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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> for a Solemn Thanksgiving.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM aud MARY by the Grace of God, King and Queen of Great Brittain, <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith:</SIGNED> <SALUTE>To Our Lyon King at Arms, and his Brethren; Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council, Pur&s;evants, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms; Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjunctly and Severally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For as much, as We and all Our good Subjects, are in Duty bound, to return Prai&s;e and Glory to God, by a Day of &s;olemn Thanksgiving, for His manifold Ble&s;&s;ings be&s;towed upon Us, and Our Kingdoms: and particularly, that He hath been plea&s;ed to pre&s;erve Our Royal Per&s;on, from the many and great Danger: of War We were nece&s;&s;arly expo&s;ed to, for the Defence and Protection of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and Our Government, again&s;t the De&s;igns and Attempts of all Our Enemies, during Our la&s;t Campaign in <HI>Flanders,</HI> and to re&s;tore and bring back Our Royal Per&s;on in &s;afety to Our Kingdoms, to the great Satisfaction and Joy of all Our good Subjects; And that al&s;o the Mini&s;ters a&s;&s;embled in the Synod of <HI>Lo|thian,</HI> and <HI>Tueeddale,</HI> and &s;uch as Corre&s;pond with them from &s;everal other Synods, have Moved to the Lords of Our Privy Council, that a Solemn Day of publick Thank&s;|giving, may be &s;et apart for the Cau&s;es fore&s;aids, to be religiou&s;ly ob&s;erved throughout this Our Ancient Kingdom. Therefore, We, with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do Appoint and Command, that the &s;ixteenth day of <HI>November</HI> current, for all within the Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Suburbs thereof; and the Shires of <HI>Edinburgh, Haddington</HI> and <HI>Linlithgow</HI>; the Sheriffdom of <HI>Berwick,</HI> and Shires of <HI>Fy&s;e Stirling, Kinro&s;s</HI> and <HI>Clackmannan.</HI> And the twentythird day of the &s;aid Month for all the re&s;t of this Our Ancient Kingdom, to be Religiou&s;ly and Devoutely ob&s;erved, as a Solemn Day of publict Thank&s;giving, by all Per&s;ons within this Kingdom, In all Churches and Meeting-hou&s;es, for returning mo&s;t humble and hearty Thanks to Almighty God, for the &s;ignal Ble&s;&s;ings and Deliverances already be&s;towed upon Us, and Our people: And to implore the increa&s;e and continuance thereof. And that His Divine Pre&s;ence, with a Spirit of Coun&s;el and Wi&s;dom, may direct and a&s;&s;i&s;t us in all our Con&s;ultations and Un|dertakings, 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 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 and Srewartries within this Kingdom, 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 Sub|urbs, 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 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 thereof, to all Mini&s;ters in Churches and Meeting-hou&s;es, within their Re|&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, that upon the Lords Day, immediatly preceeding the re|&s;pective Days fore&s;aids, the &s;ame may be intimat and read in every paroch Church and Meeting-hou&s;e: certifying all &s;uch who &s;hall contemn or neglect &s;o religious and im|portant a Duty, as the Thank&s;giving hereby appointed is, they &s;hall be proceeded a|gain&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 eighth day of <HI>November,</HI> and of Our Reign the Fifth Year, <HI>1693</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. &amp; In Supplementum Signeti. <HI>GILB. ELLIOT.</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 Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1693.</P>
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