‘DIEV ET MON DROIT’‘HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE’


By the King.
A PROCLAMATION Requiring the Members of both Houses of Parliament to give their Attendance upon the Twenty ninth of August instant.

CHARLES R.

WHereas this present Parliament was Prorogued from the First day of this instant August, until the Nine and twentieth day of the same Month; And whereas His Majesties Plea­sure is, That both Houses shall not only meét upon the said Twenty ninth day of August, but shall continue to Sit for the Dispatch of divers weighty Affairs that will be then Pro­posed and Debated; And His Majesty being desirous (in respect of the Importance of those Affairs) to have then a full Assembly of the Members of both Houses of Par­liament, Hath (with the Advice of His Privy Council) thought fit to Require, and doth hereby Require and Command all and every the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the House of Commons, to give their Attendance at Westminster on the said Twenty ninth day of August instant. And His Majesty doth expect a ready Conformity to this His Royal Will and Pleasure.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the Second day of August 1678. And in the Thirtieth year of Our Reign.


God save the King.

LONDON, Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1678.

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