Anno 11° Annæ Reginæ
DIE Jovis, 6 Novembris.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Epus. Petriburg.
Epus. Lich. & Cov.
Epus. Cicestriens.
Epus. Meneven. |
Ds. Harcourt, Custos Magni Sigilli.
Comes Poulet, Senescallus.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Torrington.
Comes Strafford.
Viscount Bolingbrook. |
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Masham. |
PRAYERS.
The Lord Keeper acquainted the House, "That
Her Majesty had sent a Commission for the further
proroguing of the Parliament."
The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was resumed.
Then the Lords Commissioners (in their Robes), being seated on a Form placed between the Throne and
the Woolsack; the Lord Keeper in the Middle; with
the Lord Steward and Lord Viscount Bolingbrook on
his Right Hand; and the Earl of Strafford on his Left;
commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to
let the Commons know, "That the Commissioners desire
their immediate Attendance in the House of Peers,
to hear the Commission read."
And they being come, the Commission was read, by
the Clerk, as follows; (videlicet,)
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"ANNA R.
"Anna, Dei Gratia, Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, &
Hib'niæ Regina, Fidei Defensor, &c. Reverendissimo
in Christo Patri & Fideli Consiliario Nostro Thomæ
Archiepiscopo Cantuar. totius Angliæ Primati & Metropolitano, Prædilecto & Fideli Consiliario Nostro
Simoni Domino Harcourt Custodi Magni Sigilli Nostri
Magnæ Britanniæ, Charissimis Consanguineis & Consiliariis Nostris Roberto Comiti de Oxon. et Comiti
Mortimer Magno Thesaurario Nostro Magnæ Britanniæ, Johanni Duci de Comitatu Buckingham et de
Normanby Præsidenti Concilii Nostri, Carolo Duci
Shrewsbury Camerario Hospitii Nostri, Jacobo Duci
Ormonde Capitaneo Generali Copiarum Nostrarum,
Johanni Comiti Poulet Senescallo Hospitii Nostri,
Thomæ Comiti Strafford, Gulielmo Comiti Dartmouth
Primario Secretario Nostro, & Henrico Vicecomiti
Bolingbrooke Uni Primariorum Secretariorum Nostrorum, Salutem. Cum nuper, pro quibusdam arduis
et urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum & Defensionem
Regni Nostri Magnæ Britanniæ & Ecclesiæ concernentibus, præsens hoc Parliamentum Nostrum, apud
Civitatem Nostram Westmonasterii, Vicesimo Quinto
Die Novembris, Anno Regni Nostri Nono, inchoari
& teneri ordinaverimus; quo Die idem Parliamentum
Nostrum inchoatum & tentum fuit; & abinde, per
separales Adjournamenta et Prorogationes, usque ad
& in instantem Diem Jovis, Sextum Diem Novembris,
adjournatum & prorogatum fuit, apud Civitatem Nostram Westmonaster. prædict. 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 confidentes, de
Avisamento & Assensu Concilii Nostri, assignavimus
vos Commissionarios Nostros; dantes vobis, & aliquibus Tribus vel pluribus vestrum, Tenore Præsentium,
plenam Potestatem & Auctoritatem, hoc instante Die
Jovis, ad præsens Parliamentum Nostrum, Nomine
Nostro, usque ad et in Diem Martis, Decimum Tertium Diem Januarii nunc prox. sequen. apud prædictam Civitatem Nostram Westmonaster. prorogandura
& continuandum, ibidemque tunc tenendum & prosequendum; 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, et Commissionariis pro
Comitatibus & Burgis, ac 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.
"Teste Meipsa, apud Westmonasterium, Sexto Die
Novembris, Anno Regni Nostri Undecimo.
"Per ipsam Reginam, propria Manu signat.
"Wrighte."
Then the Lord Keeper said,
Parliament prorogued.
"My Lords, and Gentlemen of the House of
Commons,
"In humble Obedience to Her Majesty's Commands,
we do, in Her Majesty's Name, further prorogue this
present Parliament to Tuesday the Thirteenth Day of
January next: And this Parliament is accordingly
prorogued to Tuesday the Thirteenth Day of January
next."