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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, <HI>Appointing a Solemn and Publick Thanksgiving.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>MARY</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;en|gers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;peci|ally con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as Great and Publick Ble&s;&s;ings, Conferred upon Us and Our People by the Almighty God, of His Infinite Goodne&s;s, do ju&s;tly call for Publick Acknowledgments and Solemn Thank&s;giving; &s;o it is our Duty, and the Duty of all Our good Subjects, at this time, by a Day &s;olemnly &s;et apart, to return Prai&s;e and Glory to His ble&s;&s;ed Name, who in An&s;wer to the frequent and fervent Prayers, humbly and devoutly offered up, and poured forth before Him at the &s;everal &s;olemn Fa&s;ts ob&s;erved and kept thorow this Our antient Kingdom, during Our la&s;t Campaign in <HI>Flanders,</HI> hath been plea&s;ed to pre&s;erve Our Per&s;on from the many and great Dangers of the War in Our late Expedition there, and to Di&s;appoint, and Defeat the Barbarous and Horrid Con&s;piracy for taking away Our Life by A&s;&s;a&s;ination, and to bring back Our Royal Per&s;on to Our Kingdoms; and at Home to Protect and Defend the Prote&s;tant Religion and Our Government, again&s;t the De&s;igns and At|tempts of their Open and Secret Enemies: And for which Cau&s;es al&s;o, the Mini&s;ters a&s;&s;embled in the Synod of <HI>Lothian</HI> and <HI>Tweeddale,</HI> with &s;uch as corre&s;pond with them from &s;everal other Synods, have made Addre&s;s to the Lords of Our Privy Council, that a Solemn Day of Publick Thank&s;giving may be &s;et apart, to be Religiou&s;ly Ob|&s;erved thorowout this Our antient Kingdom. Therefore, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do Appoint and Command, that the Tenth Day of <HI>November</HI> current for the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and Suburbs, comprehending <HI><UNCLEAR>Leith</UNCLEAR>, Cannongate</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Kirk,</HI> and the Twenty Fourth of the &s;aid Month of <HI>November</HI> for all the re&s;t of this Our antient Kingdom, be Religiou&s;ly and Devoutly Ob&s;erved, as a Solemn Day of Publick Thank&s;giving, by all Per&s;ons within this Kingdom, both in Churches and Meeting-hou&s;es, for returning mo&s;t Hearty and Humble Thanks and Acknowledgment to the Divine Goodne&s;s, for his &s;ignal Ble&s;&s;ings and Deliverances already be&s;towed upon Us and Our People, and to Implore the Continuance thereof in the Mercy of Our God, and that a Spirit of Council and Wi&s;dom may A&s;&s;i&s;t Us in Our Con&s;ultations and Undertakings at Home and Abroad in time coming. And to the effect Our Will in the Premi&s;&s;es may be known, 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>Kirk|cudbright, Annandale,</HI> and <HI>Orknay,</HI> and there in Our Name and Authority, make Publication hereof, that none may pretend Ignorance. And Ordains Our Solicitor to cau&s;e make Intimation hereof to the Mini&s;ters within the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and Su|burbs, comprehending as above-&s;aid, by &s;ending Copies to them, or any other way he thinks fit, and to cau&s;e &s;end Printed Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, and Stewards 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 thereof to all the Mini&s;ters both in Churches and Meeting-hou&s;es within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, that upon the Lords-day imme|diatly preceeding the &s;aids Tenth and Twenty Fourth Days of <HI>November</HI> current, the &s;ame may be Intimat and Read in every Paroch-Church and Meeting-hou&s;e. Certify|ing all &s;uch who &s;hall Contemn or Neglect &s;o Religious and Important a Duty, as the Thank&s;giving hereby Appointed is, they &s;hall be Proceeded again&s;t, and Puni&s;hed as Contemners of Our Authority, and as highly Di&s;affected to Our Per&s;ons and Govern|ment. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ens to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the third day of <HI>November,</HI> and of Our Reign the fourth year, 1692.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii, Et In Supplementum Signeti. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
God &s;ave King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, 1692.</P>
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