WHereas by Our late Proclamation Wee declared Our plea­sure for proroguing the Parliament, from the second day of Nouem­ber last past, vnto the sixteenth day of February next comming, Now, for waighty and important reasons, Wee, with the aduise of Our prime Councell, haue resolued to prorogue the said Parlia­ment yet further, vnto the fifteenth day of March now next ensuing. And to the end, that aswell the Lords Spirituall and Temporall, as the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of Parliament, may stay, and forbeare their attendance accordingly; Wee haue thought fit, by this Proclamation, to publish and declare Our resolution and intention therein: So that none of them (other then such, as for their owne occasion shall happen to be in London or Westminster, who may attend the making of the said Prorogation) shall be bound to appeare the said sixteenth day of February, at the said City of Westminster, but are to hold their appearance and meeting there, vpon the said fifteenth day of March next comming, to treate, consent, and conclude vpon such matters, as in the said Parliament shall then and there, of the common Councell of the Realme, (by Gods fauour) happen to be ordeined.

Giuen at Our Court at Newmarket, the nineteenth day of Ianuary, in the two and twentieth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.

God saue the King.