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are, or shall be, elected or appointed a knight, citizen, burgess, baron of any of the five ports, or commissioners for the shires or burghs of the present parliament, appointed to meet the twenty-second day of June instant, and to take and receive the oaths of all and every the said person and persons, who is, are, or shall be elected or appointed a knight, citizen, burgess, baron of any of the five ports, or commissioners for the shires or burghs aforesaid, for the said parliament; also, to tender and administer the oath mentioned in a statute made the seventh year of the reign of his late majesty, intituled, 7 Geo. 2. c. 16. An act for the better regulating the election of members to serve in the house of commons, for that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and for incapacitating the judges of the court of session, court of justiciary, and barons of the court of exchequer, in Scotland, to be elected, or to sit or vote as members of the house of commons: according to the directions of another statute made in the sixteenth year of his late majesty's reign, directing the said oath to be taken before me, by all and every person and persons, who is, are, or shall be chosen a member to serve in parliament for any shire or stewarty, within that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and who was not, were not, or shall not, be present at the meeting of election; and to take and receive the oath of all

16 Geo. 2. c. 11. § 10.

and every such person and persons, giving them my said deputies, six, five, four, three, two, or one of them, full power and authority to execute and perform the matters herein before mentioned, ratifying and confirming all and whatsoever my deputies or deputy shall lawfully do and perform in this behalf, in as ample, perfect, and full manner, as if I myself had

personally been present and done the same. In testimony whereof, I, the said lord steward, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this twenty-second day of June, in the forty-seventh year of the reign of, &c. and in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven.

Sealed and delivered (being

first duly stamped) in the
presence of

Aylesford. (L. S.)

Order to the Lord Chancellor for passing two Proclamations under the Great Seal.

At the court at the Queen's Palace, 24 October, 1806; present the king's most excellent majesty in council,

It is this day ordered by his majesty in council, that the right honorable the lord high chancellor of that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain, do cause the great seal to be affixed to two proclamations, the one for dissolving the present parliament, and calling' a new one; and the other for electing and summoning the sixteen peers of Scotland to sit in the said parliament.

Order to the Lord Chancellors of Great Britain and Ireland, to issue Writs for calling a new Parliament.

His majesty having been pleased by his royal proclamation to dissolve the present parliament, is hereby pleased, with the advice of

his privy council, to order that the right honorable the lord high chancellor of that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain, and the right honorable the lord high chancellor of Ireland do respectively cause writs to be issued in due form and according to law, for the calling of a new parliament to meet at the city of Westminster, which writs are to be returnable on Monday, the 22d day of June next.

Writ to the Sheriff on a General Election.

GEORGE the third, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, to the sheriff of the county of Oxford, greeting: whereas, by the advice and assent of our council, for certain arduous and urgent affairs concerning us, the state and defence of our said United Kingdom and the church, we have ordered a certain parliament to be holden at our city of Westminster, on the 29th day of November next ensuing, and there to treat and have conference with the prelates, great men, and peers of our realm; we command and strictly enjoin you, that (proclamation being made of day and place aforesaid, in your next county court to be holden after the receipt of this our writ) two knights, of the most fit and discreet of the said county, girt with swords; and of the university of Oxford, two burgesses; and of every city of that county, two citizens; and of every borough in the same county, two burgesses, of the most sufficient and discreet, freely and indifferently,

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by those who at such proclamation shall be present, according to the form of the statutes in that case made and provided, you cause to be elected; and the names of those knights, citizens, and burgesses, so to be elected (whether they be present or absent), you cause to be inserted in certain indentures to be thereupon made between you and those who shall be present at such election; and them at the day and place aforesaid you cause to come, in such manner, that the said knights for themselves and the commonalty of the same county, and the said citizens, and burgesses, for themselves and the commonalty of the said university, cities, and boroughs respectively, may have from them full and sufficient power to do and consent to those things which then and there, by the common council of our said kingdom (by the blessing of God), shall happen to be ordained upon the aforesaid affairs; so that, for want of such power, or through an improvident election of the said knights, citizens, or burgesses, the aforesaid affairs may in no wise remain unfinished willing, nevertheless, that neither you, nor any other sheriff of this our said kingdom, be in anywise elected; and that the election, in your full county so made dis tinctly and openly, under your seal, and the seals of those who shall be present at such elek tion, you do certify to us in our chancery, at the day and place aforesaid, without delay, re mitting to us one part of the aforesaid indentures, annexed to these presents, together with this writ. Witness ourself, at Westminster, the first day of October, in the fourteenth year of our reign*.

The writs to the sheriffs are all in the same form, except that in those for Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire there

To be indorsed when returned.

THE execution of this writ schedules hereunto annexed.

appears

in certain

A. B. sheriff.

[By the stat. 7 Hen. 4. c. 15. In the writs of the parlia ment to be made hereafter, this clause shall be put "Et "electionem tuam in pleno comitatu tuo factam distincte, et "aperte sub sigillo tuo, et sigillis eorum qui electioni illi in"terfuerint nobis in cancellaria nostra ad diem et locum in "brevi contentos certifices indilate."]

The Speaker's Warrant for issuing a new Writ on a Vacancy.

Mercurii, 5 die Junii, 1811. By virtue of an order of the house of commons, this day made:

These are to require you to make out a new writ for the electing of a burgess to serve in this present parliament for the borough of King's Lynn, in the room of lord Walpole, who, since his election for the said borough, hath accepted the office of one of the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral, for which this shall be your sufficient warrant. 1 Given under my hand, the fifth day of June, 1811 WC

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1. Charles Abbot, Speaker..

To the clerk of the crown

in chancery.

is a clause for the election of members for the respective universities. 1 Doug. 450.

The above form corresponds with the latin one in 1 Eliz. as set forth D'Ewes, 37.

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