A PROCLAMATION For a solemn and public Thanksgiving.  
WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of God, King and Queen of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith; To Our Lovits Macers of our Privy Council, Messengers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally, specially constitute, greeting;  
Whereas, We have thought fit, to appoint a solemn and public Day of Thanksgiving, to be kept, for giving Thanks to Almighty GOD, for the great Success of our Arms in our Expedition into our Kingdom of Ireland, against the Enemies of the Protestant Religion, and Our Government, and for Our Safe Return. Therefore, We with Advice and Consent of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do hereby Indict, and Appoint a Day of solemn and public Thanksgiving, to be Religiously Observed and Kept in all the Churches & Meeting-houses within the City of Edinburgh, & in the Shires of Edinburgh, Haddingtoun & Linlithgow upon Sunday next, the twenty one day of September current; and in all the Churches and Meeting-houses of the other Shires and burgh's of this Kingdom, upon Sunday, the fifth Day of October next: And Ordains the Ministers in the said's other Shires, to cause Read, and make Intimation hereof upon the Sunday preceding, and that all Persons give punctual Obedience hereunto, as they will be answerable at their highest Peril. And We require Our Solicitor, in the most convenient Way and Method to dispatch, and send printed Copies of this Our Proclamation, to the Sheriffs of the several Shires, and the Stewarts of the Stwartries, and their Deputs, and Clerks, whom We ordain to cause Publish, and immediately transmit the famine to the Ministers in all the Churches and Meeting-houses within their respective Jurisdictions. And ordains their presents to be Printed, & Published at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh, and at the Mercat-crosses of the Head-burghs of the several Shires, and Stewartries within this Kingdom, that none may pretend Ignorance.  
Given under Our Signet, at Holy-rood-house, the seventeenth day of September, one thousand six hundred and ninety, and of Our Reign the second Year. Per Actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii. Gilb. Eliot. Cls. Sti. Concilii. 
 God save King William and Queen Mary.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties, 1690.