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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION For a Solemn National Thank&s;giving.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovits, 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>Fora&s;much, as it hath plea&s;ed Almighty GOD graciou&s;ly to pro&s;per Our Arms in the Be&s;ieging and taking of the Town and &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Namure,</HI> and to pre&s;erve Our Per&s;on in the mani&s;old Dangers to which We were thereby expo&s;ed; For which &s;ignal Mer|cy, and the other Succe&s;&s;es and Advantages that We and Our Arms have been ble&s;&s;ed with, during this Campaign: As We and all Our good Subjects are bound to render thanks to GOD, &s;o We conceive it no le&s;s Our duty, from &s;o happy and propitious beginnings, to im|plore the goodne&s;s of the &s;ame Almighty GOD, to continue his Gracious Countenance and A&s;&s;i&s;tance with Us, for &s;uch a happy Conclu&s;ion to this Campaign, as may procure Peace to Chri&s;tendome, and the &s;ecurity of the true Prote&s;tant Religion. Therefore We have thought fit, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, to appoint, likeas We hereby appoint a Day of Solemn Thank&s;giving and Prayers to be ob&s;erved within this Kingdom, upon the days following, <HI>viz.</HI> In the Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Shire thereof, on the Fifteenth day of <HI>September</HI> in&s;tant; And in the other Parochs and churches on this &s;ide of <HI>Tay,</HI> on the Twen|ty &s;econd day of the &s;aid Month; And in the whole remanent Parochs and Churches of this Kingdom upon the Twenty ninth day of the famine Month; Which day of Thank&s;giving and Prayers, for the Cau&s;es and Ends fore&s;aids We hereby petemptorly enjoyn to be ob&s;er|ved, with all Religious Exerci&s;es &s;uitable to &s;uch an Occa&s;ion, and by all Mini&s;ters and o|thers therein concerned, as they will be an&s;werable under their highe&s;t peril. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you that incontinent thir Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mer|cat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom; And there in Our Name and Authority make Publication here|of, that none pretend ignorance: And Ordains Our Solicitor to cau&s;e &s;end Printed Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, and their Clerks, whom We ordain to &s;ee the &s;ame publi&s;hed, and appoints them to &s;end Doubles thereof to the Mini&s;ters within their Bounds, that upon the Lords day immediatly preceeding the &s;aids days above-appointed, the &s;ame may be publickly intimat and read. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Third day of <HI>September,</HI> and of Our Reign the Seventh Year, <HI>1695</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>GILB. ELIOT</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1695.</P>
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