A PROCLAMATION For Adjourning of the Parliament, From the 20 of December to the 1 of March thereafter.  
FOrasmuch as the Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, by their Proclamation of the date, the First day of October last by past, in obedience to, and by virtue of, His Majesty's special Command and Authority, did in His Majesty's Name Adjourn this Current Parliament, from the Eighth day of October then ensuing (to which day the Parliament was formerly Adjourned) until the Twentieth day of December instants, And divers great and weighty Considerations moving His Sacred Majesty to continue the said Adjournment from the said Twenty day of December, to the First of March next, in the year One thousand six hundred and ninety; and that the Members thereof may not be put to the trouble and charge of meeting upon the said Twenty day of December, His Majesty hath by His Royal Letter, of the date at Holland-House, the Thirty day of November last by past, Authorized and Required the said's Lords to issue forth a Proclamation in His Name, Continuing the Adjournment of this Current Parliament to the First day of March next; And if His Majesty shall find it necessary that the said Parliament meet sooner, he will signify the famine by a Proclamation to Anticipat that Diet: Therefore the said's Lords of Privy Council do in His Majsties' Name, and by His special Command and Authority, Declare the said Parliament Current, and Continue the Adjournment thereof until the said First day of March next ensuing the date of the present; and Require and Command the Lion King at Arms, and his Brethren Heralds, Macers of Privy Council, Pursuivants, Messengers at Arms, Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, that incontinent these presents seen, they pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and the remanent Mercat-Crosses of the Head Burghs of this Kingdom, and there in His Majesty's Name and Authority foresaid, by open Proclamation, make Intimation of the Continuation of the said Adjournment, from the Twenty day of December instant, to the First day of March next; Requiring hereby all the Members of Parliament to attend that day, in the usual Way, and upon the accustomed Certifications Declaring hereby, not with standing of the present Adjournment, that if His Majesty shall find it necessary, the Parliament should meet before the said First day of March next, he will be favourably pleased to signify the famine, by a Proclamation for Anticipating that Diet: For doing of all which, the said's Lords commit to them conjunctly and sseverally, His Majesties' full Power by these presents, delivering the famine by them duly Execute and Indorfaragain to the Bearer.  
Given at Edinburgh, the Fourth day of December, One thousand six hundred and eighty nine years. Per Actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii. GILB. ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii. 
 GOD Save King WILLIAM and Queen MARY.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, by Order of Privy Council, Anne DOM 1689.