PROCLAMATION, For Adjourning the Parliament to the Twenty fifth Day of October next, 1694.

WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith;
To Our Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pursevants, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially con­stitute, Greeting:

Forasmuch as, We by Our Proclamation of the date the Twelfth Day of March last, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Did Adjourn the current Parliament of this Our Antient Kingdom, until the fifteenth Day of June then next to come, now last by-past; And Our Affairs not requiring the Meeting thereof at that time, We thought fit, by Our Letter of the Thirty first of May last, to continue the said Adjourn­ment until the sixth Day of September next; which Letter being lost in its pas­sage to England, Our Pleasure concerning the said Adjournment, was not known, whereupon the Lords of Our Privy Council, by their Act, of the date the fourteenth day of June last, Caused Intimation to be made, That all Members of Parliament should be ready to meet and attend in this Our Current Parliament, so soon as Our Will and Pleasure should be signified to them for that effect: Which Act and Intimation, We not only Confirm and Approve of; But likeways with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, hereby Ad­journ Our said Current Parliament, until the Twenty fifth Day of October next ensuing the date hereof; Requiring all the Members of Our said Parliament to attend that Day, in the usual way, and under the Certifications contained in the several Acts of Parliament, made thereanent. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, And We Charge you strictly and Command, That incon­tinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and to the Mercat-Crosses of the remanent Head-Burghs of the several Shires of this Our Antient Kingdom, and there, by open Proclamation, make Intimation, That Our said Parliament of this Kingdom is Adjourned to the said Twenty fifth Day of October next to come. And Ordains these Presents to be Printed.

Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the Twenty fourth Day of July. And of Our Reign, the sixth Year. 1694.
Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii.

GOD Save King William and Queen Mary.

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties, Anno Dom. 1694.

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