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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65948	Constantinus redivivus, or, A full account of the wonderful providences, and unparallell'd successes that have all along attended the glorious enterprises of the heroical prince, William the 3d, now King of Great Britain, &c. wherein are many curious passages relating to the intrigues of Lewis the 14th, &c. carried on here, and elsewhere, never printed before, &c. / by Mr. John Whittel ...	Whittel, John.	1693 (1693)	Wing W2040; ESTC R8794	75,261	226

they had out of an Excess of Respect to the Late King born till a Remedy was within an Ace of being too late the Insolences of a few despicable hot-headed Jesuits and Monks influenc'd by the French Father la Chaiese whose blind Unthinking Passive Tool P. Peters was to call for Assistance to the Next Presumptive Heirs of the Crown These then were their further Designs upon the Clergy I. To New-Rate all Ecclesiastical Preferments and make them pay First-fruits Tenths c. according to their present yearly value and not according to the old Rates II. To examine at their Ecclesiastical Commission the ways and means used by Clergy-Men possess'd of Benefices to come into them and if they could be charged with the least appearance of Simony to deprive them and give their Livings to Popish-Priests or formerly depriv'd Nonconformist Ministers or others devoted to their Interests to hold by Dispensation or otherwise III. To Nose the Conformable Clergy by allowing a Right to Papists and Dissenters to keep publick Registers and to pay but half-Dues to the Parish Ministers for burying IV. To nominate no New Protestant Bishops or other Ecclesiastical Dignities in place of those that should die and to foist in as many Popish Priests and Dissenting Ministers as they could into all Ecclesiastical Benefices that should be vacant from time to time who were to hold them by Dispensation and supply them by conforming Curates till they should be strong enough to establish Popery by open Force V. To have the Jurisdiction of vacant Bishopricks administred by Commissioners and their Revenues employed for maintenance of Popish Bishops Priests or Seminaries c. As likewise the Revenue of all vacant Deaneries Prebendships c. And to obtrude as many Popish School-masters as they could into all vacant Free-Schools with several other projects VI. To remove all Causes from the Bishops Courts to their Ecclesiastical Commission VII After some time to sieze the Cathedral of St. Paul's when it should be Built and the Abby of Westminster for Popish use allowing only the Dean and Prebends in case they quietly abandoned the possession of them their full Revenues during life These things were really intended against the Clergy over and above what was actually already done but then to Curb the Laity of all Degrees these further Measures were concerted to put in Execution as fast as they could I. A new Court like that of the Star-Chamber though under a disguised name was to be erected II. To Awe and Balance the Power and Interest of the Metropolitan City of London without the rougher Methods of a Tower or Garrison c. It was resolv'd to erect the City of Westminster into a Corporation like to that of London to be govern'd by a Lord Mayor Aldermen common Council c. with as ample Privileges Immunities and Freedoms as the ancient City of London enjoys in order to invite People of Wealth and Trade as great Merchants c. to settle there as well as in London and thereby to cause an Emulation between them that might keep both Cities tight to the Crown or at least to keep that of London from being potent enough alone to contest any more with their King or make too strong a party against him III. The Militia when they durst were to be all Disarm'd and the Money levied for the maintenance of them applyed for that of a standing Army IV. In case the Parliament to be call'd after the new model of Corporations and Counties that then was endeavouring was finished answered not expectation Then a Parliament was to be packt after the method of those of Cromwell's composed most of Army Officers Courtiers and such others as they knew were disposed vigorously to concurr with all projects to the ruining of the publick Liberty V. After things were come to perfection the House of Commons was to be declared unnecessary and pernicious and all Legislative Authority to reside in the King and a select Council of Lords and Gentry VI. In order to this the Army was by degrees to be new Modell'd and stuft with English French Scotch and Irish Papists or Persons indifferent in Religion or of none at all with some Dissenters c. And all Church of England Men by little and little put out of the Council and out of all places of Trust both Civil and Military VII That most of the English Forces should be on some suddain pretence shipt over into French Service and reimplac'd by as many French who with something a greater number of English Scotch Irish Papists and Popish Swissers were to constitute the King's Guards and the standing Forces of England And Scotland and Ireland were to be guarded by natural Irish and such others of English or Scotch extraction that were Papists VIII A new Court of Wards was to be Establish'd by virtue of which all Minors and Infants being brought under the King's Tutelage should be brought up in the Romish Religion as was already begun to be practised in Scotland But notwithstanding all these Attempts upon the Rights and Liberties of the Subject contrary to positive Law his own Solemn Promises and his Coronation Oath so extreamly affectionate were the best part of the Nation to the person of their Prince and so wholly averse to the contributing any thing to the embroiling these Nations a second time in Civil Wars as being so very sensible of the miseries of the last whose deep Scars scarcely well healed yet remain'd in view not without horrour before their Eyes and reluctancy on their Spirits That they were very hardly and with much difficulty induced to believe any thing of their King that savour'd of an ill design and when they were convinc'd of it by infallible Proofs and the undoubted Testimony of their own Senses together with Church and State now smarting under the Burthen Yet would they have thought it their most dutiful safe and wisest Course tamely to suffer almost any Inconveniences and Insults from him rather than to involve the three Kingdoms in fresh dangers by any active Resistance especially considering that he was already well stricken in Years and could not Reign long Had not they seen those very Princely Heirs and Nursing Parents to the Church in whom they reposed all hopes of Redress treated after the same Injurious manner as the Subjects and not only Menac'd but plainly going to be both for ever excluded of their Succession by a Jesuitical imposture or a supposititious Prince of Wales and driven even from their present possessions both in the Netherlands and Germany as they had newly been already from those in France by a formidable Invasion and that they namely the Subjects were to be made Tools of both for their own Destruction and that of those pious famous and most gracious Princes from whom only under God they hoped for Relief and Deliverance And had not they had perfect Information by means of the Spanish Ambassadour as aforesaid of all the Intrigues and

Examination in Parliament and made all other expedients of resetling the shaken Government redressing the multiplied grievances of the Subjects and doing right to the most undoubted Presumptive Heirs of the Crown altogether impracticable I forbear to insert here all the particulars of his advances towards the effecting so great and happy a Revolution because they are fresh in the memories of all and are known even to such as are but only mere strangers to us in these daies And because I have already exactly enough related them in my late Diary of that Memorable Expedition Printed for Richard Baldwin 1689. To which for those points I refer my Readers The conclusion of all was that Their Majesties were on the 11th of April following most Solemnly Crown'd at Westminster by the Noble and most Reverend Father in God the Bishop of London assisted with other Bishops to the great and inexpressible Joy and Satisfaction of all their People the Terrour and Amazement of their Enemies and the Wonder and Surprise of the whole World A Revolution which if it were miraculous in the Concurrence of so many seeming contrary precedent and concomitant Causes as we have shewed was no less wonderful for the Laudable and Angel-like moderation of the chief instruments of it namely of the People and of the Gracious and Heavenly devoted Prince and Princess to whom they humbly and earnestly Address'd For the People had so much Affection and Respect to their late King that they suffer'd so much till they were almost reduced beyond Remedy before they would seek one and when they sought and obtain'd one sought such a one as was the most Natural and Consonant to the Duty and Respect they ow'd their King that could be Imagined For they sought to the next presumptive Heirs of his own Flesh and Royal Blood against the false Game put upon them and the people and even upon King James himself by the Intrigues of a Foreign Prince and a Subtil Popish Designing Step-mother and Second Wife together with the Help of Jesuits and Priests And that was done not Tumultuously or by a Faction but by the Main Body of the Nation in the persons of their Chiefest Men of all Orders Degrees and Interests and by as Legal Representatives as the Juncture of Time and Affairs would permit nay I may assert that that Most Honourable and August Convention were as Lawful Representatives and as Able Men as the whole Kingdom could afford And by their Now Most Excellent Majesties with so much Softness Care and Veneration to the Person of the Late King as infallibly declared to all Mankind that they yet had preserv'd no small share of Affection and Respect for him So much as it plainly appeared since he would not have reserv'd for them had he but prevail'd or got them within the Verge of his Power For as our present Gracious Queen then Princess of Orange had earnestly intreated Her dear Lord and Husband the Prince to be very careful in all the Course of His Expedition of the Person of Her Father which was back'd with the Instances of the Confederate Roman Catholick Princes Those Counsels and Intreaties were verily so very consentaneous to His own Sentiments and Innate Inclinations that he most readily and punctually observed and performed them For when the Late King was seized and insulted by the Mobb at Feversham as he attempted in Disguise to have made his Escape and pass the Seas He was very sensibly Concern'd at the Affronts and Indignities done him and took special care he should be safely Re-conveyed out of the dangers of the then Exasperated People by his own Guards to Whitehall And when he saw him so fully bent to Retire for France Though it were in many Respects against his Own and the Publick Interest yet he would not cross him in it And since he was so eagre upon it had him Safe Conducted by his own Dutch Guards to Rochester and from thence to a Vessel he had himself underhand provided to Waft him safe where he would be with private Command He should not be Molested or Insulted in his Passage either by Sea or Land Thus the Late King ABDICATED the Throne and Retired to France and so laudably and gloriously concluded this most Happy and Wonderful Revolution An Appendix Containing the Remarkable Providences that have continued to Bless and Protect their Excellent Majesties King William and Queen Mary since their first Happy Exaltation to the Imperial Throne of GREAT BRITAIN THE Divine and Unsearchable Wisdom and Justice having through Two Mighty and Unparallell'd Revolutions safely Conducted His present Majesty to the Sovereign Throne of Great Britain And made even the Oppositions and Stratagems of His Implacable Enemies of the Roman Faction as he had formerly made those Intrigues of the Great Constantine's Adversaries and Competitours the most Operative and Instrumental of any other Causes to the Exaltation of him to be a Caesar that he might be the better able to Combate and Subdue the Enemies of his Church Has since by so many Stupendious Proofs shewed it self so particularly careful as well of the Safety and Protection of Both their Majesties Sacred Persons as of the Prosperity of their Designs which as they are without Contradiction Just in their Causes have been all along no less Just and Glorious in their Ends As being without Controversie in their whole Aim directed purely to the Glory of God and the Common good of Mankind So that we may from thence without any great Presumption hope That the Supream Soveraign of the World whose hand is not shorten'd will not stop here But has intrusted so much Clemency Power and Prudence in the hands of a Prince of such Matchless Moderation Vertue and Integrity that it might effectually be made use of to the utter Defeating and Suppressing of that Monstrous Tyrant against whom He hath begun to give us such a Signal and Remarkable Deliverance And we trust and pray That this All-wise and inscrutable Being will never lea●e presiding in His Royal Councils no● going forth with His Fleets and Armies till he hath by him as another Cyrus or Constantine perfected our Deliverance both from the French and Roman Tyranny and placed the state of these Three Nations and of all Europe upon so firm and even a Balance That no One Power on the whole Earth may ever be able to shake or disturb its Tranquility in a long Series of years And till like His Renown'd Predecessor in these Islands the Matchless Constantine He has to the full deserved the Title of Restitutor Humani Generis or Restorer of Mankind To proceed then The first thing His present Majesty did after His Happy Accession to the Throne was by the Unanimous and Deliberate Advice and Desire of His People to Proclaim War against the French King and enter into a strict Engagement with Holland and the rest of the Confederates for the Common Defence of the Liberties of Europe And though His Majesty was