When the Commons arrived at the Bar,
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Strathclyde)
My Lords and Members of the House of Commons, we are commanded by Her Majesty to let you know that, it not being convenient for her to be present here this day in her Royal Person, she has thought fit, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal, to empower several Lords therein named to do all things in Her Majesty's name which are to be done on Her Majesty's part in this Parliament, as by the Letters Patent, will more fully appear.
When the Commission had been read at the Table,