Procedure

Prayers said. Rolls called.

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Procedure: minutes read; address of general assembly considered

Minutes of the last sederunt read.

Address of the commission for the late general assembly of the church of this kingdom, for establishing and confirming the true Protestant religion and government of the church as by law established therein, read and thereupon the parliament declared that, before concluding the union, they would take the said address to their consideration and would do everything necessary for securing the true Protestant religion and church government presently established by law in this kingdom.

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Procedure: dispensation to courts
Dispensation for the sitting of inferior courts

Dispensation granted to inferior courts to sit notwithstanding of the sitting of the parliament.

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Procedure: union articles and commission minutes thereto read and debated

The parliament proceeded to the further consideration of the articles of union and the second article thereof was read, as also the minutes of the treaty relative thereto, and the act of the parliament of England in the first year of the reign of their late majesty's King William and Queen Mary entitled, an act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown, were likewise read, and were thereafter reasoned and discoursed upon.

The third article read.

And thereafter the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth articles were all separately read, with the minutes relative thereto, and were all reasoned and discoursed upon.

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Procedure: adjournment

Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until Saturday next at 10 o'clock.

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