§ 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 Wednesday the seventeenth day of this instant November, to be then here holden, and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Wednesday the seventeenth day of this instant November.
§ End of the Second Session (opened on 24 November 1998) of the Fifty-Second Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in the Forty-Eighth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.