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A23077 An act for the preventing of inconveniences hapning by the long intermission of Parliaments England and Wales. 1640 (1640) STC 9510.7; ESTC S4260 8,741 17

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ANNO XVI Caroli Regis ¶ An Act for the preventing of Inconveniences hapning by the long intermission of Parliaments WHereas by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realm the Parliament ought to be holden at least once every year for the redresse of Grievances but the appointment of the time and place for the holding thereof hath alwayes belonged as it ought to His Majestie and His Royal Progenitors And whereas it is by experience found that the not holding of Parliaments accordingly hath produced sundry and great mischiefs and inconveniences to the Kings Majestie the Church and Common-wealth for the prevention of the like mischiefs and inconveniences in time to come Be it enacted by the Kings most excellent Majestie with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled that the said Laws and Statutes be from henceforth duly kept and observed and your Majesties loyal obedient Subjects in this present Parliament now assembled do humbly pray that it be enacted And be it enacted accordingly by the authority of this present Parliament That in case there be not a Parliament summoned by Writ under the great Seal of England and assembled and held before the tenth day of September which shall be in the third yeer next after the last day of the last meeting and sitting in this present Parliament the beginning of the first yeer to be accompted from the said last day of the last meeting and sitting in Parliament and so from time to time and in all times hereafter if there shall not be a Parliament assembled and held before the tenth day of September which shall be in the third yeer next after the last day of the last meeting and sitting in Parliament before that time assembled and held the beginning of the first yeer to be accounted from the said last day of the last meeting and sitting in Parliament That then in every such case as aforesaid the Parliament shall assemble and be held in the usual place at Westminster in such manner and by such means onely as is hereafter in this present Act declared and enacted and not otherwise on the second Monday which shall be in the moneth of November then next ensuing And in case this present Parliament now assembled and held or any other Parliament which shall at any time hereafter be assembled and held by Writ under the great Seal of England or in case any Parliament shall be assembled and held by authority of this present Act and such Parliaments or any of them shall be Prorogued or Adjourned or continued by Prorogation or Adjournment until the tenth day of September which shall be in the third yeer next after the last day of the last meeting and sitting in Parliament to be accompted as aforesaid that then in every such case every such Parliament so Prorogued or Adjourned or so continued by Prorogation or Adjournment as aforesaid shall from the said tenth day of September be thenceforth cleerly and absolutely dissolved and the Lord Chancellor of England the Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England and every Commissioner and Commissioners for the keeping of the great Seal of England for the time being shall within six dayes after the said tenth day of September in every such third yeer as aforesaid in due form of Law and without any further Warrant or Direction from his Majestie His Heirs or Successours Seal issue forth and send abroad several and respective Writs to the several and respective Peers of this Realm commanding every such Peer that he personally be at the Parliament to be heid at Westminster on the second Monday which shall be in November next following the said tenth day of September then and there to treat concerning the high and urgent Affairs concerning His Majestie the State and derence of the Kingdom and Church of England and shall also Seal issue forth and send abroad several and respective Writs to the several and respective Sheriffs of the several and respective Counties Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales and to the Constable of the Castle of Dover Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports or his Lieutenant for the time being and to the Major and Bailiffs of Barwick upon Tweed and to all and every other Officers and Persons to whom Writs have used to be directed for the electing of the Knights Citizens Barons and Burgesses of and for the said Counties Cities Cinque-Ports and Boroughs of England and Wales respectively in the accustomed form to appear and serve in Parliament to be held at Westminster on the said second Monday which shall be in November aforesaid which said Peers after the said Writs received and which said Knights Citizens Barons and Burgesses chosen by vertue of the said Writs shall then and there appear and serve in Parliament accordingly And the said Lord Chancellour Lord Keeper Commissioner and Commissioners aforesaid shall respectively take a solemn Oath upon the holy Evangelist for the due issuing of Writs according to the tenour of this Act viz. in haec verba YOu shall swear that you shall truly and faithfully issue forth and send abroad all VVrits of Summons to Parliament for both Houses at such time and in such manner as is expressed and enjoyned by an Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for the preventing of inconveniencies happening by the long intermission of PARLIAMENTS Which Oath is forthwith to be taken by the present Lord Keeper and to be administred by the Clerk of the Crown to every Lord Chancellour Lord Keeper Commissioner and Commissioners aforesaid and that none of the said Officers respectively shall henceforth execute any the said Offices before they have taken the said Oath And if the said Lord Chancellour Lord Keeper or any the said Commissioners shall fail or forbear so to issue out the said Writs according to the true meaning of this Act then he or they respectively shall beside the incurring of the grievous sin of perjury be disabled and become by vertue of this Act incapable ipso facto to bear his and their said Offices respectively and be further lyable to such punishments as shall be inflicted on him or them by the next or any other ensuing Parliament And in case the said Lord Chancellour Lord Keeper Commissioner or Commissioners aforesaid shall not issue forth the said Writs as aforesaid or in case that the Parliament do not assemble and be held at the time and place before appointed Then the Parliament shall assemble and be held in the usual place at Westminster in such manner and by such means onely as is hereafter in this present Act declared and enacted and not otherwise on the third Monday which shall be in the moneth of Ianuary then next ensuing And the Peers of this Realm shall by vertue of this Act be enabled and are enjoyned to meet in the old Palace of Westminster in the usual place there on the third Monday in the said moneth of November and they or