General Court declares a day of public humiliation.

The order reads, “that we being under the solemn frowns of the Divine Providence . . . Therefore appoint the 16th day of July next to be set apart as a Day of Publick Humiliation . . . Exhorting all who are the Lord’s Rememberancers to give Him no Rest, till Isai 62, 7, He establish and make Jerusalem a Praise in the Earth.”