and by the authority of the same have given and granted and by
these Presents do given and assign unto the said Sir Frederic Fitz James Cullinan, Knight,
Companion of the Most Honourable Order of Bath the Arms following, that is to say:-
Azure, a horse passant argent, maned tailed and hoofed and gorged with an
antique crown or, on a chief of the last a ravens head erased sable, between two swords
erect and embrued proper, for Crest, on a wreath of the colours a horse as in the Arms
mantled gules doubled argent, and for Motto Priest d'accomplir the whole as in the margin
more clearly depicted, To have and to hold the said Arms unto him the said Sir Frederic
Fitz James Cullinan, Knight, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and his
posterity, observing and using their due and proper difference, and the same to bear, use,
shew, set forth and advance in shield or banner or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms
forever, and without the let, hindrance, molestation, interruption, controlment or
challenge of any manner of person or persons whatsoever.
IN WITNESS whereof I subscribe these Present with my
Name and Title and affix hereunto the seal of my Office this fifteenth day of February in
the tenth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord Edward the Seventh by the Grace of God
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominion beyond the
Seas, King, Defender of the faith and so forth, and in the year of Our Lord One thousand
nine hundred and ten.
Nevile R. Wilkinson
Ulster
