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<P><UNCLEAR>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</UNCLEAR></P>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Indicting a Solemn and Publick Thanksgiving throughout the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> to be kept upon the ninth of <HI>September</HI> next, for His Maje&s;ties &s;afe Delivery from the late Phanatical Con&s;piracy again&s;t His Maje&s;ty, His Royal Highne&s;s and Government.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of Great <HI>Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lyon King at Arms and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers, 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>To all and &s;undry Our good Subjects Greeting; Fora&s;much as Almighty God in His Mercy, and by His wonderful Providence, hath brought to Light, Defeated and Confounded a mo&s;t Un-natural, Traitorous and Diabolical Con&s;piracy, contrived and carried on by Per&s;ons of Phanatical, Athei&s;tical and Republican Principles, for taking away Our Sacred Life, and the Life of Our Deare&s;t Brother <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>Albany,</HI> Sub|verting of Our Government, and Involving the&s;e Kingdoms in Bloud, Confu&s;ion and Mi|&s;eries&punc; Concerning which Trea&s;onable Con&s;piracy, We have Emitted Our Royal Declara|tion to all Our loving <UNCLEAR>Subjects, at Our Court at</UNCLEAR> <HI>Whitehall,</HI> the 28th. of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, in this 35th. year of Our Reign, which We have Ordered to be Re-printed here. And We being deeply &s;en&s;ible of the humble and grateful Prai&s;es and Adoration, We owe to the Divine Maje&s;ty, for this great and &s;ignal In&s;tance of His <UNCLEAR>watchful</UNCLEAR> Care over Us, whom He hath &s;o long Pre&s;erved, and &s;o often Delivered by Miracles, Have out of Our Religious Di&s;po&s;ition, readily approven of an hum|ble Motion made to Us for commanding an Solemn and General Thank&s;giving, to be religiou&s;ly Ob&s;erved throughout this whole Kingdom, to Offer up devout Prai&s;es and Thank&s;giving to Almighty God, for this eminent and miraculous Deliverance grant|ed to Us, and in Us, to all Our loyal and dutiful Subjects; as al&s;o, fervently to pray that God may continue His gracious Care over Us, and His Mercies to the&s;e Kingdoms, and more and more bring to Light, Defeat and Confound all Traitorous Con&s;piracies, <HI>A&s;&s;ociations</HI> and Machinations again&s;t Us, Our Deare&s;t Brother and Government; We with Advice of Our Privy Council, have therefore thought fit by this Our Royal Proclamation, to Indict a General and Solemn Thank&s;giving, to be Ob&s;erved throughout this Kingdom, that all Our loving Subjects may offer their devout Prai&s;es and Gratulations, and their fervent Prayers and Supplications to Almighty God for the Purpo&s;es fore&s;aid; And We &s;trictly Command and Charge, that the &s;aid Solemn Thank&s;giving be religiou&s;ly and devoutly Preformed by all Our Subjects and people within this Our King|dom, upon the ninth of <HI>September</HI> next; And to the end this part of Divine Wor&s;hip, &s;o pious and nece&s;&s;ary, may be uniformly and at the &s;ame time offered by all Our loving and loyal Subjects; We hereby Require the Reverend Arch-Bi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops to give notice hereof to the Mini&s;ters in their re&s;pective Dioce&s;&s;es, that upon the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the &s;aid 9th. day of <HI>September</HI> next, as al&s;o upon the &s;aid 9th. of <HI>September</HI> they cau&s;e Read and Intimat this Our Royal Proclamation from the Pulpit in every Paroch Church, together with Our fore&s;aid Declaration, Dated at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI> as &s;aid is, and that they exhort all Our Subjects to a &s;erious and devout Performance of the &s;aids Prayers, Prai&s;es and Thank&s;giving, as they tender the Favour of Almighty God, and the Safety and Pre&s;ervation of Our Sacred Life and Government; Certifying all &s;uch as &s;hall con|temn or neglect this &s;o religious and important a Duty, they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, and puni&s;hed as Contemners of Our Authority, and as Per&s;ons highly Di&s;affected to Our Per&s;on and Government. And ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at  <HI>Haly-rud-hou&s;e,</HI> <DATE>the &s;eventh day of  <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty and three. And of Our Reign, the thirtieth and fifth Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij. <HI>WILL. PATERSON. Cls. Sti. Concilij.</HI></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. 1683.</P>
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