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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, <HI>For a Publick Solemn Thanksgiving.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WILLIAM and MARY, by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ire|land,</HI> Defenders of the Faith; To Our Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting: Fora&s;much as it hath plea&s;ed Our Gracious God, of his infinit Goodne&s;s and Mercy, not only to the&s;e Nations, but likewi&s;e to the common Intere&s;ts (both Religious and Civil) of all <HI>Chri&s;ten|dom,</HI> to pre&s;erve Our Sacred Per&s;on, and pro&s;per Us in Our Undertakings, this la&s;t Summer, again&s;t the&s;e who are Ene|mies to Truth, and Us; and e&s;pecially to Crown Our Arms with the compleat Reducing of <HI>Ireland</HI> to Our Subjection and Obedience; and to Re&s;tore and bring back Our Royal Per&s;on in Safety to Our Throne, to the Joy and Satisfaction of all Our good Subjects, after the many eminent Hazards to which We have been expo&s;ed in Our late Expedition; And We Con&s;i|dering, how nece&s;&s;ary a Duty it is, and how much it does import the Welfare of Us, and Our People, that Signal Ble&s;&s;ings be owned and acknowledged, by Publick and Solemn Thank&s;givings, are Re&s;olved, humbly to acknowledge Our Thank|fulne&s;s to the Infinitly Wi&s;e and Good GOD, for &s;uch Signal and Sea&s;onable Mercies, conferred upon Us and Our People, in an&s;wer to the frequent and fervent Prayers, poured forth at the &s;everal &s;olemn Fa&s;ts and Humiliations, ob&s;erved and keeped throughout this Our Antient Kingdom, during Our late Expedition; And the &s;everal Presbyterian Mini&s;ters, who were &s;ent to attend the General A&s;&s;embly of the Kirk of this Our Antient Kingdom, Having Addre&s;&s;ed them&s;elves to the Lords of Our Privy Council, to interpo&s;e their Authority, for appointing a Solemn Day of Publick Thank&s;giving, to be Religiou&s;ly ob&s;erved throughout this Our Kingdom, for the Cau&s;es, and to the effect above-&s;pecified; Therefore We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do Appoint and Command, that the Twenty &s;ixth Day of <HI>November</HI> in&s;tant, be Religiou&s;ly and de|voutly ob&s;erved as a Solemn Day of Publick Thank&s;giving by all per&s;ons within this Kingdom, both in Churches and Meet|ing-Hou&s;es, for returning mo&s;t hearty and humble Thanks, and acknowledgment to the Divine Goodne&s;s, for his Signal Ble&s;|&s;ings and Deliverances already be&s;towed on Us and Our People, and to Implore the continuance thereof in the gracious Mercy of Our God, and that a Spirit of Coun&s;el and Wi&s;dom may a&s;&s;i&s;t Us, and the Princes and States Our Allyes, in Our Con&s;ultations and Undertakings, for the en&s;uing Year. And to the effect 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>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this King|dom, and of the Stewartries of <HI>Kirkcudbright, Annandale</HI> and <HI>Orknay;</HI> and there, in Our Name and Authority, make Pub|lication hereof, that none may pretend ignorance. And ordains Our Sollicitor to cau&s;e &s;end Printed Copies hereof to the She|riffs of the &s;everal Shires, and Stewarts of the Stewartries fore&s;aids, whom We Ordain to &s;ee the &s;ame Publi&s;hed, and appoints them to &s;end Doubles thereof to all the Mini&s;ters, both in Churches and Meeting. Hou&s;es, within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, that upon the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the &s;aid twenty &s;ixth Day of <HI>November</HI> in&s;tant, the &s;ame may be Read and In|timat in every Paroch-Church and Meeting-Hou&s;e, Certifying all &s;uch, who &s;hall contemn or neglect &s;o Religious and impor|tant a Duty, as the Thank&s;giving hereby appointed is, they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, and puni&s;hed as contemners of Our Au|thority, and as highly di&s;affected to Our Per&s;on and Government. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed as afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh,
<DATE><HI>the fourth Day of</HI> November. <HI>And of Our Reign, the third Year.</HI> 1691.</DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. In Supplementum Signeti.</HI>
<SIGNED>D. MONCREIFF, Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER><HI>GOD Save 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;ties, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1691.</P>
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