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<HEAD>ACT <HI>And</HI> Intimation <HI>anent this Current</HI> Par|liament.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>At</HI> Edinburgh <DATE><HI>the fifteen day of</HI> November, 1698 Years.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, Con&s;idering that His Ma|je&s;ty by the la&s;t Act of this la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of this Current Parliament had Adjourned the &s;ame to this fifteenth day of <HI>November</HI> in&s;tant: And that His Maje&s;tie being now Abroad furth of His Kingdoms, hath not as yet &s;ignified His Plea&s;ure, either by &s;ending a Commi&s;&s;ioner for holding thereof at the &s;aid day, nor His Royal Order for Adjourning the &s;ame to a further day; And &s;eing both by the nature of the High Court of Par|liament, and by expre&s;s Acts of Parliament, Parliaments are Current without the nece&s;&s;ity of a &s;pecial Continuation, until they be Di&s;&s;olved by His Maje|&s;ties particular Warrand, who&s;e &s;ole Prerogative it is to Di&s;&s;olve als well as to Call, Hold, and Prorogue the &s;ame. Therefore, the &s;aids Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council in expectation of His Maje&s;ties expre&s;s Orders; And to prevent the unnece&s;&s;ary trouble of the Members, and other Good Subjects who may be Concerned to repair to the Meeting of Parliament, have thought fit to Ordain Intimation to be made, that all Members of Parliament be rea|dy to meet and attend in this pre&s;ent Current Parliament, &s;o &s;oon as His Maje&s;ties Will and Plea&s;ure &s;hall be &s;ignified to them for that effect; And that none may pretend Ignorance: Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and to be Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> by the Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds and Pur&s;evants, and at the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom by Macers or Me&s;&s;en|gers at Armes.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Extracted by me</HI> GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Clericus Secreti Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1698.</P>
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