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/. . , ' H ) . ... ; . /- .al 17 who Bath voyc^ in the Parliament, to be at hia great Cocncellof parliament fuch a dayf thefpacefrom the date of the writ is coniop-ly ac the ]eaft 40.' dayes)]he fendeth alfoA^ritsto the Sheriffesof eVjery Shire, to admonifh the whole Shire to ehufetw6 K p igjhts of the ParJiamentinxheiftxnc of tire Shire, to heafe, and reaiori, and to give their advice and conferit in thename of the Shire, and to •prc fcnt at that day2 lilsCwife to' every Citty and Towne, which df ancient time hath been wont to find Burgefiesof the Parliament, fo to make deion that they-m4y be prefent at the firft day of the Parliament, T he Knights of the Shire be cKofenby all the Gentlemen and Yeomen ofthe Shire, prefent at the day afligned for the eleiotv the voyce of any abfent can be Counted for none. Y eoineh I call here ( as before/that may difpend at the leaft^oX of yearJjr rentofffeelandof his own. Thefe meeting at one day, the two who ha ve the ‘more of their voyces', bechofen Knights of the ^hire for chat Parliament: likewife by the plurality of the voyces of the Cittizens Biirgcffes,bethe Burgdsesdced.Thefirft day of tbh Parliament the Prince and all the Lords in'their Robes of Parliament doe meet in the Higher Houfe, whete after prayers made, they that be prefent are written, and they chat be abfent upon fick-nefie, or fome othef reafonable caafo, ( which the Prince will allow) doe confttmtc under them hand and Seale, fome one of thefo who be prefent, as their Procurer, or Atturney, to give voyce for them, fo that by preieneeor Attorney and Proxy they be all there, all the 'Princes and Bardhs,and all Arch'Riffiops and Bifhbps, arid ( when Abbots were}fo many Abbots as had voyce in Parliament,The place where the affembly is, is richly Tapeffed and Hanged, a Princely and Royall Throne as appertaineth to a King, fet in the midft of thehigbet place thdreof. Ne^ttinder the Prince fitteth/he Chancellor, who is the voyce and Orator of the Prince. On the one fide of that Houfe or Chambet, the Arch-bifhops Bi-Jlvjps each in his ranke^on the other fide th’OBckes and Ratoris,In the midfi thereof upon' Wbblfacks fit the lodges of theRealme,the IvfaSOr of the Rolles, and the Secretaries of State.But thefe that firon thd1 Wcolfacks' Batfeik) voyce in the Houfi,
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