Whereas by the last Act of the second Session of Our present Parliament, of this Our Anci­ent Kingdom, the same was Declared Current, and Adjourned till the seventeenth Day of August next to come; And whereas, upon weighty Considerations, We have thought fit to delay the Meeting thereof: Do therefore, with Advice of Our Privy Council, Hereby continue the Ad­journment of that Our Parliament, to the twenty first of October next ensuing the date of these Presents, Requiring the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the Commissioners of the several Shires, and these from Our Royal-Burghs, respectively, to Meet the said Day, in the usual manner, and under the accustomed Certifications. And to the end Our Pleasure in the Premisses may be known. Our Will is, and We Charge you strictly and Command, That incontinent, these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and other places needful, and there, in Our Royal Name and Authority by open Proclamation, make publication of the Adjournment of Our said Parliament, from the said seventeenth Day of August next to come, to the said Twenty first Day of October next ensuing the date of these Presents, that all persons concerned may punctually attend the same.