Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. By the Honorable, the Council of said province : A proclamation for a general fast. Whereas the voice of Providence loudly calls on this people to fall into dust ... by the death of the truly Honourable William Stoughton Esq. our lieutenant governour ... We ... do appoint and order, that Thursday the eighteenth of September next, be solemnly observed and celebrated as a day of publick prayer with fasting ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston the twenty-third day of August 1701 ...