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CONSTITUTIONAL

History of England,

From the earliest TIMES,

TO THE

Restoration of King CHARLES II.

COLLECTED

From the RECORDS, the ROLLS of Parliament, the JOURNALS
of both Houses, the Public LIBRARIES, Original MANU-
SCRIPTS, scarce SPEECHES, and TRACTS; all compared with
the several Contemporary Writers, and connected, through-
out, with the History of the Times.

By SEVERAL HANDS.

THE SECOND EDITION.

IN TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

Which finishes the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.

LONDON,

Printed for J. and R. TONSON, and A. MILLAR, in the
Strand; and W. SANDBY, in Fleet-street.

MDCCLXIII,

1035

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THE

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY

OF

ENGLAND.

T

HE War with France being now

actually begun, and the Sinews of
it much wanted; Writs were fent Queen Elizabeth.
out, dated at Westminster, Novem-
ber the 10th, for a Parliament to

1562.

meet there, on the 11th Day of January following, in the 5th Year of this Reign. Anno Regni 5, On the Day of their Meeting, the Queen, it seems, was again indisposed (a); and therefore a- At Westminster. nother Writ of Prorogation was produced by the Lord Keeper and other Lords of the Council, and read, whereby this Parliament was prorogued only to the next Day, being the 12th of the fame Month.

On that Day the Parliament began; and it may not be amiss to give the Form of the Queen's Procefsion to the House (b). She rode that Morning from her Palace, in great State, to Westminster Abbey; accompany'd with all the Lords, Spiritual and

Temporal. The Queen was clad in a Crimfon

VOL. IV.

A

Velvet

:

Com. Jour.

(a) She was fomewhat fick of a Stych. (a) Strype's Annals, p. 255. See Dewes's Journals, p. 58, &c.

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