We do most devoutly and thankfully acknowledge the great Goodness
and Mercy of Almighty God who hath afforded Us his Protection and
Assistance in the just War in which for the common safety of Our Realms
and for disappointing the boundless Ambition of France We are now
engaged; and hath given such signal Successes to Our Arms both by Sea
and Land particularly by the defeat of the French Army in Canada and
the taking of Quebeck and who hath most seasonably granted Us at this
time an uncommonly plentiful Harvest And therefore duly considering
that such great and publick Blessings do call for publick and solemn
Acknowledgments, We have thought fit by and with the Advice of Our
Privy Council to issue this Our Royal Proclamation hereby appointing
and commanding That a general Thanksgiving to Almighty God for these
His Mercies be observed throughout that part of Our Kingdom of Great
Britain called Scotland upon Thursday the Twenty Ninth day of November
next. And we do strictly charge and command That the said Publick
Thanksgiving be reverently and decently observed by all Our loving
Subjects in Scotland on the said Twenty Ninth day of November next
as they tender the favour of Almighty God and would avoid his Wrath
and Indignation and upon pain of such Punishment as We may justly
inflict upon all such as shall contemn or neglect the Performance of
so religious a Duty. Our Will and Pleasure is therefore and We charge
That incontinent this Our Proclamation seen Ye pass to the Market Cross
of Edinburgh and all other Places needful and there in Our Name and
Authority make Publication thereof that none pretend Ignorance And
Our Will and Pleasure is That Our Sollicitor do cause printed Copies
hereof to be sent to the Sherifs of the several Shires Stewarts of
Stewarties and Baillies of Regalities and their Clerks whom We ordain
to see the same published; And We appoint them to send Doubles thereof
to the several Paroch Kirks within their Bounds that upon the Lords day
immediately preceding the Day above mentioned the same may be published
and read from the Pulpits immediately after Divine Service.
Given at Our Court at Kensington the twenty third day of October One
Thousand Seven hundred and Fifty nine in the thirty third Year of Our
Reign.