Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 2, 1578-1614. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.
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DIE Martis, videlicet, 7 die Junii, post meridiem:
Message to the H.C. desiring their Attendance.
THIS Day the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being assembled in their Robes, after Prayers ended, the Commissioners, taking Notice of His Majesty's Commission for dissolving of the Parliament, left their proper Seats, went up, and did set on a Bench or Form prepared for them, and placed overthwart the House, between the Chair of Estate and the Wool-Sack, whereon the Lord Chancellor usually sitteth; and, after some small Intermission, the Gentleman Usner was commanded to signify unto the Speaker of the Lower House, That the Lords were now ready in their Robes, and do expect the Coming up of him and the Commons, to whom His Majesty's Pleasure is further to be declared, according to His Highness's Commission in that Behalf directed to certain special Lords.
Afterwards the Speaker and Commons being come into the House, and at the Bar, the Lord Chancellor declared, That it had pleased His Majesty to ordain His Parliament to be holden and begun on the 5th of April last; and now, for divers great and weighty Considerations known to His Highness, He had thought good to dissolve and finally determine the same; and that, to the same Purpose, His Majesty had been pleased to grant a Commission to certain Lords.
King's Commission read.
Hereupon the Clerk of the Parliament, going up, and kneeling before the Lord Chancellor, received the Commission from his Lordship; and, being returned to his ordinary and accustomed Place, did openly and publicly read the same; the Tenor whereof followeth: videlicet,
"JAMES R.
Commission for dissolving the Parliament.
"† Jacobus, Dei Gratia, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, etc. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Fideli Consiliario Nostro Georgio Archiepiscopo Cantuar. totius Angliæ Primati et Metropolitano, ac Prædilecto et Fideli Consiliario Nostro Thomæ Domino Ellesmere, Cancellario Nostro Angliæ, ac etiam Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Tobiæ Archiepiscopo Ebor. Angliæ Primati et Metropolitano, nec non Charissimis Consanguineis et Consiliariis Nostris Henrico Comiti North'ton, Custodi Privati Sigilli Nostri, ac Gardiano Quinque Portuum Nostrorum, Carolo Comiti Nott. Magno Admirallo Nostro Angliæ, Thomæ Comiti Suff. Camerario Hospitii Nostri, Gilberto Comiti Salop, Edwardo Comiti Wigorn. Magistro (fn. 1) Equorum Nostrorum, Willielmo Comiti Pembr. Thomæ Comiti Exon. Lodovico Comiti Richemont, et Roberto Comiti Somerset, ac Prædilectis et Fidelibus Consiliariis Nostris Edwardo Domino Zouch, Willielmo Domino Knollis, Thesaurario Hospitii Nostri, Edwardo Domino Wootton, Contrarotulatori Hospitii Nostri, et Johanni Domino Stanhope, Vicecamerario Hospitii Nostri, Salutem.
"Cum nuper, pro quibusdam arduis et urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum et Defensronem Regni Nostri Angliæ, et Ecclefiæ Anglicanæ concernentibus, Parliamentum Nostrum, apud Civitatem Nostram Westm. quinto die Aprilis ultimo præterito, inchoari et teneri ordinavimus; quod quidem Parliamentum tantummodo suit inchoatum; sed, pro eo quod nullus Regalis Assensus aut Responsio per Nos præstitus suit, nullum Parliamentum, nec aliqua Sessio Parliamenti, habita aut tenta extitit: Sciatis, quod, certis urgentibus Causis et Considerationibus Nos Specialiter moventibus, hoc instante septimo die Junii, dictum Parliamentum, inchoatum ut supra dictum est, duximus dissolvendum. De Fidelitate igitur, Prudentia, et Circumspectione, vestris plurimum confidentes, assignavimus vos Commissionarios Nostros; dantes vobis, et aliquibus tribus vel pluribus vestrum, tenore præsentium, plenam Potestatem, Facultatem, et Auctoritatem, hoc instante septimo die Junii, ad dictum Parliamentum, inchoatum ut supradictum est, Nomine Nostro, dissolvendum. Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod vos, vel aliqui tres aut plures vestrum, prædictum Parliamentum, sic ut prefertur inchoatum, hoc instante septimo die Junii, virtute harum Literarum Nostrarum Patentium, Nomine Nostro, plene dissolvatis et determinetis. Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod circa præmissa diligenter intendatis, ac ea in forma prædicta effectualiter expleatis et exequamini. Damus autem universis et singulis Archiepiscopis, Marchionibus, Comitibus, Vicecomitibus, Episcopis, Baronibus, Militibus, Civibus, et Burgensibus, ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum Nostrum, sic inchoatum ut supradictum est, conventuris, tenore præfentium, firmiter in Mandatis, quod vobis, in præmissis faciendis, agendis, et exequendis, pareant, obediant, et intendant in omnibus, prout decet. In cujus Rei Testimonium, has Literas Nostras sieri secimus Patentes. Teste Meipso, apud Westm. septimo die Junii, Anno Regni Nostri Angliæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Duodecimo, et Scotiæ Quadragesimo septimo.
"Coppin."
Parliament dissolved.
Domini Commissionarii hodie præfentes, virtute dictæ Commissionis, prædictum Parliamentum, inchoatum ut supra dictum est, dissolverunt, Nomine Regis, Domino Cancellario ita declarante.