BY THOMAS DANFORTH Esq President of the Province of Mayne, with the Consent of the Council Assembled in York; Octob. [...] 1682.
WEE having taken into our serious Consideration the great Favour of God, manifested towards his People in this Province; In special, in that He hath been graciously pleased to crown this Year with his Goodness, blessing us with a more plentiful Harvest, than of late Years we have had experience of; Continuing to us Dayes of Peace, & lengthening out our Tranquility in respect of those Liberties, both Civil & Sacred, which (by H [...] Goodness) we still enjoy; Preserving us from those Contagious and Epidemical Diseases which our Sins have deserved, and which we our selves have sometimes been sorrowful under; And also in the gracious Preservation of the honoured Messengers, sent by the [...] sachusets Colony to wait upon His Majesty, from the Danger [...] Seas, and for their safe Arrival in England.
Upon these and the like Considerations [...] Appoint the three and twentieth day of [...] Observed as a Day of Publick & [...] throughout this Colony, [...] of this Province, [...] found among [...] Exhor [...] [...] Lord [...]