Judicial Proceeding, 10 December 1700, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh The Fifteenth day of October J^aj vii^c years

A1700/10/3

A1700/10/3¹

Letter: royal

Letter from the King for Adjourning the Parliament

The Letter underwrittin from the King to The Commissioner and Councill for adjourning the parliament being read was ordered to be Recorded, quherof the tenor Follows
Sic Supra Scribitur William Rex
Right Trusty and Entirely beloved Cousin and Councellor, Right Trusty and right welbeloved Cousin and Councellor, Right Trusty and welbeloved Cousins and Councellors, Right Trusty and welbeloved Councellors, and Trusty and welbeloved Councellors, and Trusty and welbeloved Councellors We greet yow well. Whereas by our Letter to yow of the Six and Twentieth of July last, we did order the adjournment of our Parliament To the Two and Twentieth Instant, We were Fully Resolved, It Should have mett on the said day, But our necessary affairs having detained us longer in this Countrey, Then we at First Intended, and we Judgeing it still Fitt, we Should be in Brittan before the meeting of our said Parliament, We doe Therfore authorize and Require yow to Issue forth a Proclamation in our name for adjourning our said Parliament from the said Two and Twentieth Instant to the Twenty Nynth therof, And ordaines all the members to attend that day at Edinburgh in the usual way and upon the accustomed Certificationes. For doeing whereof This shall be your warrant, So we bidd yow heartily Farewell. Given at our Court at Loo, The Seventh of October, i700, and of our Reign the i2th year, By his Majesties Command. Sic Subscribitur. Robert Pringle.