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<Q LANG="frm">DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<FIGDESC>royal blazon surmounted by a crown and flanked by the English lion and Tudor rose on one side and the Scottish unicorn and thistle on the other</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT AND COUNCIL.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CLARENDON.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHEREAS not only the Pious Chri&s;tian Em|perors in ancient times, but al&s;o of late His Maje|&s;ties own mo&s;t Religious Predece&s;&s;ors, Kings of this Realm, did cau&s;e the Days on which they be|gan their &s;everal Reigns, to be publickly Celebrated every Year (&s;o long as they Reigned) by all their Subjects, with Solemn Prayers and Thanksgiving to Almighty God. This Pious Cu&s;tom received lately a long and doleful interruption upon occa&s;ion of the Barbarous Murder of His Maje&s;ties Mo&s;t Dear Father of Ble&s;&s;ed Memory, which changed the Day on which His Maje&s;ties Mo&s;t Dear Brother &s;ucceeded to the Crown, into a Day of &s;orrow and Fa&s;ting. But His Maje&s;ty having thought fit to revive the former Laudable and Religious Practice, and having cau&s;ed a Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to be Compo&s;ed by His Bi&s;hops to that purpo&s;e, did on the 23d. of <HI>December 1685</HI> declare His Will and Plea&s;ure that the &s;aid Form of Prayer &s;hould be forthwith Printed and Pub|li&s;hed, to be u&s;ed yearly upon the Sixth Day of <HI>February</HI> (the Day on which His Maje&s;ty began to Reign) in all Churches and Chappels within His King|dom
<PB REF="2"> of <HI>England,</HI> Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> and Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed.</HI> And whereas by Letters to Vs the Lord Lieutenant, His Maje&s;ty hath &s;ignified that it is His Plea&s;ure that the &s;aid Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving be u&s;ed in this Kingdom upon the Day afore&s;aid; and that we &s;hould give &s;uch Order therein as &s;hould be requi&s;ite, and has been u&s;ual upon the like occa|&s;ions.</P>
<P>WE the Lord Lieutenant and Council, in Obedience to His Maje&s;ties &s;aid Command, and that there may be an entire Vniformity of both Chur|ches and Kingdoms in their Publick Thank&s;giving on the Day afore&s;aid, do hereby Publi&s;h and Declare, and al&s;o &s;trictly Charge and Command that the &s;aid Sixth Day of <HI>February</HI> yearly (during His Maje&s;ties Reign) be &s;et a-part and ob&s;erved as a Day of Publick Thank&s;giving in and throughout this His Maje&s;ties Kingdom of <HI>Ireland;</HI> and that the &s;ame Form of Prayer and Thank&s;|giving prepared in <HI>England</HI> for that occa&s;ion (which we have ordered to be Print|ed here) be on the Sixth Day of <HI>February</HI> yearly u&s;ed in all Churches and Chap|pels in this His Maje&s;ties Kingdom of <HI>Ireland:</HI> Whereof all Per&s;ons, whom it may concern, are to take Notice.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the <HI>Council-Chamber</HI> in <HI>Dublin,</HI>
<DATE>the Twenty &s;eventh Day of <HI>January</HI> 1685.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> GOD Save the KING.<LB>
<SIGNED>Mich. Armach. Franc. Dublin. Ro&s;common. Drogheda. Longford. Granard. Ble&s;inton. Mountjoy. Cha. Feil|ding. Char. Merideth. He. Hene. John Davies. Rich. Reynell. Paul Rycaut.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>DUBLIN, Printed by Benjamin Tooke, Printer to the Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, and are to be Sold by Andrew Crook, at His Maje&s;ties Printing-hou&s;e on Ormonde-Key, and Samuel Hel&s;ham, at the Colledge-Arms in Ca&s;tle-&s;treet. 1685.</P>
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