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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For Adjourning the Parliament from <DATE>the fifteenth of <HI>March</HI> in&s;tant, until the fifteenth of <HI>June</HI> next.</DATE></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>MARY</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders 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 Severally, &s;pecially con&s;ti|tute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Did by Our Proclamation of the date, the twenty &s;ix day of <HI>December</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety three years, Adjourn the current Parliament of this Our Antient Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> from the ninth day of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t, to the Fifteenth day of <HI>March.</HI> And We Con|&s;idering, that the pre&s;ent State of Our Affairs in this Our Antient Kingdom, doth not Require that the Members of Our &s;aid Parliament &s;hould meet upon the fore&s;aid day. And We being unwilling, that they &s;hould be put to any Trouble, that may be Di&s;pen&s;ed with; Do therefore with Advice of the &s;aids Lords of Our Privy Council, hereby Adjourn Our &s;aid current Parliament until the fifteenth day of <HI>June</HI> next to come: Hereby Re|quiring all the Members of Our Parliament to attend that day, in the u&s;ual way and under the Certifications contained in the &s;everal Acts of Parliament madethere|anent. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incontinent 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 Shires of this Our Antient Kingdom, and there by open Proclamation, make Intimation of the Adjourning of Our Parliament of this Kingdom, from the &s;aid fifteenth day of <HI>March</HI> in&s;ant, to the &s;aid fifteenth day of <HI>June</HI> next 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 twelfth day of <HI>March,</HI> and of our Reign the Fifth Year, <HI>1694</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELLIOT</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</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 Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their Mo&s;t Excellent Majce&s;ties, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1694.</P>
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