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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For Adjourning of the Parliament, From <DATE>the 20 of <HI>December</HI> to the 1 of <HI>March</HI> thereafter.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as the Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council, by their Pro|clamation of the date, the Fir&s;t day of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t, in obedience to, and by vertue of, His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> &s;pecial Command and Authority, did in His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Name Adjourn this Current Parliament, from the Eighth day of October then en&s;uing (to which day the Parliament was for|merly Adjourned) until the Twentieth day of <HI>December</HI> in&s;tants, And diver&s;e great and weighty Con&s;iderations moving His Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> to continue the &s;aid Adjournment from the &s;aid Twenty day of <HI>December,</HI> to the Fir&s;t of <HI>March</HI> next, in the year One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety; and that the Mem|bers thereof may not be put to the trouble and charge of meeting upon the &s;aid Twenty day of <HI>December,</HI> His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> hath by His Royal Letter, of the date at <HI>Holland-Hou&s;e,</HI> the Thirty day of <HI>November</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t, Authorized and Re|quired the &s;aids Lords to i&s;&s;ue forth a Proclamation in His Name, Continuing the Adjournment of this Current Parliament to the Fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next; And if His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> &s;hall find it nece&s;&s;ary that the &s;aid Parliament meet &s;ooner, he will &s;ignifie the famine by a Proclamation to Anticipat that Dyet: Therefore the &s;aids Lords of Privy Council do in His <HI>Maj&s;ties</HI> Name, and by His &s;pecial Command and Authority, Declare the &s;aid Parliament Current, and Continue the Adjournment thereof until the &s;aid Fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next en|&s;uing the date of the pre&s;ent; and Require and Command the Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, Me&s;|&s;engers at Arms, Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, that inconti|nent the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;een, they pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and the remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head Burghs of this Kingdom, and there in <HI>His Majesties</HI> Name and Authority fore&s;aid, by open Proclamation, make In|timation of the Continuation of the &s;aid Adjournment, from the Twenty day of <HI>December</HI> in&s;tant, to the Fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next; Requiring hereby all the Members of Parliament to attend that day, in the u&s;ual Way, and upon the ac|cu&s;tomed Certifications Declaring hereby, not with &s;tanding of the pre&s;ent Ad|journment, that if <HI>His Maje&s;ty</HI> &s;hall find it nece&s;&s;ary, the Parliament &s;hould meet before the &s;aid Fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next, he will be favourably plea&s;|ed to &s;ignifie the famine, by a Proclamation for Anticipating that Dyet: For doing of all which, the &s;aids Lords commit to them conjunctly and &s;severally, <HI>His Maje&s;ties</HI>'s full Power by the&s;e pre&s;ents, delivering the famine by them du|ly Execute and Indorfaragain to the Bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Fourth day of <HI>December,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and eighty nine years.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii.
<HI>GILB. ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save King <HI>WILLIAM</HI> and Queen <HI>MARY.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> by Order of Privy Council, <HI>Anne DOM</HI> 1689.</P>
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