Triennial Act 1640

III. [X1 III. Peers to assemble the 3d Monday in January.

And in case Parliament not assembled before 23d January, then to be assembled by such Means only as hereafter mentioned.

And it is alsoe further enacted that all and every the Peers of this Realme shall make theire appearance and shall assemble on the said third monday in January in such manner and to such effect and with such power as if they had received every of them Writs of Summons to Parliament under the Great Seale of England in the usuall and accustomed manner And in case the said Lords or twelve or more of them shall faile to issue forth such Writs or that the said Writs doe not come to the said severall Counties Cities Cinque Ports and Boroughs soe that an election bee not thereupon made And in case there be not a Parliament assembled and held] before the three and twentieth day of the said moneth of January and soe from time to time and in all times hereafter if there shall not be a Parliament assembled and held before the said three and twentieth day of January then in every such case as aforesaid the Parliament shall assemble and be held in the usuall Place att Westminster in such manner and by such meanes onely as is hereafter in this p[re]sent Act declared and enacted and not otherwise on the second Tuesday which shall bee in the moneth of March next after the said three and twentieth day of January Att which Parliament the Peers of this Realme shall make theire appearance and shall assemble att the time and place aforesaid and shall each of them be liable unto such paines and censures for his and theire not appearing and serving then and there in Parliament as if hee or they had beene summoned by Writ under the Great Seale of England and had not appeared and served and to such further paines and censures as by the rest of the Peers in Parliament assembled they shall be adjudged unto.

Editorial Information

X1 annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.