HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation concerning the Prorogation of the Parliament.  
THE Kings most Excellent Majesty, with the advice of the Lords of his Privy Council, having taken into consideration, That a general sickness and disease, which proves mortal to many, and infectious to more of his loving Subjects (even now towards Winter) hath dispersed itself within the Cities of London and Westminster; And that, if the meeting of both Houses of Parliament should hold (according to the last Prorogation thereof) on the second day of November next, the same might prove dangerous, as well to his Majesty's own Royal person, and his dear son the Prince (the occasions of Parliament requiring their often residence, and being in, and near the City's aforesaid) as to the Nobility and Gentry of the land, to be called thither, out of the fresh air, from all the parts of the Kingdom; Hath therefore (by the advice aforesaid, out of his Princely and gracious care of his loving Subjects of all sorts) resolved to Prorogue the said Parliament, from the said second day of November, to the sixteenth day of February than next following. And to the end, That, as well the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, as the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of Parliament, may spare and forbear their attendance accordingly; His Majesty, for their ease, hath thought fit by this Proclamation, to publish and declare his Royal resolution and intention therein: So that they, nor any of them (other than such, as for other occasions shall happen to be in London or Westminster, who may attend the making of the said Prorogation) shall not be bound, or compelled to appear the said second day of November, at the City of Westminster, but shall be discharged thereof against his Majesty. Nevertheless, his Majesty doth will, charge, and command them, and every of them, and all others, to whom in this case it shall appertain, That they, and every of them, do personally appear and be present, upon the said sixteenth day of February next coming, at the said City of Westminster, 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 Whitehall, the first day of October, in the two and twentieth year of his Majesty's Reinge 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. ANNO DOM. M.DC.XXXIIII.