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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

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

come to the Matter in hand the Design of this Essay in short is to shew the Triumphs of Providence over all Humane Prudence in the late Revolutions of Holland and especially of these British Kingdoms and how very visibly the finger of God has appeared in the Chief Transactions of His Majesties Life and of our Great Deliverance by Him by making so many contrary Causes to Concur to the producing that Mighty Effect and directing the Counsels of the Enemies to steer their Vessels upon those very Rocks which they had used all possible Endeavours to avoid And thereby to move all Good Protestants of these Nations especially Earnestly to Wrestle with Allmighty God in Prayer for a Long Preservation to them of their Blessed Deliverer by Acknowledging Him to be the Signal Instrument of the most High Lord more than of any mere Natural Causes or pretended Influence of the Stars For though the Author be absolutely perswaded that Miracles properly so called are at present ceased yet he cannot but Believe with all Reasonable Men That God Almighty by his Extraordinary Providence doth still oftentimes interpose between both his Friends and Enemies and bare natural Causes in order to bring about his just designs of punishing or favouring them and especially unusual Revolutions in Kingdoms and States And that these last Revolutions in the united Netherlands and England c. if well considered in all their precedent Concomitant and subsequent Circumstances are such very evident and infallible proofs of that undeniable Truth that it cannot possibly but be acknowledged by all modest Men who will give themselves free leave but to think This he verily believes any impartial and unprejudic'd Reader will be fully convinc'd when they shall make due Reflection upon some Passages particularly those which he has collected out of some very choice Memoires lent him by some Friends who had more than ordinary opportunity to enter behind the Scenes and view the secret Springs that set some of the chief Machines of those great Artificers on Work So that though they may perhaps have read the Story of the same Transactions elsewhere yet they will however be obliged to confess they never saw them before in the same Light manag'd with the same Method nor applied with the same Reflections and Observations One thing he will only add That if any well affected Person who is an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile shall think himself or his Party reflected upon when mention'd herein as intended to be made Tools of by some of the late French and Jacobite Intrigues that they would rectifie that mistake in themselves by considering well it is not any where here asserted that they consented to those Motions nor yet that they were actually put in Execution though it must be granted by all that it was partly done in CORPORATIONS but only that they were intended to be made Tools of as well as some biass'd Church of ENGLAND Men and to be plaied both of them one against another in order to make way for their mutual Destruction for the establishing of Popery and Arbitrary Power And why the affirming or proving of this should appear offensive to any sober Man that really believes there was a most true fair and justifiable cause for this blessed REVOLUTION the Author cannot well imagine And therefore hopes all sober and unbiass'd Men of what perswasion soever that are Friends not only in Tongue but in Deed and in Truth to this present GOVERNMENT will lay aside all prejudice and partiality and candidly accept his honest and well designed Endeavours which tend only to the laying open the Enemies INTRIGUES the cautioning Men of all sorts from being any more drawn in by them To alienate their hearts even from all thoughts of accommodation with the French Harpies till their Claws be cut close To shew the Moderate and equitable Carriage of our Representatives in re-setling the shaken Government the very Just and Lawful Grounds and indispensable Obligations their present Majestys moved upon in all the whole course of their Proceedings their Tenderness towards the person of the late King and their exceeding great Moderation and Matchless Clemency to all their dissatisfied Subjects To set forth His MAJESTIES indefatigable Care prudent Conduct eminent Courage noble Resolution and Constancy and happy Success in all these wonderful Occurances and to do just Honour to all other Instruments of our present LIBERTY and HAPPINESS and yet reserve and attribute to almighty GOD the due Praise and Glory of all As for those few Male-contents that are blinded by the God of this World and are Enemies to this blessed Government if any Expressions in this TREATISE displease them he is not at all concern'd at it let them look off it and withall know it was not calculated for their squeamish Palates the Author being very consident there are honest Williamites enough in the Nation to embrace heartily the whole Impression at least if 't were three times the Number And being no less assured they are with all so generous and kind that they will read this Essay for the sake only of the Authors good and honest intention how mean a conceit soever they may have of his performances ERRATA PAge 15. l. 2. Artificis for Artifices p. 49. l. 25. and fare r. of fare and. p. 91. l. 22. is for if to p. 99. l. 2. five r. fire p. 148. l. 15. Convent r. Convant p. 151. l. 6. Bavillon r. Barillon Constantinus Redivivus OR An account of the wonderfull providential Successes that have all along attended the Heroical Enterprises of his present Majesty King WILLIAM the III. Through the grand Revolution of Holland England and Ireland THE August and Glorious Heroe who is the principal Subject of all our following Discourse and also of the Love Veneration and Admiration of even the better part of the Christian World at this very Day as well those of the Roman Communion as of the reform'd Protestant Religion is lineally descended from the most Ancient and Magnificent House of Nassaw a House signally honoured and adorn'd with most potent and splendid Alliances throughout Europe and whose truly noble Branches have spread themselves in several parts of Germany that was graced about four hundred Years ago with the imperial Dignity in the person of Adolphus Emperor of Germany and Successor to that famous Rodolphus of Habsburg who when a certain Man came to Him to ask what he would give him to kill Octocarus King of Bohemia with whom he waged War answered Et si noster hostes Octocarus non tamen efficiet ut praetergrediar fines Justitiae atque Moderationis In fine whose illustrious Family has flourish'd in very remarkable and distinguishable Grandeur for above a thousand Years as is Chronicl'd of it How Prince Mauricius took the strong Castle of Zutphen and also the excellently well Fortified City of Breda March the 3d. Anno 1590. How his great Grandfather Prince William of ever glorious

undaunted Courage and indefatigable Industry deserved However all relations agree in this That he performed all that was possible to be done with such a small Army and in such a place and juncture against such a puissant Enemy by the most Prudent Courageous and daring Leader in the whole World And that in the main Battel were he himself commanded in Person he did Wonders leading on his Men at the very head of his Troops to the Charge and hazarding himself to that degree that he received two Musket Shots in his Armour After the end of this Campagne Heaven determinating to lay the Foundation of his present Grandeur and Glory by giving a very precious Gage and Pledge of the Possession of those Crowns it intended as the due reward of his truly Royal Vertues and indefatigable pains for the weal of Christianity so influenced the heart of our late King Charles the second of England that in spight of the French Intrigues and the secret Inclinations of the then Duke of York her Father to the Contrary and to the surprisal and mortification of the French King he bestowed upon Him in sacred Marriage the no less Virtuous and Accomplished than the beauteous Princess his Niece the Presumptive Heiress of the British Monarchy an alliance of a much more dreadful prospect to the Aspiring Monsieur than the loss of all his late Conquests in Holland Flanders Brabant and elsewhere and which threatn'd France it self with an unpleasant Retaliation in due time for all her notorious Violences This illustrious Alliance was solemniz'd on the 4th day of November 1677. being the joyful Birth-day of his illustrious Highness at eleven at Night but so privately that the People not knowing till the Morrow or next Day being the Anniversary of the Gunpowder Treason made it a double Holy-day And since that he hath made it a threefold Holy-day or day of Rejoying by his most happy Landing at Tor-Bay c. as well upon the usual occasion as to testifie their Joy for so Blessed and Glorious a Match from which even then the whole Protestant Church throughout Europe began cheerfully to hope for the crushing of the Popish and French Power as if the Protestants had known by some Prophetick Instinct that Heroick Prince unfeignedly espousing their Interest as well as their religious Princess would one day become their most wellcome and glorious Deliverer and Defender and make the memorial of the famous 5th of November once more sacred and dear to them by publick Benefits no less signal than those by which it was first ennobled above the common days After which the Prince well remembring how very necessary his presence would be in Holland return'd thither with all the haste he could with his most rich and gracious Acquest that since has produced so much good to the common Cause and the benefit of the Confederates as well as of the two most potent Sea-Nations of Europe where both He and his Royal Bride were received with a Magnificence suitable to their High and august Quality and with all the expressions and Demonstrations of Joy that could be expected from a People sensible of their great Happiness in so illustrious and powerful Alliance Upon their first publick entrance into the Hague the Bridge was crowned with Garlands of Triumph and an Arch was builded through which they passed and on it was written Vxori Batavis vivat Nassovius Hector Auriaco Patriae vivat Britannica Princes And another Arch with another Motto Auriaci his Thalamis Batavis dos Regia pax est Soon after his return the French King being alarm'd at this Alliance and the consequent preparations made by the King and Parliament of England to oblige him to a just and reasonable Peace with his Neighbours he himself with all speed dispatcht away a project of Peace to Nimeguen and getting it after some Demur consented to by the States of Holland by the influence of a Party that still covertly opposed the Prince and by the discouragement the then posture of Affairs in England really gave the States occasion'd by the Disturbances raised and fomented there by the same French intrigues to prevent the dreaded effects of the late Marriage a Treaty was concluded soon after that gave some respite to our renown'd Prince for several years from his military Fatigues and wearisome Nights And now to signalize himself no less by the Prudent and advantageous reformation of abuses and regulation of things relating to the Civil State of his Countrey than he had been vigorous and successful in the maintenance and defence of its Territories but however before that work was perfectly finisht the delays and new difficulties made by the French King to sign the Treaty though according to his own proposals caused a new League to be made between the States and King of great Britain and gave the Prince opportunity once more to shew his wise Conduct and matchless Prowess against that insolent and powerful Enemy in a more glorious and successful manner than ever before and well near to have made the French King pay dearly for his over refined and ill timed Politicks with the loss of his now darling General Luxemburg's whole Army for the strong City of Mons having been long blockt and very much distress'd by the French and the Duke of Luxemburg having taken his march that way to hinder all Succours from it his Highness made haste to the Army then near the Canal of Brussells where the rest of the Confederate Forces had newly join'd the Spanish and Dutch Troops and pursuant to a resolution taken for that Effect in a council of War march with an intention to attack and dislodge Luxemburg after he was joined a little beyond Brussels with a re-inforcement of 6000 Brandenburghers and Munsterians but upon Advice of the Princes March Luxemburg quitting his Camp took up his head Quarters in the Abby of St. Denys which was a Post he thought inaccessible there being no coming at him but through Woods and Defiles surrounded with Precipices yet for all this our redoubted Prince advanced to that Abby with his left Wing and with his Right faced Casteau which the French likewise were posted in and which was as difficult to force as the other and as soon as ever he had ranged his Army he first of all drove the Enemy from a certain Hillock and then with some Canon played upon another Party of them briskly that endeavoured to maintain themselves on one side of a Cloister near St. Denys who not being able to resist the vigour of the Confederate Dragoons who drove them from their holds and mastered the Cloister whilst Adjutant General Collyers back'd by General Delvick filed his men silently and speedily through the narrow Passages and sliding with an undaunted Courage down the Precipices repulsed the Enemy in spight of all the resistance within their own lines In the very midst of which our renowned Prince with eager warmth and spirits enflamed cryed out aloud