dieu ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon surmounted by a crown and flanked by the English lion and Tudor rose on one side and the Scottish unicorn and thistle on the other  
BY THE LORD DEPUTY AND COUNCIL.  
TYRCONNELL.  
WHEREAS it hath pleased Almighty God( who in signal manner hath Blessed His Majesty and His Kingdoms with great Prosperity, Peace and Plenty, to give His Majesty also apparent hopes, and good Assurance of having Issue by His Royal Consort, the Queen, who( through God's Goodness is now with Child. And forasmuch as increase of Issue of the Royal Family is a public Blessing, and( under God) a great Security of Peace and Happiness to these Kingdoms.  
We have therefore thought sit to appoint a Time, upon this Occcasion, to Render public and Hearty Thanks Through-out the Kingdom, for this Great Blessing already Begun; and to Offer up Prayers to Almighty God for the Continuance thereof. And We do hereby Appoint, that upon the nineteenth Day of this Instant February, within the City and Suburbs of Dublin, and Liberties adjoining, and upon the six and Twentieth day of the same Month in all other places throughout this Kingdom public Thanks and Solmn Prayers be offered up to Almighty God upon the occasion aforesaid, We willingly and strictly Commanding all persons within this Kingdom, with all sobriety, reverence and thankfulness to perform this duty upon the several and respective days before mentioned and to observe the same as becomes so Solmn an occasion, And that the same Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving prepared in England, for that occasion( which we have ordered to be Printed here and sent to the several Bishops to be distributed throughout their several Dioceses) be on the said days made use of in the several Churches and chapels in this Kingdom.  
Given at the council Chamber in Dublin, the 8th day of February 1687. A Fytton C. Barrymore, Droheda, Gormanston, Tho: Keightley, Bu. Talbot, Stephen Rice, John Davys, De. Daly, Rob. Hamilton, W. Wentworth, Tho. Newcomen, N. Purcell, Cha. White. 
 God Save the King.   

DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham, Assigns of Benjamin took Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty; and are to be Sold by Andrew Crook at His Majesties Printing-house on Ormonde-Key, and by Samuel Helsham at the Colledge-Arms in Castle-street. 1687.