At a Council held at Boston, January the 3d. 1677 [new style, 1678]. Whereas the holy God, who out of His tender mercy and bowels of compassion hath preserved this people ... The joint consideration of these things have moved the Council to set apart the one and twentieth of February next, to be kept as a day of solemn humiliation and prayer unto God ...

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Signed: By the Council. Edward Rawson secr't. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, p. 13-44. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.