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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<BYLINE>BY THE KING.</BYLINE>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, For a Publick General FAST, throughout the Realm of <HI>Scotland.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the grace of GOD, King of <HI>Scotland, England, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all and &s;undry our good Subjects, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as We, by the great injuries and provocations from the States of the <HI>United Provinces,</HI> have been forced, for the ju&s;t defence and vindication of Our Own and Our Subjects Rights, to prepare and &s;et out Naval Forces, and to engage into a War upon mo&s;t important rea&s;ons of Honour and Iu&s;tice: And We, out of Our religious di&s;po&s;ition, being readily inclined to approve of an humble motion made to Vs, for com|manding a general Fa&s;t to be kept throughout this Our whole Kingdom, for imploring the ble&s;sing of Almighty GOD upon Our Councils and Forces imployed in this expedition; Have thought fit, by this Our Proclamation, to indict a general and publick Fa&s;t and day of Humiliation, for the end fore&s;aid. Our Will is herefore, and We &s;traitly Command and Charge, that the &s;aid Fa&s;t be religiou&s;ly and &s;olemnly kept throughout this Our whole Kingdom, by all Our Subjects and People within the &s;ame, upon the fir&s;t Wedne&s;day of <HI>June,</HI> being the &s;eventh day thereof: Requiring hereby the Reverend Arch|bi&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 &s;eventh day of <HI>June,</HI> they cau&s;e read this Our Proclamation from the Pulpit in every Paroch Church; and that they exhort all Our loving Subjects to a &s;ober and devout performance of the &s;aid Fa&s;ting and Humiliation, as they tender the favour of Almighty GOD, the duty they owe to Vs, and the peace and pre&s;ervation of their Country; Certifying all tho&s;e who &s;hall contemn or neglect &s;uch a religious and nece&s;&s;ary work, they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, and puni&s;hed as contemners of Our Authority, and per&s;ons di&s;affected to the Honour and Safety of their Countrey.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the third day of <HI>May, 1665.</HI> and of Our Reign the &s;eventeenth year.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
GOD SAVE THE KING.</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.</HI></HI></P>
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