June 1724
Anno 10o Georgii Regis.
DIE Jovis, 4o Junii.
Domini præsentes fuerunt:
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Comes Macclesfield, Cancellarius.
Dux Dorset.
Viscount Torrington. |
Ds. Gower.
Ds. Onslow. |
His Majesty having been pleased to cause a Commission to be issued, under the Great Seal, for the further proroguing of the Parliament;
Three of the Lords Commissioners (in their Robes)
being seated on a Form placed between the Throne
and the Woolsack; the Lord Chancellor in the Middle; and the Duke of Dorset on his Right Hand;
and the Lord Viscount Torrington on his Left; commanded the Deputy Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
to go to the House of Commons, and desire their immediate Attendance in this House, to hear His Majesty's
Commission read.
Who being come, with their Speaker; the Commission was read, by the Clerk, as follows:
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"GEORGIUS R.
"Georgius, Dei Gratia, Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ,
& Hib'niæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Præcharissimo
Filio & perquam Fideli Consiliario Nostro Georgio
Principi Walliæ, Reverendissimo in Christo Patri & Fideli
Consiliario Nostro Will'o Archiepiscopo Cantuar. totius
Angl. Primati & Metropolitano, Charissimo Consanguineo & Consiliario Nostro Thomæ Comiti Macclesfield
Cancellario Nostro Magnæ Britanniæ, Prædilecto &
Fideli Consilario Nostro Hen'co Domino Carleton
Præsidenti Concilii Nostri, Charissimis Consanguineis
& Consiliariis Nostris Evelyn Duci Kingston Custodi
Privati Sigilli Nostri, Joh'i Duci Argyll & Greenwich
Senescallo Hospitii Nostri, Carolo Duci Grafton Camerario Hospitii Nostri, Carolo Duci Somerset, Will'o Duci
Devon, Hen'co Duci Kent, Jacobo Duci Montrose, Joh'i Duci Roxburgh Uni Primariorum Secretariorum Nostrorum,
Peregrin. Duci de Ancaster Magno Camerario Angl.
Thomæ Holles Duci Newcastle Uni Primariorum Secretariorum Nostrorum, Jacobo Duci Chandos, Lionel.
Duci Dorset, Jacobo Comiti Derby, Thomæ Comiti
Pembroke & Montgomery, Hen'co Comiti Lincoln.
Georgio Comiti North'ton, Thomæ Comiti Westmorland,
Arthuro Comiti Anglesey, Carolo Comiti Carlisle, Jacobo
Comiti Berkeley, Daniel. Comiti Nottingham, Montagu
Comiti Abingdon, Will'o Comiti Coventry, Ed'r'o Comiti
Orford, Fran'co Comiti Godolphin, Hugon. Comiti Cholmondeley Thesaurario Hospitii Nostri, Job'i Comiti
Sutherland, Hugon. Comiti Loudoun, Jacobo Comiti
Findlater et Seafield, Joh'i Comiti Stair, Archibald.
Comiti Ilay, Hen'co Comiti Uxbridge, Georgio Comiti
Halifax, Will'o Comiti Cadogan, Thomæ Comiti Coningesby, Carolo Vicecomiti Townshend Primario Secretario Nostro, Ric'o Vicecomiti Cobham, Hugon. Vicecomiti
Falmouth, Simon. Vicecomiti Harcourt, Georgio Vicecomiti Torrington, Reverendo in Christo Patri & Fideli
Consiliario Nostro Ed'o Episcopo London. Prædilectis &
Fidelibus Consiliariis Nostris Will'o Domino Berkeley
de Stratton, Joh'i Domino Carteret, et Ni'co Domino Lechmere Cancellario Ducatus (fn. 1) Nostri Lancastr. Salutem. Cum nuper, pro quibusdam arduis. & urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum & Defensionem Regni Nostri Magnæ Britanniæ & Ecclesiæ concernentibus, præsens hoc Parliamentum Nostrum,
apud Civitatem Nostram Westm. Decimo Die Maii,
Anno Regni Nostri Octavo, inchoari & teneri ordinaverimus; quod Parliamentum Nostrum abinde, per
separalia Brevia Nostra, prorogatum suit usque ad &
in Nonum Diem Octobris, Anno Regni Nostri
Nono; & abinde, per separalia Adjournamenta &
Prorogationes, usque ad & in Diem Jovis, Quartum
Diem hujus instantis Junii, adjournatum et prorogatum fuit, apud Civitatem Nostram Westm.
prædictam, ibidem tunc tenendum & prosequendum: Sciatis tamen, quod, certis urgentibus Causis & Considerationibus Nos specialiter moventibus, idem Parliamentum Nostrum ulterius prorogandum duximus. Dc Fidelitate igitur, Prudentia,
& Circumspectionibus vestris plurimum considentes,
de Avisamento & Assensu Concilii Nostri, assignavimus vos Commissionarios Nostros; dantes vobis,
& aliquibus Tribus vel pluribus vestrum, Tenore
Præsentium, plenam Potestatem & Auctoritatem, a
dicto Quarto Die Junii, ad præsens Parliamentum Nostrum, Nomine Nostro, usque ad et in Diem Jovis,
Decimum Sextum Diem Julii prox. sequen. apud
prædictam Civitatem Nostram Westm. ulterius prorogandum & continuandum, ibidem tunc tenendum &
prosequendum; & ideo vobis mandamus, quod circa
Præmissa diligenter intendatis, ac ea in Forma prædicta effectualiter expleatis. Damus autem universis
& singulis Archiepiscopis, Ducibus, Marchionibus,
Comitibus, Vicecomitibus, Episcopis, Barombus, Militibus, Civibus, Burgensibus, & Commissionariis pro Co
mitatibus & Burgis, et omnibus aliis quorum interest
ad dictum Parliamentum Nostrum conventuris, Tenore
Præsentium, sirmiter in Mandatis, quod vobis, in
Præmissis faciendis, agendis, & exequendis, pareant,
obediant, & intendant, prout decet. In cujus Rei
Testimonium, has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes.
"Teste Meipso, apud Westm. Secundo Die Junii,
Anno Regni Nostri Decimo.
"Per ipsum Regem, propria Manu signat.
"Wrighte."
Then the Lord Chancellor 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
present Parliament to Thursday the Sixteenth Day of
July next, to be then here held: And this Parliament is prorogued accordingly to Thursday the Sixteenth Day of July next."