Die Martis, 3 die Octobris, 1665.
MEMORANDUM, quod hodierno die, (videlicet,) tertio die Octobris, Anno Regni Serenissimi
Domini nostri Caroli Secundi, Dei Gratiâ, Angl. Scociæ,
Franciæ, & Hib. Regis, Fidei Defensoris, &c. Septimo
Decimo, in quem diem prorogat. fuerat hoc præsens
Parliamentum, convenere Domini tam Spirituales quam
Temporales, quorum nomina subscribuntur:
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Arch. Cant.
Epus. London. |
Dux Albemarle.
Comes Craven. |
Archb. Cant. Speaker.
Memorandum, That the Archbishop of Cant. was
appointed Speaker this Day, by virtue of a Commission under the Great Seal of England; which was
read.
Then the Archbishop of Cant. took the Place of
Speaker.
PRAYERS.
The House was adjourned during Pleasure, that the
Peers might robe themselves.
The House being resumed;
Message to H. C. to come and hear the Commission read.
The Yeoman Usher, by Command of the House,
went to desire the House of Commons to come up,
with their Speaker, to take Notice of the Prorogation
of the Parliament, by virtue of His Majesty's Commission under the Great Seal of England.
The Commons being come, with their Speaker, the
Clerk of the Parliament's Deputy presented His Majesty's Commission to the Lord Archbishop of Cant.
who (being placed on a Form between the State and
the Woolsack, with the Duke of Albemarle, the Earl
of Craven, and the Lord Bishop of London) said,
"Mr. Speaker, and ye Gentlemen of the House
of Commons,
"It is His Majesty's Pleasure, that this Parliament
be prorogued to a further Time and to another
Place, of which you shall know more when ye hear
His Majesty's Commission read."
Then the said Commission was read, by the Clerk
of the Parliament's Deputy (in his Absence), in these
Words, (videlicet),
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"CAROLUS Secundus, Dei Gratiâ, Angl. Scociæ,
Franciæ, & Hib. Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri & Fideli Consiliario Nostro
Gilb'to Archiepiscopo Cantuar. totius Angl. Primati
& Metropolitano, Charissimis Consanguineis & Consiliariis Nostris Edwardo Comiti Clarendon Domino
Cancellario Angl. Thomæ Comiti South'ton Domino
Thesaurario Angl. Prædilecto & Fideli Consiliario
Nostro Joh'i Domino Roberts Custodi Privati Sigilli
Nostri, Charissimis Consanguineis & Consiliariis Nostris Georgio Duci Buckingham, Georgio Duci Albemarle omnium Exercituum Nostrorum Generali,
Jacobo Comiti Brecon Duci Ormond Senescallo Hospitii Nostri, Edwardo Comiti Manchester Camerario
Hospitii Nostri, Charissimis Consanguineis Nostris
Joh'i Comiti Bridgwater, Will'o Comiti Devon, Joh'i
Comiti Clare, Charissimo Consanguineo & Consiliario Nostro Thomæ Comiti Berks, Charissimis Consanguineis Nostris Thomæ Comiti Cleveland, Mountjoye Comiti Newport, Charissimis Consanguineis &
Consiliariis Nostris Henr. Comiti St. Albans, Arthuro
Comiti Anglesey, Joh'i Comiti Bathon. Charissimis
Consanguineis Nostris Will'o Comiti Craven, Joh'i
Vicecomiti Mordant, Reverendo in Christo Patri
& Fideli Consiliario Nostro Humfredo Episcopo London. Prædilecto & Fideli Nostro Will'o Domino
Paget Prædilecto & Fideli Consiliario Nostro
Ric'o Domino Vaughan, Prædilectis & Fidelibus
Nostris Joh'i Domino Lucas, Carolo Domino Gerard
de Brandon, Will'o Domino Crofts, Prædilectis &
Fidelibus Consiliariis Nostris Joh'i Domino Berkley
de Stratton, Antonio Domino Ashley Cancellario &
Sub-thesaurario Scaccarii Nostri, ac Prædilecto &
Fideli Nostro Joh'i Domino Crewe, Salutem: Cum
nuper, pro quibusdam arduis & urgentibus Negotiis,
Nos, Statum & Defensionem Regni Nostri Angl.
& Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ concernentibus, præsens hoc
Parliamentum Nostrum apud Civitatem Nostram
Westm. Octavo die Maii, Anno Regni Nostri Tertio Decimo, inchoari & teneri ordinavimus, À
quo die idem præsens Parliamentum Nostrum per
separales Prorogationes usque ad & in primum
diem Augusti ult. præterit. continuatum fuerat,
eodemque die idem Parliamentum Nostrum usque
ad & in instantem Tertium diem Octobris prorogatum fuerat, ibidem tunc tenendum & prosequendum: Sciatis tamen, quod, certis urgentibus Causis
& Considerationibus Nos specialiter moventibus,
idem Parliamentum Nostrum ulteriùs prorogandum duximus. De Fidelitate igitur, Prudentiâ, &
Circumspectionibus, vestris plurimùm 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 Martis, ad præsens Parliamentum
Nostrum, Nomine Nostro, ad & in Nonum diem
instantis Octobris prædicti usque Civitatem Nostram Oxon. prorogandum & continuandum, ibidemque tunc tenendum & prosequendum. Et ideo vobis
mandamus, quod circa præmissa diligenter intendatis, ac ea in Formâ prædictâ effectualiter expleatis.
Damus autem universis & singulis Archiepiscopis,
Ducibus, Marchionibus, Comitibus, Vicecomitibus,
Episcopis, Baronibus, Militibus, Civibus, & Bur-
gensibus, ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum Nostrum conventuris, Tenore
præsentium, firmiter in Mandatis, quod vobis in
præmissis faciend. agend. & exequend. pareant,
obediant, & intendant, prout decet. In cujus Rei
Testimonium, has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes.
"Teste Meipso, apud Oxon. Tertio die Octobris,
Anno Regni Nostri Decimo Septimo."
"Barker."
"Per ipsum Regem, propriâ Manu signat."
Examined by us,
C. Nottingham.
J. Bridgewater.
Say & Seale.
Humfr. London.
B. Lincoln.
Chandos.
Hunsdon.
Which Commission being read;
Parliament prorogued.
Domini Commissionarii hodie præsentes, virtute Commissionis prædict. prorogaverunt præsens Parliamentum
usque in nonum diem instantis Octobris, tenend. apud
Civitatem Oxon. Domino Archiepiscopo Cant. ita declarante.