August 1723
Anno 10o Georgii Regis.
DIE Martis, 13o Augusti.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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| Epus. London. |
Dux Chandos.
Comes Sutherland.
Comes Ilay.
Viscount Torrington. |
Ds. Lechmere. |
PRAYERS.
The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas sat Speaker, by Virtue of a former Commission.
The Speaker acquainted the House, "That there
was a Commission granted under the Great Seal, for
the further proroguing of the Parliament."
The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was resumed.
Then Four of the Lords Commissioners (in their
Robes) being seated on a Form placed between the
Throne and the Woolsack (the Speaker being retired
to the usual Place by the State, as the Speakers do
when His Majesty is present); the Duke of Chandos in
the Middle; and the Earl of Ilay on his Right Hand;
and the Earl of Sutherland and Lord Lechmere on his
Left; commanded the Deputy Gentleman Usher of
the Black Rod to let the Commons know, "The Commissioners desire their immediate Attendance in this
House, to hear the Commission read."
Who being come; the Commission was read, by the
Clerk, as follows:
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"Carleton, P.
Roxburgh.
Cadogan.
R. Walpole.
"Georgius, Dei Gratia, Magn. Britann. Franc.
et Hib'niæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Præcharissimo
Filio et perquam Fideli Consiliario Nostro Georgio
Principi Walliæ, Reverendissimo in Christo Patri et
Fideli Consiliario Nostro Will'o Archiepiscopo Ebor.
Angl. Primati et Metropolitano, Charissimis Consanguineis et Consiliariis Nostris Carolo Duci Somerset,
Hen'co Duci Kent, Jacobo Duci Montrose, Jacobo Duci
Chandos, Lionel. Duci Dorset, Jacobo Comiti Derby,
Thomæ Comiti Pembroke et Montgomery, Hen'co Comiti
Lincoln. Georgio Comiti North'ton, Thomæ Comiti
Westmorland, Arthuro Comiti Anglesey, Carolo Comiti
Carlisle, Daniel. Comiti Nottingham, Montagu Comiti
Abingdon, Will'o Comiti Coventry, Ed'r'o Comiti Orford, Hugon. Comiti Cholmondeley Thesaurario Hospitii
Nostri, Joh'i Comiti Sutherland, Hugon. Comiti Loudoun, Jacobo Comiti Findlater & Scafield, Joh'i Comiti
Stair, Archibald. Comiti Ilay, Georgio Comiti Halifax,
Will'o Comiti Cowper, Thomæ Comiti Coningesby, Ric'o
Vicecomiti Cobham, Hugon. Vicecomiti Falmouth,
Georgio Vicecomiti Torrington, Reverendo in Christo
Patri et Fideli Consiliario Nostro Ed'o Episcopo
London. Prædilectis et Fidelibus Consiliariis Nostris
Will'o Domino Berkeley de Stratton, et Nic'o Domino
Lechmere Cancellario Ducatus (fn. 1) Nostri Lancastr. Salutem. Cum nuper, pro quibusdam arduis et urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum et Defensionem Regni
Nostri Magn. Britann. et Ecclesiæ concernentibus,
præsens hoc Parliamentum Nostrum apud Civitatem
Nostram Westm. Decimo Die Maii, Anno Regni Nostri
Octavo, inchoari et teneri ordinaverimus; quod Parliamentum Nostrum abinde, per separalia Brevia
Nostra, usque ad et in Nonum Diem Octobris ult.
præterit. prorogatum fuit; et abinde, per separalia
Adjournamenta et Prorogationes, usque ad et in Diem
Martis, Decimum Tertium Diem instantis Augusti,
adjournatum et prorogatum fuit, apud Civitatem Nostram Westm. prædictam, ibidem tunc tenendum et prosequendum: Sciatis tamen, quod, certis urgentibus
Causis et Considerationibus Nos specialiter moventibus, idem Parliamentum Nostrum ulterius prorogandum duximus. De Fidelitate igitur, Prudentia, et
Circumspectionibus vestris plurimum considentes, de
Avisamento et Assensu Concilii Nostri, assignavimus
vos Commissionarios Nostros; dantes vobis, et aliquibus Tribus vel pluribus vestrum, Tenore Præsentium, plenam Potestatem et Auctoritatem, dicto
Decimo Tertio Die Augusti prox. sequend. ad
præsens Parliamentum Nostrum, Nomine Nostro,
usque ad et in Diem Martis, Vicesimum Quartum
Diem Septembris prox. sequen. apud prædictam
Civitatem Nostram Westm. prorogandum et continuandum, ibidem tunc tenendum et prosequendum; et
ideo vobis mandamus, quod circa Præmissa diligenter
intendatis, ac ea in Forma prædicta effectualiter expleatis. Damus autem universis et singulis Archiepiscopis, Ducibus, Marchionibus, Comitibus, Vice
comitibus, Episcopis, Baronibus, Militibus, Civibus,
Burgensibus, et Commissionariis pro Comitatibus et
Burgis, ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum
Parliamentum Nostrum conventuris, Tenore Præsentium, firmiter in Mandatis, quod vobis, in Præmissis
faciendis, agendis, et exequendis, pareant, obediant,
et intendant, prout decet. In cujus Rei Testimonium, has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes.
"Testibus Gulielmo Archiepiscopo Cantuar. et
cæteris Custodibus et Justiciar. Regni apud
Westm. Octavo Die Augusti, Anno Regni Nostri
Decimo.
"Per ipsos Justiciar. propriis Manibus signat.
"Wrighte."
Then the Duke of Chandos said,
Parliament prorogued.
"My Lords, and Gentlemen,
"By virtue of His Majesty's Commission now read,
to us and others directed, we do, in His Majesty's
Name, and by His Royal Authority, prorogue this
Parliament to Tuesday the Twenty-fourth Day of September next, to be then here held: And this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday the
Twenty-fourth Day of September next."