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<NAME>Simon Charles</NAME>
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<STC T="G">506.h.11[72]</STC>
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<FIGDESC>royal blazon or coat of arms</FIGDESC>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation for a generall Fa&s;t throughout this Realme of England.</HEAD>
<P>_THe fre&s;h memory of the late fearefull vi&s;itation of the Plague, as in many other places and parts of this Realme, &s;o e&s;pe|cially in and about the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and places adiacent, and the &s;preading thereof in many parts of this Kingdome at this time, ought to moue vs to con&s;ider, that it was, and is the im|mediate hand of God for the &s;innes of this Land, &s;o to vi&s;ite and cor|rect his people; And againe, the contemplation of the infinite good|ne&s;&s;e of God, &s;o vnexpectedly to heale this great and populous Citie (the &s;eate of this Empire) ought to draw vs to a due and thankefull acknowledgement of &s;o great a deliuerance: The re|membrance of the &s;carcitie and famine lately threatned vnto vs in all the borders of this Land, ought to humble vs. And the ble&s;&s;ing of God vpon the fruits of the earth in the time of our greate&s;t di&s;tre&s;&s;e, ought to &s;tirre vp our thankefulne&s;&s;e vnto that diuine Maie&s;ty, who was the giuer of the&s;e ble&s;&s;ings: The pre&s;ent e&s;tate of his Maie&s;ties Dominions, and of His friends and Allies imbarked in a warre, with a potent and vigilant enemy, &s;etting Vs in an open Ho&s;tilitie abroad, and threatning vs with a powerfull inua&s;ion at home, ought to per&s;wade vs, not onely to a timely preparation for all things nece&s;&s;ary for a defen&s;iue warre, but al&s;o to looke vp to Him, who&s;e prouidence gouernes, and who&s;e power ruleth all things vpon earth: And our former deliuerances in like di&s;tre&s;&s;es, ought to rai&s;e our thoughts, not to neglect the ordinary meanes, and yet to tru&s;t in him onely who is the Lord of ho&s;tes, and who alone can deliuer in times of danger: The&s;e Pious and Religious con&s;iderations haue &s;o wrought in the Princely heart of the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie, That He hath not onely had recour&s;e to that great and Di|uine Maie&s;tie, who is the King of kings, in His priuate deuotions, to implore his mercie and fa|uour to him&s;elfe and His people; But according to the example of all good Kings in former ages in the times of common calamities, which equally concerne both Prince and people, to command a &s;olemne, a generall, and a publike Fa&s;t throughout all this whole Land, wherein the whole Kingdome (as one man) may pre&s;ent to God their hearty and vnfained thankes for His benefits already receiued, and may powre out their &s;upplications with &s;trong cryes vnto Him, to &s;end a ble&s;&s;ing vpon our endeauours, and to diuert tho&s;e puni&s;hments from vs, which the &s;innes of this Land haue worthily de&s;erued.</P>
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<P>To this purpo&s;e, His mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie, (moued therunto, the rather by the good inclina|tion of the Commons Hou&s;e of Parliament, lately a&s;&s;embled, who being the repre&s;entatiue Body of this Realme, and be&s;t knowing the nece&s;&s;ities of them all, did intimate their de&s;ire thereof) hath con&s;ulted with His reuerend Bi&s;hops, and re&s;olued vpon a graue and religious forme of &s;olem|nizing thereof, Which His Royall Plea&s;ure He doth hereby publi&s;h and declare to all His louing Subiects, And doth &s;traitly charge and command, That on Wedne&s;day next, being the fift day of Iuly, this Fa&s;t be religiou&s;ly and &s;olemnly ob&s;erued and celebrated in the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and places adiacent, wherein His Maie&s;tie in His Royall Per&s;on, and with His owne family and Royall hou&s;hold, will giue an example to the re&s;t of His people. And that on that day moneth, being the &s;econd of Augu&s;t, the like the kept and duly ob&s;erued, thorowout the re&s;t of this whole Realme of <HI>England</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales.</HI> And for the more orderly &s;olemnizing thereof without confu&s;ion, His Maie&s;tie, by the aduice of His Reuerend Bi&s;hops, hath directed to be Compo&s;ed, Printed, and Publi&s;hed, the forme of &s;uch Prayers and publike Exhortations, as He thinketh fit to be v&s;ed in all Churches and places at the&s;e publike meetings. And Hee hath giuen charge to His Bi&s;hops to di&s;per&s;e the &s;ame thorowout His whole Kingdome. All which, His Maie&s;tie doth expre&s;ly charge and command, &s;hall be reuerently and deuoutly performed by all His louing Subiects, as they tender the fauour of Almighty God, and would auoide his iu&s;t indignation again&s;t this Land; and vpon paine of &s;uch puni&s;hments, as His Maie&s;tie can iu&s;tly inflict vpon all &s;uch, as &s;hall contemne, or neglect &s;o religious a Worke.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at His Maie&s;ties Court at White-Hall, <DATE>the thirtieth day of Iune, in the &s;econd yeere of His Maie&s;ties Reigne of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M.DC.XXVI.</P>
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