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A32410 By the King, a proclamation for a general fast throughout the realm of England England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Privy Council. 1662 (1662) Wing C3299; ESTC R39168 829 1

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C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT By the King A PROCLAMATION For a General Fast throughout the Realm of England CHARLES R. THe Kings most Excellent Majesty taking into His Pious and Princely Consideration the present unreasonableness of the Weather whereupon it may be justly feared Scarcity and Famine Sicknesses and Diseases will ensue if Almighty God of his great Clemency be not mercifully pleased to avert those Iudgements and Punishments which our many and manifold sins and provocations have most justly deserved hath out of His own Religious Disposition resolved and hereby doth Command a General and Publique Fast to be kept throughout this whole Kingdom in such manner as hereafter is directed and prescribed that so both Prince and People even the whole Kingdom as one man may send up their Prayers and Supplications to Almighty God to divert those Iudgements which the sins of this Land have worthily deserved and to send us such seasonable weather whereby the Fruits of the Earth may be duely received and Sicknesses and Contagious Diseases so justly feared be prevented And to the end so Religious an Exercise may be performed with all decency and uniformity His Majesty doth hereby by and with the Advice of His Privy Council publish and declare to all His loving Subjets and doth straitly Charge and Command That on Wednesday next being the Fifteenth of this instant January this Fast be Religiously and Solemnly Observed and Celebrated in the Cities of London and Westminster Burrough of Southwark and other places adjacent wherein His Majesty in His Royal Person and with His Royal Family and Houshold will give example to the rest of His People And that on Wednesday the Two and twentieth day of the same Moneth of January the like be kept and duely observed throughout the rest of this whole Realm of England and Dominion of Wales And that the same be reverently and decently performed by all His loving Subjects as they tender the favour of Almighty God and would avoid his just indignation against this Land and upon pain of such Punishment as His Majesty can justly inflict upon all such as shall contemn or neglect so Religious and necessary a Work Given at Our Court at Whitehal this Eighth day of January in the Thirteenth year of Our Reign God Save the King LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the KINGS most Excellent Majesty 1661.