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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	face_n	front_n	rear_n	3,055	5	12.8703	5	false

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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