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<FIGDESC>monogram of 'W' (William) superimposed on 'M' (Mary)</FIGDESC>
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<Q LANG="frm">JE MEINTIENDRAY</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 Lords-Ju&s;tices and COUNCIL, A PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>CHARLES PORTER,</ITEM>
<ITEM>THO: CONINGESBY.</ITEM>
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<P>_WHEREAS By Our Proclamation of the fifteenth of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, in &s;erious con&s;ideration of the then deplorable &s;tate of this Kingdom, We did enjoyn and command that the fir&s;t <HI>Friday</HI> in every &s;ucceeding Month during the War &s;hould &s;olemnly and devout|ly be ob&s;erved (as it hath ever &s;ince been) as a Monthly Fa&s;t to be kept throughout all places under Their Maje&s;ties Obedience, by Solemn Hu|miliation and Repentance of our Sins, to depre|cate his De&s;erved Iudgments, and implore his unde&s;erved Mercies to this poor afflicted King|dom. And fora&s;much as it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God of his Infinite Goodne&s;s, in an&s;wer to the Prayers offered up on that occa&s;ion, to protect His Maje&s;ty from great and manifold Dangers, in His late Expedition beyond the Seas, and to bring him back in &s;afety, and to pre&s;erve Their Maje&s;ties and Their Government again&s;t all the wicked Machi|nations and De&s;igns of Open and Secret Enemies, and by a wonderful &s;uc|ce&s;s of Their Arms to reduce this Kingdom of <HI>Ireland</HI> entirely to Their Obe|dience notwith&s;tanding the Powerful Support of <HI>France.</HI> We therefore with all Humility adoring the Mercy of the Divine Providence manife&s;ted to Them and Their People, and duly con&s;idering that Publick &amp; Signal Ble&s;sings do call for Publick and Solemn Acknowledgments, Have thought fit, and do hereby Ap|point and Command, that a General and Publick Thank&s;giving to Almighty God the Giver of all Victory be ob&s;erved for the&s;e Great Ble&s;sings throughout this whole Kingdom on <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the Twenty &s;ixth day of this pre&s;ent <HI>No|vember,</HI> and for the better and more orderly &s;olemnizing of the &s;ame have cau&s;ed a Form of Prayer &s;uitable to this occa&s;ion to be compo&s;ed by the Bi&s;hops of this Kingdom, to be u&s;ed in all Churches, Chappels and other places of Publick Wor&s;hip, and to take care for the timely di&s;per&s;ing of the &s;ame through their re&s;pective Dioce&s;&s;es: And We do &s;trictly Charge and Command that the &s;aid day of Publick Thank&s;giving be Religiou&s;ly ob&s;erved by all Their Maje|&s;ties Loving Subjects as they tender the Favour of Almighty God and the Puni&s;hment the Law can inflict upon the Contempt or Neglect thereof. And la&s;tly, We Command that this Our Proclamation be Read to the People there a&s;&s;embled the <HI>Sunday</HI> before the &s;aid day of Thank&s;giving, that none may pre|tend Ignorance of the&s;e Our Commands and their own Duty.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Council-Chamber
<DATE>the 9th day of <HI>November,</HI> 1691.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Fran. Dublin,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Longford,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Drogheda,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Anth. Meath,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ri. Pine,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jn^o Hely.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED> GOD Save the KING and QUEEN</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Dublin,</HI> Printed by <HI>Andrew Crook</HI> A&s;&s;ignee of <HI>Benjamin Tooke</HI> Printer to the King and Queen at their Maje&s;ties Printing-Hou&s;e on <HI>Ormonde-Key</HI> 1691.</P>
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