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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation for Proroguing the Parliament.  
WHEREAS by Our late Proclamation We declared Our pleasure for proroguing the Parliament from the Sixteenth day of February last passed, unto the Fifteenth day of this instant March; Now for weighty and important reasons, We, with the advice of Our Privy Counsel, have resolved to prorogue the said Parliament yet further, unto the Twentieth day of April now next ensuing: And to the end, that, aswell the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, as the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of Parliament, may spare and forbear their attendance accordingly, We have thought fit by this Proclamation, to publish and declare Our resolution and intention therein; So that none 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 be bound to appear the said Fifteenth day of March at the said City of Westminster, but are to hold their appearance and meeting there, upon the said Twentieth day of April next coming, to treat, consent, and conclude upon such matters, as in the said Parliament shall then and there, of the Common Counsel of the Realm (by God's favour) happen to be ordained.  
Given at Our Court of Theobalds' the third day of March, in the two and twentieth year of Our 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. 1624.