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A PROCLAMATION For a National Humiliation upon the account of the QVEENS' Death.  
WILLIAM by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, To Macers of our Privy Council, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs, in that part, Conjunctly and severally, specially Constitute, Greeting;  
FORASMUCH as, it hath pleased Almighty God, to Visit Us and Our people, with the sad and never enough to be lamented loss of Our dear Consort, and their Gracious Sovereign Queen Mary: And that in such a Calamity, it becomes Us and them to be deeply humbled before the Lord, to obtain his Pardon and Peace, and Gracious Favour and Assistance, for Our Support and Relief: And that the Ministers and Brethren of the Commission of the late General Assembly, have Addressed the Lords of Our Privy Council, that a Day may be solemnly set apart for that Effect. Therefore, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to Appoint the eighth day of January Instant for the Town of Edinburgh and the three Louthians: and the fifeteen day of the said Month for all on this side of the River of Tay: and the twenty second of the said Month of January Instant, for all the rest of the Kingdom, to be kept as solemn Days of deep Humiliation and Fasting, by Prayer, Preaching, and other sacred Exercise, and a most strict Surcease from all ordinary Employments and Handy-labour: to the Effect, that by the humble and earnest Confession of our sins to God, we may obtain his Pardon and Peace, and his Face and Favour graciously reconciled to Us and Our people, and that it may please Him more especially, to comfort and support Us, and to preserve Our Person for the good of his People, and of the whole Protestant Interest, and to bless Us and Our Government, with such Aid, Countenance, and Assistance, as may best contribute to the same. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you strictly, and Command, that incontinent these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, and remanent Mercat Crosses of the whole Head burgh's of the several Shires within this Kingdom, and of the Stewartries of Kirkcudbright, Annandale and Orkney, and there in Our Name and Authority, make Publication hereof, that none may pretend ignorance. And ordains Our Solicitor, to cause send printed Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the several Shires, and Stewarts of the Stewartries' foresaids, whom We ordain to see the same published: and appoints them to send Doubles hereof, to all the Ministers both in Churches and Meeting-houses, within their respective Jurisdictions, that upon the Lord's Day, immediately preceding the said's days respectiuè above mentioned, the same may be intimat and read in every Paroch Church and Meetinghouse; Certifying all such who shall contemn or neglect so religious and important a Duty, as the Humiliation hereby appointed is, they shall be proceeded against, and punished as Contemners of Our Authority, and as highly disaffected to Our Person and Government; And ordains these Presents to be Printed.  
Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh, the second Day of January, And of Our Reign the sixth year, 1695. Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii. 
 GOD Save the KING.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Excellent Majesty, 1695.