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A79334 By the King. A proclamation for setting apart a day of solemn and publick thanksgiving throughout the whole kingdom England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1660 (1660) Wing C3426; Thomason 669.f.25[40]; ESTC R212403 1,472 1

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C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King A PROCLAMATION FOR Setting apart a Day of Solemn and Publick Thanksgiving throughout the whole KINGDOM CHARLES R. WHereas it hath pleased Almighty God to manifest his own immediate Goodness Wisdom and Power in his late Providence towards Us and Our Kingdoms wherein beyond all Humane Deans and Contrivances as well of Our Friends for Us as of Our Adversaries against Us he hath by the interposition of his own Power and Wisdom after a long and tedious Exile returned Us home to Our People and after a long and seemingly invincible Interruption restored Our People and Kingdoms to their ancient Rights Liberties and Government and all this brought about by his most wise and over-ruling Hand without any effusion of Blood But instead thereof filling the Hearts of Us and Our People as full of mutual Love Confidence and Joy as became such a Restitution of King and People whereby the Merry is not onely advanced but the hopes of most happy consequences thereupon are increased We cannot upon the due consideration hereof but with all humility admire and adore the Merry and Goodness of God in these his signal manifestations thereof and we looked and still look upon them as invitations from Heaven to Us and all Our People unto most entire Thankfulness for the same unto Almighty God and publick and chearful Expressions thereof And whereas in the midst of those Our considerations both Our Houses of Parliament by their Address of the One and twentieth of May last have humbly shewed unto Us That such is the inestimable blessing of Our Restitution to Our Royal Throne which at once hath put a period to the Calamities of Three Kingdoms and to all the Sorrows and Sufferings of Our Royal Person and Family that they cannot but account it as an entrance into the state of Joy and Happiness which obligeth all Our Subjects to render an Everlasting Tribute of Praise and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for these glorious Mercies to his afflicted People And to the end some solemn Time may be set apart for the publick performance of this Duty and that all Our Subjects in England and Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Twede do equally share in the joys of this Deliverance may be united in these Devotions which are offered for it They therefore humbly beseeched Us that We would be pleased by Our Royal Proclamation to set apart some Day for a publick Thanksgiving throughout all these Our Dominions We willing that the just Tribute of Praise and Thanksgiving to Our Great Soveraign the King of Heaven and Earth be returned by Us and all Our People for these his Deliverances and Mercies and that as his Mercy is of Universal concernment to Us and all Our Subjects so to the end that the publick Returns of Our Praise to God for the same though it cannot equalize yet it may in some measure answer the amplitude of the Benefit We do hereby Publish and Declare That the Twenty eight day of this instant June be set apart and observed as a day of Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God throughout Our Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick for this his great Mercy and We do direct and appoint that this Our Proclamation be publickly read in all Churches and Chappels on some Lords day precedent thereunto to the end that notice be taken thereof and due Thanks and Praise may upon the said Twenty eighth day of June be offered up unto Almighty God by Us and all Our People with one Heart and that humble Supplications be poured out before him for his continual Assistance and Improvement of this and all his Mercies to the honor of his great Name and the Safety Peace and Benefit of all Our Kingdoms and Dominions We willing and strictly commanding all Persons within these Our Dominions with all Sobriety Reverence and Thankfulness to set apart that Day to this Duty and to observe the same as becomes so solemn an occasion Given under Our Sign Manual at Our Court at Whitehal the Fifth day of June in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign 1660. London Printed by Christopher Barker and John Bill Printers to the KINGS most Excellent Majesty 1660.