An Act for a day of publique thanksgiving to be observed throughout England and Wales, on Thursday on the first of November, 1649. Together with a declaration of the grounds thereof. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84579 of text R211282 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.14[80]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A84579 Wing E993 Thomason 669.f.14[80] ESTC R211279 ESTC R211282 99870010 99870010 163067 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84579) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163067) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f14[80]) An Act for a day of publique thanksgiving to be observed throughout England and Wales, on Thursday on the first of November, 1649. Together with a declaration of the grounds thereof. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by John Field for Edward Husband, Printer to the Parliament of England, London : 1649. Order to print dated: 11 Oct. 1649. Signed: Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Fasts and feasts -- England -- Early works to 1800. Public worship -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A84579 R211282 (Thomason 669.f.14[80]). civilwar no An Act for a day of publique thanksgiving to be observed throughout England and Wales, on Thursday on the first of November, 1649. Together England and Wales. Parliament. 1649 734 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion blazon or coat of arms An Act for a Day of Publique Thanksgiving to be observed throughout England and Wales , on Thursday the First of November , 1649. Together with a DECLARATION of the Grounds thereof . THe great and wonderful Providences , wherein the Lord hath eminently gone forth in mercy towards this Nation , have been such , that howsoever many do shut their eyes , or murmure against them , or at least refuse to joyn in Publique Acknowledgements , and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the same ; Nevertheless , the Lord hath been pleased to publish to all the world , That it is the work of his own hand : Nor hath his infinite goodness and favor been restrained to England onely , but extended to Ireland , which he hath been pleased to remember in its low estate ; and when his People there were as dry bones , He hath not onely revived them in a way almost as miraculous as a Resurrection from the Dead , but been pleased to raise both them and us to a high pitch of hope , That the Lord will go on to perfect his work in that Land , and make it likewise at last a quiet Habitation for his People , and establish the power and purity of the Gospel there . The consideration whereof , and of the Goodness and Power of God in the late wonderful Victory , which he hath been pleased to give unto the Parliaments Forces there before Dublin ( never to be forgotten ) And the further progress God hath made in giving in Drogheda , a place of great Strength and Consequence , defended by a considerable number of their prime Officers and Soldiers , the particulars whereof are expressed in the Lord Lieutenants and other Letters , lately Printed ; and since that , by striking Terror into the hearts of the Enemy , so as they have yielded up or deserted many other considerable Castles and Garisons , as Trym , Dundalk , Carlingford , the Newry , and other Places , and some other additional Victories which God hath cast in since , cannot but make a deep impression on the hearts of all that fear the Lord , and provoke them to exceeding Thankfulness and Rejoycing . UPon consideration of all which , the Parliament out of their deep sense of so great and continued Mercies , Have thought fit , as in duty to God , to set apart a day for publique and solemn Thanksgiving to the Lord , the Author of these Mercies : And they do therefore Enact and Ordain , That Thursday the First of November next , be kept as a day of publique Thanksgiving to the Lord , in all the Churches and Chappels , and places of Divine Worship within this Commonwealth of England , Dominion of Wales , and Town of Berwick upon Tweed : And that the Ministers of the respective Parishes and places aforesaid , be and hereby they are required and enjoyned to give publique notice on the Lords-day next preceding the said First of November , of the day so to be observed , to the end the People of their several Congregations may the more generally and diligently attend the publique Exercise of Gods Worship and Service , there to be dispensed upon this occasion ; At which time , that the People may be more particularly and fully informed of this great Victory and Successes , the said Ministers are hereby required to publish and read this present Act. And for the better observation of the day , the Parliament doth hereby inhibit and forbid the holding or use of all Fairs , Markets , and servile works of mens ordinary Callings upon that day : And all Majors , Sheriffs , Iustices of the Peace , Constables and other Officers , be and are hereby enjoyned to take especial care of the due observance of the said day of Thanksgiving accordingly . Die Jovis , 11 Octobr. 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament , That this Act be forthwith printed and published . Hen : Scobell , Cleric ' Parliamenti . London , Printed by John Field for Edward Husband , Printer to the Parliament of England . 1649.