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DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
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 Lion King at Arms, and his Brethren Heralds, Macers of Our Privy Council. Pursuivants, 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 showing 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 gained 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 own, 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 public 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 apart for Devote returns of Praise to Our Almighty Deliverer, and that for the Town of Edinburgh; and the fourteenth day of the said Month of June current, for all besouth the River of Spey; and the twenty first Day of the same Month, for all benorth that River; And Ordains public Thanksgiving to be given on the saids Days, in the saids places respective in all Churches and Meeting Houses within this Our Ancient 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 Solicitor to send Copies 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 Lord's Day immediately preceding the said's respective Diets, they may Read and Intimat at this Our Royal Proclamation from the Pulpit in every Paroch Church, and Meetinghouse, and Exhort all Our Subjects to a serious and devote performance of the said's Prayers, Praises and Thanksgiving, as they tender the Favour of Almighty GOD, the preservation of the 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.