By the King, a proclamation for dissolving this present Parliament

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Title: By the King, a proclamation for dissolving this present Parliament
Author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
Publication: London :: Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb ...,; 1687.
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By the King, A PROCLAMATION

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DIEV ET MON DROIT
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE

For Dissolving this present PARLIAMENT.

James R.

Whereas this Parliament which was Summoned to begin at West∣minster the Nineteenth day of May 1685, hath by several Proroga∣tions been continued to the Two and twentieth day of November next ensuing; The King's most Excellent Majesty for weighty Reasons hath thought fit to Dissolve this Present Parliament, and doth by this His Royal Proclamation Dissolve the same ac∣cordingly: And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of this present Parliament are hereby Discharged from their Meéting on the said Two and twentieth day of Novem∣ber next ensuing.

Given at Our Court at Hampton Court the Second Day of July, 1687. In the Third Year of Our Reign.

God save the King.