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A66204
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By the King, a proclamation for a general fast
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III); William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
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1697
(1697)
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Wing W2455; ESTC R37225
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546
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By the King A PROCLAMATION For a General FAST WILLIAM R. FOR the Imploring a Blessing from Almighty God upon His Majesty and all His Dominions and for the Averting of those Iudgments which our manifold Sins and Provocations have most justly Deserved The Kings most Excellent Majesty has thought fit and doth by the Advise of His Privy Council hereby Appoint and Command That a General Fast and Day of Solemn Humiliation be Kept and Observed throughout His Majesties Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed in most Devout and Solemn Manner on Wednesday the Twenty eight Day of April next And for the more orderly Solemnizing of the same His Majesty has given Directions to the Right Reverend the Bishops of this Kingdom to Compose a Form of Prayer Suitable to this Occasion to be Vsed in all Churches and Chappels and other Places of Publick Worship and to take Care for the timely Dispersing of the same through their several Dioceses in the whole Kingdom And His Majesty doth strictly Charge and Command That the said Fastings and Prayers be Soberly Reverently and Decently performed by all His Loving Subjects as they tender the Favour of Almighty God and upon Pain of such Punishments as can justly be inflicted upon all such as shall Contemn or Neglect so Religious a Work Given at Our Court at Kensington the Eighteenth Day of March 1696 â— In the Ninth Year of Our Reign God save the King LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 16â—6 7