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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

For our Good Theodosius was always prevalent with God in Prayer And Vbi Deus ardenter invocatur victoria stat a Bona causa Therefore as Marcellinus and Claudianus Spake or Sang of this Battel we may of this Irish War c. O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat aether Et conjurati veniunt ad Classica venti At last the Irish had strongly Fortified and Barricado'd the River leading to it But notwithstanding all that Distress'd Town was Reliev'd by Major General Kirk after the Dartmouth Frigat had forced her way to it over all those Impediments and the Siege was effectually rais'd The day before which by another Strange Accident inconsiderable in it self But by the Guidance of Heaven made Instrumental to the further Mortification of our Enemies A choice Body of about 6000 Irish Commanded by one of their best Officers Major General Mackarty were defeated by about 2000 Inniskillingers by occasion of a mistake of the Word of Command among the Irish For it seems Mackarty perceiving the Courageous Inniskilling-Men Charge the Right Wing of his Irish very desperately ordered some of his Choice Men to Face to the Right and March to the Relief of their Companions but the Officer who carried the Orders mistook and Commanded the Men in stead of Facing to the Right To Face to the Right-about and so March upon which the Irish in the Rear seeing their Front look with their Faces towards them and move thought they had been running and so immediately in a Terror threw down their Arms and run away which the rest seeing run after them for Company and so were most of them cut off or Drown'd in Lough's and Bogs and Mackarty himself taken Prisoner Afterwards when Duke Schomberg went over but with a small Army of new raised Men though as it usually happens to English Armies new-raised when they first came into a strange Countrey many of our Men died and the whole Army was brought into a low condition by bad Weather Lodging and Diet nay and by their own Laziness in great part in not Hutting themselves like Men more used to War Yet the Enemies had not the Policy or Courage to make use of the many advantages they had over us in that long time that our Army was thus languishing But trifled away their opportunity in hopes of the effect of a Plot laid by some French Traitors among us which God seem'd to have permitted in order to encourage them for to flatter themselves with vain hopes and to make them pass over or slip those other seasonable and likely opportunities they had to have destroyed us Would they have been contented to use fair Force rather than Treachery odious to God and Man But to pass by all those lesser events and hasten to the main Action in which His Gracious Majesty was present And which gave the Great Turn of the Scale towards the Reducing of that Kingdom The next year being 1690 His Majesty King William being fully resolv'd to push the Irish War to an end or fall in the Attempt that so he might have liberty solely and wholly next year against his Capital Enemy the French Tyrant who had brought so many Miseries upon all Europe and had occasion'd all the Misfortunes of his Deluded Ally King James and having by the Death of Dundee supprest in great measure the Insurrection or Stirs in Scotland left Kensington the 4th of June 1690 and Embarking at Highlake on the 12th arriv'd on the 14th safely at Carrickfergus And on the 27th of June following assembled a Royal Army of about 36000 as Brave Men as Europe or the World could shew of English Dutch Danes Germans and French provided as well with all Necessaries both for the Mouth and War as could be desired So much of Life and Circumspection had his Excellent Majesty's Presence given to all Needful Orders for that purpose When he was arrived at his Army he was continually in action and observing the Goodness of the Countrey as he rid along he admired the Fertility of its foil and pleasing Aspect of its Landskips and said it was well worth fighting for And now understanding that the Irish Army was retired over the Boyn He Marched with all speed and diligence after them And being advanced near the River hard by a Pass called Old-Bridge he was so Adventurous as to stand on the side of a Bank within Musquet-shot of the Ford to observe the posture of His Enemies Which though he saw well-fenced and a River not easily passable and that was well-fortified with Canon and other strong Defences against him Yet knowing that the safety of Europe in great Measure at that Juncture depended upon some bold Master Stroke in that Countrey without which all that he had hitherto done and ventured for our Rescue and Security would be but lost He resolv'd therefore to venture through all Difficulties whatsoever obeying the Great Call of Providence rather than that so Noble and Happy a Revolution should fail for want of Courage in him Who is acknowledged by his Enemies to be a Prince of no small Spirit and Valour and had made it appear to the World in all the Course of His Life After he had with those Intentions viewed them a while he was pleased to sit down on the Ground to Refresh himself which some Principal Persons of the Enemies side having observed they caused a small Party of Horse to advance flowly upon a Plowed Field over against where His Majesty was and slily to drop two Field-pieces undiscover'd by a Hedge in the same Field and so retired leaving only some Gunners to Manage them who lay sculking still and quiet till His Majesty was Re-mounted and Dreaming of no Danger at all was Riding softly back again But then the Rogues Fired furiously and at the first shot killed two Horses and a Man about 100 yards from the King and at the second had like to have given a very fatal Stroke both to these Kingdoms and the whole Confederacy by Quenching the Light Joy and Hope of our Israel the Bullet Grasing upon the Bank of the River and thence Rising towards the King with a slanting Motion glanced over His Right Shoulder taking off a Piece of His Coat Tore part of the King 's Anointed Body But being turn'd off short by the hand of some Guardian-Angel Commission'd by the Lord Jehovah touched not His Precious Life nor so much as gave him any wound grievous enough to hinder Him from continuing with His Army and Ordering the Remarkable Action that soon followed For as soon as he had changed His Coat and had His Wound dressed He spent the most part of the remainder of that Day in Disposing His whole Army for the next day's Work and then on the Morrow being Tuesday the first of July following early in the Morning with full Trust in the Protection of the Lord of Hosts Himself which He had found so signally attended His Royal and Sacred Person He very

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

other Circumstances but such only as shall be purely necessary to set forth in Chrystal Characters how wonderful careful the good Providence of the Almighty has been all his whole life long to present him with fair Occasions in order to Signalize his most illustrious and incomparable Qualities How very industrious he hath been alwaies to cultivate those Divine Favours not at all for his own private Ends but meerly for the Publick Good and how he hath been commonly attended with Successes much beyond the Hopes of his greatest Friends or Fears of his grandest Enemies and the opinion of indeed the whole World Quid gaudium fando c. To proceed then though by the watchfulness he was obliged to have upon the Motions not only of the Armies of the Prince of Conde and Duke of Luxemburg but likewise of the English themselves who at that Juncture threaten'd a Descent he was hindred from affording any relief to Maestricht besieg'd the next Spring by a very powerful Army headed by the French King himself in Person yet upon Lewis the fourteenth's retreat after the taking of that place and upon the returning home of the English Fleet after the last Engagement on the Coast of Holland he soon repaired that loss by the retaking of Naerden which although it had in it a Garrison of two thousand nine hundred and thirty Men and was very well Fortified and abundantly stored with all manner of Necessaries yet he took it in the space of four daies maugre all Luxemburg's opposition and that again even contrary to the usual fortune of Sieges with much less loss to his own Men than to the besieged And not long after that carried the great stroke in the no less speedy and successful Reduction of the strong and famous City of Bonne the Seat of the Elector of Cologne then in the French confederacy which was no sooner taken but that famous old General Montecuculi who was a proper Judge of Martial Conduct having left with him the command of the Imperial Army to join with his own He with them both made so formidable an Expedition towards the main Posts possessed then by the French upon the Rhine the Meuse and the Moselle that the French who wanted Men to re-implace those multitudes of good Soldiers they had too profusely squander'd away in their late rash and inconsiderate Enterprizes not being able to maintain Garrisons and Armies in both Frontiers as the State of Affairs then required rather than venture the loss of the places that composed the main Barrier of their Country towards the Rhine in this juncture of Distress and Consternation abandon'd immediately Woerden Herderwick Crevecoeur Bommel the City and Province of Vtrecht and most of all the rest of the places they had then taken in the united Netherlands whose Example was soon followed by their Allies the Munsterians And thus his Highness in some sence out-did Coesar himself vanquishing his Enemies even at a distance where he neither came nor saw and forcing them willingly to submit by the onely terrour of his August Name and made them with a very mortifying reverse of Fortune behold the period of their Victories in his bright and rising Glory which the most florid copious Pen can never sufficiently delineate to the Life In consideration of which most great and unexpected turn of Affairs from the very brink of irrecoverable Ruin and Destruction to a formidable State of Power Grandeur and Prosperity effected next and immediately under God chiefly by the Policies and extraordinary valour of the Prince The States General as in Gratitude strongly bound not only confirm'd the Charge of State-holder of the Provinces of Holland and West-Friezland in the person of his renown'd Highness during Life but setled it likewise in the Heirs-male of his Body begotten in lawfull Marriage by a publick Decree Dated the 2d of February 1674. The tenour of which being so signal and glorious a Demonstration of his high and Unparallell'd Merits we thought it would be a piece of Injustice not to insert and no small satisfaction to the Candid and Impartial Reader to Peruse Friday February 2d 1674. HAving taken into Deliberation by way of Resumption what the Lords Deputies of the City of Haerlem Proposed to the Assembly the 23d of January last past Whether it would not be expedient that the Charge of State-holder and Captain-Admiral of the Provinces of Holland and West-Friezland and Captain and Admiral-General of the Vnited Provinces should descend upon the Heirs-Males of his Highness the P. of Orange begotten in lawful Marriage as by the Rolls of the same Date more amply may appear We the Body of the Nobility and the Deputies of the Cities in the Name and in the Behalf of the Burghers and Commonalty of the said Cities have Declared and do Declare by these Presents that having deliberately Considered the State and Condition of the Government of these Countreys as it was in former times by the blessing of God under the Most Illustrious Princes of Orange of Glorious Memory his Highnesses Predecessors and particularly what has befallen this Republick for these 23 or 24 years last past till now we have observ'd that this Republick has been afflicted with several Calamities and Disasters as well Domestick as Foreign ever since the sad and unfortunate year 1650. That as to our Foreign Calamities we have never been without Wars or the Fears of Wars More particularly One most dreadful War between the Kingdom of England and these States which shook the very Foundations of the Government of these Countreys So that it hardly has recovered Breath ever since the said War and another against the Crown of Portugal in the years 1656 1658 and 1659 and another occasion'd by the Interest of the Northern Wars That in the year 1664 they had another New War with the King of Great Britain and now this present War more sad and fatal than all the rest And that during the whole Course of the said War this Republick has been forc'd to suffer many Affronts from her Neighbours to whom she was before a Terror That as to our Domestick Affairs we have been overwhelm'd with Intestine Divisions and Factions That from the year 1650 to the year 1660 several Members of this Republick have had a particular Aversion to the Person of the present Prince of Orange the only Son of that Illustrious Family and that Others on the contrary have zealously maintain'd that the said Prince ought not to be so ungratefully abandoned That the King of Great Britain being recall'd to the Government of his Dominions and passing through these Countreys in order to his Embarking for England this Republick testified as well to his Majesty as to the Princesses Royal and Dowager that they would take particular care of the Interest and Education of his Highness and to Restore him to the Dignities which his Illustrious Ancestors of Glorious Memory had enjoyed But that after the Death of the said Princess-Royal

all Good will and Affection towards his Highness was lost and no further notice taken of him till of late that some Care was taken of his Education and that at length towards the end of 1671 or 1672 Great Contests arose about the Election of His Highness to be Captain-General of the Militia of this Countrey That we have found by sad Experience that the said Intestine Divisions and Factions have given an Occasion to the Enemies of this Republick to Affront us every moment as knowing well that they render us uncapable to mind our Own Defence by the Violation of that Union which laid the Foundation of this Republick and which God hath so Miraculously blessed And that the Differences which arose every day about the Election of Captain General of the Militia and these Discords which happen'd among the Principal Members of this Republick were the Occasions that Retarded and Hindred these Deliberations and Resolutions Which of necessity ought to have been taken to Repel Foreign Force and made us spend in Idle Disputes that precious Time that ought to have been better husbanded That the said Divisions were the Reason that towards the year 1671 when the King of France openly declared That he would make a War against this Countrey we consumed whole Months together in Deliberating about the Election of a Captain-General and whether to pitch upon his Highness which time ought to have been spent in providing for the Defence of the State And that for the same Reason it was that the King of France invaded this Countrey by Force of Arms in the Year 1672 and reduced us to the last Extremities and hazard of Total Ruine That therefore the Lords and States of Holland have deemed it necessary as the only Expedient that they can imagin or hope for utterly to pluck up by the Roots the Occasions of the said Factions and Divisions to prevent their falling any more into those Misfortunes and Miseries to which they have been hitherto exposed And on the other side to acknowledge the Great and Glorious Services which the most Illustrious House of Orange has from time to time perform'd for the Preservation and Establishment of this Republick For these Reasons the Lords of the Body of the Nobility as also the Deputies of the Cities have Unanimously Conferr'd and by these Presents do Confer in the Name and on the behalf of the Burghers and Commonalty of the said Cities upon His Renown'd Highness and his Heirs male begotten in lawful Matrimony the Charge of Stadholder Captain and Admiral General of the Provinces of Holland and West-Friezland with all the Dignities Preeminences Prerogatives Rights and Privileges thereto belonging without any exception or reservation in as ample and in the same manner as the same Charge is at present executed by His Highness the Prince of Orange And consequently that after the decease of his said Highness to whom nevertheless the States of Holland wish a long and happy Life in all health and prosperity the said Charge of State-holder Captain and Admiral-General of the Provinces of Holland and West-Friezland with the Dignities Preeminences Prerogatives Rights and Privileges thereunto belonging without any exception or reservation shall devolve and descend upon his Heirs-males begotten in lawful Wedlock In pursuance of which resolution the said Lords of the Body of the Nobility have ordered Letters-Patents to be drawn up and Sealed with the Great Seal of the Provinces c. Upon the same day likewise the States of Zealand conferred the same Dignities upon him and made him Hereditary Noble of their Province upon which ensued the recovery of all the rest of the Places and Countreys yet remaining in the Enemies hands which our Magnanimous Heroe shewed as much Prudence and Policy in clearing from Abuses and Remodelling to their Antient Form and Order as he had before shewn Courage and Conduct in their Recovery Thus did both the French and the De-Wits and their Upstart-party by those very Designs that struck at the Ruine both of Him and his Countrey by a strange over-ruling turn of Providence advance him to sudden Greatness of a much higher pitch than that they attempted to dismount him from And his unjust Deprivation of all his Hereditary Honours and Dignities became the occasion of his being afterwards invested with more abundant Honour Which he always studied to make redound to the advantage and prosperity and not like his French Tyrannical Neighbour to the Misery and Oppression of his Countrey After this the King of France to repair his late Loss in the United Netherlands by regaining fresh Ground in the Spanish Provinces falling down with his Power into La Franche Comté and Mastering that whole Province before any sufficient Force could possibly advance to hinder him and being returned for Paris leaving that experienced and Renowned General the Prince of Conde in the Low-Countreys with a Powerful Army of his Choicest Forces to watch the Motions and thwart if po●●●le the Designs of the Confederate Ar●● which now consisted of the United Forces of the Imperialists Spaniards and Hollanders amounting in all to 60000 Men under the Command of Three great Chiefs viz. General Souches His Highness the Prince of Orange and the Count de Monterey whereof the Prince Commanded the main Battel and the other Two Generals the Van and the Rear There happen'd soon after between those Two Potent Armies the most fierce and furious fight of Seneffe wherein the Great Prince of Conde's Valour and Courage was every way Matcht and his Conduct and Prudence in several respects out-done by a General who was yet but a Young Beginner in War By which means he put a check upon that Fury which guided as it was with so much skill in a General equally fiery and experienced and back'd with a numerous Army of veterane Soldiers flush't and bouyed up with continual Victories Had it proved successful as but for the extraordinary Prudence Courage and Diligence of the Prince of Orange it most certainly had would have overwhelmed Holland and all the Low-Countreys with a Second Inundation of French Violences much more dangerous and remediless as all Relapses commonly are than the First For not to insert here all the particulars of that Dreadful Battel of which there are so many well-penn'd Relations extant it is certain on all hands That the Prince of Conde tho he before were averse to a Fight as being very loath to expose the Glory and Honour he had won in so many Battels by encountring an undaunted and vigorous young Prince of Twenty three years of age and knowing his Eagerness even in that early beginning of his Mighty Career by making his first Trial of a pitcht-Battel against so famous a Chieftain as the Prince of Conde and by Victory over him to open himself a secure and easie passage into the very Bowels of France in order to revenge the Grand Injuries both his Native Countrey and his own Hereditary Principality and other Patrimonial Lands