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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION <HI>For a Solemn National Fa&s;t and Humiliation.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_VVILLIAM</HI> By the Grace of God, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span">  Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;enger at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that Part Conjunctly and &s;everally &s;pecically Con&s;titute, Greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as the Continuance of a dangerous and nece&s;&s;ar<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> War, wherein We and Our People are engaged, and which inevitably expo&s;es Our Royal Per&s;on to great and continual Danger, and that in the Succe&s;s and Pro&s;perity of Our Arms by Sea and Land, the Welfare of our Kingdoms, and of the Churches of God both at Home and Abroad, are highly con|cerned, do Call for earne&s;t and fervent Prayer to God, for Succe&s;s to Our Arms, Protection to Our Royal Per&s;on, and for his Gracious a&s;&s;i&s;ting Us and Our Allies, with a Spirit of Wi&s;|dom, Coun&s;el and Courage, in all our Con&s;ults, De&s;igns and Undertakings again&s;t the com|mon Enemy, and that deep Humiliation and Fa&s;ting before the Lord, &s;hould be Joyned, with Our fervent Supplications for the Cau&s;es fore&s;aids; And that a Day &s;hould be &s;olemnly Set apart, to be keeped through all the Churches of this Kingdom for that Effect. And for Appointment of which solemn Fa&s;t and Day of Humiliation; the Mini&s;ters and Elders now Met at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners Appointed by the late General A&s;&s;embly, of the National Church of this our Ancient Kingdom, have al&s;o Addre&s;&s;ed the Lords of our Privy Council, and that for the &s;ame Cau&s;es and Ends fore&s;aids, and others contained in their &s;aid Addre&s;s, which we have Allowed to be Printed. Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Command and Appoint a Day of Solemn Humiliation and Prayer, to be Ob|&s;erved for the Cau&s;es fore&s;aids, throughout the whole Kingdom, upon the Days following, <HI>viz</HI> In all the Churches upon this &s;ide of <HI>Tay,</HI> upon <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the &s;ixtenth Day of <HI>June</HI> currant: and in all the re&s;t of the Paroch Churches within this Kingdom, upon <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the thirtieth Day of the &s;aid Month: Upon which Days of Solemn Humiliation and Prayer, re|&s;pective fore&s;aids, as We and Our People are to be deeply Humbled, for Our great and manifold Provocations, and to Deprecat the Wrath of God for Our Ingratitude for former Deliverances; &s;o We are Importunatly to Implore the Divine Maje&s;ty, for the continuance of his Protection, and good Hand upon us; and that he would turn away his Anger and threatned Judgements from Us and Our People, &s;o ju&s;tly de&s;erved for Our great Unthank|fulne&s;s and manifold Provocations. Which Days re&s;pective fore&s;aids, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Require and Command, to be Religiou&s;ly and Seriou&s;ly ob&s;erved by all Ranks and Degrees of People; and that the &s;amen be wholly &s;pent and im|ployed upon Preaching, and hearing the Word, and the other Acts of Devotion fore&s;aid; Certifying &s;uch of the Leiges who &s;hall not give due Obedience hereunto, or who &s;hall con|temn or neglect the Keeping and Ob&s;erving of the &s;aids Days and Duties that they &s;hall be Proceeded again&s;t by Fyning, not exceeding an hundred Pounds <HI>Scots.</HI> And We with Ad|vice fore&s;aid, Require and Command the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, Stewarts of Stewart|ries, Lords and Baillies of Regalities, and their Deputs, Ju&s;tices of Peace, and Magi&s;trats of Burghs within their &s;everal Juri&s;dictions, to Proceed again&s;t the per&s;ons Guilty, and to Ex|act the Fynes accordingly, to be Applyed the one half to the Judge, and the other half to the Poor of the Paroch: and Certifying &s;uch Mini&s;ter<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> as &s;hall fail of their Duty, in not ob|&s;erving the Premi&s;&s;es, and in not Reading, and duely Intimating of thir Pre&s;ents in manner af|ter-mentioned, they &s;hall be Proce&s;&s;ed before the Lords of Our Privy Council. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Require the &s;everal Magi&s;trats above-mentioned, betwixt and the twenty &s;econd Day of <HI>July</HI> next to come, to make Report to the Lords of Our Privy Coun|cil, of the&s;e Mini&s;ters within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, who &s;hall fail in their Duty and Obedience to the Premi&s;&s;es. <HI>Our Will is herefore,</HI> 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 to the remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and in Our Name and Authority, make Publication here|of, that none pretend ignorance. And We ordain Our Sollicitor to di&s;patch Copies here|of, to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, and Stewarts of Stewartries, and their Deputs or Clerks to be by them Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs upon Receipt thereof, and immediatly &s;ent to the &s;everal Mini&s;ters, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">o the effect they may Read and Inti|mat the &s;ame from their Pulpits upon the Lords Days, immediatly preceeding the Days a|bove appointed; and Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed and Publi&s;hed in manner fore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the fifth day of <HI>June,</HI> and of Our Reign the eighth Year. 1696.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT 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, <HI>Anne Dom.</HI> 1696.</P>
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