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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P><UNCLEAR>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</UNCLEAR></P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, For a Publick General FAST throughout the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the eight day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty five years.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_FOra&s;much as it has plea&s;ed Almighty GOD to vi&s;it the City of <HI>London,</HI> places adjacent, and &s;everal other Towns and Villages of the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> with the &s;ore Plague of De&s;i&s;tence; So that all Commerce and Trade with that Kingdom has been prohibited and forbidden, le&s;t that by importing of Commodities, the Plague might be brought into this Kingdom, to the great prejudice and danger of the Lieges: And &s;eing it has been moved to the Council, from the Right Reverend Fathers the Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, that a general Fa&s;t may be appointed and kept <UNCLEAR>throughout the</UNCLEAR> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> Kingdom, for imploring the goodne&s;s and protection of Al|mighty GOD, that in his infinite mercy, He may pre&s;erve this Kingdom from that con<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">n, and compa&s;sionat the &s;ufferings of tho&s;e that are vi&s;ited therewith in <HI>England,</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> the &s;preading thereof in all places, which by His mercy are yet pre|&s;erved there-from: As likewi&s;e, that the LORD may ble&s;s this Kingdom with a fair and <UNCLEAR>&s;ea&s;onable</UNCLEAR> Harvest, that the Fruits of the ground may be reaped for the comfort and maintenance of the people. Therefore, the Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council, by the&s;e pre&s;ents, command and charge, That a Fa&s;t be religiou&s;ly and &s;olemnly kept throughout the whole Kingdom, by all Subjects and People within the &s;ame, upon the &s;econd <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> of <HI>September</HI> next to come, in this in&s;tant year of GOD, being the thirteenth day of the &s;aid Moneth; requiring hereby, the Reverend Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops to give notice hereof to the Mini&s;ters in their re&s;pective Dioce&s;&s;es, that upon the LORDS-day immediatly preceeding the &s;aid thirteenth of <HI>September,</HI> they make publick intimation thereof in every Pari&s;h Church; and that they exhort all their Pari&s;hioners to a &s;ober and devout performance of the &s;aid Fa&s;t and Humiliation, as they tender the favour of Almighty GOD, the pre&s;ervation of their native Country, and the &s;uffering condition of their Neighbours and fellow Subjects in <HI>England:</HI> Certifying all who &s;hall contemn or neglect &s;uch a religious and nece&s;&s;ary duty, they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t as contemners of Authority, neglectees of religious Services, and unna|tural and profane Per&s;ons. And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed and publi&s;hed, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne,</HI> Cl. S^t^i Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1665.</P>
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