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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> Adjourning the Parliament from the Eigh|teenth Day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> to the Fifteenth Day of <HI>December, 1697.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_WILLIAM By the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; 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, We, by Our Proclamation, of the Date, the Fifteenth day of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t, did Ad|journ Our pre&s;ent current Parliament to the Eighteenth day of <HI>August</HI> next to come; And whereas, the pre&s;ent State of Our Affairs doth not require the Meeting of Our &s;aid Parliament, &s;o &s;oon as the &s;aid Day to which it is Adjour|ned: <HI>Therefore,</HI> We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do continue the Adjournment of Our &s;aid current Parliament, from the &s;aid Eigh|teenth Day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> to the Fifteenth Day of <HI>December</HI> next to come; And that the Members of Parliament may not be put to un-nece&s;&s;ary Charges, and Expen&s;es by Attending the &s;aid Eighteenth Day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> next; We do here|by Adjourn Our &s;aid current Parliament, until the &s;aid Fifteenth Day of <HI>December</HI> next, Requiring all the Members of Our &s;aid Parliament, to Attend that Day in the u&s;ual way, and under the Certifications contained in the &s;eve|ral <HI>Acts</HI> of <HI>Parliament</HI> made thereanent. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Let|ters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remament Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries of this Our Antient Kingdom; And there by open Proclamation, make Intimati|on, that Our &s;aid <HI>Parliament</HI> is Adjourned to the &s;aid Fifteenth Day of <HI>De|cember</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 <HI>Twenty Ninth</HI> Day of <HI>July,</HI> and of Our Reign the <HI>Ninth</HI> Year, 1697.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB> 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> 1697.</P>
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