Letters Patent of 6 June 2007

To all to whom these Presents shall come, or whom the same may in any way concern, We, Max, King of this most noble Realm, send Greeting!

Know ye that We of Our special grace do by these Presents dignify, invest and ennoble Our most loyal Subject John Preacher with the degrees, styles, dignities, titles and honors of Duke of Zavat, Earl of Goru and Duvonak and Baron Salku, and do appoint, give and grant unto him and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and to be begotten the said degrees, styles, dignities, titles and honors.

And We furthermore grant that he and his aforementioned heirs successively may have, hold and possess a seat, place and voice amongst the Lords Temporal and Spiritual in Parliament assembled amongst the Dukes according to the ancientcy of their titles, and also that he and his aforementioned heirs successively may enjoy all the rights, privileges, preeminences, immunities and advantages which law and tradition have accorded Dukes of this most noble Realm or which they do at present have and enjoy.

Witness Ourself at Our City of Riverdale this sixth day of June in the year of Our Reign the first, the year of this most noble Realm the first and the year of the Christian era the two thousand and seventh.