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B05598 A proclamation for a national humiliation upon the account of the Queens death. Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William II) 1695 (1695) Wing S1784; ESTC R183465 1,138 1

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A PROCLAMATION For a National Humiliation upon the account of the QVEENS Death WILLIAM by the Grace of God King of Great Brittain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To Macers of our Privy Council Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part Conjunctly and severally specially Constitute Greeting FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God to Visite Us and Our people with the sad and never enough to be lamented loss of Our dear Consort and their Gracious Soveraign Queen Mary And that in such a Calamity it becomes Us and them to be deeply humbled before the Lord to obtain his Pardon and Peace and Gracious Favour and Assistance for Our Support and Relief And that the Ministers and Brethren of the Commission of the late General Assembly have Addressed the Lords of Our Privy Council that a Day may be solemnly set apart for that Effect Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council have thought fit to Appoint the eighth day of January Instant for the Town of Edinburgh and the three Louthians and the fifeteen day of the said Month for all on this side of the River of Tay and the twenty second of the said Month of January Instant for all the rest of the Kingdom to be kept as solemn Days of deep Humiliation and Fasting by Prayer Preaching and other sacred Exercise and a most strict Surcease from all ordinary Employments and Handy-labour to the Effect that by the humble and earnest Confession of our sins to God we may obtain his Pardon and Peace and his Face and Favour graciously reconciled to Us and Our people and that it may please Him more especially to comfort and support Us and to preserve Our Person for the good of his People and of the whole Protestant Interest and to bless Us and Our Government with such Aid Countenance and Assistance as may best contribute to the same 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 within this Kingdom and of the Stewartries of Kirkcudbright Annandale and Orkney and there in Our Name and Authority make Publication hereof that none may pretend ignorance And ordains Our Sollicitor 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 hereof to all the Ministers both in Churches and Meeting-houses within their respective Jurisdictions that upon the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the saids days respectivè above mentioned 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 Humiliation hereby appointed is they shall be proceeded against and punished as Contemners of Our Authority and as highly disaffected to Our Person and Government And ordains these Presents to be Printed Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the second Day of January And of Our Reign the sixth year 1695. Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD Save the KING Edinburgh Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Excellent Majesty 1695.