§ I pray that the blessing of Almighty God may attend you.
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Thereafter, a Commission for proroguing Parliament was read, after which the Lord Chancellor said:
By virtue of Her Majesty's Name, and in obedience to Her Majesty's Commission which has now been read, we do, in Her Majesty's Commands, prorogue this Parliament to Wednesday the third day of November, to be then here holden, and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Wednesday the third day of November next.
§ End of the Third Session (opened on 4 November 1981) of the Forty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in the Thirty-First Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.