By the King, a proclamation calling a Parliament to be holden at Edinburgh the ninth day of April, 1685 England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B25114 of text R37503 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B25114 Wing J315 ocm 16963977

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 eng Scotland. -- Parliament. Scotland -- History -- 1660-1688. Great Britain -- History -- James II, 1685-1688. eebo By the King, a proclamation calling a Parliament to be holden at Edinburgh the ninth day of April, 1685 England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) 1685 1 489 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-05 Sampled and proofread 2014-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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By the King . A PROCLAMATION Calling a Parliament to be Holden at Edinburgh the Ninth day of April , 1685. JAMES R.

JAMES the Seventh by the Grace of GOD , King of Scotland , England , France , and Ireland , Defender of the Faith &c. To all and sundry Our good Subjects whom these Presents do or may concern , Greeting . Whereas by the decease of Our most dear and most entirely beloved Brother King Charles the Second of ever blessed Memory , the Parliament of Our Ancient Kingdom of Scotland , which was current before that time , is now actually Dissolved . And seing upon divers weighty Considerations , of great Importance to Our Service , and to the Peace and Tranquillity of that Our Ancient Kingdom , We have thought fit to call a Parliament to meet at Our City of Edinburgh upon the Ninth day of April next ensuing the date of these Presents . We do therefore Require and Command all Arch-Bishops , Dukes , Marquisses , Earls , Viscounts , Bishops , Lords , and Officers of State of Our said Ancient Kingdom to be present , and attend that Dyet . And We do also Require and Command all Our Sheriffs in the several Shires , and their Deputs furthwith to call and conveen all the Freeholders in the respective Shires , to the end that according to the Laws and Acts of Parliament , Elections may be made of fit Persons to be Commissioners for this Parliament . And We do likewise Require and Command Our Royal Burrows to make choice of Commissioners accordingly ; and them and all Persons having Interest , to attend this Our Parliament , under the Pains contained in Our Laws made thereanent . And to the effect all Our good Subjects may have notice of this Our Royal Will and Pleasure , We do hereby Command Our Lyon King at Arms , and his Brethren Heraulds , Macers , Pursevants , and Messengers at Arms , to make timeous Proclamation of these Presents at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh , and at the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burrows of the several Shires of that Our Kingdom .

Given at Our Court at White-hall the Sixteenth of February 1684 / 5 , And of Our Reign the first Year . By His Majesties Command , MORRAY .
EDINBURGH , the 20 of February , 1685.

ORdered by His Majesties Privy Council , that His Majesties said Proclamation be forthwith Published at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh , and all other Places needful , with all the usual and accustomed Solemnities . And Printed .

WILL . PATERSON , Clericus Secreti Concilij . GOD save the KING .

Edinburgh , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Sacred Majesty , 1685.