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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> For a Solemn National Thanksgiving.</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 Our Lyon King at Arms, and his Bre|thren Heraulds, Macers of Our Privy Council. Pur&s;evants, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>We Con|&s;idering the great Ble&s;sings of Almighty GOD, on Our Sacred Per&s;ons, Government and People, in &s;hewing Him&s;elf &s;o Signally, by Delivering us from many great and eminent Dangers in our Religion, Liberties, Properties, and all that can be dear to Us, as e&s;pecially at this time by the late Succe&s;s, given to Our Arms, again&s;t the Powerful and Bloody De&s;igns of <HI>France,</HI> and of many of Our unnatural and rebellious Subjects; e&s;pecially the barbarous <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> who had Com|bined to Invade Our Kingdoms, with all the Fiercene&s;s and Inhumanity which Fury could &s;ugge&s;t, and at a time when We were obliged to be ab&s;ent, for the nece&s;sary Defence of <HI>Chri&s;tendom,</HI> from the Tyrrannous Attempts of the <HI>French</HI> King; and Our Armies put at a di&s;tance upon &s;o good and im|portant Grounds: Yet it hath plea&s;ed Our Gracious and Almighty GOD, to Defeat their chief At|tempt and to overthrow the be&s;t of the Strength of Our Adver&s;aries, by the late great and happy Vi|ctory gain'd by Our Fleet on that of <HI>France,</HI> to the Confu&s;ion of Our Enemies, and well grounded Encouragement of Our Friends; And as this &s;ignal Ble&s;&s;ing is conferred on Us by the GOD of Ho&s;ts, who&s;e Cau&s;e We owne, and on who&s;e A&s;si&s;tance, We wholly rely; So it is Our Duty, and the Duty of all Our good Subjects, to return Prai&s;e and Glory to His Ble&s;sed Name: Therefore We, with Ad|vice and Con&s;ent of Our Privy Council, Do Appoint the &s;eventh of <HI>June</HI> in&s;tant, to be &s;et a&s;ide for ren|dering publick Thanks to Our Merciful GOD, by who&s;e Ble&s;sing We have this, and all Good Things enjoyed by Us, to be &s;olemnly ob&s;erved, a Day &s;et a-part for Devote returns of Prai&s;e to Our Al|mighty Deliverer, and that for the Town of <HI>Edinburgh</HI>; and the fourteenth day of the &s;aid Moneth of <HI>June</HI> current, for all be&s;outh the River of <HI>Spey</HI>; and the twenty fir&s;t Day of the &s;ame Moneth, for all be|north that River; And Ordains publick Thank&s;giving to be given on the &s;aids Days, in the &s;aids places re&s;pective in all Churches and Meeting Hou&s;es within this Our Antient Kingdom, and that due Obedi|ence be given to this Our Will, by all Our Subjects, as they will be an&s;werable on their peril: And We do hereby Ordain Our Sollicitor to &s;end Coppies hereof to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires within this Kingdom, and the Stewarts of the Stewartries of <HI>Kirkcudbright, Annandale,</HI> and <HI>Orknay,</HI> and Ap|points them to &s;end Doubles thereof to all the Mini&s;ters both in Churches and Meeting Hou&s;es, wth|in their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, that upon the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the &s;aids re&s;pective Dyets, they may Read and Intimat at this Our Royal Proclamation from the Pulpit in every Paroch Church, and Meeting-Hou&s;e, and Exhort all Our Subjects to a &s;erious and devote performance of the &s;aids Prayers, Prai&s;es and Thank&s;giving, as they tender the Favour of Almighty GOD, the pre&s;erva|tion of tbe Prote&s;tant Religion, and the Safety and Pre&s;ervation of Our Royal Per&s;ons and Govern|ment Certifying &s;uch who &s;hall Contemn and Neglect this &s;o Religious and Important a Duty, 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;on and Government. And We Ordain the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Crefs of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needful, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the &s;econd Day of <HI>June,</HI> and of Our Reign, the fourth Year, <HI>1692</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. In Supplementum Signeti. <HI>DA. MONCREIFF,</HI> Cls. Secreti Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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