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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION <HI>For a Solemn Day of Humiliation.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the grace of God, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France and Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To  <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span">  Macers of Our Privy Coun|cil, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjun|ctly &amp; Severally, Specially, Con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For as much as We and Our People have ju&s;t rea&s;on to apprehend the &s;eve|re&s;t Judgments of Almighty God, who&s;e Clemency and Goodne&s;s We have abu&s;ed to his di&s;honour; which Con&s;ideration hath al&s;o moved the Commi&s;&s;i|on of the late General A&s;&s;embly to Addre&s;s the Lords of Our Privy Council; That a Day of Humiliation may be appointed and keeped for the&s;e Cau&s;es; Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council Command and Appoint a Day of &s;olemn Humiliation and Prayer to be ob&s;erved throughout the whole Kingdom upon the Days following, <HI>viz.</HI> within the town of <HI>Edin|burgh, Leith, Cannongate,</HI> and the Paroch of <HI>West Kirk</HI> upon the Lords Day next, the fifteenth Day of <HI>March</HI> Current; and in all the re&s;t of the Paroch|Churches upon this &s;ide of <HI>Tay</HI> upon the Lords Day the twenty &s;econd Day of the &s;aid Month of <HI>March</HI>; and in all the other Paroch-Churches within this Kingdom upon the Lords Day being the twenty ninth Day of the &s;aid Month of <HI>March.</HI> Upon which Days of &s;olemn Humiliation and Prayer re&s;pective for&s;aids, We and Our People are to expre&s;s our deep &s;en&s;e of Our Ingratitude for Our former Deliverances, and Our grateful Acknowledgements of the &s;ignal Providence of God, in Di&s;covering and Defeating the Treacherous At|tempts on Our Royal Per&s;on; and to deprecat the Wrath of God, and implore his A&s;&s;i&s;tance again&s;t all Forraign Inva&s;ion, and inte&s;tine Commotions, 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, by Preaching and other acts of Devotion to be done and performed in all the Churches of this Kingdom, upon the occa&s;ion and for the Cau&s;es fore&s;aids. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;trictly and Command, That incontinent, thir Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mer|cat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the haill Head burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and there in Our Name and Authority make intimation hereof, that none pretend Ignorance: And appoints Our Soliciter to tran&s;mit Printed Copies hereof to the Sheriff and Stewart Clerks of the haill Sheriffdoms and Stewartries within this Kingdom with Coppies to be tran&s;mitted by the &s;aid Sheriff and Stewart Clerks to the Mi|ni&s;ters of the &s;everal Paroches within their bounds; And Ordains this Procla|mation to be Intimat in the Paroch Churches of <HI>Edinburgh, Cannongate, Leith,</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Kirk</HI> upon <HI>thur&s;day</HI> next; And Ordains the Magi&s;trats of <HI>Edinburgh, Cannongate, Leith,</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-port</HI> to make Intimation of the &s;ame within their re|&s;pective Bounds, by beating of Drums in the&s;e Places upon <HI>Fryday</HI> next; And Ordains the Sheriff and Stewart Clerks of all other Places within this Kingdom to cau&s;e publi&s;h this Proclamation at the re&s;pective Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es within their Bounds, and the Mini&s;ters to cau&s;e Read the &s;ame at their Paroch-Churches u|pon the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the Days Above-appointed; And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the tenth day of <HI>March,</HI> and of Our Reign the &s;eventh Year 1696.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT. Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
<HI>GOD SAVE THE</HI> KING.</CLOSER>
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<P>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> 1696.</P>
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