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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION <HI>For a &s;olemn and publick Thanksgiving.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>MARY</HI> by the Grace of God, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith; </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovits  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span">  Macers of our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas, We have thought fit, to appoint a &s;olemn and publick Day of Thanksgiving, to be kept, for giving Thanks to Almighty GOD, for the great Succe&s;s of our Arms in our Expedition into our Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> again&s;t the Enemies of the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> and Our Govern|ment, and for Our Safe Return. Therefore, We with Advice and Con|&s;ent of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do hereby Indict, and Appoint a Day of &s;olemn and publick Thank&s;giving, to be Religiou&s;ly Ob&s;erved and Kept in all the Churches &amp; Meeting-hou&s;es within the City of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> &amp; in the Shires of <HI>Edinburgh, Haddingtoun &amp; Linlithgow</HI> upon Sunday next, the twentie one day of <HI>September</HI> current; and in all the Churches and Meeting-hou&s;es of the other Shires and Burghs of this Kingdom, upon Sunday, the fifth Day of <HI>October</HI> next: And Ordains the Mini&s;ters in the &s;aids other Shires, to cau&s;e Read, and make Intimation hereof upon the Sunday pre|ceeding, and that all Per&s;ons give punctual Obedience hereunto, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t Perril. And VVe require Our Solicitor, in the mo&s;t convenient VVay and Method to di&s;patch, and &s;end printed Coppies of this Our Proclamation, to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, and the Stew|arts of the Stwartries, and their Deputs, and Clerks, whom VVe ordain to cau&s;e Publi&s;h, and immediatly tran&s;mit the famine to the Mini&s;ters in all the Churches and Meeting-hou&s;es within their re&s;pective Jurisdictions. And ordains thir pre&s;ents to be Printed, &amp; Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> and at the Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the Head-burghs of the &s;everal Shires, and Stewartries within this Kingdom, that none may pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet, at <HI>Holy-rood-hou&s;e,</HI> <DATE>the &s;eventeenth day of <HI>Sep|tember,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and ninety, and of Our Reign the &s;econd Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii.</HI> Gilb. Eliot. <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
<HI>God &s;ave King</HI> VVilliam <HI>and Queen</HI> Mary.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tys, 1690.</P>
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