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            <text>&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;BY THE QUEEN A PROCLAMATION FOR DECLARING THE CALLING OF A NEW PARLIAMENT ELIZABETH R.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Whereas We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet Our People, and to have their Advice in Parliament, do publish this, Our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby make known to all Our loving Subjects Our Royal Will and Pleasure to call a new Parliament to be holden at Westminster on Tuesday the seventeenth day of December next: And We do hereby also, by this Our Royal Proclamation under Our Great Seal of Our Realm, require Writs to be issued by Our Lord High Chancellor for causing the Lords Spiritual and Temporal who are to serve in the said Parliament to give their Attendance in Our said Parliament on the said date.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this sixth day of November in the Year of our Lord two thousand and nineteen and in the sixty-eighth year of Our Reign.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GOD SAVE THE QUEEN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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            <text>The wording of this Royal Proclamation is anomalous in that the Lord Chancellor is referred to as "Our Lord High Chancellor" rather than "Our Chancellor of Great Britain" (cf. &lt;a href="https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/197" title="the Proclamation from 2015"&gt;the Proclamation from 2015&lt;/a&gt;).</text>
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              <text>Royal Proclamation - Calling a Fixed-term Parliament [2019-11-06]</text>
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              <text>Royal Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II calling a new Parliament to meet on December 17, 2019.</text>
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              <text>Recorded in &lt;em&gt;The Gazette (London Gazette)&lt;/em&gt;, issue &lt;span&gt;62821, November 8, 2019, &lt;a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3422009"&gt;20264&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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              <text>&lt;a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/14/contents" title="Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011"&gt;Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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