House of Lords Journal Volume 15: Proclamation by the King

(fn. 1) "By the KING.

Proclamation for dissolving the Parliament.

"A Proclamation for dissolving this present Parliament, and declaring the speedy calling another.

"William R.

"WHEREAS We have thought fit, for divers important and weighty Considerations, by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, to dissolve Our present Parliament, which now stands prorogued to the One and Thirtieth Day of this Instant October: We do for that End publish this Our Royal Proclamation; and do hereby dissolve the said present Parliament accordingly: And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the said Parliament, are discharged from their Meeting upon the said One and Thirtieth Day of October. And, to the Intent Our good Subjects may perceive the Confidence We have in their Affections, and how desirous We are to meet Our People, and have their Advice in Parliament, We do hereby make known to Our said Subjects, that We have given Directions to Our Lord Keeper of Our Great Seal, for the issuing out of Writs, in due Form of Law, for the calling of a new Parliament, which shall begin and be holden at Westminster on Friday the Twenty-second Day of November next.

"Given at Court at Kensington, the Eleventh Day of October, 1695, in the Seventh Year of Our Reign.

"God save the King."