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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

ever set out in Great Britain under St. Peter's Banners since Queen Mary's days These were the Actions of Pope Innocent the XIth against Lewis the XIVth and such were the Remonstrances and Advices both of his Nuncio and the Spanish and Imperial Ambassadours in England to the late King James Which His Imperial Majesty afterwards in his Letter to the Late King in Answer to one from him relating the Doleful Story of his Abdication hints at and tells him Had they been followed he might still have been upon the Throne with all the Advantages of a Great English Monarch The obstinate neglect of which Councils the most safe and prudent that could be given to a Popish King of England at that time of the day together with the formidable growth and the aforesaid Insolent Proceedings of the French King caused both the Pope and the Ancient and Potent Houses of Austria and Bavaria not onely to League themselves together but also for their Common Defence both against French Popery and French Power which were advancing hand in hand to attack them And which if suffer'd to fix footing in England would shortly become altogether irresistible to Confederate Nay even with the Protestant Princes and Powers the one viz. the Temporal Princes of Austria and Bavaria Immediately and the other namely the Pope Mediately and Covertly by abetting and underhand promoting the Intrigues and Attempts of the others for the carrying on such Designs as should divide England from the French Interest though it were by the Dismounting a Prince of their own Religion and placing a Protestant upon the Throne They being very well satisfied it was much safer for Popery in General as well as for their particular Temporal Interests to see a Protestant wear the Crown of England though to the seeming disadvantage of the Popish Religion in that particular Kingdom that would help them to balance the excessive Power of France than to suffer a Popish King of Great Britain of the French Stamp to assist the French Monarch to enslave all other much more Catholick Princes depress the Papal Power it self and impose a Popery worse to them than what their erroneous fancies teach them to call Heresie But that which clincht the Nail home and which not only confirm'd them in those Resolutions but hastned them to a speedy execution of them were three very dangerous Attempts of the French King the one was the powerful Interest the French had made to get their Devoted Creature that Arch-Traytor to his Countrey the Quondam Prince William but now Bishop of Strasburg and Cardinal of Furstemberg to be chosen Elector of Cologne that he might be the more able to back his old Benefactour Lewis the 14th in all his Encroachments upon the Empire in awing the rest of the Electors on the Rhine and by them influencing the whole Electoral College to deprive the House of Austria of the Imperial Dignity by choosing Lewis the French Dauphin for King of the Romans or Successor to the Emperor instead of the Arch-Duke Joseph c. The second was his breaking so perfidiously the new made Truce though sworn to for twenty Years and under the pretence of backing the Election of his dear Cardinal and pursuing some extravagant Demands he was pleased to make in the name of the Dutchess of Orleans of the present Prince Palatine to besiege and surprise Philipsburg and committing a thousand Outrages and Hostilities elsewhere at a time when the Emperour trusting to the security of the twenty years Truce was employing his Arms to repell the Turks the sworn Enemies of Christianity in the remotest borders of Christendom The third was his declaring War against Holland because they seem'd to oppose his base illegal violences in endeavouring to force an Election which ought to be free and that in a Country where the proud Tyrant had no right to meddle and which was so near their Frontiers and that too being not content with that as if he had had the late King James's Head under his Girdle he was pleased to threaten that England should do the like and as a forerunner of it perswaded King James abruptly and without any reason given to recall his Subjects out of the Dutch Service at a time when he had no visible occasion for them These Reasons all put together made the Roman Catholick Princes to league with Holland and the Protestant Princes of Germany and to favour the Blessed and Glorious Design of our present Sovereign Lord King William c. to endeavour to break the strong Chains that were preparing for all Europe by first breaking those of England and by seizing before hand of the Reins of Government over those most willing Nations that were so exceeding glad of his seasonable help in time of Need the Succession of which should he delay a Moment was visibly going to be most unjustly alienated from him by the means of a supposititious Child brought upon the Stage only for a blind and to be consign'd unto the Tyrannical hands of the French Monarch And lastly that which made an end of giving a through alarm to the Pope was the French King 's insulting and insolent proceedings by his Ambassador at Rome it self his invading of Savoy and Piedmont and carrying thereby the War into Italy which by the bye is now one of the most troublesome Thorns that he has in his foot and which he would most fain be rid of it having proved notwithstanding his Successes the most chargeable and incommodious War to him next that of England of any of the rest Which considerations made the Pope and the rest of the Roman Princes and particularly the Spaniards employ sundry Priests devoted to their interests but as so many Spies about the late King James to fish out the secrets of the Frenchified Cabal and to communicate the same from time to time to the late Spanish Ambassadour who failed not to advertise the King his Master the illustrious Prince of Orange and all the Allies nor yet to communicate them to the Nobility Gentry and qualified Citizens of England to whose secret advice thus obtain'd next to God Almighty we owe all the satisfactory light we have had into the dark Intrigue of the pretended Prince of Wales which above all things gave the last and most powerful Impulse to those Motions that brought about the late Happy and wonderful Revolution Having thus seen how the French King by catching too eagerly at Vniversal Monarchy and his Ally the late King James by adhering to the French Counsel more than to his own English Subjects stirr'd up the most zealous Princes of the Roman Communion and even the Pope himself to side with the Protestant Powers against them and readily to concur with these last even to the suppression of all hopes of their own Religions becoming predominant in England and rather than see it planted there by French hands We cannot therefore at all wonder that the Protestant Foreign Powers and the people of

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

imginable were made to conspire and concur with as much Union and Harmony as if they had been all 〈◊〉 one and the self-same Soul or 〈◊〉 who is Ens Entium as well as 〈◊〉 Causarum for even Enemies Friends Papists Protestants Winds and Seas all acted towards and promoted proportionably this grand and glorious design of Providence even while they contended most against it Because therefore it will not be a little edifying and instructive to us of these Kingdoms not only in our Religious but also in our Politick and civil Concerns to understand rightly and comtemplate in some measure the most miraculous method used by the Divine and over-ruling Power in producing this happy and never to be forgotten Revolution of great Britain and Ireland Before we proceed to give you any account of that we shall as far as we in a private Station could or think fit for particular Persons to prie into give you a short view of the several steps that were made on all sides towards it till at the last they were all deceived some very happily as being carried on far beyond their first proposed ends and the utmost of their hopes and the others with a more Melancholick Surprize finding themselves defeated of their Giant-like expectations and driven upon such Rocks as they thought they had steered the surest course to avoid And first we will begin with the French King his illustrious Highness the Prince of Orange's most inveterate and irreconcilable Enemy ever since the refusal of his Overtures for betraying his Native Countrey and shew what steps he himself though a great Master of Politicks made to this great and blessed Revolution which may by God's blessing prove in due time a means to bring him to Subjection to this ancient and imperial Crown of England again In order to secure the success of the mighty Project which has been so eagerly pursued and carried on by Lewis the 14th for some Years past of attaining the universal Monarchy of the West it is not at all doubted by any well versed in Politicks but of all other things it was most highly necessary that his surest Alley the late King James should be fully and absolutely Master of his Kingdoms and till that were effected and put out of all danger of being Travers'd that it was no less needful for him namely the French King to treat his Protestant Subjects at home well nay rather better than ordinary to keep up a good correspondence likewise with the Pope and other Roman Catholick Princes to have religiously observed the Truce with the Empire to have dissembled for some time at least his resentments against the renown'd Prince of Orange to have restored him the Principality of that Name which he most unjustly extorted from his noble Ancestors to have perswaded his Uncle to have caress'd him to have kept fair with the Hollanders to have terrified no body with Arms of Cruelties but only to have supply'd his faithful Ally of great Britain constantly and privately with sufficient Moneys and carried on all his Intrigues elsewere only with the underhand and potent charms of Gold to have perswaded King James to have let alone the Intrigue of the pretended Prince of Wales to have abstain'd from multiplying Popish Chapels and publick toleration of Jesuits and Priests to have forborn the planting a Jesuitical Crew in Magdalene College to have abstain'd from sending Mandamus after Mandamus to violate the ancient Privileges of that Loyal and Famous University of Oxford to have forborn the sending of the most Reverend and right Reverend the Bishops those Pillars of our true Reformed Church of England into the Tower In a word to have contented himself only with new modelling Corporations and insensibly new regulating his Army and Court till all had been sure Had he been duly cautious and circumspect in these particulars it had been shrewdly probable if not an assured thing that a great part of the Clergy Nobility and Gentry of England would not have seen through the late king James's Designs nor at least have believed them till perhaps they had felt the Chains about their Necks that his Army would have stood by him till at last when things had been full ripe for it they had seen the greatest part of themselves ship'd off upon some suddain Foreign Quarrel and their places supply'd at home by Soldiers in French pay And this might have been peradventure so politickly managed as not to have alarm'd the illustrious Ancient and Warlike House of Austria the Hollanders perchance would have unconcernedly lookt upon it being so exceedingly busied about the Indian Gold and Treasures and the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland might perhaps have been lull'd fast asleep by their present Peace vast Trading and Plenty And this step once gain'd the subtil Monsieur could have securely oppress'd the Spanish Netherlands once again over-run Holland and have invaded the Empire when the imperial Forces should have been perhaps as dreaming of no danger from the Rhine employed as far as Bulgaria or Romania in chasing the Turks and these were the Counsels of his wisest Ahitophel the late famous Louvois But he that taketh the wise in his own craftiness and maketh Diviners mad and brings good out of Evil caused that vulgar Proverb here to prove an Oracle That Quos perdere vult deus prius dementat God first blinds or renders foolish those whom he hath resolv'd to destroy for the deep and most surely laid Counsels of that great States-man were providentially over-rul'd by the fawning influence of Jesuited Heads whereof some were on Mens and some more advantageously placed on the necks of the charming and seldom failing Sex who working upon the French King 's unmeasurable Vanity and unlimitted Ambition very easily perswaded him that his Power was now grown so Formidable and all his Forces for Sea and Land so well disciplin'd that he needed not to be so much inslaved to those cautious Measures proposed by his Ministers of State as he had been hitherto but leaving those flow paces to the Sages of the House of Austria who placed most of their Majesty in deliberate Counsels and more slow Executions he might now resume his natural briskness and advance securely the nearest way to Glory especially since England was then under a Roman Catholick Prince entirely at his Devotion upon all occasions And with all seeing things at that time were in such a posture that the imperial Force was so wholly taken up in a War in the remotest Frontiers of Christian Europe there was no other Power that either durst or could timely and effectually oppose his Attempts either in Religious or civil Matters and that the most active Spirits that were best able or most disposed to obstruct the course of his prosperous advance were many of them as well Princes as their Ministers now become wonderful docile and disciplinable without word of Mouth or beat of Drum only by the bare Lustre and Loadstone of