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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64421	The Character of His Royal Highness, William Henry, Prince of Orange	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1689 (1689)	Wing C2017A; Wing T779; ESTC R9704	6,014	8

THE CHARACTER OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS WILLIAM HENRY PRINCE OF ORANGE With Allowance LONDON Printed for Randall Taylor near Stationers-Hall MDCLXXXIX THE CHARACTER Of His ROYAL HIGHNESS W. H. Prince of Orange WHEN the Almighty designs a Great HERO to fight his Battels and deliver his People from the Fury and Treachery of their Enemies he inspires them with Courage Prudence Constancy and Magnanimity and so appears to be William Henry Prince of ORANGE if we do but consider the Wonderful and Glorious Actions he hath performed both in Peace and War and so affable and of such a sweet Temper that it may seem a doubt whether he hath made greater Conquests over his Enemies by his Sword than by the Charming Dispositions of his Mind as if he had not only the Meekness of Moses but the Courage and Valiancy of Joshua And by his Birth he seems to be destined by Heaven to be the Saviour of his Country and of the Protestant Religion for his Grandfather Unkle and Father were so many Bulwarks against the Fury and Tyranny of the Spaniard and other sworn Enemies of their Country and Religion which they bravely defended all their days against Implacable Foes to their Confusion their Countries Peace and Safety and to their own Everlasting Honour and Renown For William of Nassau Prince of Orange born in the Year 1533. as soon as he came to Man's Estate finding his Country and Religion and his own Life through the Cruelty of Philip of Spain in eminent Danger the Counts of Egmont and Horn and Eighteen other Lords and Gentlemen and 18000 of meaner Rank executed on several Scaffolds and the utter Destruction of his Religion threatned by the Spanish Inquisition generously took up Arms in Defence of his Country and Religion and having drawn several of the States-General into an Association mutually to stand by one another after having defeated the Bloody Duke of Alva in several Battels bafled Requesenes and Don Iohn of Austria Governors of the Spanish Netherlands for King Philip and the Spaniards being no way able to withstand his Victorious Sword in the Field caused him Treacherously and Barbarously to be Assassinated by one named Balthazar Guerard a Burgundian And thus fell the Great William of Nassau a Sacrifice for his Religion and Country Philip William his Son being bred up by the Spaniards in the Catholick Religion dyed without any Great Actions performed by him Maurice of Nassau second Son of William valiantly defended his Country for Forty Years Won Forty Cities and Breda by a Stratagem never parallel'd by the greatest Captains he obtain'd several Signal Victories but especially the Famous Battel of Newport and defended Ostend Three Years beleaguer'd by the Marquess Spinola with a Numerous Army and Dyed in the Year 1625 loaden with Honourable Scars but more with Renown and Glory Henry Frederick Third Son of William Prince of Orange was not only as couragious but more fortunate than the rest he took Oldersell Groll Bois le Due Wessell Maestricht Rhinberg Skink and afterwards the Castle and City of Breda in Four Months which cost Spinola Twelve to master Won Three Naval Battels in one of which he took 20000000 l. from the Spaniards in another destroyed 40 of their Ships of War and thus having utterly broken the Strength of Spain and forced that Proud Monarch to Renounce his Claim to their Territories he may be justly said to be the Founder of the Most Potent Republick in the World and under the Tablet of this Heroick Prince and his Royal Family deservedly might have been these Verses Illustris Origo est Principis Augusti Qualis erit Soboles Resp. Qualis erit qualem depinxit Homerus Achillem Marti Consilio Nestora Talis erit And now let us see whether William Henry Prince of Orange by this present Character will appear to be such for I design not the History of his Life but a short view of those Glorious Actions he hath performed by which the whole Word will better know him than those that have stared on his wonderful Proportion and Features e're since his Cradle He is Son to Henry Frederick of Nassau and Mary of England Eldest Daughter of Charles the First King of Great Britain and seems to have ingrossed all the Virtues and Glories of his Ancestors the Courage and solid Judgment of his Grandfather William the Fortitude and Policy of his Unckle Maurice the Prudence Fortunate Success and Magnanimity of his Father Henry Frederick and with these Virtues he raised the Republick his Ancestors had saved from Destruction to a Grandure able to cope with the greatest Monarchs upon Earth In his Minority the De Witts who had Treacherously sold their Country to the French with a Devilish Policy undermined the Royal Infant and his weak Party they ingratefully took from him all his Rights Jurisdictions and Priviledges which his Ancestors had purchased with the loss of their dearest Blood and Lives and thereby Peace Freedom and Grandure for the Vnited States of the Netherlands When he was 22 Years of Age the effect of the De Witts Treachery began to appear for the French King invading the Netherlands with a Powerful Army like a swelling Ocean when it overtops its Banks overturns all the De Witts had put into the Garisons Governours who were at their own Devotion and mann'd them with raw Soldiers and Burghers so that through the Cowardise of the one and Treachery of the other the French no sooner appear'd at their Gates but they basely surrendred in a Day Fortifications that might have defended themselves from the whole Power of France many Months This awakened the Dutch out of their Lethargy and the People Sacrificing Cornelius and John De Witt to their Fury he was at Dort and afterwards by the States of Holland Zealand and West Frizeland declared Stadtholder and Captain and Admiral General of the Vnited Provinces with all the Rights Jurisdictions and Priviledges his Ancestors had enjoyed And now our Young HERO taking Command of the Army he first valiantly repulses the French from the Walls of Ardenburg the Bishop of Munster from Groning takes Coeverden in a Day with the loss of only 60 Men which cost the Bishop of Munster much Time and Blood to master as also Naerden Bon Brevill Lechnich Woerden Creveceur Hardwick Vtrecht Bommell Campen Ellburgh Hatten Steenwick Meppel Northom Zutphen Tiel Arnheim Dinant Deventer and Graves with a far greater Celerity than they were taken by the French and Munsterians But now he is to engage one of the most Renowned Captains in the World and indeed whoever reads the Life of the Prince of Conde will find it full fraught with Wonders of Courage Conduct and Policy The Prince of Conde lay encamped behind the River Pieton the Prince of Orange with his own Forces the Germans and Spaniards his Allies endeavour by several Stratagems and Provocations to draw him to a Battel but that wary General made their Attempts vain whereupon the Prince of ORANGE

directs his March to Binch but being to pass through very difficult Ways and Lanes the Prince of Conde knowing his Advantage suffers the Van-Guard and some part of the main Body to pass by him and then silently drawing out his Army and putting them into Battalia furiously falls upon the Prince of Vaudemont who was to secure the Rear-guard with 4000 Horse Vaudemont sends to the Prince of ORANGE for Two Battalions of Infantry the Place where he engaged being not so proper for Horse and has Three sent him and withall the Troops that lay on the other side of the River that runs by Seneff the French could not force them from their Post but passing the River a little higher and joining all their Forces the Confederates wanting Elbow-Room and the French falling upon them from all Parts the Confederates were inforced to retire having lost several Principal Officers Then the Prince of Conde pushing on his advantage fell on vigorously on the Horse commanded by the Prince of Vaudemont and put them to the Rout and afterwards on the Duke de Villa Hermosa who commanded 16 Battalions of Infantry who valiantly withstood their Charge but at last was forced to a disorderly Retreat and so put those that came to his Assistance into much Confusion whereby the Prince of Conde became Master of the Baggage of the Dutch Army Things being in this ill Posture it was high time for the Young Belgick Lyon to rouze his Courage he embattel'd the Imperialists and Spaniards in the Left Wing and his own men in the Right in such Excellent Order that being joined by General Souches who was advanced some hours March before with the Van-Guard that altho the French were never observed to Fight before with such obstinate Resolution yet he put a Check to the Progress of their Victory The Valourous Prince of ORANGE ran with his Sword in his Hand and stopt the flight of his Fugitives then threw himself into the midst of his Enemies so that his Army being animated by so Glorious an Example Fought with incredible Bravery Neither had the Prince of Conde any better Success in his Attacking the main Body or the Right Wing of the Confederates altho he charged them with his Curiasseers and the Troops of Horse of the French King's Guards for the Prince of ORANGE with a Prodigy of Valour maintain'd the Fight until Nights Black Mantle shrouded the Prince of Conde who under that Covert made a disorderly Retreat with his Army and left the Field of Battel the certain Sign of Victory to the Conquering Prince of ORANGE who snatch'd the Wreath of Bays that Conde had won at the beginning of the Battel from his Brows and placed it on his own I shall give you but one Instance more of his Martial Prowess and that is the Wonders he performed against the Duke of Luxemburg a Renowned and Experienced Captain at the Famous Battel of Mons Luxemburg was so advantagiously posted and slighted the Prince's Design of Attacking him so much that he was pleased to say He would not rise from his Dinner for the Attempts of the rash Boy but the Prince Charged him with such a Manly Courage and Fury through all the Storms of Shot and Fire altho he was to March up a Hill before he could reach him and afterwards through deep and difficult Lanes and Ways and thick Woods that he not only made him lose his Dinner but forced him to seek a new Lodging for he drove him out of his Camp and possest himself of it his Tents and Baggage And thus I have given you a short view of the Martial Actions of this Heroick Prince and will now only Instance a few of his Politicks relating to the Civil Government There have been many Illustrious Men carried on by the Heat of Youthful Courage whom Success hath Crowned with Victory that have been esteemed great Conquerors but all History cannot produce a Parallel of a Person of the Age of this Young Prince to have been so great a States-man and so well skilled in the Politicks of Government When he was declared Stadtholder at the Age of about 22 Years he found the Government quite out of Frame the Laws prevaricated or overturned and such a Regulation in Cities and Corporations as we lately had here in England all the Just Grave Worthy Magistrates turned out and only such put into their Places tho never so undeserving as favoured the Faction of the De Witts And as the City of Dort first led the way and made him their Stadtholder he not only setled that City but West-Friezeland and the City of Middleburg which were all in Uproar and Confusion he no sooner appear'd amongst them but their Differences and Mutinies vanished the Fame of his Success against their Enemies abroad and the Sweetness and Moderation which he exprest at home gained him so much Reverence that their Arms fell out of their Hands the Ancient Magistrates were restored and all those States and Cities to their former Peace and Tranquility He never had the least Relax from his Martial Employments but he applied himself in that spare time in Reformation of the Government he caused New Elections to be made of Persons to officiate in the College of Counsellors Elect and a New Choice to represent the Body of the Nobility and placed Men of Integrity and Ability to be of the Magistracy and Councils of the several Cities he drew up such Orders for their well-Government for the future which he was so far from imposing on them that after they had debated them in their several Assemblies they not only Joyfully approved of them but in requital setled the Offices of Governour-General Captain and Admiral General on him and his Male Issue Thus this Valorous and Prudent Prince redeemed his Country and Religion from the slavery of the Potent French King and resetled the Government upon its Ancient Basis which had been in a horrid Confusion through the Treachery of the De Witts and the Disorders which the French Invasion had contaminated it withal and in the Year 1678 that Victorious French Monarch was forced and did conclude a Peace with the Prince of ORANGE much to his Glory and Renown and as much to the Advantage of the States of the Vnited Provinces the French King quitting by this Peace all that he had taken from them But as if he were designed by Heaven not only to be the Saviour of his own Country and Religion but the Champion of the Lord of Hosts to deliver his true Church from the Fury Treachery and Tyranny of its Enemies the Church of England being surrounded with Dangers that threatned her on every side those Laws that were made and accounted as the Bulwarks against Popery being all made invalid The Judges and Chief Ministers of State then in Office corrupted and such as sought her Ruin. The King himself tho of Excellent Qualities yet poysoned by Jesuits Powder and other corrupted Officers by whom he