November 1725
Anno 12o Georgii Regis.
DIE Jovis, 11o Novembris.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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| Epus. London. |
Dux Chandos.
Comes Sutherland.
Viscount Falmouth. |
The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's
Bench sat Speaker, by Virtue of a former
Commission.
The Speaker acquainted the Lords, "That His
Majesty had been pleased to cause a Commission to
be issued under the Great Seal, for the further proroguing of the Parliament."
The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was resumed.
Then Three 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; with the Earl of Sutherland on his Right
Hand; and the Lord Bishop of London on his Left;
commanded the Deputy Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod to let the House of Commons know, "That the
Lords Commissioners 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.
"W. Cant.
King, C.
Dorset.
Harcourt.
"Georgius, Dei Gratia, Magn. Britan. Franc. &
Hib'niæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Præcharissimo Filio
& perquam Fideli Consiliario Nostro Georgio Principi
Walliæ, Reverendissimo in Christo Patri & Fideli
Consiliario Nostro Lancelot. Archiepiscopo Ebor.
Angl. Primati & Metropolitano, Charissimis Consanguineis & Consiliariis Nostris Carolo Duci Somerset,
Hen'co Duci Kent, Jacobo Duci Montrose, Peregrin.
Duci de Ancaster & Kesteven Magno Camerario Angl.
Jacobo Duci Chandos, Jacobo Comiti Derby, Thomæ
Comiti Pembroke & Montgomery, Hen'co Comiti Lincoln. Georgio Comiti North'ton, Thomœ Comiti Westmorland, Arthuro Comiti Anglesea, Carolo Comiti
Carlisle, Daniel. Comiti Nottingham, Montagu Comiti
Abingdon, Will'o Comiti Coventry, Ed'r'o Comiti Orford, Job'i Comiti Sutherland, Hugon. Comiti Loudoun,
Jacobo Comiti Findlater & Seafield, Job'i Comiti
Stair, Archibald. Comiti Ilay, Hen'co Comiti Uxbridge,
Georgio Comiti Halifax, Will'o Comiti Cadogan, Ric'o
Vicecomiti Cobham, Hugon. Vicecomiti Falmouth, 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, & Nic'o Domino Lechmere Cancellario Ducatus (fn. 1) Nostri Lancastr. Salutem. Cum nuper,
pro quibusdam arduis & urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum & Defensionem Regni Nostri Magnæ Britanniœ &
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 fuit
usque ad et in Nonum Diem Octobris, Anno Regni
Nostri Nono, et ibidem tunc tentum; & abinde, per
separalia Adjournamenta & Prorogationes, usque ad
et in Diem Jovis, Undecimum Diem hujus instantis
Novembris, 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. De 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 Undecimo Die Novembris, ad præsens Parliamentum Nostrum, Nomine Nostro, usque ad et in
Diem Jovis, Decimum Sextum Diem Decembris 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,
Baronibus, Militibus, Civibus, Burgensibus, et Commissionariis pro Comitatibus & Burgis, & omnibus
aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum Nostrum
conventuris, Tenore Præsentium, firmiter in Mandatis, quod vobis, in Præmissis faciendis, agendis, &
exequendis, pareant, obediant, & intendant, prout
decet. In cujus Rei Testimonium, has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes.
"Testibus Gulielmo Archiepiscopo Cantuar. &
cæteris Custodibus & Justiciariis Regni, apud
Westm. Quarto Die Novembris, Anno Regni
Nostri Duodecimo.
"Per ipsos Custodes & Justiciar. Regni, propriis Manibus signat.
"Bisse & Bray."
Which done, 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
present Parliament to Thursday the Sixteenth Day
of December next, to be then here held: And this
Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thursday the
Sixteenth Day of December next."
Die Sabbati, 11o Decembris, 1725,
hitherto examined by us,
Jo. Carliol.
Jo. Norwich.
De Lawarr.