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<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q LANG="frm">DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>By the Lords Ju&s;tices, A PROCLAMATION Declaring the PARLIAMENT &s;hall be Prorogued until the Twenty eighth Day of <HI>July</HI> next.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>Tho. Cantuar.</ITEM>
<ITEM>J. Sommers <HI>C.S.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pembroke <HI>C.P.S.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Devon&s;hire.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Shrewsbury.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dor&s;et.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Godolphin.</ITEM>
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<P>_WHereas th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s pre&s;ent Parliament &s;tands Prorogued to the Sixte&eacute;nth Day of <HI>June</HI> next, We, by the Advice of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, for weighty rea&s;ons Vs e&s;pecially moving, do hereby Publi&s;h and De|clare, That the &s;ame Parliament &s;hall, upon the &s;aid Sixte&eacute;nth Day of <HI>June,</HI> be further Prorogued unto the Twenty eighth Day of <HI>July</HI> next en&s;uing; Whereof the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es of the Hou&s;e of Commons, and all others whom it may Con|cern, may hereby take Notice: We letting them know, That it will not be expected that any &s;hould Attend at the &s;aid Sixte&eacute;nth Day of <HI>June</HI> next, but &s;uch as being in and about the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> may Attend the Making of the &s;aid Prorogation, in &s;uch manner as heretofore in like Ca&s;es hath be&eacute;n Accu&s;tomed. And We do hereby further Declare, That convenient Notice &s;hall be giv<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n by Proclamation of the Time when the Parliament &s;hall Me&eacute;t and Sit for the Di&s;patch of Bu&s;ine&s;s, to the End that the Members of both Hou&s;es may Order their Affairs accordingly.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Council Chamber <DATE>the Eighteenth Day of <HI>May,</HI> 1696. In the Eight Year of His Maje&s;ties Reign.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Charles Bill,</HI> and the Executrix of <HI>Thomas Newcomb,</HI> deceas'd, Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1696.</P>
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