July 1724
Anno 10o Georgii Regis.
DIE Jovis, 16o Julii.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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| Epus. London. |
Comes Macclesfield, Cancellarius.
Dux Kingston, Custos Privati Sigilli.
Dux Grafton, Camerarius.
Dux Newcastle.
Comes Exeter.
Comes Warrington.
Comes Godolphin.
Comes Sutherland.
Viscount Townshend. |
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Waldegrave. |
His Majesty having been pleased to cause a Commission to be issued under the Great Seal, for the further proroguing of the Parliament;
Four 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 Newcastle on his Right Hand; and
the Earl of Godolphin and the Lord Viscount Townshend
on his Left, commanded the Deputy Gentleman Usher
of the Black Rod to let the Commons know, "That
the Lords Commissioners desire their immediate Attendance in this House, to hear the 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,
et Hib'niæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Præcharissimo
Filio perquam Fideli Consiliario Nostro Georgio
Principi Walliæ, Reverendissimo in Christo Patri et
Fideli Consiliario Nostro Will'o Archiepiscopo Cantuar.
totius Angl. Primati et Metropolitano, Charissimo Consanguineo et Consiliario Nostro Thomæ Comiti Macclesfield Cancellario Nostro Magnæ Britanniæ, Prædilecto et Fideli Consiliario Nostro Hen'co Domino Carleton Præsidenti Concilii Nostri, Charissimis Consanguineis et Consiliariis Nostris Evelyn Duci Kingston
Custodi Privati Sigilli Nostri, Joh'i Duci Argyll &
Greenwich Senescallo Hospitii Nostri, Carolo Duci
Graston 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 Northampton, 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, Franc'o Comiti Godolphin, Hugon. Comiti Cholmondeley Thesaurario Hospitii Nostri, Joh'i Comiti Sutherland, Hugon. Comiti
Loudoun, Jacobo Comiti Findlater & 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 et Fideli Consiliario Nostro
Ed'o Episcopo London. Prædilectis & Fidelibus Consiliariis Nostris Will'o Domino Berkeley de Stratton, Joh'i
Domino Carteret, 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 Magnæ
Britanniæ 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, prorogatum suit usque ad et in Nonum Diem Octobris,
Anno Regni Nostri Nono; et abinde, per separalia
Adjournamenta et Prorogationes, usque ad et in Diem
Jovis, Decimum Sextum Diem hujus instantis Julii,
adjournatum et prorogatum suit, 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, a dicto Decimo
Sexto Die Julii, ad præsens Parliamentum Nostrum,
Nomine Nostro, usque ad et in Diem Jovis, Vicesimum
Septimum Diem Augusti prox. sequen. apud prædictam Civitatem Nostram Westm. prorogandum et continuandum, ibidem tunc tenendum et prosequendum;
et ideo vobis mandamus, quod circa Præmissa dili
genter intendatis, ac ea in Forma prædicta effectualiter expleatis. Damus autem universis et singulis
Archiepiscopis, Ducibus, Marchionibus, Comitibus,
Vicecomitibus, 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.
"Teste Meipso, apud Westm. Sexto Die Julii, 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 Twenty-seventh
Day of August next, to be then here held: And
this Parliament is prorogued accordingly to Thursday
the Twenty-seventh Day of August next."