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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, <HI>Indicting a &s;olemn and religious Fa&s;t, to be keeped and ob&s;erved throughout the whole Kingdom of</HI> Scotland</HEAD>
<P>_CHARLES, by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defen|der of the Faith; To all and &s;undry Our good Subjects, Greeting: Fora&s;much as Almigh|ty God, after a &s;inful abu&s;e of the holy Go&s;pel, and of the never to be forgotten Deliverance of this Our ancient Kingdom, from the Yoke of Bondage and U&s;urpation, and of Our Roy|al Per&s;on and Government, from the open Rebellions, and &s;ecret Plots and Con&s;piracies of Traiterous and Phanatical Enemies; and after a long and impious de&s;pi&s;ing of Peace and Plenty, doth by his righteous Judgements, manife&s;tly di&s;cover his Anger and Di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t the grievous &s;ins of this Kingdom; and particularly, by the long continuance of the Rigor and Storms of the la&s;t Winter, and the &s;everity and unnatural Coldne&s;&s;e of the pre&s;ent Spring, whereby not only a great part of the Cattel and Be&s;tial are already de&s;troyed, and the remanent in apparent danger; but even the ordinary Sea&s;on of Plowing and Sowing of the Ground, was in danger almo&s;t to be lo&s;t, thereby threatning the breaking <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>The Staff of Bread,</HI> and the dreadful <HI>Plague of Famine:</HI> Which Di&s;pen&s;ation, doth invite per&s;ons of all Ranks, to &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 letters">dy and true Repentance, and the National Expre&s;&s;ion thereof, by deep Mourning, and &s;olemn Fa&s;ting an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> Humiliation. Therefore We, with Advice and Con&s;ent of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do appoint and ordain a Day of Humiliation to be ob&s;erved by all Our Subjects of this Kingdom; &s;trictly Commanding and Requiring them, upon that Day, to cea&s;e from all the Works of their ordinary Callings, and to repair to their re|&s;pective Paroch Churches, and there, make &s;olemn Confe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 letters">ion of their Sins, and Implore the Divine Mercy to Us, and Our Subject<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">, by Praying, Mourning, Fa&s;ting, and &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ther Devotions, as are u&s;ual upon &s;uch Dayes of publict Humiliation more particularly, contritely to Confe&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> Mourn for the great neglect and contempt of, and di&s;|obedience to the holy Go&s;pel, for the &s;inful Separation from the Ordinances thereof, and for the great and lamen|table pre<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">alency of Athei&s;m, Erro<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> Prophane&s;s, and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 span">igion occa&s;ioned thereby; and for the &s;inful underva|luing of the great Ble&s;&s;ings of Peace and Plenty, &s;o long <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ontinued under Our Government: By all which, and many oth<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">r <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">rying Sins, the Lord Anger and Jealou&s;ie are kindled, and his Hand is &s;tretched out to the De&s;tructi|on of the Ca&s;tel, and threatning the Fruits of the Ground, the nece&s;&s;ary Provi&s;ion for the Life of Man and Bea&s;t, that by &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 letters">ious Mourning, and &s;incere turning from the&s;e provocking Sins, the Lord may graciou&s;ly pardon them, and repen<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">im of the evil threatned, and mo&s;t right<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ou&s;ly de&s;erved. And for this end, We do require the Arch-<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;hops of <HI>St. Andrews</HI> and <HI>Gla&s;gow,</HI> the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Edinburgh, Galloway, Dunkel, Aberdeen, Brichen,</HI> and <HI>Dumblan<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 word"> To cau&s;e it to be Intimated in the &s;everal Par<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ch Churches of their Dioce&s;&s;es, upon <HI>Sunday</HI> the fourth day of <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="4 letters"></HI> and to be Celebrated and ob&s;erved, on <HI>Wedne&s;d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> thereafter; and the remanent Bi&s;hops, who&s;e Dioce&s;&s;es are more <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="3 letters">ote, to cau&s;e it to be Intimated on <HI>Sunday</HI> the twenty fifth of <HI>May,</HI> to be ob&s;erved the <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> thereaf|ter, by R<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 span">g the &s;ame from the Pulpit, after Divine <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ervice, the Sabbath before the &s;aids re&s;pective Dayes of Fa&s;ting a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="2 letters"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">umiliation.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="3 letters">en under Our Signet <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">t <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the &s;eveteenth day of <HI>April,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty four. And of Our Reign, the threttieth and &s;ixth Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij.</HI>
WILL. PATERSON, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilij.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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