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A65950	An exact diary of the late expedition of His Illustrious Highness, the Prince of Orange, now King of Great Britain, from his palace at the Hagve, to his landing at Torbay, and from thence to his arrival at White-Hall giving a particular account of all that happened, and every day's march / by a minister, chaplain in the army.	Whittel, John.	1689 (1689)	Wing W2044; ESTC R4013	51,793	84

An Exact DIARY OF THE Late Expedition OF His Illustrious Highness THE Prince of Orange Now KING of Great Britain From his Palace at the HAGVE To his Landing at TORBAY And from thence To his Arrival at WHITE-HALL Giving a particular ACCOUNT Of all that happened and every Day 's March. By a Minister Chaplain in the ARMY LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Black Bull in the Old-Baily M DC LXXXIX Licens'd April 23. 1689. JA. FRASER AN Exact Diary of the late Expedition OF HIS ILLUSTRIOUS HIGHNESS THE Prince of Orange INTO ENGLAND TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM Earl of Bedford WILLIAM Earl of Portland HENRY Viscount Sidney of Sheppy AND Sir JOHN MAYNARD One of the Lords Commissioners of the GREAT SEAL My LORDS WHen I seriously reflect upon the stupendious Providence of the Almighty in bringing to pass the late and unpresidented Undertaking of his Highness the Prince of Orange now King of Great Britain I cannot do less than Commemorate those Noble Persons that both favour'd and joyn'd in so good a Work among whom your Honours had a considerable share which made me prefume to lay this short Compendium of that Expedition at your Feet humbly craving your candid Acceptation and Patronage of it tho' not varnish'd with quaintness of Phrase or Elegancy of Wit and Rhetorick but in a lame and plain Stile Your Honours are not insensible how near we were to Ruine nor how his Sacred Majesty King WILLIAM hazarded all that was dear for our good which should oblige the most ungrateful to make some answerable returns of Gratitude and Loyalty Your Honours have fully convinced the World of your uprightness and steadiness in this Cause All that I can say cannot add to but will rather detract from your Honours innate Worth and Goodness I heartily wish this good Work so far already advanced may be fully compleated so that we may have no reason to fear a relapse And that the God of Heaven may preserve our gracious King and Queen and prosper their good Intentions with suitable success and convert all their Enemies or make them fall before them is the daily Prayers of May it please your Honours your Honours most Humble and most Obedient Servant JOHN WHITTLE AN Exact Diary of the late Expedition OF HIS ILLUSTRIOUS HIGHNESS THE Prince of Orange Now KING of Great Britain HIS Illustrious Highness the Prince of Orange who is of a truth another Joshua in his undaunted Spirit and Magnanimity for the Lord's Cause and prosperous Conduct of his People Israel Another good Josiah in doing that which is right in the sight of God destroying Idolatry while he was yet young Another David or man after God's own heart and a zealous Defender of that Faith which is truly Ancient Catholick and Apostolical receiving an account of the exceeding great Cruelty and Barbarity of Roman Catholicks in France towards all them that professed the true Reform'd Religion or the Protestant Faith in that Kingdom and that indeed without any regard to the Hoary head thô found in the way of Righteousness which is a Crown of Honour without any respect to Sex or poor innocent Babes which could not discern between their right and left hands and not only hearing of their unheard-of Cruelty but even beholding daily at the Court and about his own Sacred Person not a few who had sometime been the Objects of their Direfulness and undergone to their great sorrow their Barbarity among many others a pious aged Minister of the Gospel whom for adhering to the Truth and holding fast the profession of his Faith without wavering these Sons of Belial took and bound fast unto a large Spit and turn'd him as a Pig at a great Fire after a direful manner until he was near half roasted alive insomuch that his Eyes were almost ready to drop out of his Head his Bloud in the Veins much dried his Sinews not a little scorch'd and the poor man a meer Cripple at this very day as may be seen by the curious Inquisitors althô God who is faithful did not suffer him to be tempted above what he enabled him to bear and in his appointed time made a way for him to escape their cruel Hands so much embrued in the Bloud of the Saints and in the Bloud of the Martyrs of Jesus And besides this Minister many of both Sexes who had been tormented by their cruel Hands Men who had been bound fast with Cords while their own Wives were most immodestly used and entreated and then assassinated before their sorrowful eyes Women who had been violently held while the tender Bowels of their own dear Husbands were ript out even before their faces running down with tears and the sucking Infant cruelly murdered in the arms of its Mother that bear it to the breaking of many womens hearts Nay so exceeding great was the Cruelty and Barbarity of these Bloud-thirsty Papists towards the Protestants there that no Pen is able to delineate it or any Tongue express it and very few English hearts capable of conceiving it our Nation God be praised being unacquainted with such abominable Practices Now as was said the Prince of Orange hearing and beholding their cursed Facts was exceedingly concern'd for Jerusalem because he had a real love for her and therefore this good Josiah's heart did even melt within him and he harbour'd and succour'd very many of these poor and deplorable Protestants who were under so sore a Tryal How did he long to have these Sons of Satan vanquisht and the Walls of Jerusalem rebuilt and therefore did not count his own Life dear to him that he might cause the true Spouse of Christ to rest securely And verily we may hope that Babylon's fall draws near and that the Kings of the Earth who have committed Fornication with her shall partake of her Misery and see her Plagues come in one day Death and Mourning and Famine Without doubt those many thousands of Souls under the Altar which were slain for the Word of God and for the Testimony which they held do cry continually with a loud voice saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our bloud on them that dwell on the earth Nebuchadnezzar the Great may before seven times pass over him be driven to confess saying As I have done to the Saints so God hath requited me and the same measure that my cruel People measured to the Protestants in my Land is now meeted to my Popish Realm But for us of this Kingdom and Nation we may well rejoyce in God that made us in God that redeem'd us in God that sanctified us and all his Elect in God who hath so lately delivered us out of the hands of our implacable Enemies when we were as Sheep appointed to the slaughter We ought to extol him that rideth upon the Heavens by his Name Jah and rejoyce before him And well may our Nation be right joyful in our King and Queen by whom Jerusalem

People which came to see his Highness some placing themselves in Seats by eight in the Morning When his Highness came he was pleased for to sit in the Bishop's Seat in the Body of the Church as he had done in the Quire before Sundry Sentinels stood just behind him two just before him and many more in the Church-Isle the Doctor 's Text was Psalm 107. 43. Whose is wise and will observe those things even they shall understand the loving Kindness of the Lord. The Doctor very accurately shewed the loving Kindness of the Lord unto the Price of Orange and his Fleet how he caused the Winds to turn at Tor-Bay where the whole Fleet was to tack about to come into the Bay and then shew'd the upright Design of the Prince to promote the Glory of God and good of his Church in England Scotland and Ireland having ended his Sermon he read the Prayer for the Expedition and so concluded with the Blessing c. Some time was passed here before the Gentlemen of the West joyned his Highness but when once they did begin to come in then they came daily The Mayor and Aldermen of the City came to visit the Prince and were busie in their Consultations among themselves The late King James we heard now was advanc'd as far towards us as Salisbury with a very brave Army of about thirty five thousand Men and a prodigious great Train of Artillery which made the poor Country People tremble Moreover we heard that he was fully resolved to encamp his Army about Sarum in the Plain where he intended to fight us Some of our Men being of the Van-guard were advanc'd as far as Wincaunton to provide Carriage at which place there was a small Skirmish or Action between 26 of our Souldiers and about 150 of the late King's Party which you shall have a particular account of by and by We soon receiv'd information of this Skirmish at Exeter Order was now given to get Waggons to carry the Magazine and Baggage of the whole Army together with all sorts of Utensils fit and convenient for War and Horses to draw the Artillery and for the Country People round to bring in their Horses to be sold at Exeter that so the loss of our Horses might be made up here According to which Order the Country People came daily in with their Horses to sell and the Officers gave great Prices for them because they must have them there or now here The Souldiers were ordered to keep themselves and their Arms in good order and to get every thing here which they wanted Much Mony was laid out in this City for all sorts of Commodities which the Officers or Souldiers lacked Here at first the People were scrupulous about the Dutch Mony and many Country People refused it but were forc'd to take it because all the Army had little else but Guineas and Dutch Mony. The People of the City began now to be more and more inclin'd towards our Army and all fear almost of the other Army was banish'd out of their Thoughts so that they would discourse more freely now than at the first The Drums beat for Volunteers and every Regiment of English or Scotch which wanted any Men was now compleated The Regiment of Sir John Guyes and Sir Robert Peyton fill'd up very fast for Men came into the City daily from all Parts to list themselves insomuch that many Captains pick'd and chose their Souldiers Very great crowding was here at the Deanary it being the Prince of Orange's Court by all sorts of People Many coming 20 Miles on purpose to see him and all the People of the adjacent Places were waiting there daily insomuch that the Sentinels could hardly keep them out The Guard was before the entrance into the Deanary and sundry Sentinels two at each Door Now his Highness received Information That the late King James was gone back from Sarum towards London with his whole Army by reason of the false Report of some Tumult in the City made by the Apprentices which News did not in the least discompose us The Weather being somewhat favourable the Prince of Orange with all his Lords and Gentlemen attending him was pleased to ride and view the City and Castle and this Day the Deanary was embroider'd with the Officers in their Gold and Silver-Lace Coats The Country People brought all sorts of Provisions in abundance because it yielded them Money and went off well We heard here that our Friends were up in the North of England as the Lord Delamere Earl of Devonshire Earl of Stamford Earl of Danby Sir Scroop How Sir William Russel with divers others By this time the Gentlemen of Somersetshire and Dorsetshire were coming in to join his Highness and on Thursday November 15 they waited on him at Exeter upon which he was pleased to speak to them as follows Tho we know not all your Persons yet we have a Catalogue of your Names and remember the Character of your Worth and Interest in your Country You see we are come according to your Invitation and our Promise Our Duty to God obliges us to protect the Protestant Religion and our Love to Mankind your Liberties and Properties We expected you that dwelt so near the place of our Landing would have join'd us sooner not that it is now too late nor that we want your Military Assistance so much as your Countenance and Presence to justify our declar'd Pretentions in order to accomplish our good and gracious Design Tho we have brought both a good Fleet and a good Army to render these Kingdoms happy by rescuing all Protestants from Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power by restoring them to their Rights and Properties established by Law and by promoting of Peace and Trade which is the Soul of Government and the very Life-Blood of a Nation yet we rely more on the Goodness of God and the Justice of our Cause than on any Humane Force and Power whatever Yet since God is pleased we shall make use of Humane means and not expect Miracles for our Preservation and Happiness let us not neglect making use of this gracious Opportunity but with Prudence and Courage put in Execution our so honourable Purposes Therefore Gentlemen Friends and Fellow-Protestants we bid you and all your Followers most heartily Welcome to our Court and Camp. Let the whole World now judg if our Pretentions are not Just Generous Sincere and above Price since we might have even a Bridg of Gold to Return back But it is our Principle and Resolution rather to dye in a Good Cause than live in a Bad one well knowing that Vertue and True Honour is its own Reward and the Happiness of Mankind Our Great and Only Design The late King James coming up towards London the Regiment of Dragoons belonging to the Lord Cornbury came away from him to join the Prince of Orange and the Lord Cornbury with many other Lords Knights and Gentlemen came unto Exeter and attended