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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 Thank&s;giving, 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 Our Navy Royal, under the command of Our deare&s;t Brother the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> hath, upon the third day of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t, obtained a glorious Victory over the Fleet &s;et out by the States of the <HI>United Provinces:</HI> And We finding it &s;uteable, that a &s;olemn return of Prai&s;e be paid to Almighty GOD, by who&s;e &s;pecial Hand, and &s;ignal Appearance for Vs and the ju&s;tice of Our Cau&s;e, this great Salvation hath been wrought; Have judged fit, by this Our Proclamation, to indict a general and publick Thank&s;giving for the cau&s;e afore&s;aid. Our will is herefore, and We &s;traitly command and charge, that the &s;aid Thank&s;giving and &s;olemn Commemo|ration of the goodne&s;s of GOD, manife&s;ted by the conduct and management of this late Action, be religiou&s;ly and &s;olemnly ob&s;erved through this Our whole Kingdom, upon the &s;econd Thur&s;day of <HI>July</HI> next, being the thirteenth day thereof; Requiring hereby Our Reverend Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, to give notice of this Our Royal Plea&s;ure to the Mini&s;ters in their re&s;pective Dioce&s;&s;es; and that upon the Lords-day immediatly preceeding the &s;aid thirteenth day of <HI>July,</HI> they cau&s;e read this Our Proclamation from the Pulpit in every Paroch Kirk: And that they exhort all Our loving Subjects to a chearfull and d&eacute;vout performance of this &s;o becoming a duty they owe to the Name of the LORD Our GOD, who has done the&s;e great and au&s;picious things for Vs, and for the Honour and Intere&s;t of Our Kingdoms.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> <DATE>the tenth day of <HI>June,</HI> and of Our Reign the &s;eventeenth year.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh, <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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