I Think I have given suffici­ent Evidence to the World, that I have not been wanting on My part in My Endea­vours to procure the full sa­tisfaction of all my Subjects, in the mat­ters both of Religion and Property. I have not onely invited you to those Con­siderations at Our first Meeting, but I have been careful through this whole Session, that no Concern of My Own should divert you from them.

Besides, as I had onely designed the matter of it to be the procuring of good Laws, so, for the gaining of them, I have already waited much longer than I in­tended, [Page 4] and should have been contented still to have continued My Expectation, had there any hopes remained of a good Conclusion: But I must confess the ill designs of Our Enemies have been too prevalent against those good ones I had proposed to My Self, in behalf of My People: And those unhappy differences between My Two Houses are grown to such an height, that I find no possible means of putting an end to them, but by a Prorogation. It is with great unwil­lingness that I make use of this Expedi­ent, having alwayes intended an Adjourn­ment for the preserving of such Bills as were unfinished: But my hopes are, that, by this means, the present Occasion of Differences being taken away, you will be so careful hereafter of the Pub­lique, as not to seek new ones, nor to re­vive the old.

I intend to meet you here again in Winter, and have directed My Lord Keeper to Prorogue you till the Thir­teenth of October next.