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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Adjourning the Parliament to the Twenty Eight of <HI>June,</HI> 1698.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of God, King of <HI>Great-Britan, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith:</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lyon King at Arms and his Bretheren, Heralds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Shireffs in that Part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially, con&s;titute, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">eeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>FORASMUCHAS, We by Our Proclamation of the Date the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">th Day of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t by pa&s;t, did Adjourn this Our current Parliament <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Eleventh Day of <HI>March</HI> then nixt to come; now in&s;tant: And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hereas the pre&s;ent State 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. Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, are re&s;olved to conti|nue the &s;aid Adjournment, from the &s;aid Eleventh Day of <HI>March</HI> in&s;tant, to the Twenty Eight Day of <HI>June</HI> next to come; And that the Members of Our &s;aid Parliament be not put to unnece&s;&s;ar Trouble and Charges: We do hereby with Advice fore&s;aid, continue the Adjournment of Our &s;aid cur|rent Parliament, from the &s;aid Eleventh Day of <HI>March</HI> in&s;tant, to the &s;aid Twenty Eight Day of <HI>June</HI> next to come: And We do hereby Order and Require all the members of Our Current Parliament, to attend the &s;aid Twen|ty Eight Day of <HI>June</HI> next to come at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> in the u&s;ual Way, and under the Certifications contained in the &s;everal Acts of Parliament made thereanent. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, And We Charge you &s;trictly, and command, that incontinent thir 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 and Stewartries of this Our Ancient Kingdom, and there by open Proclamation make Intimation, that Our &s;aid Parliament is Adjourned to the &s;aid Twenty Eight Day of <HI>June</HI> next to come; And ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the third Day of March; And of Our Reign the ninth Year,</HI> 1698.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT. <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD <HI>Save the</HI> 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 Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1698.</P>
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