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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58435	A Relation of the birth, as well as of several remarkable passages during the minority of the victorious James, Duke of Monmouth, eldest son to His Majesty of Great Britain, France, and Ireland with the true account of his many signal and heroick victories in Holland, Flanders, and Scotland to his immortal fame : with the manner of his departure from Whitehall and of his joyful reception in Holland.		1679 (1679)	Wing R816; ESTC R28099	6,054	18

A RELATION OF The Birth as well as of several Remarkable Passages during the Minority of the Victorious JAMES Duke of Monmouth Eldest Son to his MAJESTY of great Britain France and Ireland with the true Account of his many signal and heroick Victories in Holland Flanders and Scotland to his Immortal Fame With the manner of his Departure from Whitehall and of his joyful Reception in Holland Hony soit qui Mal y pence JAMES Duke of Monmouth Born During the time of his Royal Fathers and our dread Soveraigns most unjust exilement by those monstrous bloudy Tyrants that usurped a Jurisdiction over his undoubted Right those Fiends compacted in the shapes of Men first brooded in the lower Hell and like Pandoras box sent thence to plague the World and fill it with unwholsome Ills therefore it may be said of his Grace in part as it was of Anibal that Carthagenian Prince and Master-piece of War though not born in a Winter-Camp where Drums and Trumpets charm the Globe yet born in Tumults and bred up to great Exploits for no sooner had he passed his tender Years but thirst of Military Glory spurr'd him on to baffle danger and contemn those panick fears that like to Mill-stones clog the Soul and with too much grossness and humidity keep her from soaring to her proper sphear quenching those heroick fires that otherways would blaze bright and curle among the Clouds or born on the Wings of Fame illuminate the Nations round about and make pale envy Groan that his Grace was somewhat extravagant in his Minority we needs must own playing many wild freaks not without hazarding his Person yet this he might be over-perswaded to comply with by some far reaching Politician who foresaw to what a height his Vertues would aspire and in envy unto which might seek this way to nip them in their early bloom the like president we have in Henery of Monmouth or England's Fifth Henery that heroick Prince whose name and worth yet haughty France may know there writ deep in characters of blood his prodigious Victories declare themselves by a total Conquest annexing that Crown to ours the possession of which was after lost by his unhappy Son King Henery the sixth but to return to his Graces more Manly resolution soon gained the superiority over those frailties and sent such Chimera's to wander with their mother-clouds addicting himself to actions worthy his high Birth Arms and the God of Battel raged in his breast and then began his Fortunes to appear for we not having any Hostilities in these his most Sacred Maiesties Dominions But blessed with the happy accents of a flourishing Peace the greatest comfort next the Gospels freedom that a Kinstdom can enjoy but on the contrary our neighbouring Nation then groaning under the heavy oppressions of Sword and Fire whereupon in order to his Royal Fathers will whom God grant long to reign over us and make his days as the days of Heaven he crossed the raging Bellows leading an Army in favour of the French though most unworthy of his service who were then ingaged in War against the Dutch our Protestant Neighbours where being arrived although but Green and unexperience as to the practick never before having charged an Enemy yet with the English Parties under his Command he performed such wonderful Exploits that many politick Monsieurs that had been trained up in War for many Years stood amazed at so brave a resolution and so couragiously he behaved himself for the honour of his Country and the true old English valour that many of the French Nobility began to envy what they durst not imitate a common Maxime amongst great Ones for at the several Sieges during his Commission there he was for the most part put upon the dangerousest Exploits which always contributed to his honour though perhaps by some intended to a different purpose for such was his courage and resolution that though he was sent out with Parties much inferiour to the Enemy in number yet he charged with such Gallantry that the Sallyers were beaten back nor able to abide such force being often persued by him even to their Lines and Trenches when the Beseigeds Cannon played most furiously in their defence and shot like Haile sung round his Warlike Head who can forget that brave Exploit performed by him at Seige of Mastrech a Seige that got to be so Famous at the loss of many Thousand lives the French Army having laine before it and such an Army that was Composed of all the Flower of that Kingdom for several Months their King in person Animating them at several Visits that he made but yet not daring to attempt any thing of Moment the Counter-scarp Ram-parts Bastion half Moons and Pallasadoes being so Advantageously made Guarding every Pass with such Vast Quantities of well Mounted Cannons the which continually playing beat the French-men daily from their works slaughtering them in Numbers upon every hand so that many began to dispair of better success and that it would be impossible for them ever to become Masters of the Peace and 't is thought they would have raised the Seige without Atcheive any thing worthy of Noat had not his Grace with his by that time well seasoned English Souldiers backed them on and in the Height of courage and cavalry boldly lead the Van as if Inuulnerable he could unconcerned smile at Death and brave the frowns of Fate for few or none Expected he could have escaped a so Gallant and so daring an attempt but Caesars Fortunes Favour Caesars Son preparing for the asault no sooner had he drawn his Souldiers up and come within danger of the Mines but the Beseigers sprung all though with Inconsiderable Execution yet notwithstanding this might much a disheartened them in their proceedings but Animated by his Graces Example and Courage they cryed lead and furiously pressed on here we may aply to his Grace that Sentence of the Warlike Trajan Prince when in the like danger Tucer ducet Auspice Tucro for although the great half Moon was defended with two Bastions a wing or Flancker of small shot from the Palasadoes and several Thousands in the work it self being recruted with fresh Souldiers from the Town yet so far was his Grace from being disencouraged that he charged them in their lines and came to Push of Pike leaping over the Works and Trenches in his proper Person whose Example his Souldiers Imitating he still persued the Enemy in their retreat beating them from one work to another till at last he had obliged them to quit the main attacking them in their redoubts bravely defending what he had gained although the Enemy twice Sallyed in the Action whilst the Mounsiers stood gazing at a distance not daring to aproach till he had woon the works and consequently by his securing them obliged the Town to a surrend the which in few daies with as little loss as can be Imagined in so Perilous an Enterprize was effected yet instead of