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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For Adjourning the Parliament.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> By the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lyon, King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as, by the la&s;t Act of the &s;ixth Se&s;|&s;ion of this Our pre&s;ent current Parliament, dated the twelfth day of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t by-pa&s;t, Our &s;aid Parliament is Adjourned to the Eight day of <HI>December</HI> in&s;tant. And whereas the pre&s;ent &s;tate of Our Affairs does not require the meeting of Our Parliament &s;o &s;oon, as the &s;aid day, to which it was Adjourned. There|fore We, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do continue the Adjournment from the &s;aid Eight day of <HI>December</HI> in&s;tant, to the Eighteen day of <HI>March</HI> nixt to come: And being de&s;irous to prevent the unnece&s;&s;ary trouble, and charges that the Members of Parliament may be put to, by at|tending the &s;aid Eight day of <HI>December</HI> in&s;tant, do hereby, with Advice fore|&s;aid Adjourn Our &s;aid current Parliament untill the &s;aid Eighteenth day of <HI>March</HI> nixt <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;uing the date hereof. Requiring all the Members of Our &s;aid Parli|ament to attend that day in the u&s;ual way, and under the Certifications con|tained in the &s;everal Acts of Parliament made thereanent. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, And We charge you &s;trictly, and Command That in con|tinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shyres and Stewartries of this Our Ancient Kingdom, and there by open Proclamati|on, make Intimation, that Our &s;aid Parliament is Adjourned to the &s;aid Eight|teenth day of <HI>March</HI> nixt to come. And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the third of <HI>December,</HI> and of Our Reign the eight year <HI>1696</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave 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 His Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1696.</P>
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