Anno 4° Georgii Regis.
DIE Mercurii, 11 Septembris.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Arch. Cant.
Epus. London.
Epus. Roffen.
Epus. Lincoln. |
Ds. Cowper, Cancellarius.
Dux Kent, Senescallus.
Dux Marlborough.
Dux Bucks & Normanby.
Dux Roxburgh.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Bradford.
Comes Sutherland.
Viscount Stanhope. |
Ds. Fitzwalter.
Ds. Montjoy.
Ds. Harborough. |
PRAYERS.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, "That
His Majesty had been pleased to cause a Commission
to be issued, under the Great Seal, for the further
proroguing this Parliament."
The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was resumed.
Then Six of the Lords Commissioners (in their Robes)
being seated on a Form placed between the Throne and
the Woolsack; the Lord Chancellor in the Middle;
and the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke
of Roxburgh on his Right Hand; and the Lord Steward,
Earl of Sunderland, and the Lord Viscount Stanhope, on
his Left; commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod to let the House of Commons know, "The Commissioners desire the Attendance of that House, to
hear His Majesty's Commission read."
And the Commons being come, the Commission was
read, by the Clerk, as follows:
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"Georgius R.
"Georgius, Dei Gratia, Mag. Britan. Franc. et
Hib'niæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Præcharissimo Filio
& perquam Fideli Consiliario Nostro Georgio Principi Walliæ, Reverendissimo in Christo Patri & Fideli Consiliario Nostro Will'o Archiepiscopo Cantuar. totius Angl. Primati & Metropolitano, Prædilecto & Fideli Consiliario Nostro Will'o Domino
Cowper Cancellario Nostro Mag. Britan. Charissimis Consanguineis & Consiliariis Nostris Evelyn Duci
Kingston Custodi Privati Sigilli Nostri, Hen'co
Duci Kent Senescallo Hospitii Nostri, Tho. Holles
Duci Newcastle Camerario Hospitii Nostri, Carolo
Duci Bolton, Joh'i Duci Marlborough Capitaneo Generali Copiarum Nostrarum, Joh'i Duci Roxburgh Uni
Primariorum Secretariorum Nostrorum, Carolo Comiti
Sunderland Primario Secretario Nostro, Jacobo Comiti
Berkeley, Jacobo Vicecomiti Stanhope, & Prædilecto
& Fideli Consiliario Nostro Tho. Domino Parker Capitali Justiciario Nostro ad Placita coram Nobis tenend. assign. Salutem. Cum nuper, pro quibusdam
arduis & urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum & Defensionem Regni Nostri Mag. Britan. & Ecclesiæ concernentibus, præsens hoc Parliamentum Nostrum apud
Civitatem Nostram Westm. Decimo Septimo Die Martii, Anno Regni Nostri Primo, inchoari & teneri ordinaverimus; quo Die idem Parliamentum Nostrum
inchoatum & tentum fuerat; & abinde, per separalia
Adjournamenta, usque ad & in Vicesimum Sextum Diem
Junii, Anno Regni Nostri Secundo, adjournatum &
continuatum fuerat; & abinde, per separal. Prorogationes, Adjournamenta, & Continuationes, ad & in
Diem Mercurii, Undecimum Diem hujus instantis Septembris, prorogatum, adjournatum, & continuatum
fuerat, 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 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 Mercurii, ad
præsens Parliamentum Nostrum, Nomine Nostro,
usque ad et in Diem Mercurii, Nonum Diem Octobris nunc prox. sequen. apud prædictam Civitatem
Nostram Westm. ulterius prorogandum & continuandum, ibidemque 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, ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum
Parliamentum Nostrum conventuris, Tenore Præsentium, firmiter in Mandatis, quod vobis, in Præmissis
faciendis, agendis, & exequendis, pareant, obediant,
& intendant, prout decet. In cujus Rei Testimonium, has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Parentes.
Teste Meipso, apud Westm. Undecimo Die Septembris, Anno Regni Nostri Quarto.
"Per ipsum Regem, propria Manu signat.
"Wrighte."
Then the Lord Chancellor 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
Parliament to Wednesday the Ninth Day of October
next, to be then here held: And this Parliament
is accordingly prorogued to Wednesday the Ninth Day
of October next."