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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> For Adjourning the currant Parliament to the Eleventh Day of <HI>March 1697.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>WILLIAM</HI> 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 She|riffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con|&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For&s;amuch as We by Our Proclamation of the date the Twenty Ninth Day of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t by-pa&s;t, did Adjourn this Our pre&s;ent currant Parliament to the Fifteenth day of <HI>December</HI> then next to come, now 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. Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our privy Council, are re&s;olved to continue the &s;aid Adjournment from the &s;aid Fifteenth Day of <HI>December</HI> in&s;tant, to the Ele|venth Day of <HI>March</HI> next to come; and that the Members of Our &s;aid Par|liament 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 currant Parliament, from the &s;aid Fifteenth Day of <HI>December</HI> in&s;tant, to the &s;aid Eleventh Day of <HI>March</HI> next to come: And We do hereby Order and Require all the Members of Our currant Parliament, to Attend the &s;aid Eleventh Day of <HI>March</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. <HI>Our Will is herefore,</HI> 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 rema|nent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries of this Our ancient King|dom, and there by open Proclamation, make Intimation that Our &s;aid Par|liament is Adjourned to the &s;aid Eleventh Day of <HI>March</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 Ninth Day of <HI>December,</HI> And of Reign the Ninth Year 1697.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. St. 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 the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1697.</P>
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