Forasmuch, as We having by Our Royal Proclamation, dated at Our Court at White-Hall, the Sixteenth day of February last, upon divers weighty Considerations of great Importance to Our Service, and to the Peace and Tranquillity of this our Ancient Kingdom: Thougt sit to call a Parliament, to meet at Our City of Edinburgh upon [...] day of April, then next ensuing: And which Diet of Meeting was thereafter by Our Royal Proclamation of the twentieth and se­cond of March last, Continued and Adjourned from the said Ninth, to the twentieth and third day of the said Month of April In­stant; and We being resolved that all the Members of the said Parliament should according to their Allegiance and Duty, attend and keep the said Meeting of Parliament, upon the said twentieth third Instant, and upon that day by eight a Clock in the Morning wait upon our High Commissioner, from Our Palace of Holy-rood house to Our Parliament-house, in his Riding up and down from, and to, Our said Palace, and keep and attend the whole Diers and Meetings of Our said Parliament, during the Sitting thereof. We therefore with the Advice of our Privy Council, Do hereby Require and Command all the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal, and all Commissioners of Shires and Burrows, to wait upon, and attend Our High Commissioner, tho said day of the Meeting of our Parliament, by eight a Clock in the Morning Precisely, and to Ride according to their Ranks and Orders, from our said Palace to Our Parliament-house, and from thence down again to Our said Palace; and to keep and attend all the Diets and Meetings of our said Parliament, du­ring the Sitting thereof; Certifying such as (without a Lawful Excuse, timely represented and admitted by our High Commissioner) shall be absent, they shall be lyable unto, and incur the Pains and Penalties following, contained in an Act of the first Session, of the first Parliament of Our Dearest Brother, of ever Blessed Memory; Dated the thirteenth day of May, 1662. viz: Each Arch-Bishop, Bishop and Noble Man, the summ of twelve hun­dred Pounds Scots: Each Commssioner of Shires the summ of six hundred Pounds Scots: And each Commissioner of Burrows, the Summ of two hun­dred Pounds Scots, to be paid to Our Cash-keeper, for Our Use: At whose Instance, all Execution necessary is hereby ordered to pass for Payment thereof: Which Penalties conform to the said Act of Parliament, are declared to be by and attour, and without Prejudice of what other Censure Our Parliament shall think sit to inflict for fo high Contempt and Neglect of Our Authority. And We further Declare, that such Members of Our, Parlia­ment as shall not accompany our High Commissioner on Horseback decently with Foot-Mantles, from Our said Palace, to Our said Parliament-House, and from thence down again to Our said Palace, shall bo reputed for Absents, and incur the same Pains and Penalties, as if they were Absent, which are to be Inflicted and Exacted with all Rigour, conform to the thirty fourth Act of the eleventh Parliament of Our Royal Grandfather King James the Sixth of ever Blessed Memory. And further, Wo hereby Require and Command all Persons who have recieved Commissions from our several Shires and Burrows for being Members of our said Parliament, to enter and give in the same to Our Clerk of Register, the day immediately preceeding the said Sitting of Our Parliament, betwixt ten and twelve a Clock in tho Forenoon, (or sooner) to be by him considered and Marked, as they will answer the contrary oh their Peril. And to the effect our pleasure in the Premises may be timeously known to all Persons concerned, Our will is, and We Charge you strictly and command, that in continent these our Letters seen, yo pass to tho Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, and other Places needful, and there by open Proclamation, make Publication of Our Pleasure in the Premises, that all Persons concerned may have notice thereof, and give exact and perem­tor Obedience thereto.