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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

Consequence to all Princes And among other Troops they just now raised a new Regiment of Horse-Guards all notorious Papists for the pretended Prince of Wales and committed the custody of his Person to them only and to the Irish III. After the renown'd Prince of Orange and his Forces were happily landed at Tor-bay and had given Directions for the speedy landing the rest and the Canon to be unship'd for the more conveniency at Topsham the late King James's Council as influenc'd by the French advised him to neglect sending the body of Scotch and Irish Soldiers in which he confided to attack the Princes Force while they were so fatigued and disabled with the bitter Voyage they had undergone and were not as yet re-inforc'd by any Refreshments or Rest or join'd by any Male-contents as they call'd them out of the Countrey or from the late King 's own Army and rather to stay till he could assemble his whole Army and provide a sufficient train of Artillery store of Ammunition c. and be ready to March against them in Person to give them a formal Battel which must be acknowledged gave our renown'd Prince a convenient opportunity to refresh his Men and Horse and recruit what were wanting and likewise to such as were well affected to him in the Countrey and in the King's Army to go over to him IV. King James by a strange Fate though so much Frenchified yet being over perswaded not to become too much dependant of the French King refused till it was too late to receive a French Army though often press'd to it by Barillon insomuch that the French King finding he could not have his Will to have a French Force admitted strong enough to Master both England and its King and to have the English Forces instead of his own to fight his Quarrels on the other side gave the aforesaid Counsel to the late King James not to detach his Scots and Irish against the Princes wearied Forces for fear his English Army taking exceptions thereat might Rebel and seize his Person in the mean time but to march with his whole Army against them in Person where one Nation might awe the other and the English might have less cause of Exception seeing some confidence still reposed in them and the Kings presence might keep them all in due Decorum and Obedience The French though fearing some would desert him yet thought that enough would still stay with the King to keep up a Civil War which would deprive the Hollanders and Confederates at least of the Forces they had lent for that Expedition and which was more of the Conduct of so great a General as the Prince of Orange and force King James the next Summer to admit what number of French to help him he should please to offer and which he thought he could easily send him by his own Fleet with that part of King James's that should remain firm to him and so he should have his long desired ends at last V. Because King James had so stiffly refused a French Army for that present and to part with his English the French King in hopes that the late King would however find Friends enough to keep the valiant Prince of Orange and his Forces employed for some years without being able to assist the Confederates and make both England and Holland the eager Prey to him at last though he were in actual War with Holland and had a numerous Army near their Frontiers yet forbore to make any Attempt upon them for fear it should hinder the Prince and his Forces from going for England and so deprive him of the sundry advantages he hoped to reap by that Diversion So true a Friend was he at the Bottom to his poor deluded Ally's Interest and so very much mistaken in true Measures for promoting his own by an over-ruling hand of Providence VI. And lastly the strange unmanly fear and unsteadiness that appeared in the late King James when he had the greatest occasion to shew that Courage and Conduct he had alwaies before pretended to in not appearing firm to stand by those that otherwise in all probability would have stood to him even among the English Forces as well as among the Nobility Clergy and Gentry and his actual deserting them afterwards gave the last finishing Motion to the mighty and memorable Revolution that followed Thus you see all these several steps of the Prince of Orange's very Enemies though directed as they thought by the best safest and rightest measures of Prudence and Policy against him were all made by the Providence of Almighty God who taketh the Wise in their own craftiness and will suffer no enchantment against Jacob nor divination against Israel to contribute to the more assured and speedy success of our noble Prince Enterprise so very justly and lawfully undertaken by a loud Call and Commission from Heaven in his own Defence and likewise in the Defence and Safety of the People Church and Cause of God And by these strange means it came to pass that the magnanimous Prince setting sail a second time from Hellevoet-sluys with a prosperous Gale though he suffer'd much again with his people afterwards by rough Weather and the incommodities of Landing in such a place and his first uncouth Marches yet Landing upon the 5th of November in the famous Year 1688. just 100 years after the Spanish Invasion and on the Anniversary of the Gun-powder Treason as if design'd and ordain'd by Heaven to deliver us both from the intestine Contrivances of a Faction within us and the approaching inundation of the French without us now much more formidable than Spain was then in less than six Weeks time entred Triumph●●ly into the Palace of our Capital City 〈◊〉 by almost universal Consent of the exceeding joyful Nation of all Orders Ranks and Degrees invested on the Anniversary of the Nativity of our Lord with the Administration of the Government as if by Divine appointment preordain'd to be a temporal Saviour to these Nations and to all his chosen People and by the peculiar Deligation and Commission of that King of Kings and Lord of Lords that Rules over the Kingdoms of Men and gives them to whomsoever he will And then after he had by the general desire and humble importunity of the Subjects called a Convention of Estates was by them on the 13th of February 1688. conjointly with his Royal and virtuous Princess declared the Rightful and undoubted King and Queen of England France and Ireland and soon after of Scotland The late King James by sending his Queen and pretended Son into France into the hands of a known Enemy of these Nations and who had been the cause of all their manifold grievances and by retiring thither afterwards voluntarily of his own accord himself having given infallible Evidence to all the sober part of the Nation that the Birth of that pretended Prince was too dark a Contrivance to endure the clear light of a publick

time to the Sons of Burgher-Masters or Deputies of Cities that were very raw and not well experienced in Martial Discipline being most of them such as had never seen the face of an Enemy in the Field and so as unfit to Command as to Obey By which means it shortly came to pass that when they were afterwards contrary to their vain hopes invaded by a very subtil and powerfull Enemy even whole Cities and Towns though of a truth some of them were both Naturally 〈…〉 ●●●●ally well Fortified Stored 〈…〉 with numerous Garrisons 〈…〉 or five thousand Men a piece besides Horse proportionable yet yielded up even without the least opposition upon the first appearance or summons of the Enemy not so much as striking a stroak or firing one Gun against them And thus Faction and cursed Self-interest with private Ambition having reduced that but very lately flourishing Republick to the very brink of ruin and destruction It gave the sore affrighted People of that Country a fair opportunity for to see plainly into what dreadful Dangers or Quick-sands their new Hair-brain'd Governours which were but of Yesterday and knew nothing out of mere Spight and Malice to an Ancient and very illustrious Family were now driving them and their late happy Common-wealth and so inspired them with Boldness as well as Fore-sight at this time to apply a seasonable and fit remedy by the quick destruction of those notorious Domestick Vsurpers who had been the real occasion thereof and intrusting Him again with the recovery of their very much shattered and lost State who was the true genuine Issue of its first glorious and fortunate Founders and by sacrificing his most ungrateful Enemies to the very angry and inraged genius of the poor injured Country Neither can it be fairly denied but that the French King even Lewis the 14th himself as great and mortal Enemy as he is to our renown'd King William yet notwithstanding by Gods over ruling Providence as he hath done since to that in England did though the World knows most contrary to his own Inclination and Intention contribute as much or more to that first Revolution in the united Provinces and the subsequent Exaltation Grandeur and Glory of the Prince of Orange than all other concurrent Causes put together for having by mere subtilty far over-reach'd those self designing States-men that then swayed so much in Holland and induced them by his most specious promises and alluring pretences to stand firmly by them upon all occasions as well as in their late Usurpations totally to neglect as we have said their old expert and harden'd Soldiers and their frontier Garrisons to turn all their Counsels and Attempts wholly towards the famous Orangian Family and the brisk Trade and power of England upon the vain confidence of effecting which the crafty Monsieur had already made them to build themselves a fools Paradise for he all of a suddain leaguing on the contrary with England attacks them most sharply on their blind and defenceless side and meeting with very little or no resistance from such raw Soldiers and totty headed Commanders as he then knew to have the main Guards of their Garrisons and places over-run their Country with so rapid and surprizing a swiftness that he then forc'd the People of necessity to have recourse to their last but surest refuge under God to wit the valiant Prince of Orange and to restore Him whom their wicked and treacherous Guides blinded with Ambition had before so ungratefully and impolitickly rejected And so by half ruining a flourishing Republick they gave a meet opportunity to his Illustrious Highness to shew in the open sight of the admiring World the wonders of his Prudence Policy and Magnanimity in restoring it to its former Power and Splendour And withal to let his ungratefull and uncivil Country-men know and see that the great Triumphs of their cruel Enemies were caused for the most part by the wild attempts that had been made upon Him and his Rights and that the doing justice to the ancient and warlike Progeny of the real Founders of their State was the true and only way unto its Restauration But the last lift that was given towards the advancing and securing his Authority and Power still more and more in the united Netherlands was the discovery of the horrid Plot laid against him by the two De-wits viz. Cornelius and John who finding well that there was no possibility for them of stemming the strong and violent tide of the Peoples great Affection tending wholly to the advancement of the Prince which was to them an insupportable Mortification they thereupon endeavoured to corrupt a certain Chyrurgion with the promised Reward of no less than 3000000 Franks or 25000 pound Sterling to take away his most valuable Life which matter being disclosed or providentially coming to light and firmly attested made out and ratified by the said Chyrurgion the foremention'd De-wits were by the great fury of the vulgar People not content with the milder and slower Proceedings of the Magistrate torn presently all to pieces and miserably put to Death after such a manner as now all the World knows Namely That they were hung up by the Heels in the Market-place and being cut to pieces their Joints and Flesh sold by piece-meal at great rates which were carried away by the Buyers in a Triumph of Revenge And the Prince himself not long after most firmly fixt in the Hereditary State-holder-ship of all the united Provinces and Captain General of all their Forces by Sea and Land with much more advantage than any of his famous Predecessors enjoyed it before Thus the Almighty and most wise Disposer of the World return'd the Malice and Wickedness of the Princes Domestick Foes upon their own Heads for they fell by the Snare which they had laid for Him according to the tenour of the holy Oracles Nec lex est justior ulla Quam necis artificis arte perire sua And thus the just Judge of all Men and avenger of all wrongs punish'd the perfidious and ungrateful and at the same time deliver'd the Innocent Yea mortified all the Foreign Enemies by his own victorious Arm and rewarded at last even far beyond all his hopes or desires his unshaken Patience and unparallell'd Generosity in having born so long a time with a forbearance beyond Humane Example the many base affronts and injuries daily offer'd him by the envious and self designing De-wits and their upstart party Nor were the people although they chose him in a great heat and sudden fright to conduct the shattered and wheather beaten Bark of their present forelorn and distress'd State into a safe Harbour or Port in the least deceived in their expectations of him The false and misguided steps of their late unhappy Governours had now by the rule of Contraries instructed them in a few moments space in the very best and right measures that could possibly be taken And the furious alarms of the French Armies had

Courageously forces His Passage over the Boyn and gives such a sudden Defeat to the Enemy though Posted with all manner of Advantages on the other side That while History shall at all Subsist will never be forgotten neither by Friends nor Foes I shall not here Describe that Famous Battel which is so well Related by other Pens whose Writings are now in every ones hand but shall onely Remark the Chain of Providences that seem'd still continuedly to run through that whole Transaction as well as the precedent ones It is enough to say that in it the King behaved himself as always on the like occasions both as a valiant Soldier and a wise General And though some out of pure Tenderness to his Royal Person have presum'd to accuse him of Rashness in exposing himself both to the Accident of the common Shot and venturing upon so desperate an attempt as the passing such a scurvy River as the Boyn at such vast disadvantages yet when it shall be well weighed that the French at that time had given a very smart blow to the Confederates at Flerus in the Netherlands that by Treachery or Cowardice or both among our selves they had in some sence beaten the English and Dutch Fleets so that they hover'd daily about our Coasts That Scotland was not quite appeased and England at that time big as was strongly presumed of a horrible Plot ready to break out upon the landing of any number of the Enemy who were now as 't were Masters of the Seas and were thought in a posture after Flerus Battel to have been able to spare Men enough for such an Exploit and when all Holland was in an Uproar at the supposed foul Play they believed they had received from the English in the late Sea Fight and the all of the whole Confederacy seem'd to depend of some fortunate stroke from him Instead of taxing our Valiant and Politick Prince with Rashness we ought rather to admire and adore God's goodness in inspiring him with so much Courage fit for such an extraordinary Occasion at that critical time And impute the strength and laudable warmth of his Faith in God and Zeal for his glory and servants good in his victorious Majesty in taking a Resolution to fight at all Hazards on that pressing occasion to be a call of Providence which for the common interest he most willingly obeyed relying confidently upon the Protection of the Almighty alone to go through with his undertaking Most certain it is that he thereby recover'd both us and the whole Confederacy from another very low ebb of Fortune the publick Enemy would else once more have reduced us to and put himself and them in a condition the next year to carry back Terrour to the Triumphing Foe But there was still as I find by very credible Evidence another main reason that urged a necessity for this Battel For that upon the News that Sir Cloudsly Shouel after he had landed his Majesty was order'd to sail immediately with his Squadron to join the Grand English Fleet and that all our Ships with Provisions and other necessaries for the War were left in Carrick-Fergus Bay with little or no Convoy The French were sending ten small Frigats and ten Privateers into the Chanel to burn them which if it had been done then all our Communication from England had been cut in a manner off and our Army forced to subsist upon the small pittance they could find in a wasted Countrey or else starve or at least we had been debarr'd of those necessaries without which we could not have made any Defence nor Offence in War And this design of the French being made known to His Majesty who wanted not good intelligence and that the French and Irish Officers as trusting in the Success of that Stratagem unanimously agreed to retreat towards Athlone and Limerick in hopes that they should have King William and his Army a much cheaper Penni-worth when they were half starv'd than at that time and though King James was against that motion yet for fear they should over-rule him and be gone and the French should in the mean while execute their Exploit His Heroical Majesty is supposed upon that as well as other Considerations to have hasten'd the Battel in which these following things seem further very much resembling peculiar effects of Providence the one was That in the Fight out of an imprudent complaisance to the Irish who would have the Post of Honour the Irish foot were set to guard the chief Passes whereas had the English Scotch or French been put in their places 't is generally thought the attempt would have been much more doubtful And the second was that the late King without staying to rallie his Forces who were many of them still entire made hast to Waterford where meeting with some of the French Ships design'd to burn our Provision and Ammunition Vessels he told them 't was too late for all was lost and so put them quite off the design whereas had he let them have proceeded they might still have done us that mischief That together with the news of the defeat at Flerus and the French being masters at Sea that presently after arriv'd among the Irish and French too after he and those Ships were gone might have struck fair to have put them in a Condition to recover their Losses and repay themselves doubly In fine the sudden and unexpected arrival of King James in France after the French King had just before raised his depress'd peoples Expectations so high as to make them believe King William was dead quite slurr'd the mighty Monsieur and made him appear very sneakingly and little to his own people and most ridiculous to Foreigners and every way much broke his measures After which last pusillanimous and shamefull fight the late King fell into as great Disreputation among the Irish as he had before gain'd upon his first Desertion among the English Army Sarsfield not long after speaking of the Action at the Boyn said thus much to the Honour of King William and contempt of King James That if we would change Kings they would fight it over again and beat us Again at the first seige of Limerick as his gracious Majesty was riding softly towards Cromwel's Fort had not his usual good Angel by God's Commandment preserv'd him he had been like to have been taken off by another fatal stroke The aforesaid sudden arrival of the late King James in France and the ill Character he gave of the posture of affairs there and of the Irish as Men that would not fight was the cause that the French King even after King William had raised his Siege before Limerick and was departed for England sent positive Orders to Count Lauzun with all his French to quit Ireland and return home whilst there appeared fresh hopes of recovering in part their former loss and of protracting the War at least defensively in Connaught though afterwards upon better Information