August 1747
Anno 21o Georgii Secundi.
DIE Jovis, 13o Augusti, 1747.
DIE Jovis, 13o Augusti, 1747, Annoque Regni Serenissimi Domini Nostri Georgii Secundi, Dei Gratia, Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, et Hib'niæ Regis, Fider
Defensoris, &c Vicesimo Primo, in Superiori Domo
Parliamenti Magnæ Britanniæ, apud Westmonaster convenere, Domini quorum Nomina subscribuntur, et præsentes fuerunt.
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Ds Hardwicke, Cancellarius
Comes Pembroke.
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The King's most Excellent Majesty having, by His
Writ of Summons, bearing Date at Westminster, the 22d
Day of June last, appointed His Parliament to open
and begin this Day,
Parliament prorogued.
The Lord Chancellor declared in the House, "That
there was a Writ issued under the Great Seal, for the
proroguing of the Parliament."
Which was read, by the Clerk, as follows, (videlicet,)
"GEORGE R.
"George the Second, by the Grace of God, of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith, &c. To Our Well-beloved and Faithful the Prelates, Nobles, and Peers, of Our Kingdom
of Great Britain, and to Our Beloved and Faithful
the Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, and Commissioners
for Shires and Boroughs, of Our said Kingdom,
called and chosen to Our Parliament, to be begun
and held at Our City of Westminster, on the Thirteenth
Day of this Instant Month of August, and to every
of you, Greeting Whereas We, for certain arduous
and pressing Affairs, concerning Us, the State and
Defence of Our Kingdom of Great Britain and the
Church, did ordain the said Parliament to be held at
the Day and Place aroresaid, and did command you,
by Our several Writs, to be present, at the City and
Day aforesaid, to treat, consent, and conclude, about
those Things which, in Our said Parliament, then and
there should be proposed and treated of Nevertheless, for certain Causes and Considerations Us at this
Time especially moving, We have thought fit that
Our said Parliament be prorogued unto Thursday the
Tenth Day of September next ensuing, so that neither
you, nor any of you, should be held or obliged to appear on the said Thirteenth Day of August, at the
aforesaid City We also will, that you, and every
of you, be wholly discharged as to Us therefrom,
commanding, and, by the Tenor of these Presents,
strictly requiring you, and every of you, and all
others whom this may concern, that you, and every
of you, do personally appear and be present on the
said Tenth Day of September, at Our said City of
Westminster, to treat, do, act, and conclude, upon those
Things which, in Our said Parliament, by the common Council of Our said Kingdom (by God's Assistance), shall happen to be ordained.
"Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the Seventh
Day of August, in the Twenty-first Year of
Our Reign.
"Signed by the King Himself
"Yorke & Yorke."
Return of the Peers for Scotland delivered.
The Clerk of the Crown in Chancery delivered
this Day a Certificate of the Names of the Sixteen
Peers, chosen, summoned, and certified, to sit and
vote in this House, for that Part of Great Britain called
Scotland, who, at the Table, attending with the Original Return, the same was compared with the said
Certificate, and found to agree therewith, and is as
follows, (videlicet,)
"May it please your Lordships,
"These are the Names of the Sixteen Peers, who,
according to the Act in that Case made and provided, are chosen, summoned, and certified, to be
Members of the House of Lords, for and on the Behalf of that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, in
the Parliament of Great Britain which is to meet the
Thirteenth Day of August Instant.
"The Duke of Gordon.
"Duke of Argyll
"Marquis of Tweeddale.
"Marquis of Lothian
"Earl of Craufurd.
"Earl of Rothes
"Earl of Morton.
"Earl of Moray.
"Earl of Home
"Earl of Lauderdale.
"Earl of Loudoun.
"Earl of Findlater.
"Earl of Leven
"Earl of Aberdeen
"Earl of Dunmore
"And the Earl of Hyndford.
"Witness Our Hands, this Thirteenth Day of August 1747.
"Charles Yorke
and
John Yorke, Clerk of the Crown in
Chancery"