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B05416 A proclamation adjourning the Parliament from the twenty fifth day of March, to the fifteenth day of May, 1691. Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1691 (1691) Wing S1549; ESTC R226024 808 1

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DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE A PROCLAMATION Adjourning the Parliament from the Twenty Fifth Day of March to the Fifteenth Day of May 1691. WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD King and Queen of Great-Brittain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith to Our Lyon King at Arms and his Brethren Heraulds Macers of Our Privy Council Pursevants Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially Constitute Greeting Forasmuch as We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council did by Our Proclamation of the Date the Fifteenth Day of October last Adjourn the Current Parliament of this Our Antient Kingdom of Scotland from the Twenty Two Day of October last by-past to the Twenty Fifth Day of March instant And we Considering that the present State of Our Affairs doth no● Require the Meeting of Our Parliament so soon as the Twenty Fifth Day of March to which it was Adjourned and We being unwilling that the Members of Our said Parliament be put to the Trouble Charge of Meeting upon the foresaid Day Do therefore with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council hereby Adjourn Our said Current Parliament until the Fifteenth Day of May next ensuing Hereby Requiring all the Members of Our Parliament to Attend that Day in the usual Way and under the Certification contained in the several Acts of Parliament Our Will is herefore and We Charge you strictly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh and to the remanent Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of this Our antient Kingdom and there in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation make Intimation of the said Adjournment of Our Parliament of this Kingdom from the said Twenty Fifth Day of March instant untill the Fifteenth Day of May next ensuing as ye will Answer to Us thereupon The which to do We Commit to you conjunctly and severally as said is Our full Power by these Presents delivering them by you duely Execute and Indorsed again to the Bearer Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the Third Day of March and of Our Reign the Second Year 1691. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii DA. MONCREIF Cls. Secreti Concilii GOD save King William and Queen Mary Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties 1691.