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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> For a Thanksgiving throughout the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> for the late Defeat of the Kings Enemies.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_IAMES</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 Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, and 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 <HI>James Scot</HI> late Duke of <HI>Monmouth,</HI> and <HI>Archibald Campbel</HI> late Earl of <HI>Argile,</HI> with their Traiterous Confederats and Accomplices, Having mo&s;t pre&s;umptuou&s;ly Invaded both our Kingdoms of <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>England</HI> by Armed Force, of purpo&s;e to have de&s;troyed Us, and all our good and Loyal Sub|jects, and &s;ubverted Our Government in Church and State; But it having plea&s;ed Almighty God, (by Whom Kings Reign, and Princes decree Ju&s;tice) by his Miraculous Providence and Omnipotent hand, to confound and bla&s;t Helli&s;h Devices and Projects of the&s;e Our Enemies, and utterly to di&s;comfite and &s;ubdue them. We have therefore from a Due and Religious &s;en&s;e of Gods &s;o great Mercy and Deliverance towards Us, and Our People in the&s;e Realms, Thought fit, with Advice of Our Privy Council, Hereby to &s;et apart &s;olemn days of Thank&s;giving, for offering &s;olemn Prai&s;e unto Almighty God, for &s;o great and miraculous a Deliverance, and making humbl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="3 letters">+plications, that His Divine Maje&s;ty may continue His unde&s;erved Goodne&s;s towards Us, and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 word"> Our Kingdoms: And to the end this &s;o Solemn and Religious a Thank&s;giving may be gone about in a devout manner, We do hereby Recommend to the Mo&s;t Reverend the Arch-Bi&s;hops, and the Right Reverend the Bi&s;hops, that they cau&s;e the Mini&s;ters in their Dioce&s;&s;es re&s;pectively from their Pulpits, Read and Intimate this Our Royal Plea&s;ure on the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the Dyets appointed for the &s;aid Thank&s;giving, which are aftermentioned, <HI>viz.</HI> The&s;e for the Dioce&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> upon Thur&s;day the Twenty Third in&s;tant; and the&s;e of all the other Dioce&s;&s;es of this Our Kingdom, upon Thur&s;day being the Thirteenth Day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> next. And We hereby Require and Command all Our good Subjects Peremptorly and Religiou&s;ly to Ob&s;erve the&s;e Solemn Days of Thank&s;giv|ing, as they would tender the Glory of Almighty God for &s;o Signal a Deliverance, and not incur Our high Di&s;plea&s;ure; yet We are not hereby to le&s;&s;en the Re&s;entments of Our good Subjects on this Occa&s;ion, but allow them, after Divine Service per|formed, to u&s;e all lawful demon&s;trations of Joy and Gladne&s;s. And that Our Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be known, Our Will is, and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incontinent, the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> and all the other Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the Head Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and there by open Proclamation, in Our Royal Name and Authority, make Publication of Our Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es, that all Our Subjects may have Notice thereof, and give Obedience accordingly.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Sixteenth day of <HI>July,</HI> 1685. And of our Reign the fir&s;t Year</DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij. <HI>COL. MACKENZIE,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilij.</SIGNED><LB>
God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty. 1685.</P>
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