C R  DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
¶ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation declaring the King's Royal pleasure for the Assembling of the Parliament.  
WHereas, for many most important Causes, We have resolved to assemble Our high Court of Parliament, and to that purpose have already sent forth Our Writs to summon the same, and have appointed the day of that great Assembly, to be upon the seventeenth day of March now next coming; And whereas for the timely preparing and setting to Sea of a powerful Navy, We had directed Our Letters to be sent unto all the Counties, Cities, and Corporate towns of this Our Realm, and Our Privy Seals to diver particular persons, thereby acquainting them with the necessities of those preparations for Our just defence against Our Potent enemies, who have strongly combined themselves against Us and Our friends and Allies, and therefore requiring their cheerful and speedy aid in a case of such infinite importance: We, having seriously weighed these things with all the due circumstances thereof, knowing that delay in matters of this quality and consequence might destroy the work, and that the opportunity of time once lost is irrecoverable, have therefore determined to stay the execution and sending forth of those Letters, and also of the privy Seals, except to Strangers only, and wholly to rely upon the love of Our peope in Parliament, and not to defer their assembling for this, or any other occasion, beyond the said first day for that purpose appointed. And because there may be no mistaking or misunderstanding of Us, or of Our resolutions herein, We have thought fit, by the advice of Our Privy Council by this Our Royal Proclamation to publish the same, hereby requiring the members of both the Houses of Parliament, who are to be the great Council of Us and Our Kingdom, not to fail of their attendance upon the said seventeenth day of March now next ensuing, lest being misled by rumours of Proroguing of the Parliament unto a further day, or for any other respect, the public service of the Kingdom, wherein We and Our people have so great an interest, might suffer by their neglect.  
Given at Our Court at White-Hall, the sixteenth day of February, in the third 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. M.DC.XXVII.