House of Lords Journal Volume 3: 16 February 1624

Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 3, 1620-1628. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.

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Anno vicesimo primo Jacobi Regis.

King's Commission delivered to be read.

MEMORANDUM, That on Monday, the Sixteenth of February, Anno 21° Regni Regis Jacobi, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal assembled in their Parliament Robes; and then, Prayers being said, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses being called in, the Right Honourable and Right Reverend (fn. 1) Father in God John Lord Bishop of Lincolne, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, delivered unto the Clerk of the Parliament His Majesty's Writ Patent, signed with His own Hand, and sealed with the Great Seal of England, bearing Date this present Day; and his Lordship commanded the Clerk to read the same; the Tenor of which Writ followeth:

Commission for the Prorogation.

"Jacobus, Dei Gratia, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Prædilectis et Fidelibus Nostris Prælatis, Magnatibus, et Proceribus Regni Nostri Angliæ, ac Dilectis et Fidelibus Nostris Militibus, Civibus, et Burgensibus dicti Regni Nostri, ad Parliamentum Nostrum, apud Civitatem Nostram Westm. hoc instante decimo sexto die Februarii tenendum, convocatis et electis, et vestrum cuilibet, Salutem.

"Cum Nos, pro quibusdam arduis et urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum et Defensionem Regni Nostri Angliæ ac Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ concernentibus, dictum Parliamentum Nostrum, duodecimo die dicti instantis mensis, apud Civitatem prædictam, teneri ordinaverimus; ac vobis, per separalia Brevia Nostra, apud Civitatem et diem prædictam, interesse mandaverimus, ad tractandum, consentiendum, et concludendum super hiis, quæ in dicto Parliamento Nostro tunc et ibidem proponerentur et tractarentur; cumque Nos, per Breve Nostrum, certis de Causis et Considerationibus Nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus, dictum Parliamentum Nostrum ab eodem duodecimo die dicti instantis mensis Februarii, usque hunc instantem decimum sextum diem Februarii duximus prorogandum; ita quod nec vos, nec aliquis vestrum, ad dictum duodecimum diem Februarii, apud dictam Civitatom, comparere teneamini, seu arctemini; volentes vos, et quemlibet vestrum, inde erga Nos penitus exonerari; et per idem Breve Nostrum, vobis, et cuilibet vestrum, ad hunc instantem decimum sextum diem Februarii, apud Civitatem prædictam, comparere et interesse nuperrime mandaverimus, ad tractandum, faciendum, agendum, et concludendum super hiis, quæ in dicto Parliamento Nostro contigissent ordinari: Quibusdam tamen certis urgentibus de Causis et Considerationibus Nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus, dictum Parliamentum Nostrum ab hoc instante decimo sexto die Februarii, usque ad decimum nonum diem præsentis mensis Februarii, ulterius duximus prorogandum; ita quod nec vos, nec aliquis vestrum, ad hunc instantem decimum sextum diem Februarii, apud Civitatem prædictam, comparere teneamini, seu arctemini; volumus enim vos, et quemlibet vestrum, inde erga Nos penitus exonerari; mandantes, et, tenore præsentium, firmiter injungendo præcipientes, vobis, et cuilibet vestrum, ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit, quod ad dictum decimum nonum diem Februarii, apud Civitatem Westm. prædictam, personaliter compareatis et intersitis, et vestrum quilibet compareat et intersit, ad tractandum, faciendum, agendum, et concludendum super hiis, quæ in dicto Parliamento Nostro, de communi Concilio dicti Regni Nostri (favente Deo), contigerint ordinari. Teste Meipso, apud Westm. decimo sexto die Februarii, Anno Regni Nostri Angliæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Vicesimo primo, et Scotiæ Quinquagesimo septimo.

"Edmondes."

Parliament prorogued.

Which Writ being read, the Lord Keeper accordingly declared the Parliament to be prorogued until Thursday next, videlicet, the Nineteenth Day of this February, at Two in the Afternoon.

Footnotes

  • 1. Deest in Origin.