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B05613 A proclamation for a solemn national thanksgiving. Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1692 (1692) Wing S1800; ESTC R183479 1,366 1

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DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE A PROCLAMATION For a Solemn National Thanksgiving WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of God King and Queen of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith To Our Lyon King at Arms and his Brethren Heraulds Macers of Our Privy Council Pursevants Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting We Considering the great Blessings of Almighty GOD on Our Sacred Persons Government and People in shewing Himself so Signally by Delivering us from many great and eminent Dangers in our Religion Liberties Properties and all that can be dear to Us as especially at this time by the late Success given to Our Arms against the Powerful and Bloody Designs of France and of many of Our unnatural and rebellious Subjects especially the barbarous Irish who had Combined to Invade Our Kingdoms with all the Fierceness and Inhumanity which Fury could suggest and at a time when We were obliged to be absent for the necessary Defence of Christendom from the Tyrrannous Attempts of the French King and Our Armies put at a distance upon so good and important Grounds Yet it hath pleased Our Gracious and Almighty GOD to Defeat their chief Attempt and to overthrow the best of the Strength of Our Adversaries by the late great and happy Victory gain'd by Our Fleet on that of France to the Confusion of Our Enemies and well grounded Encouragement of Our Friends And as this signal Blessing is conferred on Us by the GOD of Hosts whose Cause We owne and on whose Assistance We wholly rely So it is Our Duty and the Duty of all Our good Subjects to return Praise and Glory to His Blessed Name Therefore We with Advice and Consent of Our Privy Council Do Appoint the seventh of June instant to be set aside for rendering publick Thanks to Our Merciful GOD by whose Blessing We have this and all Good Things enjoyed by Us to be solemnly observed a Day set a-part for Devote returns of Praise to Our Almighty Deliverer and that for the Town of Edinburgh and the fourteenth day of the said Moneth of June current for all besouth the River of Spey and the twenty first Day of the same Moneth for all benorth that River And Ordains publick Thanksgiving to be given on the saids Days in the saids places respective in all Churches and Meeting Houses within this Our Antient Kingdom and that due Obedience be given to this Our Will by all Our Subjects as they will be answerable on their peril And We do hereby Ordain Our Sollicitor to send Coppies hereof to the Sheriffs of the several Shires within this Kingdom and the Stewarts of the Stewartries of Kirkcudbright Annandale and Orknay and Appoints them to send Doubles thereof to all the Ministers both in Churches and Meeting Houses wthin their respective Jurisdictions that upon the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the saids respective Dyets they may Read and Intimat at this Our Royal Proclamation from the Pulpit in every Paroch Church and Meeting-House and Exhort all Our Subjects to a serious and devote performance of the saids Prayers Praises and Thanksgiving as they tender the Favour of Almighty GOD the preservation of tbe Protestant Religion and the Safety and Preservation of Our Royal Persons and Government Certifying such who shall Contemn and Neglect this so Religious and Important a Duty they shall be proceeded against and Punished as Contemners of Our Authority and as highly disaffected to Our Person and Government And We Ordain these Presents to be Printed and Published at the Mercat-Crefs of Edinburgh and other places needful that none pretend ignorance Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the second Day of June and of Our Reign the fourth Year 1692 Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii In Supplementum Signeti DA. MONCREIFF Cls. Secreti Concilii GOD save King William and Queen Mary 〈…〉 Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties 1698.