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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For a Solemn National Fa&s;t and Humiliation.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>WILLIAM</HI> By the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</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 Severally, Specially Con&s;titute, Greet|ting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Forasmuch as, the Di&s;plea&s;ure &amp; wrath of Almighty GOD, in very vi&s;ible again&s;t the Land, in the Judgements of great Sickne&s;&s;e and Mor|tality, in mo&s;t parts of the Kingdoms; As al&s;o of growing Dearth, and Famine threatned, with the Imminent hazard of an Inva&s;ion from our cruel and bloody Enemies abroad, all the ju&s;t de&s;ervings, and effects of our continuing and a bounding &s;ins, and of our great &s;ecurity and impenitency under them: And which certainly do call for our deep Humiliation, under the mighty hand of GOD, and our mo&s;t earne&s;t and &s;olemn application, and prayers for his gra|cious pardon, and the removing and averting of the fore&s;aid Judgements, upon which con&s;ideration, the Commi&s;&s;ion of the General A&s;&s;embly hath likeways Addre&s;&s;ed the Lords of Our Privy Council, That a Day of Humiliation may be appointed, and keeped for the&s;e Cau&s;es, throughout the Kingdom; Therefore, We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Command and Appoint a Day of Humiliation, and Prayer to be ob&s;erved throughout the whole Kingdom, upon the tuenty fir&s;t day of <HI>January</HI> nixt to come; Upon which We are to be deeply humbled before God, for our manifold &s;ins and provocations, that &s;o openly abound, and in which Men &s;till continue &s;ecure and hardned, notwith|&s;tanding of Gods greatmercy &amp; deliverances wrought for us, and of ourfrequent confe&s;&s;ions, and former Fa&s;tings, which yet have produced no amendment, or Reformation: And therefore to deprecat his de&s;erved wrath, and to implore his Mercy and Grace, that we may be delivered from the fore&s;aid Judgements al|ready Incumbent; And likewayes from the Inva&s;ion, and other evils where|with we are &s;o imminently threatned; which day of Solemn Humiliation and Prayer, above appointed, We, with Advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command, to be mo&s;t Religiou&s;ly and Seriou&s;ly ob&s;erved by all our People, by publick Prayer, Preaching and all other Acts of deep Humiliation, and Devotion &s;uit|able to the fore&s;aid Cau&s;es and Occa&s;ions, <HI>OUR WILL IS HEREFORE,</HI> And We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incontinent thir Our Let|ters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and to the remanent Mar|ket Cro&s;&s;es of the Head Burghs, of the Several Shyres, and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and in Our Name and Authority, make publication hereof, that none pretend Ignorance. And We Ordain Our Solicitor to di&s;patch Copies hereof, to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shyres, 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 recept thereof, and immediately &s;ent to the &s;everal Mini|&s;ters, to the effect that the &s;ame may be intimate, and read in their &s;everal Par|och-Churches, upon the Lords Day, immediately preceeding the day above-appointed, and Ordains thir pre&s;ents to be Printed, and allowes the Cau&s;es of this Fa&s;t, given in to the Lords of Our Privy Council be the Commi&s;&s;ion of the General A&s;&s;embly of this National Church, to be Printed herewith.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the twelfth day of <HI>December,</HI> and of Our Reign the eight year, <HI>1696</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii. <HI>DA. MONCRIEFF.</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave 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> Prin|ter to <HI>His</HI> mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1696.</P>
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