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B05617 A proclamation for a solemn thanksgiving. Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1693 (1693) Wing S1804; ESTC R183482 1,313 1

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A PROCLAMATION for a Solemn Thanksgiving WILLIAM aud MARY by the Grace of God King and Queen of Great Brittain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith To Our Lyon King at Arms and his Brethren Heraulds Macers of Our Privy Council Pursevants or Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part Conjunctly and Severally specially Constitute Greeting For as much as We and all Our good Subjects are in Duty bound to return Praise and Glory to God by a Day of solemn Thanksgiving for His manifold Blessings bestowed upon Us and Our Kingdoms and particularly that He hath been pleased to preserve Our Royal Person from the many and great Danger of War We were necessarly exposed to for the Defence and Protection of the Protestant Religion and Our Government against the Designs and Attempts of all Our Enemies during Our last Campaign in Flanders and to restore and bring back Our Royal Person in safety to Our Kingdoms to the great Satisfaction and Joy of all Our good Subjects And that also the Ministers assembled in the Synod of Lothian and Tueeddale and such as Correspond with them from several other Synods have Moved to the Lords of Our Privy Council that a Solemn Day of publick Thanksgiving may be set apart for the Causes foresaids to be religiously observed throughout this Our Ancient Kingdom Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council do Appoint and Command that the sixteenth day of November current for all within the Town of Edinburgh and Suburbs thereof and the Shires of Edinburgh Haddington and Linlithgow the Sheriffdom of Berwick and Shires of Fyse Stirling Kinross and Clackmannan And the twentythird day of the said Month for all the rest of this Our Ancient Kingdom to be Religiously and Devoutely observed as a Solemn Day of publict Thanksgiving by all Persons within this Kingdom In all Churches and Meeting-houses for returning most humble and hearty Thanks to Almighty God for the signal Blessings and Deliverances already bestowed upon Us and Our people And to implore the increase and continuance thereof And that His Divine Presence with a Spirit of Counsel and Wisdom may direct and assist us in all our Consultations and Undertakings at home and abroad in time coming And to the effect Our pleasure in the Premisses may be known OUR WILL IS HEREFORE and we Charge you strictly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh and remanent Mercat Crosses of the whole head Burghs of the several Shires and Srewartries within this Kingdom and there in Our Name and Authority make Publication hereof that none may pretend ignorance And ordains Our Solicitor to cause make Intimation hereof to the Ministers within the Town of Edinburgh and Suburbs by sending Copies to them or any other way he thinks fit and to cause send printed Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the several Shires and Stewarts of the Stewartries foresaids whom we ordain to see the same published and appoints them to send Doubles thereof to all Ministers in Churches and Meeting-houses within their Respective Jurisdictions that upon the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the respective Days foresaids the same may be intimat and read in every paroch Church and Meeting-house certifying all such who shall contemn or neglect so religious and important a Duty as the Thanksgiving hereby appointed is they shall be proceeded against and punished as Contemners of Our Authority and as highly disaffected to Our Persons and Government and ordains these Presents to be printed Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the eighth day of November and of Our Reign the Fifth Year 1693 Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii In Supplementum Signeti GILB ELLIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii God Save King William and Queen Mary Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their Most Excellent Majesties Anno DOM. 1693.