By the Queene.
❧ A Proclamation notifying the dissolution of the Parliment that was proroged vnto the xiiii day of Nouember. 1586.
WHere the Parliament holden & begun at Westminster the three and twentieth day of Nouember, in the seven and twentieth yeere of the Queenes Maiesties reigne, hath bene continued by diuers prorogations and adiornements, vntill the sixe and twentieth day of April now last past, at which day by her Maiesties letters patents vnder the great seale of England, bearing date at Westminster the same sixe and twentieth day of April, the same Parliament was proroged and adiorned vntil the fourtenth day of November now next comming: Her Maiestie doeth hereby signifie vnto all her louing subiects, that aswel for that the matters presently requiring the consideration of a Parliament bee of such importance vnto her Maiestie and this her highnesse Realme, as they may not conueniently be deferred vntil the said fourteenth day of Nouember: & for that also sundry of the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the said Parliament, are in the parties beyond the seas in her Maiesties seruice, whereby her highnesse cannot vse their seruice in the same Parliament, and for many other weightie causes and considerations her Highnesse in that behalfe especially moouing: Hath by her letters patents vnder the great scale of England, bearing date the foureteenth day of this instant moneth of September, dissolued the same Parliament, so as the Lordes spirituall and temporall, Knightes, Citizens and Burgesses of the same dissolued Parliament, shall not neede to make their apparance for the seruice of that Parliament in the said foureteenth day of Nouember next comming, but are of the same their appatance by reason of the same dissolution clearly discharged. Neuerthelesse, her Highnesse being for the respects aforesaid, and vpon like weighty considerations minded presently to summon a new Parliament, if any the Knights, Citizens or Burgesses of the former dissolued Parliament shall fortune to be elected Knights, Citizens or Burgesses of the Parliament now newly to be summoned, her Highnes doeth likewise signifie, that they are then to keepe their apparance with the other Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the same Parliament, at the day and place when and where the same new Parliament shall bee summoned to be holden and kept, whereof her Highnesse requireth them not to faile.
Giuen at her Highnes Castle of Windsore, the fifteenth day of September, in the eight and twentieth yeere of her Highnesse raigne.
God saue the Queene.
Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie.