DIE Jovis, 1 die Augusti.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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His Royal Highness the Duke of Yorke. | |
Arch. Cant.
Epus. London.
Epus. Rochester.
Epus. Gloucester.
Epus. Chester. |
Ds. Cancellarius.
Ds. Thesaurarius Angliæ.
Ds. Custos Privati Sigilli.
L. Great Chamberlain.
Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bridgwater.
Comes North'ton.
Comes Devon.
Comes Rivers.
Comes Peterborough.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Cardigan.
Comes Bath.
Comes Craven.
Vicecomes Mountagu.
Vicecomes Stafford.
Vicecomes Hallyfax.
Vicecomes Newport. |
Ds. Berkeley.
Ds. Morley.
Ds. Windsor.
Ds. Eure.
Ds. Chandos.
Ds. Maynard.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Lucas.
Ds. Bellasise.
Ds. Arundell Trer.
Ds. Butler de West. |
PRAYERS.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, "That
the King had granted a Commission, under the Great
Seal of England, for the further Prorogation of the
Parliament."
Hereupon (the Lords being all in their Robes) the
Lord Chancellor, being set on a Form cross the House,
between the Throne and the Woolsack (with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Great Chamberlain, the
Earl of North'ton, and Vicecomes Newport, on his Right
Hand, the Lord Treasurer, Lord Privy Seal, the Earl
of Bridgwater, and the Earl of Craven on his Left
Hand), commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod to give the House of Commons Notice of the said
Commission; and to signify to them, "That the Lords
desire that they would be present, to hear the said
Commission read."
Who being come, with their Speaker; the Commission
was read, all the Lords being uncovered while the
Commission was reading.
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"CAROLUS R.
"Carolus Secundus, Dei Gratia, Angliæ, Scociæ,
Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Præcharissimo Fratri Nostro Jacobo Duci Ebor. et Albaniæ,
Comiti Ulster, &c. ac Præcharissimo Consanguineo &
Consiliario Nostro Principi Ruperto Comiti Palatini
Rheni Duci Bavariæ et Cumber. &c. Reverendissimo
in Christo Patri & Fideli Consiliario Nostro Will'o
Archiepiscopo Cantuar. totius Angliæ Primati & Metropolitano, Prædilecto & Fideli Consiliario Nostro
Heneagio Domino Finch Domino Cancellario Nostro
Angliæ, Charissimis Consanguineis & Consiliariis
Nostris Thomæ Comiti Danby Domino Thesaurario
Nostro Angliæ, Arthuro Comiti Anglesey Custodi Privati Sigilli Nostri, Rob'to Comiti Lindsey Magno
Camerario Angliæ, Henrico Comiti Arlington Camerario Hospitii Nostri, Jacobo Comiti North'ton Constabulario Turris Nostræ London. Joh'i Comiti
Bridgwater, Will'o Comiti Craven, & Francisco Vicecomiti Newport Thesaurario Hospitii Nostri, Salutem: Cum nuper, pro quibusdam arduis & urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum & Defensionem Regni
Nostri Angliæ & Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ concernentibus,
præsens hoc Parliamentum Nostrum apud Civitatem
Nostram Westmonaster. Octavo die Maii, Anno Regni
Nostri Tertio Decimo, inchoari & teneri ordinaverimus; a quo die idem præsens Parliamentum Nostrum,
per separales Prorogationes, usque ad & in instantem
Primum diem Augusti prorogatum fuerat, ibidem tunc
tenend. & prosequend.: Sciatis tamen, quod, certis
urgentibus Causis & Considerationibus Nos specialiter
moventibus, idem Parliamentum Nostrum ulterius
prorogandum duximus: De Fidelitate igitur, Prudentia, & Circumspectione vestris plurimum confidentes,
de Avisamento & Assensu Consilii Nostri, affignavimus vos Commissionarios Nostros; dantes vobis, & allquibus tribus vel pluribus vestrum, Tenore præsentium, plenam Potestatem & Auctoritatem, hoc instante
die Jovis, ad præsens Parliamentum Nostrum, Nomine
Nostro, ad & in Vicesimum Nonum diem instantis Augusti, usque Civitatem Nostram Westm. prorogand.
& continuand. ibidem tunc tenend. & prosequend.; et 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, & omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum Nostrum conventuris,
tenore præsentium, firmiter (fn. *) mandamus, quod vobis in
præmissis faciend. & exequend. pareant, obediant, &
intendant, prout decet. In cujus Rei Testimonium, has
Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes.
"Teste Meipso, apud Westm. Primo die Augusti,
Anno Regni Nostri Tricesimo.
"Barker.
"Per ipsum Regem, propria Manu signat."
Then the Lord Chancellor said,
Parliament prorogued.
"By virtue of His Majesty's Commission now read,
and to us directed, we do, in His Majesty's Name,
prorogue this Parliament to the Nine and Twentieth
Day of August Instant; and this Parliament is prorogued to the Nine and Twentieth Day of this Instant
August."
Hitherto examined, this 4th Day of November,
1678, by us,
Huntingdon.
J. Bridgewater.
Clarendon.
Petr. Eliensis.