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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, <HI>Appointing a National Thanksgiving.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM and MARY 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 Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecial|ly 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 infinit Goodne&s;s, Do ju&s;tly Call for Publick Acknowledgments, and Solemn Thank&s;giving; So 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 &s;ervent Prayers, humbly and devotly of|fered up, and poured forth before him, At the Solemn National Fa&s;t, ob&s;erved and keeped through 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 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 Attempts of their open and &s;ecret Enemies; And for which al&s;o, the Mini&s;ters mett together at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> in the Commi&s;&s;ion of the General A&s;&s;embly of the Kirk of this Our Antient Kingdom, Have made Ad|dre&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 throughout this Our Antient Kingdom. THEREFORE WE, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do Appoint and Command, That the Twenty two Day of <HI>November</HI> currant, for the Town and Shire of <HI>Edinburgh:</HI> And the Sixth Day of <HI>December</HI> next to come, for all the re&s;t of this Our Antient Kingdom, be Religiou&s;ly and Devotly 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 Signal Ble&s;&s;ings and Deliverances al|ready be&s;towed upon Us and Our People, and to Implore the continuance thereof in the Mer|cy 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 Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es may be known; OUR WILL IS, 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>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 &s;end Printed Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, and Stewarts of the Stew|artries 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, within their re&s;pective Ju|ri&s;dictions, that upon the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the &s;aids Twenty two Day of <HI>No|vember</HI> in&s;tant, and Sixth of <HI>December</HI> next, the &s;ame may be Intimat and Read in every Pari&s;h Church and Meeting-Hou&s;e; Certifying 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 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 fifteenth Day of <HI>November.</HI> And of Our Reign the &s;ixth Year, <HI>1694.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB: ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></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 Their mo&s;t Ex|cellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1694.</P>
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