October 1747
DIE Jovis, 8o Octobris.
Domini Temporales præsentes fuerunt:
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Comes Pembroke.
Comes Warwick |
The Earl of Pembroke declared in the House, "That
there was a Writ issued under the Great Seal, for the
further proroguing of the Parliament."
Which was read, by the Clerk, as follows; (videlicet,)
Parliament prorogued.
"GEORGE R.
"George the Second, by the Grace of God, of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith, and so forth, To Our Well-beloved
and Faithful the Prelates, Nobles, and Peers, of
Our Kingdom of Great Britain, and to Our Beloved
and Faithful the Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, and
Commissioners for Shires and Boroughs, of Our said
Kingdom, called and chosen to Our Parliament, to be
begun and held at Our City of Westminster, the Eighth
Day of this Instant October, and to every of you,
Greeting. Whereas We, for certain arduous and
pressing Affairs, concerning Us, the State and Defence
of Our Kingdom of Great Britain and the Church,
did ordain the said Parliament to be begun and held
at the aforesaid City, on the Thirteenth Day of August last past, and did command you, by Our several
Writs, to be present at the City and Day aforesaid,
to treat, consent, and conclude about those Things
which in Our said Parliament then and there should
be proposed and treated of And whereas We, by
Our Writ, for certain Causes and Considerations Us
thereunto especially moving, have thought fit to prorogue Our said Parliament, from the same Thirteenth
Day of August unto the Tenth Day of September last
past, and from thence, by another Writ, unto the
Eighth Day of this Instant October, so that neither
you nor any of you should be held or obliged to appear on the said Day at the said City, being willing
that you and every of you be wholly discharged as to
Us therefrom, and, by the same Writ, We lately
commanded you and every of you to appear and be
personally present on the said Eighth Day of this
Instant October, at the City aforesaid, to treat, do,
act, and conclude, upon those Things which in Our
said Parliament should happen to be ordained Nevertheless, for certain Causes and Considerations Us
hereunto especially moving, We have thought fit
further to prorogue Our said Parliament, from the said
Eighth Day of this Instant October, unto Tuesday the
Tenth Day of November next following, so that neither you nor any of you should be held or obliged
to appear on the said Eighth Day of this Instant
October, at the aforesaid City We will, therefore,
that you and every of you be wholly discharged as
to Us therefrom, commanding, and, by the Tenor of
these Presents, strictly requiring you and every of
you, and all others whom this may concern, that you
and every of you do personally appear and be present,
on the said Tenth Day of November, at Our said City
of Westminster, to treat, do, act, and conclude, upon
those Things which in Our said Parliament, by the
common Council of Our said Kingdom (by God's
Assistance), shall happen to be ordained.
"Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the Second Day
of October, in the Twenty first Year of Our
Reign.
"Signed by the King Himself.
"Yorke and Yorke"