DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for the adjournment of the Parliament, from the foureteenth day of November next, to the eight day of February following.  
THE Kings most Excellent Majesty, taking into his Royal consideration, the present season of the year and weather, and how troublesome and unfit it is like to be, for the Prelates, Noblemen, and States of this kingdom, and also for the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of this present Parliament, to travel to the City of Westminster, where the same is appointed by adjournment to be holden upon the foureteenth day of November next, and that the celebration of the feast of Christmas soon after approacheth; And therefore, and for diverse other weighty considerations, His Highnesses (at the motion & with the advice of his Privy Council) thinketh good and necessary, to adjourn the said Parliament, untilll the eight day of February next coming: And by this his Proclamation doth publish and notify the same to all the said Prelates, Noblemen, and States, and also to all the said Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, So that they, or any of them (other than such as shall happen then to be in London or Westminster, who may attend to adjourn the same) are not bound or compelled to appear the said foureteenth day of November, at the City aforesaid, But that they, and every of them are hereby thereof discharged against His Majesty: Willing nevertheless, and charging and commanding all and every the said Prelates, Noblemen and States, and all the said Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, and all others, to whom in this case it shall appertain, That they and every of them do personally appear, and be present the said eight day of February at the City of Westminster aforesaid, to treat, consent, and conclude upon such matters, as in the said Parliament shall then and there, of the Common Council of the Realm (by God's favour) happen to be ordained.  
Given at the Court at Royston, the sixth day of October, and in the nineteenth year of His Majesty's Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by BONHAM NORTON, and JOHN BILL, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. M.DC.XXI.