Judicial Proceeding, 10 December 1700, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh The Sixth day of Agust J^aj vii^c years

A1700/8/8

A1700/8/8¹

Letter: royal

Letter from the King to the Commissioner and Councill For Adjourning the Parliament

The Letter underwritten from the King To the Commissioner and Councill, For Adjourning the Parliament, Being Read, was ordered to be Recorded wherof 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. We greet yow well. Whereas The Circumstances of our affairs doe still Continue such as will not allow of the Sitting of our Parliament on the Thirteenth day of August next to which it was last adjourned, And we Judgeing, That It may be necessary We should Return to Brittain, before the meeting there-of That the members may not be put To unnecessary Troubles and Charges, We doe authorize and Require yow To Issue forth a Proclamation in our name, adjourning our said Parliament from the said Thirteenth day of August, To the Two and Twentieth of october next, And we being Firmly Resolved, The Parliament shall then meet, yow are to order all the members to attend that day att Edinburgh in the usual way and upon the accustomed Certificationes, For doing wherof This shall be your warrand So we bid yow heartily farewell, Given att our Court at Loo The Twenty Sixth of July i700. And of our Reign the 12th year. By his Majesties Command. Sic Subscribitur Robert Pringle.