Decimo octavo Jacobi Regis, 1620.
VICESIMO tertio die Januarii, Anno Regni Regis Jacobi, Angliæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Decimo
octavo, et Scotiæ Quinquagesimo quarto.
Parliament prorogued.
MEMORANDUM, Whereas the King's Majesty,
by virtue of his Writ Patent, signed with His Royal
Hand, and sealed with the Great Seal of England, bearing Date at Westm. the Fourteenth Day of this instant Month of January, did prorogue and adjourn His
Parliament formerly, as well by His Proclamation as by
His Writ of Summons, summoned to begin and open
on the Sixteenth Day now past of this instant January, unto this present Three and Twentieth Day of
this same Month, as by the same Writs more plainly
appeareth: His Majesty, upon certain great and weighty
Causes and Considerations His Highness specially moving, by the Advice of his Privy Council, did, by
virtue of his Writ Patent, signed with his own Hand,
and sealed with the Great Seal of England, bearing
Date at Theobalds, the Twentieth Day of this instant
January, further prorogue and adjourn the said Parliament, from the said Three and Twentieth Day of
this said Month, until Tuesday next being the Thirtieth
of this said Month of January; whereupon the Three
and Twentieth Day, the Lord Chancellor of England,
with the Lord Archbishop of Canterburie, and divers
others His Majesty's Lords and Counsellors, repaired
to the Parliament Chamber, commonly called the Upper House, and there, in Presence of divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, summoned to the same Parliament, and for that
Purpose called into the said Upper House, did open
and declare, That His Majesty, for the Causes aforesaid, had prorogued the said Parliament, from the said
Three and Twentieth Day, unto Tuesday the Thirtieth of this instant Month of January: All which
Matter being so notified to the said Assembly, the
Writ for the said Prorogation, in Presence of the same
Assembly, was there publickly and openly read, by
the Clerk of the Upper House; the Tenor whereof
ensueth, in hæc Verba:
Writ for the Prorogation.
"Jacobus, Dei Gratia, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et
Hiberniæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Prædilectis et Fidelibus Nostris Prælatis, Magnatibus, et Proceribus
Regni Nostri Angliæ, ac Dilectis et Fidelibus Nostris
Militibus, Civibus, et Burgensibus dicti Regni Nostri,
ad Parliamentum Nostrum, apud Civitatem Nostram
Westm. vicesimo tertio die hujus instantis mensis Januarii tenendum, convocatis et electis, et vestrum cuilibet, Salutem.
"Cum Nos, pro quibusdam arduis et urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum et Defensionem Regni Nostri Angliæ et Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ concernentibus, dictum
Parliamentum Nostrum, decimo sexto die dicti instantis mensis, apud Civitatem prædictam, teneri ordinaverimus, ac vobis, per separalia Brevia Nostra,
apud Civitatem et diem prædictam, interesse mandaverimus, ad tractandum, consentiendum, et concludendum super hiis, quæ in dicto Parliamento Nostro
tunc et ibidem proponerentur et tractarentur; cumque
Nos, per Breve Nostrum, certis de Causis et Considerationibus Nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus, dictum
Parliamentum Nostrum, ab eodem decimo sexto die
dicti instantis mensis Januarii, usque dictum vicesimum tertium diem ejusdem mensis Januarii duximus prorogandum; ita quod nec vos, nec vestrum
aliquis, ad dictum decimum sextum diem Januarii,
apud dictam Civitatem, comparere teneamini, seu
arctemini; volentes vos, et quemlibet vestrum inde
erga Nos penitus exonerari. Et per idem Breve
Nostrum vobis, et cuilibet vestrum, ad eundem vicesimum tertium diem Januarii, apud Civitatem prædictam, comparere et interesse nuperrime mandaverimus, ad tractandum, faciendum, agendum, et concludendum super hiis, quæ in dicto Parliamento Nostro contigisset ordinari. Quibusdam tamen certis urgentibus de Causis et Considerationibus Nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus, dictum Parliamentum Nostrum, ab
eodem vicesimo tertio die Januarii, usque ad tricesimum diem præsentis mensis Januarii, ulterius duximus prorogandum; ita quod nec vos, nec aliquis
vestrum, ad dictum vicesimum tertium diem Januarii, apud Civitatem prædictam, comparere teneamini, seu arctemini. Volumus enim vos, et quemlibet vestrum, inde erga Nos penitus exonerari; mandantes, et, tenore præsentium, firmiter injungendo
præcipientes vobis, et cuilibet vestrum, ac omnibus
aliis quibus in hac parte intererit, quod ad dictum tricesimum diem Januarii, apud Civitatem Westm. prædictam, personaliter compareatis et intersitis, et vestrum quilibet compareat et intersit, ad tractandum,
saciendum, agendum, et concludendum super hiis,
quæ in dicto Parliamento Nostro, de communi Consilio dicti Regni Nostri (savente Domino), contigerit ordinari. Teste Meipso, apud Theobalds, vicesimo die Januarii, Anno Regni Nostri Angliæ,
Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Decimo octavo, et Scotiæ Quinquagesimo quarto.