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 of His Great and Continued Mercy to His Majesty and His Kingdoms to Bless Him and His Royal Consort, the Queen, with a Son; and These His Kingdoms and Dominions with a Prince. And forasmuch as increase of Issue of the Royal Family, and particularly the Birth of a Young Prince, is a public Blessing, and, under God, a Great Security of Peace and Happiness to His Majesty's Kingdoms, for which all His Majesty's Subjects are Obliged to make Solemn acknowledgements to The Almighty God.  
WE Have therefore thought fit to appoint a Time, upon this Occasion, for public Thanksgiving in all the Churches and Chapels throughout this Kingdom to Almighty God for so Great a Blessing. We do therefore Appoint, That upon Sunday the first Day of July next, within the City and Suburbs of Dublin, and the Liberties adjoining; And upon Sunday the eighth Day of the Month of July aforesaid, in all other Places throughout the Kingdom, be had and solemnized a public Thanksgiving for so Great a Blessing vouchsafed to His Majesty and His Kingdoms. We willing and strictly Commanding all Persons within this Realm, 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 solemn an Occasion.  
Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin the 23th Day of June. 1688. GOD SAVE THE KING. 
 A. Fytton C. Lymerick. Nettirvile. Rosse. J. Macartie. T. Nugent. Stephen Rice. John Davys. De. Daly. Rob. Hamilton. Cha. Whyte.   

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. 1688.