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Then his grace her majesties' high commissioner made the following speech.
My lords and gentlemen,
The publick business of this session being now over it is full time to put an end to it.
I am perswaded that we and our posterity will reap the benefite of the union of the two kingdoms, and I doubt not that as this parliament has had the honour to conclude it, you will, in your several stations, recommend to the people of this nation a grateful sense of her majesties' goodness and great care for the welfare of her subjects in bringing this important affair to perfection, and that you will promote an universal desire in this kingdom to become one in hearts and affections as we are inseparably joined in interest with our neighbour nation.
My lords and gentlemen,
I have a very deep sense of the assistance and respect I have met with from you in this session of parliament, and I shall omit no occasion of shewing to the outmost of my power the grateful remembrance I have of it.
Then the lord chancellour, by order of her majesties' high commissioner, adjourned the parliament to meet at Edinburgh, the twenty second day of April next, and declared the same to be adjourned.