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B05322 Act, for an anniversary thanksgiving, in commemoration of his Majesties happy birth-day, being the fourteenth day of October, &c. Edinburgh, the sixteenth day of September, 1685. Scotland. Privy Council. 1685 (1685) Wing S1423; ESTC R183000 1,196 1

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ACT For an Anniversary Thanksgiving in Commemoration of His Majesties Happy Birth-day being the fourteenth Day of October c. Edinburgh the sixteenth day of September 1685. FOrasmuch As It Having Pleased Almighty God to set Our most Rightful and Re-doubted Soveraign JAMES the Seventh by the grace of GOD of Scotland England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Peaceably upon the Throne of His Royal Ancestors our most August and Glorious Monarchs Notwithstanding of the Hellish Plots and Machinations against the Sacred Person of Our late King of ever blessed Memory and of our said present Soveraign whom God long preserve And al 's notwithstanding of the Desperat and Traiterous Endeavours of those who lately by Armed Force Invaded these Our Soveraign Lords Realms of Scotland and England of Design not only to have Subverted His Royal Government but even to have embrewed their wicked Hands in the Sacred Blood of Our said Soveraign Lord the King and utterly to have destroyed all His Majesties Faithful and Loyal Subjects Which Traiterous Attempts by so signal and remarkable Instances of the Divine Providence have been so miraculously Defeated and Confounded Of all which His Majesties Privy Council being deeply sensible They hereby in His Majesties Royal Name and Authority Ordain and Appoint the Fourteenth Day of October being His Majesties Royal Birth-Day to be Solemnly Kept and Observed throughout this Kingdom for this Year and Yearly hereafter as an Anniversary Day of Thanksgiving for His Majesties Happy Birth and therein to Commemorat His most Auspicious Entry to His Royal Government and miraculous Deliverances aforesaid And that all Signs and Demonstrations of Joy on such Solemn Occasions accustomed be performed by all His Majesties Subjects And further Recommends to the right Reverend the Arch-bishops and Bishops that they cause the Ministers in their respective Diocesses for this Year and Yearly hereafter upon the said Fourteenth Day of October with the People at Divine Service in the Church Devoutly give Solemn Thanks to Almighty God and Celebrat His Holy Name for His so Signal Goodness and Protection to Our said Gracious Soveraign and in Him to these His Kingdoms And that all His Majesties good Subjects may have notice and be Certified hereof His Majesties Privy Council doth hereby Require and Command His Majesties Lyon King at Arms and his brethren Heraulds Macers of the Privy Council Pursevants and Messengers at Arms forthwith to pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh and there having His Majesties Coat of Arms Displayed by sound of Trumpet and open Proclamation in His Majesties Royal Name and Authority make Publication of the Premisses And Ordains the Sheriffs of the several Shires of this Kingdom to cause Publish the same at the Mercat Crosses of the head Burghs of their Shires And the Magistrats of Burghs at their Mercat-Crosses respectivè as they will be answerable at their highest peril that none may pretend Ignorance And the Sheriffs aforesaid are hereby strictly Required to cause deliver to the Ministers within their Sheriffdoms respectivè a Printed Copy of this Act that they may from their Pulpitson the Lords Day preceeding the said Day of publick Thanksgiving after Divine Service in the forenoon Read the same to the People and give them the necessary Exhortations upon this Occasion Extracted furth of the Records of His Majesties Privy Council by me Sir William Paterson Clerk to His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council WILL. PATERSON Cls. Sti. Concilij GOD Save the KING Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty Anno DOM. 1685.