September 1725
Anno 12o Georgii Regis.
DIE Jovis, 30o Septembris.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Dux Chandos.
Comes Sutherland.
Viscount Falmouth. |
The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's
Bench sat Speaker, by Virtue of a former Commission.
The Speaker acquainted the Lords, "That His Majesty had been pleased to cause a Commission to be
issued under the Great Seal, for the further proroguing of the Parliament."
The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was resumed.
Then Three of the Lords Commissioners (in their
Robes), being seated on a Form placed between the
Throne and the Woolsack (the Speaker being retired
to the usual Place by the State, as the Speakers do
when His Majesty is present); the Duke of Chandos in
the Middle; with the Earl of Sutherland on his Right
Hand; and the Lord Viscount Falmouth on his Left;
commanded the Deputy Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod to let the House of Commons know, "That the
Lords Commissioners desire their immediate Attendance in this House, to hear His Majesty's Commission read."
Who being come; the Commission was read, by the
Clerk, as follows:
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"King, C.
Devonshire.
Bolton.
Dorset.
Godolphin.
"Georgius, Dei Gratia, Magnæ Britanniæ, Franc.
& Hib'niœ Rex, Fider Defensor, &c. Præcharissimo
Filio & perquam Fideli Consiliario Nostro Georgio
Principi Walliœ, Reverendissimo in Christo Patri & Fideli Consiliario Nostro Lancelot. Archiepiscopo Ebor.
Angl. Primati & Metropolitano, Charissimis Consanguineis & Consiliariis Nostris Carolo Duci Somerset, Hen'co Duci Kent, Jacobo Duci Montrose, Peregrin. Duci de Ancaster & Kesteven Magno Camerario
Angl. Jacobo Duci Chandos, Jacobo Comiti Derby,
Thomœ Comiti Pembroke & Montgomery, Hen'co Comiti Lincoln, Georgio Comiti North'ton, Thomœ Comiti
Westmorland, Arthuro Comiti Anglesea, Carolo Comiti
Carlisle, Daniel. Comiti Nottingham, Montagu Comiti
Abingdon, Will'o Comiti Coventry, Ed'r'o Comiti Orford, Job'i Comiti Sutherland, Hugon. Comiti Loudoun, Jacobo Comiti Findlater & Seafield, Job'i Comiti Stair, Archibald. Comiti Ilay, Hen'co Comiti Uxbridge, Georgio Comiti Halifax, Will'o Comiti Cadogan, Ric'o Vicecomiti Cobham, Hugon. Vicecomiti Falmouth, Georgio Vicecomiti Torrington, Reverendo in
Christo Patri & Fideli Consiliario Nostro Ed'o Episcopo London. Prædilectis & Fidelibus Consiliariis
Nostris Will'o Domino Berkeley de Stratton, & Nic'o
Domino Lechmere Cancellario Ducatus (fn. 1) Nostri Lancastr Salutem: Cum nuper, pro quibusdam arduis
& urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum & Defensionem
Regni Nostri Magnæ Britanniœ & Ecclesiæ concernentibus, præsens hoc Parliamentum Nostrum, apud
Civitatem Nostram Weslm. Decimo Die Maii, Anno
Regni Nostri Octavo, inchoari & teneri ordinaverimus; quod Parliamentum Nostrum abinde, per separalia Brevia Nostra, prorogatum fuit usque ad & in
Nonum Diem Octobris, Anno Regni Nostri Nono,
& ibidem tunc tentum; & abinde, per separalia Adjournamenta & Prorogationes, usque ad & in Diem
Jovis, Tricesimum Diem hujus instantis Septembris
prox. sequen. prorogatum fuit, apud Civitatem Nostram Westm. prædictam, & 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 considentes, de Avisamento & Assensu Concilii Nostri,
assignavimus vos Commissionarios Nostros; dantes vobis, & aliquibus Tribus vel pluribus vestrum, Tenore Præsentium, plenam Potestatem & Auctoritatem,
a dicto Tricesimo Die Septembris, ad præsens Parliamentum Nostrum, Nomine Nostro, usque ad & in
Diem Jovis, Undecimum Diem Novembris prox. sequen. apud prædictam Civitatem Nostram Westm.
ulterius prorogandum & continuandum, ibidem tunc
tenendum & prosequendum; & 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, & Commissionariis pro Comitatibus & Burgis, & omnibus
aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum Nostrum conventuris, Tenore Præsentium, firmiter in
Mandatis, quod vobis, in Præmissis faciendis, agen
dis, & exequendis, pareant, obediant, & intendant,
prout decet. In cujus Rei Testimonium, has Literas
Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes.
"Testibus Gulielmo Archiepiscopo Cantuar. & cæteris Custodibus & Justiciar. Regni, apud
Westm. Vicesimo Tertio Die Septembris, Anno
Regni Nostri Duodecimo.
"Per ipsos Custod. & Justiciarios Regni, propriis Manibus signat.
"Bisse & Bray."
Which done, the Duke of Chandos said,
Parliament prorogued.
"My Lords, and Gentlemen,
"By Virtue of His Majesty's Commission now read,
to us and others directed, we do, in His Majesty's
Name, and by His Royal Authority, prorogue this
present Parliament to Thursday the Eleventh Day of
November next, to be then here held: And this
Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thursday the
Eleventh Day of November next."