themselves, as every night so sometymes for a weeke, but still the parliament is Look’d on as in sitting and so buisness is not jnterrupted but goes on from day to day as they appoint it. The king may also adjourn them and the two Houses may be adjourned together, but sometymes they may adjourn seperately, for one may adjourn themselves and y^e other Continue to act within themselves. Its also in the Kings power to dissolve y^e parliament w^{ch} puts a finall End to all their buisness which was not ffinished and brought to the King to pass, it also disperses the members of y^e House of Commons to be noe more representatives of y^e nation till another parliament be summon’d and y^e nation make new Choices, which sometymes and in some places falls on the old members. It is in the Kings prerogative thus to Call and disolve parliaments, to declare warre or peace and making alliances, but y^e Kings ought not nor do rightly undertake any such thing but by the advice of his standing Privy Councill, which I have spoken before, and so his proclaimations allwayes runs by and with the advice of his Privy Councill he does so and so, to which he joyns y^e great Councill of the nation w^{ch} is his two Houses of Parliament, Lords spiritual and temporall and Commons of England, when great matters are in agitation as y^t of peace or warre, w^{ch} is in y^e Constitution of the government, and strengthened by this that the sinnews of warre is in the people, for without them no money is to be had; they give the taxes and subsidies for such expences, nay y^e very revenue is given by them to the King or the Queen only dureing the then prince’s Life and must be asked of them that succeed at the death of their predecessors, at the death of such that is in the throne. Formerly the Parliament of Course was dissolved, all offices even to a justice of peace was vacant, but our wise King William contriveing only our good not only Laid a scheme which if be followed will carry on all the Confederacys and designes against the Common Enemy of mankind, but also as farre as he could to secure our peace w^{ch} was by obtaining an Act of Parliam^t that y^e parliament in being when y^e King died or Else the parliament but just then dissolv’d by the King, after he dies should assemble together to take care of the government and to act under y^e next prince for six months, and till that tyme all offices should remain as they were unless the next heir should before y^t full tyme were Expired should make any Change of places. This thing made the Loss of his death Less felt immediately and our Queen Ann found a quiet Easye ascention into the throne. there was also at the same tyme an Act to settle the succession in the protestant Line, and just before our heroe resign’d his Life crown and throne he pass’d an Act to secure us more firmly against any popish successour or pretended heirs to the Crown, by an abjuration oath to be taken by all