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Prayers said. The rolls called.
The minutes of the last sederunt read.
The act anent peace and war further considered, and there being a clause offered declaring that the act should not be understood to impede the sovereign of this kingdom to raise and employ the subjects thereof for suppressing any insurrection within the kingdom or rejecting any invasion from abroad according to former laws, after reading thereof, it was moved that the narrative of the act might be first considered, and thereupon the vote was stated, whether the narrative or the clause should be first considered, and carried the clause should be first considered and then the clause being considered and amended, was agreed to be added without a vote.
The lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.