w R   English royal blazon surmounted by a crown and flanked by the English lion and Tudor rose on one side and the Scottish unicorn and thistle on the other HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
By the Lords Justices, A PROCLAMATION Declaring the PARLIAMENT shall be Prorogued until the Twenty eighth Day of July next.  


Tho. Cantuar.  
J. summers C.S.  
Pembroke C.P.S.  
Devonshire.  
Shrewsbury.  
Dorset.  
Godolphin.    
WHereas th●s present Parliament stands Prorogued to the Sixteénth Day of June next, We, by the Advice of His Majesties Privy Council, for weighty reasons us especially moving, do hereby Publish and Declare, That the same Parliament shall, upon the said Sixteénth Day of June, be further Prorogued unto the Twenty eighth Day of July next ensuing; Whereof the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons, and all others whom it may Concern, may hereby take Notice: We letting them know, That it will not be expected that any should Attend at the said Sixteénth Day of June next, but such as being in and about the Cities of London and Westminster may Attend the Making of the said Prorogation, in such manner as heretofore in like Cases hath been accustomend. And We do hereby further Declare, That convenient Notice shall be giv●n by Proclamation of the Time when the Parliament shall meet and Sit for the Dispatch of Business, to the End that the Members of both Houses may Order their Affairs accordingly.  
Given at the Council Chamber the eighteen Day of May, 1696. In the Eight Year of His Majesties Reign. 
 God save the King.   

LONDON, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceased, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1696.