§ I pray that the blessing of Almighty God may attend you.
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A Commission was also read for proroguing this present Parliament, and the Lord Chancellor said:
My Lords and Members of the House of Commons: by virtue of Her Majesty's Commission which has now been read, we do, in Her Majesty's name, and in obedience to Her Majesty's Commands, prorogue this Parliament to Tuesday the twenty-fourth day of this instant November, to be then here holden, and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday the twenty-fourth day of this instant November.
§ End of the First Session (opened on 7 May 1997) of the Fifty-Second Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in the Forty-Seventh Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.