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 LIEUTENANT AND COUNCIL.  
CLARENDON.  
WHEREAS not only the Pious Christian Emperors in ancient times, but also of late His Majesties own most Religious Predecessors, Kings of this Realm, did cause the Days on which they began their several Reigns, to be publicly Celebrated every Year( so long as they Reigned) by all their Subjects, with Solemn Prayers and Thanksgiving to Almighty God. This Pious Custom received lately a long and doleful interruption upon occasion of the Barbarous Murder of His Majesties Most Dear Father of Blessed Memory, which changed the Day on which His Majesties Most Dear Brother succeeded to the Crown, into a Day of sorrow and Fasting. But His Majesty having thought fit to revive the former Laudable and Religious practise, and having caused a Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to be Composed by His Bishops to that purpose, did on the 23d. of December 1685 declare His Will and Pleasure that the said Form of Prayer should be forthwith Printed and Published, to be used yearly upon the Sixth Day of February( the Day on which His Majesty began to Reign) in all Churches and chapels within His Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed. And whereas by Letters to us the Lord Lieutenant, His Majesty hath signified that it is His Pleasure that the said Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving be used in this Kingdom upon the Day aforesaid; and that we should give such Order therein as should be requisite, and has been usual upon the like occasions.  
WE the Lord Lieutenant and Council, in Obedience to His Majesties said Command, and that there may be an entire uniformity of both Churches and Kingdoms in their public Thanksgiving on the Day aforesaid, do hereby Publish and Declare, and also strictly Charge and Command that the said Sixth Day of February yearly( during His Majesties Reign) be set a-part and observed as a Day of public Thanksgiving in and throughout this His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland; and that the same Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving prepared in England for that occasion( which we have ordered to be Printed here) be on the Sixth Day of February yearly used in all Churches and chapels in this His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland: Whereof all Persons, whom it may concern, are to take Notice.  
Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin, the Twenty seventh Day of January 1685. 
 GOD Save the KING. 
 Mich. Armach. Franc. Dublin. Roscommon. Drogheda. Longford. Granard. Blesinton. Mountjoy. Cha. fielding. Char. Merideth. He. Hene. John Davies. Rich. Reynell. Paul Rycaut.   

DUBLIN, Printed by 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 Samuel Helsham, at the Colledge-Arms in Castle-street. 1685.