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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For a National Humiliation upon the account of the Q&V;EENS Death.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM by the Grace of God, King of Great <HI>Brittain, France</HI> and <HI>Ire|land,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Macers of our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs, in that part, Conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>FORASMUCH as, it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God, to Vi&s;ite Us and Our people, with the &s;ad and never enough to be lament|ed lo&s;s of Our dear Con&s;ort, and their Gracious Soveraign Queen <HI>Mary:</HI> And that in &s;uch a Calamity, it becomes Us and them to be deeply hum|bled before the Lord, to obtain his Pardon and Peace, and Gracious Fa|vour and A&s;&s;i&s;tance, for Our Support and Relief: And that the Mini&s;ters and Brethren of the Commi&s;&s;ion of the late General A&s;&s;embly, have Addre&s;&s;ed the Lords of Our Privy Council, that a Day may be &s;olemnly &s;et apart for that Effect. Therefore, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to Appoint the eighth day of <HI>January</HI> In&s;tant for the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and the three <HI>Louthians:</HI> and the fifeteen day of the &s;aid Month for all on this &s;ide of the River of <HI>Tay:</HI> and the twenty &s;econd of the &s;aid Month of <HI>January</HI> In&s;tant, for all the re&s;t of the Kingdom, to be kept as &s;olemn Days of deep Humiliation and Fa&s;ting, by Prayer, Preaching, and other &s;acred Exerci&s;e, and a mo&s;t &s;trict Surcea&s;e from all ordinary Em|ployments and Handy-labour: to the Effect, that by the humble and earne&s;t Confe&s;&s;ion of our &s;ins to God, we may obtain his Pardon and Peace, and his Face and Favour graciou&s;ly re|conciled to Us and Our people, and that it may plea&s;e Him more e&s;pecially, to comfort and &s;up|port Us, and to pre&s;erve Our Per&s;on for the good of his People, and of the whole Prote&s;tant Intere&s;t, and to ble&s;s Us and Our Government, with &s;uch Aid, Countenance, and A&s;|&s;i&s;tance, as may be&s;t contribute to the &s;ame. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, 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 remanent Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the whole Head Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom, and of the Stewartries of <HI>Kirkcudbright, Annandale</HI> and <HI>Orkney,</HI> and there in Our Name and Authority, make Publication hereof, that none may pretend ignorance. And ordains Our Sollicitor, to cau&s;e &s;end printed Copies hereof to the Sheriffs 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 hereof, to all the Mini&s;ters both in Churches and Meeting-hou&s;es, with|in their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, that upon the Lords Day, immediatly preceeding the &s;aids days <HI>re&s;pectiv&egrave;</HI> above mentioned, the &s;ame may be intimat and read in every Paroch Church and Meet|ing-hou&s;e; Certifying all &s;uch who &s;hall contemn or neglect &s;o religious and important a Duty, as the Humiliation hereby appointed is, they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, and puni&s;hed as Contem|ners of Our Authority, and as 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> Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the &s;econd Day of <HI>January,</HI> And of Our Reign the &s;ixth year, <HI>1695.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save the KING.</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 Excel|lent Maje&s;ty, 1695.</P>
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