Sabbati, 26 die Junii;Anno 1 Willielmi IV ti Regis, 1830.
Death of Geo. IV. Accession of Will. IV. Members sworn by Lord Steward.
IT having pleased Almighty God to take to his Mercy
our late Most gracious Sovereign Lord George the
Fourth, of blessed Memory, who departed this Life this
Morning, between the hours of three and four of the clock,
at his Palace at Windsor; and his late Majesty's Most
honourable Privy Council and others having met this day
at the Palace of St. James; and having directed that His
Royal Highness Prince William Henry Duke of Clarence
and St. Andrew's, and Earl of Munster, be proclaimed King
upon Monday next, at Ten o'clock: About Two of the
clock this Afternoon, the House met, pursuant to the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of her late
Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, "An Act for the Security
of her Majesty's Person and Government; and of the
Succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant Line," and Mr. Speaker and several other Members (John Henry Ley, Esquire, the Clerk, and John Rickman and William Ley, Esquires, the Clerks Assistant, and
the other Clerks attending according to their duty) came
into the Long Gallery (the usual place of administering
the Oaths appointed to be taken by the Members returned
to serve in Parliament before they go into the House of
Commons,) where the Most honourable Henry Burton,
Marquis Conyngham, Lord Steward of His Majesty's
household, did himself, in person, administer the said
Oaths to Mr. Speaker, and all such Members as then appeared; and afterwards made a Commission or Deputation, under his hand and seal hereunto annexed, empowering the Members therein named to administer the Oaths
to such Members as are or should be returned: Which
being done, the Members repaired to their seats in the
House of Commons; where, being seated, Mr. Speaker
alone, and then the other Members present, took the Oaths
of Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and subscribed the
Oath of Abjuration, according to the Laws made for those
purposes.
And then the House adjourned till Monday morning
next, ten of the clock.