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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

Consequence to all Princes And among other Troops they just now raised a new Regiment of Horse-Guards all notorious Papists for the pretended Prince of Wales and committed the custody of his Person to them only and to the Irish III. After the renown'd Prince of Orange and his Forces were happily landed at Tor-bay and had given Directions for the speedy landing the rest and the Canon to be unship'd for the more conveniency at Topsham the late King James's Council as influenc'd by the French advised him to neglect sending the body of Scotch and Irish Soldiers in which he confided to attack the Princes Force while they were so fatigued and disabled with the bitter Voyage they had undergone and were not as yet re-inforc'd by any Refreshments or Rest or join'd by any Male-contents as they call'd them out of the Countrey or from the late King 's own Army and rather to stay till he could assemble his whole Army and provide a sufficient train of Artillery store of Ammunition c. and be ready to March against them in Person to give them a formal Battel which must be acknowledged gave our renown'd Prince a convenient opportunity to refresh his Men and Horse and recruit what were wanting and likewise to such as were well affected to him in the Countrey and in the King's Army to go over to him IV. King James by a strange Fate though so much Frenchified yet being over perswaded not to become too much dependant of the French King refused till it was too late to receive a French Army though often press'd to it by Barillon insomuch that the French King finding he could not have his Will to have a French Force admitted strong enough to Master both England and its King and to have the English Forces instead of his own to fight his Quarrels on the other side gave the aforesaid Counsel to the late King James not to detach his Scots and Irish against the Princes wearied Forces for fear his English Army taking exceptions thereat might Rebel and seize his Person in the mean time but to march with his whole Army against them in Person where one Nation might awe the other and the English might have less cause of Exception seeing some confidence still reposed in them and the Kings presence might keep them all in due Decorum and Obedience The French though fearing some would desert him yet thought that enough would still stay with the King to keep up a Civil War which would deprive the Hollanders and Confederates at least of the Forces they had lent for that Expedition and which was more of the Conduct of so great a General as the Prince of Orange and force King James the next Summer to admit what number of French to help him he should please to offer and which he thought he could easily send him by his own Fleet with that part of King James's that should remain firm to him and so he should have his long desired ends at last V. Because King James had so stiffly refused a French Army for that present and to part with his English the French King in hopes that the late King would however find Friends enough to keep the valiant Prince of Orange and his Forces employed for some years without being able to assist the Confederates and make both England and Holland the eager Prey to him at last though he were in actual War with Holland and had a numerous Army near their Frontiers yet forbore to make any Attempt upon them for fear it should hinder the Prince and his Forces from going for England and so deprive him of the sundry advantages he hoped to reap by that Diversion So true a Friend was he at the Bottom to his poor deluded Ally's Interest and so very much mistaken in true Measures for promoting his own by an over-ruling hand of Providence VI. And lastly the strange unmanly fear and unsteadiness that appeared in the late King James when he had the greatest occasion to shew that Courage and Conduct he had alwaies before pretended to in not appearing firm to stand by those that otherwise in all probability would have stood to him even among the English Forces as well as among the Nobility Clergy and Gentry and his actual deserting them afterwards gave the last finishing Motion to the mighty and memorable Revolution that followed Thus you see all these several steps of the Prince of Orange's very Enemies though directed as they thought by the best safest and rightest measures of Prudence and Policy against him were all made by the Providence of Almighty God who taketh the Wise in their own craftiness and will suffer no enchantment against Jacob nor divination against Israel to contribute to the more assured and speedy success of our noble Prince Enterprise so very justly and lawfully undertaken by a loud Call and Commission from Heaven in his own Defence and likewise in the Defence and Safety of the People Church and Cause of God And by these strange means it came to pass that the magnanimous Prince setting sail a second time from Hellevoet-sluys with a prosperous Gale though he suffer'd much again with his people afterwards by rough Weather and the incommodities of Landing in such a place and his first uncouth Marches yet Landing upon the 5th of November in the famous Year 1688. just 100 years after the Spanish Invasion and on the Anniversary of the Gun-powder Treason as if design'd and ordain'd by Heaven to deliver us both from the intestine Contrivances of a Faction within us and the approaching inundation of the French without us now much more formidable than Spain was then in less than six Weeks time entred Triumph●●ly into the Palace of our Capital City 〈◊〉 by almost universal Consent of the exceeding joyful Nation of all Orders Ranks and Degrees invested on the Anniversary of the Nativity of our Lord with the Administration of the Government as if by Divine appointment preordain'd to be a temporal Saviour to these Nations and to all his chosen People and by the peculiar Deligation and Commission of that King of Kings and Lord of Lords that Rules over the Kingdoms of Men and gives them to whomsoever he will And then after he had by the general desire and humble importunity of the Subjects called a Convention of Estates was by them on the 13th of February 1688. conjointly with his Royal and virtuous Princess declared the Rightful and undoubted King and Queen of England France and Ireland and soon after of Scotland The late King James by sending his Queen and pretended Son into France into the hands of a known Enemy of these Nations and who had been the cause of all their manifold grievances and by retiring thither afterwards voluntarily of his own accord himself having given infallible Evidence to all the sober part of the Nation that the Birth of that pretended Prince was too dark a Contrivance to endure the clear light of a publick

Memory after having furmounted numbers of sundry Obstacles thought indeed to be insurmountable and with a prodigious and undaunted Resolution Conduct Prudence and Constancy laid the Foundations of a flourishing Republick that now sends forth Ambassadors daily upon equal terms to the most puissant Kings in the habitable part of the Earth and even to the King of Spain himself who accepts the alliance and assistance of those his quondam Subjects whom not content to rule as such his haughty and impolitick Progenitors sometime treated as Slaves and Abjects And how his Warlike Great and Famous Uncles and Grand-fathers by the continued course of their Victories fixt and established the dear-bought liberty and greatness of their Country by the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes and the vast expence of their Treasures is amply set forth by many florid and learned Pens Nor have even the Writers of their very Enemies side been able to be silent of their Praises and noble Acts so manifest to the whole World And therefore we judge it altogether superfluous to say any more here on this Subject Nam Genus proavos quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco Our main and chief design in this small 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being only to show how our present illustrious Prince after that he had no less miraculously retrieved not only the very Being but even the prosperity and greatness of the same State when through the Treachery and sottish negligence of its then Governours it seem'd as t' were to the World's eye to be tumbled down to the very Foundations and laid all in Rubbish by the thundring and surpassing fury of a more powerful Monarch than the former Roboam of Spain has still providentially advanced by most glorious and successfull steps against that formidable and too much prevailing Nero of the West and alone given life to almost if not all the efforts that have been made against his uncontrollable power which else would like an irresistible Tyde or Sea where the Banks are broken down have deluged even all Europe And how at length in recompence of so many hard Toils and Perils of his precious Life for the Publick Good the almighty Lord of Battels particularly for the glory of his holy Name and the well-fare of his suffering Church hath by a series of Providences more wonderfull than all the rest exalted Him to a station that 's above many of his noble Ancestors and placed Him on the Sovereign Throne of the most Military and Formidable Kingdoms of the West and bestowed upon him yearly still new and fresh earnests or specimens of his having really elected Him to compleat like the great Constantine whose Sovereign power likewise had its first rise in the warlike British Isles the full deliverance of his oppressed Children and the Re-erection of his Church in a Triumphant State both of Purity and Prospirity by at least the crushing under if not the utter subversion of that Babilonish Power and Authority which has been so long the Bar which letteth the growth of the Truth of the Gospel and the right understanding of the great Mysteries of Godliness as well as the Plague and Terrour of all quiet and peaceable Christians This glorious Prince I say as if indeed God of his great Mercy and Goodness had removed all humane Tutelage and Protection on mere purpose that he might shew us and all the World that he himself took Him under his own immediate and peculiar care and Guardianship as a mighty Heroe by whom he graciously intended to work or bring to pass some Signal and Extraordinary Deliverances to his own Israel was most unhappily deprived of his Father a Prince of a truth of most hopeful and surpassing Courage Prudence Piety and all other very noble Endowments even before he was brought forth into the World Being taken off by that common Distemper the Small Pox in the very Spring of his Days or flower of his Age being but twenty four years Old when he died And our blessed Prince coming into the World not till some few days after his renowned Father's decease viz. on the fourth of November Anno 1650. He was verily observed in his tender Years or youthful Days to discover a Discretion Moderation sweetness of Temper and a Reservedness much beyond or above his Age. And his Prudence Valour and other Princely Virtues increasing daily with his Stature He gave his Relatives and Friends as well as those about him all the Appearances of an extraordinary share of Courage Conduct and all other Dispositions that could possibly be desired in a Prince in order to qualifie him As for an affectionate Father so also for a most powerful Defender of his Rights and Country And it is most peculiarly observable that though God hath permitted sundry mighty endeavours to have been made by Domestick Factions even from his very Cradle in order to have opprest his growing Greatness and several horrid and execrable Plots and Devices to have been carried on with great Secresie both by them and the Intrigues of Foreign Princes to defeat his grand Designs and to bereave him of his most Just Lawful and Hereditary Rights and Honours or of his precious Life it self Yet still thanks be to God for it and adored be his holy Name the many oppositions and hellish Machinations of his implacable and undeserv'd Enemies have been by good Providence made to serve even against their original intention only to his far greater Glory and Exaltation causing his noble Virtues to be more seen in the World as the Stars shine brightest in the darkest night For though the Faction of Barnevelt continued and upheld afterwards by the De-wits prevail'd upon the States General in those daies most ungratefully and ungenerously to deprive our accomplisht young Prince of all his Hereditary Dignities and Employments yet at the same time they thus took care to depress the Prince they were so infatuated and blinded with inveterate malice against him that they minded not at all to what Dangers they then exposed their State or Country To which end they committed the greatest Blunders imaginable in Politicks for after the Peace of Munster foolishly believing they had no more Enemies to fear but the Ancient and Warlike House of Nassau whose greatness they conjectured if not timely depress'd would be a perpetual Obstacle to their unjust and ambitious designs of grasping the Government entirely into their own hands they therefore rashly and without any consideration disbanded all their hardy Veteran Forces and well experienced Commanders by whose valour and hard toil their Country had been raised to that flourishing condition it was then in only for that very reason because they looked upon them as too much affected to his Highness the Prince of Orange and this was done too without the least care to procure or provide any other old experienc'd Troops in their Room Moreover they gave the chiefest Employments in their Armies and Garrisons at that

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

his power and a great favour too they that will be Protestants or will not be Papists thus Alamode de France being both equally destituted to utter Destruction And to convince you further that these were the real and unfeigned Designs of Lewis the 14th King of France a Friend of mine that intimately knew the Person assured me that when the French Clergy were assembled in the year 1682. he sent a skillful Antiquary into England to search diligently and most accurately our Records in the Tower and at Westminster to see and learn what steps King Henry the 8th had made in his Rupture with Rome and which of them might most effectually be put in practice by him in order to accomplish his foresaid ends But what followed from this Conduct of driving on so very furiously at one and the same time two such contrary designs as these were one towards the other to bring about the same self purpose Why the same that 's reported to have happen'd to the famous Wrestler Milo who in ostentation of his great strength endeavour'd to rive a sunder with his Arms the main Limbs of adouble bodied Tree He made a shift indeed to split them in part but not being able to go through perfectly with the Work was by their recoiling Force catch'd so fast himself between them as to be made a defenceless prey to the wild Beasts Thus Lewis the 14th by first persecuting the Protestants and attacking the Pope's Authority has reduced himself into a Labyrinth and brought a general War upon his Dominions c. By his most severe Persecution and endeavour absolutely to exterminate the Protestants he berest himself wholly of some hundreds of thousands of his wealthiest and most useful Subjects consisting of many of the most trading Merchants best Officers and expert Mariners and Seamen to the strengthening of his Enemies round about in the adjacent Countries and the utter ruin of many Roman Catholick Families their Creditors or that were of their Dependance and fill'd his Kingdom with Hypocrites and Malecontents who required as many Troops to watch over their Conduct which gave and will give continual Jealousies and Alarms as would have served him to compose a good Army to defend the largest of his Frontiers and that which was more fatal to him than all the rest these cruel and most barbarous proceedings of his exasperated the Spirits of the warlike and valorous English and thereby made it altogether impracticable for his great Ally King James to make himself Master enough of his People to be so serviceable to him in his Attempts towards universal Monarchy as he perhaps might have been is to sweeten the minds of the undaunted British Protestants Monsieur Lewis had politickly at the late King James's first accession to the Crown and voluntarily restored the French Protestants their old Liberties and Privileges which he solemnly swore to maintain at his Coronation For it must be acknowledged on all hands that they namely the Protestants were his faithfullest Subjects who put the Crown on his head out of a feigned or pretended difference to the late King James's intreaties and respect to the intercession of the English Church and Nation To have been thus before hand with us in Civility what savours would it not have extorted from the English Protestants towards the Papists here And what Jealousies would it not have suppress'd And how much more easily might we have been catcht by tickling than by scratching especially had he at the same time kept Quiet and justly observed the last concluded Truce with the Confederates But acting the quite contrary it made the late King James's Conduct by far the more narrowly inquired into and rendred all people both Jealous and Affraid even of his favours and made them justly suspect the sincerity of such a Prince though at the same time declaring himself for liberty of Conscience whom they saw so visibly and amicably to correspond with a notorious Tyrant of the same Religion so very eager upon Persecution as daily to fill his greatest and best Friends Dominions at so unseasonable a nick of time with whole Shoals or multitudes of Exiles in such a miserable plight as he knew could not but stir up the resentments of the hardy English Protestants against both Princes and thereby as we have said disabled his Ally from getting that power into his hands which was so necessary for his assistance in the accomplishment of those Ambitious projects he since unprosperously pursues And on the other hand by acting as we have instanc'd against the Pope and offering so plainly at a new Model of Popery yea and making such brisk attempts upon the temporal Dominions and Territories of the Pope himself and that in his own Capital City of Rome as he did by his Ambassador the Marquess of Laverdine who not only exasperated the then Pope Innocent the 11th a person not of a temper either to be hectored or to be wheedled out of the Rights and Respects he thought due to him from a Prince pretending to the Titles of Most Christian and of Eldest Son of the Church one who not only very well understood his own Interest and the whole drift of Lewis the 14th But likewise first of all gave the alarm to all other Princes of the Roman Communion who thereby plainly seeing that not only their Territories but their Religion also was in no small danger from such designs and that the French Sultan intended Mahomet-like to have exterminated Popery properly so called as well as Protestantism and to have introduced by the Sword a third Religion hateful to both which was to have been Franco-Catholick more than Roman Catholick and to have been new Christened by that Name assoon as Paris by the prevailing Arms or more availing pieces of Gold of Lewis Le Grand should have been made the Metropolis General of all Christendom Hence he permits his Statue to be erected and adored by his Subjects in the posture of Prosternation he permits Holy-days to be Dedicated to them and Harangues to be made to them as if they were really so many Deities so that upon the Basis of these base Idols you may see these Inscriptions in Capital Letters TO THE IMMORTAL MAN Upon this Alarm of Pope Innocent the XIth all Europe began to look with a Suspicious Eye upon the Proceedings of the French Monarch and his Ally of Great Britain and minded more sharply every passage between them And though Lewis the XIVth endeavoured extreamly to throw dust in their eyes by extirpating and destroying the Protestants in his own Dominions out of a zeal as he feigned or profess'd to the Holy See yet they could not comprehend how that could possibly consist with his continual abetting and corroborating the Turks and supporting Count Teckely and his Protestant followers in Hungary and much less with his most Undutiful and Insolent Carriage to the Pope and with such formal Decisions as struck at the very Foundations of his Authority