At a general court held at Boston, March the eleventh 1673/4. : Whereas it pleaseth God still to exercise his people here & else-where, with many and various difficulties & trialls: particularly, the breaking forth of notorious & scandolous sinns among us ... these and other consideration hath moved this court, who do hereby order & appoint that the twenty sixt day of this instant March, be set apart & kept as a day of humiliation and prayer, to seek the lord in these things ...