WHereas the Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of No­vember, in the sixteenth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles of blessed memory, Entituled, An Act for the preventing of inconveniences happening by the long in­termission of Parliaments, is in derogation of His Majesties just Rights and Prerogative, inherent to the Im­perial Crown of this Realm, for the calling and assembling of Parliaments; and may be an occasion of manifold mischiefs and inconveniences, and much endanger the Peace and Safety of His Majesty, and all His Liege people of this Realm.

Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excel­lent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Au­thority of the same, That the said Act, Entituled, An Act for the preventing of inconveniences happening by the long intermission of Parliaments, and all and every the Articles, Clauses and things therein contained, is, [Page 4] shall be, and are hereby wholly repealed, annulled and utterly made void, and are hereby declared to be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as if the said Act had never been had or made; any thing in the said Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

And because by the ancient Laws and Statutes of this Realm, made in the Reign of King Edward the third, Parliaments are to be held very often, Your Majesties humble and loyal Subjects the Lords Spi­ritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this pre­sent Parliament assembled, most humbly do beseech Your most Excellent Majesty, that it may be Declared and Enacted, and be it Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That hereafter the sitting and holding of Parliaments shall not be intermitted and discontinued above three years at the most; but that within three years from and after the determi­nation of this present Parliament, and so from time to time within three years [...] the determination of any other Parliament or Parliaments, or if there be occasion more often, Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors do issue out Your Writs for calling, assembling and holding of another Parliament, to the end there may be a frequent calling, assembling [...] of [...] once in three years at [...].