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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

For our Good Theodosius was always prevalent with God in Prayer And Vbi Deus ardenter invocatur victoria stat a Bona causa Therefore as Marcellinus and Claudianus Spake or Sang of this Battel we may of this Irish War c. O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat aether Et conjurati veniunt ad Classica venti At last the Irish had strongly Fortified and Barricado'd the River leading to it But notwithstanding all that Distress'd Town was Reliev'd by Major General Kirk after the Dartmouth Frigat had forced her way to it over all those Impediments and the Siege was effectually rais'd The day before which by another Strange Accident inconsiderable in it self But by the Guidance of Heaven made Instrumental to the further Mortification of our Enemies A choice Body of about 6000 Irish Commanded by one of their best Officers Major General Mackarty were defeated by about 2000 Inniskillingers by occasion of a mistake of the Word of Command among the Irish For it seems Mackarty perceiving the Courageous Inniskilling-Men Charge the Right Wing of his Irish very desperately ordered some of his Choice Men to Face to the Right and March to the Relief of their Companions but the Officer who carried the Orders mistook and Commanded the Men in stead of Facing to the Right To Face to the Right-about and so March upon which the Irish in the Rear seeing their Front look with their Faces towards them and move thought they had been running and so immediately in a Terror threw down their Arms and run away which the rest seeing run after them for Company and so were most of them cut off or Drown'd in Lough's and Bogs and Mackarty himself taken Prisoner Afterwards when Duke Schomberg went over but with a small Army of new raised Men though as it usually happens to English Armies new-raised when they first came into a strange Countrey many of our Men died and the whole Army was brought into a low condition by bad Weather Lodging and Diet nay and by their own Laziness in great part in not Hutting themselves like Men more used to War Yet the Enemies had not the Policy or Courage to make use of the many advantages they had over us in that long time that our Army was thus languishing But trifled away their opportunity in hopes of the effect of a Plot laid by some French Traitors among us which God seem'd to have permitted in order to encourage them for to flatter themselves with vain hopes and to make them pass over or slip those other seasonable and likely opportunities they had to have destroyed us Would they have been contented to use fair Force rather than Treachery odious to God and Man But to pass by all those lesser events and hasten to the main Action in which His Gracious Majesty was present And which gave the Great Turn of the Scale towards the Reducing of that Kingdom The next year being 1690 His Majesty King William being fully resolv'd to push the Irish War to an end or fall in the Attempt that so he might have liberty solely and wholly next year against his Capital Enemy the French Tyrant who had brought so many Miseries upon all Europe and had occasion'd all the Misfortunes of his Deluded Ally King James and having by the Death of Dundee supprest in great measure the Insurrection or Stirs in Scotland left Kensington the 4th of June 1690 and Embarking at Highlake on the 12th arriv'd on the 14th safely at Carrickfergus And on the 27th of June following assembled a Royal Army of about 36000 as Brave Men as Europe or the World could shew of English Dutch Danes Germans and French provided as well with all Necessaries both for the Mouth and War as could be desired So much of Life and Circumspection had his Excellent Majesty's Presence given to all Needful Orders for that purpose When he was arrived at his Army he was continually in action and observing the Goodness of the Countrey as he rid along he admired the Fertility of its foil and pleasing Aspect of its Landskips and said it was well worth fighting for And now understanding that the Irish Army was retired over the Boyn He Marched with all speed and diligence after them And being advanced near the River hard by a Pass called Old-Bridge he was so Adventurous as to stand on the side of a Bank within Musquet-shot of the Ford to observe the posture of His Enemies Which though he saw well-fenced and a River not easily passable and that was well-fortified with Canon and other strong Defences against him Yet knowing that the safety of Europe in great Measure at that Juncture depended upon some bold Master Stroke in that Countrey without which all that he had hitherto done and ventured for our Rescue and Security would be but lost He resolv'd therefore to venture through all Difficulties whatsoever obeying the Great Call of Providence rather than that so Noble and Happy a Revolution should fail for want of Courage in him Who is acknowledged by his Enemies to be a Prince of no small Spirit and Valour and had made it appear to the World in all the Course of His Life After he had with those Intentions viewed them a while he was pleased to sit down on the Ground to Refresh himself which some Principal Persons of the Enemies side having observed they caused a small Party of Horse to advance flowly upon a Plowed Field over against where His Majesty was and slily to drop two Field-pieces undiscover'd by a Hedge in the same Field and so retired leaving only some Gunners to Manage them who lay sculking still and quiet till His Majesty was Re-mounted and Dreaming of no Danger at all was Riding softly back again But then the Rogues Fired furiously and at the first shot killed two Horses and a Man about 100 yards from the King and at the second had like to have given a very fatal Stroke both to these Kingdoms and the whole Confederacy by Quenching the Light Joy and Hope of our Israel the Bullet Grasing upon the Bank of the River and thence Rising towards the King with a slanting Motion glanced over His Right Shoulder taking off a Piece of His Coat Tore part of the King 's Anointed Body But being turn'd off short by the hand of some Guardian-Angel Commission'd by the Lord Jehovah touched not His Precious Life nor so much as gave him any wound grievous enough to hinder Him from continuing with His Army and Ordering the Remarkable Action that soon followed For as soon as he had changed His Coat and had His Wound dressed He spent the most part of the remainder of that Day in Disposing His whole Army for the next day's Work and then on the Morrow being Tuesday the first of July following early in the Morning with full Trust in the Protection of the Lord of Hosts Himself which He had found so signally attended His Royal and Sacred Person He very

Men of Sense of both Parties The hands to which were most of them Suborn'd and hired and the Hundreds and Thousands that were not Named set down with a Bold Stroke indefinitely Cum c. Though no where yet Existing but in Nubibus and which indeed though they pretended to have devoted their Lives and Fortunes to the service of their New Benefactor for the Gracious Liberty he had Granted them yet proved but Troops of Air in his time of Need the Main Body of the Dissenting Party Wisely Concurring with that of the Church to wish well to the Arms of the Prince of Orange and in Scotland doing indeed themselves the whole Work for him And though the Church-Party would not give their Consent to the taking off the Test and Penal Laws Yet he had some hopes they and especially the Major part of the Clergy among them would at least have gone such Lengths in Passive Obedience and compliance to Prerogative as to have been tamely submissive with the dispensing with them and not to have withstood the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience But when he found by that Acute Letter to a Dissenter and some other Writings Publisht on that occasion that they Disavowed all Complaisance with him in those Points that no Addresses of Thanks excepting one or two came from any of the Church of England Party upon the subject of that Declaration and that notwithstanding the many sham Addresses wherewith he sought to Delude himself and the World the Best and Wisest part of the Dissenters Rejected his Declaration as harbouring a Secret Snake in the Grass and Underhand sided with the Church of England in Disavowing any Liberty not Granted in Parliament He was extreamly Uneasie and many Projects were offer'd to him by his Cabinet Councellours to Ward the Mischiefs these ill symptoms Threaten'd and make himself obey'd According to some of these Advices to Revenge himself upon such of our Clergy as stood Tight to the Protestant and English Interests by the means of such of them as he thought would comply which still he imagin'd would be the Major part and to make them as his Jesuits phrased it To eat their own Dung by forcing them to Excert an Active or else to feel the smart of their own Passive Obedience the Principles of which he mistakingly fansied would have carried the Main-Body of the Clergy Just as great and extravagant lengths as some Tantivy-Court-Doctors among them at that time had laid out for them and have perswaded them that the same Absolute and Unlimitted Obedience was owing to the Bare Commands of the King as to the Acts of the Three Estates viz. King Lords and Commons in which alone is the fulness of Supream Legal Power and Authority and to which alone consequently the Orthodox Christian Duty of Absolute Active or Passive Obedience is due And that they were to submit as blindly and tamely to the King acting without or against LAW as by and with it and that Active or Passive Obedience was as much due to the King out of as in Parliament and to a Word of his an Order of Council or a Proclamation as to an Act of Parliament I say erroneously thinking that the Major part of our Churchmen were as much season'd with those Mistaken Notions of Passive Obedience c. as some Court-Doctours by ass'd then by the Jesuits and some of their Unthinking Followers seem'd to be He resolves to Administer to the whole Body of the Clergy such a Dose or Pill as should infallibly search and try the Temper of them all and therefore presently gives Order to all Ministers Pastours and Curates To Read Publickly in their Churches his Declaration for liberty of Conscience But finding that Contrary to his Expectation not onely Seven of our Principal and Right Reverend Bishops had the Zeal and Courage to Address him against that Declaration as Illegal and to Protest they could not Comply with his Commands in Reading it because against Law as well as their Consciences And that the Main-Body of the Clergy throughout the Kingdom influenc'd by their Noble Example Refused likewise to Read it and that in Nine thousand and some Hundreds of Parishes there are in England and Wales besides Collegiate-Churches and Chappels c. there were scarely 500 Clergy-Men in all that were weak and supple enough to Comply with his Orders in that Matter He and his Cabal were much inraged And yet at their Wits end what Measures to take How to Remedy so great an Evil and how to prosecute a whole Body of Men so considerable as that of the Clergy They had not long before that set up though contrary to an Express Act of Parliament a New High Commission thinking thereby to have awed the Clergy and have Disciplin'd them so as to have disposed them for a Ready Compliance with the Declaration that was to follow And which had they Complied Was to have been the Dead-doing-Stroke to the Churchof England By which High-Commission they Censured and Deprived the Right Worthy and Magnanimous Prelate the present Lord Bishop of London Notwithstanding his and his Noble Families great Merits towards the Crown and several other worthy Clergy Men Which Bold Attempts upon the Subjects Liberty and Prerogative of Parliament did not a little move all Orders and Ranks of Men in the Kingdom and rather made them far more stiff against all Compliance with the least Motions made towards taking away the Penal Laws and Test and with the Declaration for Liberty than any ways frightned or disposed them to it Which made the Popish Cabal tho they resolv'd to deal rigorously with the Addressing Bishops whom they committed to the Tower not dare to employ the Authority of their pretended Commission against them any more But rather to Impeach them at Law which when they were baffled in they signified such indiscreet Rage and Spite at their Disappointment that they could not forbear letting the whole Body of the Protestants throughout Great Britain c. see that from thenceforwards they were minded without seeking any more Umbella's or Disguises of Law and Justice to prosecute their Revenge by Main Force and by Military and Dragooning hands to effect what they could not do by their High-Commission or any courses at Law I need not mention their Practices in endeavouring to Poyson the Fountains that were to feed our Posterity by Erecting Popish Schools and Seminaries in divers places and by endeavouring to stuff our Vniversities with Roman Emissaries Nor the violences used towards those who withstood them As to those of Magdalen College and others because all those were but less matters in comparison of what they did afterwards to the Right Reverend the Bishops and were going to do to the rest of the Clergy and therefore shall only proceed to hint upon those other Extremities they openly in the face of the Sun at last were driving us upon And which even forc'd the whole Nation most Justly in its Necessary Defence after

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