DIE Jovis, 1 Junii.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Arch. Cant.
Epus. Cov. & Lich.
Epus. Menev.
Epus. St. Asaph. |
Ds. Cancellarius.
Comes Pembroke, Præses.
Viscount Lonsdale, C. P. S.
Dux Somerset.
Comes Lindsey, Ds. Magnus Camerarius.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Maclesfeld.
Comes Jersey. |
Ds. Bergevenny.
Ds. Audley.
Ds. Lawarr.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Lucas.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Herbert.
Ds. Haversham. |
PRAYERS.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, "That
His Majesty had sent a Commission for proroguing
the Parliament."
Then the Lords Commissioners, in their Robes, took
their Places on a Form, placed between the Throne and
the Woolsack; the Lord Chancellor in the Middle; the
Lord President and Earl of Bridgewater on his Right
Hand; the Lord Privy Seal, the Lord Great Chamberlain, and the Earl of Stamford, on his Left Hand;
commanded the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod to go
to the House of Commons, and let them know, "That
the Commissioners desire them to come, and hear the
Commission read."
Who being come, with their Speaker; the Commission was read, as followeth: (videlicet,)
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"Gulielmus R.
"Gulielmus Tertius, Dei Gratia, Angl. Scotiæ,
Franciæ, et Hib'niæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Prædilecto et Fideli Consiliario Nostro Joh'i Domino Sommers Cancellario Nostro Angl. Charissimis Consanguineis et Consiliariis Nostris Thomæ Comiti Pembroke et
Montgomery Præsidenti Concilii Nostri, Joh'i Vicecomiti
Lonsdale Custodi Privati Sigilli Nostri, Henrico Duci
Norff. Comiti Marescallo Angl., Will'o Duci Devon.
Senescallo Hospitii Nostri, Jacobo Duci Ormonde, Carolo
Duci Bolton, Mainherdt Duci Schonberg, Thomæ Duci
Leeds, Carolo Duci Salop. Will'o Duci Bedford, Rob'to
Comiti Lindsey Magno Camerario Angl., Alberico Comiti
Oxon. Carolo Comiti Dors. & Midd'x, Joh'i Comiti
Bridgewater, Carolo Comiti Manchester, Thomæ Comiti
Stamford, Rob'to Comiti Sunderland, Joh'i Comiti Bathon. Carolo Comiti Berkeley, Laurentio Comiti Roffen.
Will'o Comiti Portland, Thomæ Comiti Fauconberg,
Rad'o Comiti Montagu, Joh'i Comiti Marleborough,
Ric'o Comiti Scarbrough, Fran'co Comiti Bradford
Thesaurario Hospitii Nostri, Henrico Comiti Romney
Guardian. Quinque Portuum Nostrorum, Ford Comiti
Tankerville, Ed'r'o Comiti Orford, Ed'r'o Comiti Jerzey
Uni Primar. Secretar. Nostrorum, ac Prædilectis et
Fidelibus Consiliariis Nostris Thomæ Domino Wharton Contrarotulatori Hospitii Nostri, Rob'to Domino
Lexington, Sidney Domino Godolphin, Salutem. Cum
nuper, pro quibusdam arduis et urgentibus (fn. *) ,
Nos, Statum et Defensionem Regni Nostri Angl. et
Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ concernentibus, præsens hoc Parliamentum Nostrum apud Civitatem Nostram Westm.
Vicesimo Quarto Die Augusti ult. præterit. inchoari
et teneri ordinaverimus; a quo Die idem Parliamentum Nostrum usque ad et in Vicesimum Septimum
Diem Septembris tunc proxime sequen. prorogat.
fuerat; et abinde, per separales Prorogationes et
Adjournationes, ad et in instantem Primum Diem
Junii ulterius prorogatum et adjournatum fuerat, apud
Civitatem Nostram Westm. prædictam, 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 confidentes, de
Avisamento et Assensu Concilii Nostri, assignavimus
vos Commissionarios Nostros; dantes vobis, et aliquibus Tribus vel pluribus vestrum, Tenore Præsentium, plenam Potestatem et Authoritatem, hoc
instante Die Jovis, præsens Parliamentum Nostrum,
Nomine Nostro, usque ad et in Decimum Tertium
Diem Julii jam prox. sequen. apud 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 universes 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 exercendis, pareant, obediant, et intendant, prout decet. In cujus Rei Testimonium, has Literas Nostras fieri secimus Patentes.
"Teste Meipso, apud Westm. Primo Die Junii,
Anno Regni Nostri Undecimo.
"Per ipsum Regem, propria Manu signat.
"Chute."
Then the Lord Chancellor said,
Parliament prorogued.
"My Lords and Gentlemen,
"By Virtue of His Majesty's Commission now read,
and to us directed, we do, in His Majesty's Name,
prorogue this Parliament to Thursday the Thirteenth
Day of July next: And this Parliament is prorogued
accordingly to Thursday the Thirteenth Day of July
next."