Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. By the Honorable the Lieutenant Governour ... the Council & representatives, in General Court assembled ... : This Court being affectionately sensible of the singular providence of God in the early discovery of a most horrid & detestable conspiracy to assassinate the royal person of our most gracious sovereign lord the King ... do therefore appoint and order, that Thursday the eighteenth of June next, be set apart as a day of publick thanksgiving ... Given at the court-house in Boston, May 30th. 1696. ...