WHereas We summoned Our High Court of Parliament to assemble and meet together at Our City of Westminster the Twenty seventh day of January last, which hath continued until this present day; And whereas We did by Our Commission under Our Great Seal of England, bearing date at Westminster this present Twenty second day of April, for divers weighty Reasons, Declare Our Pleasure and Resolution to Dissolve the said Parliament: And to that end did thereby constitute and appoint Our right Trusty and right Welbeloved Counsellor Nathanael Lord Fiennes, one of the Lords Keepers of Our Great Seal of England, and others Our Commissioners in Our Name, this said present Twenty second day of April to Dissolve Our said Parliament, which was by them done according to the tenor of the said Com­mission in the usual place, and by virtue thereof Our said Parliament is absolutely Dissolved. Nevertheless We have thought it necessary, with the Advice of Our Privy Councel, by this Our Proclamation to publish and make known the same, to the end all persons whom it may concern may take notice thereof.

Given at White-Hall the Twenty second of April in the year of our Lord, 1659.