By the King, a proclamation it having 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 ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A46519 of text R37016 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing J257). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A46519 Wing J257 ESTC R37016 16185694 ocm 16185694 105008 2240873013

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46519) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 105008) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1595:95) By the King, a proclamation it having 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 ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) James II, King of England, 1633-1701. 1 broadside. Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb ..., London : 1688. Other title information from first 3 lines of text. "Given at our court at VVhitehall, the tenth day of June 1688. In the fourth year of our reign." Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng James, -- Prince of Wales, 1688-1766. Great Britain -- History -- James II, 1685-1688. eebo By the King, a proclamation. James R. It having pleased almighty God of his great and continued mercy to His Majesty and his kingdoms, to bless him an England and Wales. Sovereign 1688 1 317 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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By the King , A PROCLAMATION . JAMES R.

IT having 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 , His Majesty this day in Council hath thought fit to appoint a time of Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God throughout this Kingdom for so great a Blessing : And His Majesty doth accordingly Appoint and Command , That upon Sunday next , being the Seventeenth day of this instant June , within the Cities of London and Westminster and Ten Miles distance , and upon the First day of July next in all other Places throughout this Kingdom of England , Dominion of Wales , and Town of Berwick upon Tweed , be had and Solemnized a Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God for so great a Blessing vouchsafed to His Majesty and these His Kingdoms ; And for this purpose His Majesty hath signified His Royal Pleasure to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Lord Bishop of Rochester forthwith to prepare a Form of Religious Service and Publick Thanksgiving , which may be suitable to this occasion : Which Form of Service and Publick Thanksgiving His Majesty will cause to be Printed and Published , and to be distributed throughout the several and respective Diocesses of this Kingdom , to be observed and used in the Churches and Chappels of this Kingdom and Dominion aforesaid , upon the several and respective days beforementioned .

Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Tenth day of June 1688. In the Fourth Year of Our Reign . God save the King.

LONDON , Printed by Charles Bill , Henry Hills , and Thomas Newcomb , Printers to the King 's most Excellent Majesty . 1688.