ACT, For an Anniversary Thanksgiving, in Commemoration of His Majesty's Happy Birthday, being the fourteenth Day of October, etc.  
Edinburgh, the sixteenth day of September, 1685.  
FOrasmuch As It Having Pleased Almighty God to set Our most Rightful, and Re-doubted Sovereign, JAMES the Seventh, by the grace of GOD, of Scotland, England, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc. Peaceably upon the Throne of His Royal Ancestors, our most August and Glorious Monarches, Notwithstanding of the Hellish Plots and Machinations against the Sacred Person of Our late King, (of ever blessed Memory,) and of our said present Sovereign (whom God long preserve) And als notwithstanding of the Desperate and Traitorous Endeavours of those who lately, by Armed Force. Invaded these Our Sovereign Lords Realms of Scotland and England, of Design, not only to have Subverted His Royal Government, but even to have imbrued their wicked Hands in the Sacred Blood of Our said Sovereign Lord the King, and utterly to have destroyed all His Majesty's Faithful and Loyal Subjects; Which Traitorous Attempts, by so signal and remarkable Instances of the Divine Providence, have been so miraculously Defeated and Confounded; Of all which, His Majesty's Privy Council being deeply sensible. They hereby, in His Majesty's Royal Name and Authority, Ordain and Appoint the Fourteenth Day of October, being His Majesty's Royal Birthday, to be Solemnly Kept and Observed throughout this Kingdom, for this Year, and Yearly hereafter, as an Anniversary Day of Thanksgiving for His Majesty's 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 Majesty's Subjects: And further Recommends to the right Reverend the Archbishops and Bishops, that they cause the Ministers in their respective Dioceses, 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 Sovereign, and in Him, to these His Kingdoms; And that all His Majesty's good Subjects may have notice, and be Certified hereof, His Majesty's Privy Council doth hereby Require and Command His Majesty's Lion, King at Arms, and his brethren Heralds, Macers of the Privy Council, Pursuivants, and Messengers at Arms, forthwith to pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, and there, (having His Majesty's Coat of Arms Displayed) by sound of Trumpet, and open Proclamation, in His Majesty's Royal Name and Authority, make Publication of the Premises; And Ordains the Sheriffs of the several Shires of this Kingdom, to cause Publish the same at the Mercat Crosses of the head burgh's of their Shires; And the Magistrates of burgh's, at their Mercat-Crosses respectiuè, 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 respectiuè, a Printed Copy of this Act, that they may from their Pulpitson the Lord's Day, preceding the said Day of public Thanksgiving, after Divine Service in the forenoon, Read the same to the People, and give them the necessary. Exhortations upon this Occasion. Extracted forth of the Records of His Majesty's Privy Council, by me Sir William Paterson, Clerk to His Majesty's 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.