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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
By the King, A PROCLAMATION  
For further Proroguing of the PARLIAMENT.  
James R.  
Whereas We did lately Prorogue Our Parliament until the Fifteenth Day of February next, We for many Weighty Reasons have thought fit to Prorogue the same until the Eight and twentieth Day of April next ensuing the Date hereof: And therefore do by this Our Proclamation Publish and Declare, That the Parliament shall be Prorogued upon and from the said Fifteenth day of February until the Eight and twentieth Day of April next; Whereof the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, and all others whom it may Concern, may hereby take Notice, and Order their Affairs accordingly: We letting them know, That We will not at the said Fifteénth Day of February expect the Attendance of any, but only such, as being in or about the Cities of London and Westminster, may Attend the making the said Prorogation, as heretofore in like Cases hath been accustomed.  
Given at Our Court at Whiteball the Seventh Day of January, 1686/7 In the Second Year of Our Reign. 
 God save the King.   

LONDON, Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1686/7.