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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For a publick general Fa&s;t thorowout the Realm of SCOTLAND.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Scoland, England, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all and &s;undry Our good Subjects, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as We con&s;idering the eminent Danger Our Royal Per&s;on and Government, and the Prote&s;tant Religion have been of late, and are &s;till expo&s;ed unto, through an Damnable and Helli&s;h Plot, contrived and carried on by the Papi&s;ts, for taking away Our Sacred Life, and for the &s;ubver&s;ion of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and of the Government of the&s;e Kingdoms (which GOD of His Infinite Mercy hath hitherto prevented and di&s;appointed, and We hope will prevent and di&s;appoint for the future) And being very &s;en&s;ible of the Fatal Con&s;equences of &s;uch an Horrible and Sanguinary Con&s;piracy and De&s;igne; We, out of Our Religious Di&s;po&s;ition, have readily approven of an Humble motion made to Us for commanding a General Fa&s;t, to be Religiou&s;ly kept throughout this whole Kingdom, to Implore the Mercy of Almighty GOD for the pre&s;ervation of the Prote&s;tant Religion, as it is by Law e&s;tabli&s;hed, and for the protection of Our Royal Per&s;on and Government; As al&s;o, to pray that GOD will more and more bring to Light, and confound all Secret Con|trivances and Machinations again&s;t Us, and in Us, again&s;t all Our Loyal Subjects; We, with advice of Our Privy Coun|cil, have therefore thought fit by this Our Proclamation, to Indict a General and Publick Fa&s;t and day of Humiliation, that all Our loving Subjects may &s;end up their fervent Prayers and Supplications to Almighty GOD, to, and for, the pur|po&s;es afore&s;aid. Our Will is herefore, and We &s;trictly Command and Charge, that the &s;aid Fa&s;t be Religiou&s;ly and So|lemnly kept throughout this Our whole Kingdom, by all Subjects and People within the &s;ame, upon the third <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> of <HI>December</HI> next, being the eighteenth day thereof, to the end that &s;o nece&s;&s;ary and Religious and Exerci&s;e may be per|formed by all at one and the &s;ame time. Requiring hereby the Reverend <HI>Arch-Bi&s;hops,</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hops,</HI> to give notice hereof to the Mini&s;ters in their re&s;pective Dyoce&s;&s;es, that upon the LORDS-Day immediately preceeding the &s;aid eighteenth day of <HI>December,</HI> they cau&s;e Read and Intimate this Our Proclamation from the Pulpit in every Pari&s;h Church, and that they Exhort all Our Subjects to a Serious and Devout performance of the &s;aid Prayers, Fa&s;ting and Humiliation, as they tender the Favour of Almighty GOD, and the Safety and Pre&s;ervation of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and of Our Sacred Life and Government, and as they would avoid the Wrath and Indignation of GOD again&s;t this Kingdom: Certifying all tho&s;e who &s;hall contemn or neglect &s;uch a Religious and nece&s;&s;ary Duty, they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, and puni&s;hed as Contemners of Our Authority, and Per&s;ons, Di&s;affected to the Prote&s;tant Religion, as well as to Our Royal Per&s;on and Government.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the fifteenth day of <HI>November,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;eventy eight, and of Our Reign the thirtieth year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. Al. Gib&s;on, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINBURGH,</HI> prited by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred MAJESTY, 1678.</P>
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