Anno 4 Guilielmi & Mariæ. DIE Martis, 14 Junii.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Arch. Cant.
Epus. St. Asaph.
Epus. St. David's.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Worcester. |
Ds. Præses.
Ds. Custos Privati Sigilli.
March. Halifax.
Ds. Camerarius.
Comes Shrewsbury.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Mulgrave.
Comes Rivers.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Thannet.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Bath.
Comes Craven.
Comes Ailesbury.
Comes Macclesfeild.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Rochester.
Viscount Sydney.
Viscount Villiers. |
Ds. Wharton.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. (fn. *)
Culpeper.
Ds. Lucas.
Ds. Ossulston. |
The House was adjourned during Pleasure, to robe.
The House was resumed.
The Lord President acquainted the House, "That
Her Majesty had sent a Commission for the further
proroguing of this Parliament."
Then the Lords Commissioners, in their Robes,
being seated on a Form placed between the Throne
and the Woolsack; the Lord President in the Middle;
and the Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Bath, and the
Earl of Macclesfeild, on his Right Hand; and the Earl
of Nottingham, the Earl of Rochester, and the Lord Viscount Sydney, on his Left Hand; commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to go to the House of
Commons, and let them know, "That the Commissioners
desire them to come to be present, to hear the said
Commission read."
Who being come, with their Speaker; the Commission was read, as followeth:
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"MARIA R.
"Gulielmus et Maria, Dei Gratia, Angl. Scotiæ,
Franciæ, et Hib'niæ Rex et Regina, Fidei Defensores,
&c. Charissimis Consanguineis et Consiliariis Nostris
Thomæ Marchioni Carmarthen Præsidenti Concilii Nostri,
Thomæ Comiti Pembroke et Montgomery Custodi Privati
Sigilli Nostri, Henrico Duci Norfolc. Comiti Marescallo Angl. Carolo Duci Bolton, Rob'to Comiti Lindsey Mango Camerario Angl. Will'o Comiti Devon. Senescallo Hospitii Nostri, Carolo Comiti Dors. et
Midd'x Camerario Hospitii Nostri, Alberico Comiti
Oxon. Will'o Comiti Bedford, Joh'i Comiti Bridgewater, Joh'i Comiti Bathon. Carolo Comiti Macclesfeild, Danieli Comiti Nottingham Primario Secretario
Nostro, Laurentio Comiti Roffen. Thomæ Comiti Fauconberge, Carolo Comiti Monmouth, Rad'o Comiti Montagu, Henrico Comiti Warrington, Fran'co Vicecomiti
Newport Thesaurario Hospitii Nostri, Henrico Vicecomiti
Sydney, ac Prædilectis et Fidelibus Consiliariis Nostris
Rob'to Domino Lexington, Carolo Domino Cornwallis,
et Sidney Domino Godolphin, Salutem: Cum nuper,
pro quibusdam arduis et urgentibus Negotiis, Nos,
Statum et Defensionem Regni Nostri Angl. et Ecclesiæ
Anglicanæ concernen. præsens hoc Parliamentum Nostrum apud Civitatem Nostram Westm. Vicesimo Die
Martii, Anno Regni Nostri Secundo, inchoari et teneri ordinaverimus; a quo Die idem Parliamentum
Nostrum usque ad et in Vicesimum Tertium Diem
Maii tunc proxime sequen. continuatum fuerat; et
abinde, per separales Prorogationes et Adjournationes, ad et in Decimum Quartum Diem instantis Junii
prorogatum et adjournatum fuerat, apud Civitatem
Nostram Westm. prædict. ibidem tunc tenendum et
prosequendum: Sciatis tamen, quod, certis urgentibus Causis et Considerationibus Nos specialiter moventibus, idem Parliamentum Nostrum 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, hoc instante Die Martis, præsens Parliamentum Nostrum,
Nomine Nostro, ad et in Undecimum Diem Julii
jam proxime futur. usque prædictam Civitatem Nostram Westm. prorogandum et continuandum, ibidemque
tunc tenendum et prosequendum; et ideo vobis mandamus, quod circa Præmissa diligenter intendatis, ac
ea in Forma prædicta effectualiter expleatis. Damus
autem universis et singulis Archiepiscopis, Ducibus,
Marchionibus, Comitibus, Vicecomitibus, Episcopis,
Baronibus, Militibus, Civibus, et Burgensibus, 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.
"Testibus Nobis ipsis, apud Westm. Decimo
"Quarto Die Junii, Anno Regni Nostri Quarto.
"Per ipsam Reginam, propria Manu signat.
"Chute."
Then the Lord President said,
Parliament prorogued.
"My Lords and Gentlemen,
"By Virtue of Their Majesties Commission now
read, and to us directed, we do, in Their Majesties
Name, prorogue this Parliament to Monday the Eleventh Day of July next: And this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Monday the Eleventh Day of
July next."