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Prince-protecting providences, or, A collection of some historical passages relating how several princes and personages (born for great actions) have had miraculous preservations : made publick upon occasion of the late memorable (and miraculous) deliverance of His Royal Highness, James Duke of York.
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Gibbon, John, 1629-1718.
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for the kind Endeavour of his Kinsman Egbert who got him a Shoar This same Emperour used to go often to Prayers in St. Maries Church in Mount Aventine Pope Gregory the Seventh who carried a watchful Eye over this great Princes Actions commanded one to take notice of the Place where he was wont to pray and got a certain Fellow to go up upon the Top of the Church and there upon the Beams to place certain great Stones which should be so fitly laid that with the least touch they should fall down upon the Emperour's Head and brain him at their Fall The Villain went so hastily to work that as he thought to have rowled down a very great Stone the said Stone with his weight drew him too So that Man and Stone came down together upon the Temple-floor where the Man was killed with the Stone that fell upon him and the Emperour escaped The good Emperour notwithstanding would have the Wretch to be buried Bodin tells of a certain Gentleman of Normandy who once resolved to have killed King Francis but the Divine Power operating he repented him of his wicked Purpose This was that Famous Francis the great Emulator of Charles the Fifth and opposing him in all his Ambitious Undertakings Justin tells us Astyages upon a Dream caused his Grand-Son to be delivered to Harpagus to be made away which he unwilling to do himself delivers him to the King's Shepherd he also unwilling to kill the Infant exposes him in the Woods and afterwards finds a Bitch suckling of him and defending him from Beasts and Birds His Wife perswades him to expose her own Son and bring up the other which is consented to Thus was that great Conquerour of Asia Cyrus preserved whose Birth was foretold by Isaiah Three Hundred years before it happened Isa 44. 28. Justin telleth us also Gargoris King of the Curetes his Daughter was got with with Child he commands the Innocent to be made away First It was exposed in Solitary Places and the Wild Beasts they suckle it instead of devouring it Secondly It is laid in a narrow Way where droves of Beasts went to and returned from the Field they trod not on him but contrary Goats and Cows stand still and suckle him Hungry Dogs spare him And cast to Sows they suckle him Then he is cast into the Sea where he floats and the Waves carry him a Shoar and a Hinde nourishes and brings him up Finally After sometime he is taken in a Toil or Net and presented to his Grand-Father and known by certain Marks is proclaimed Heir and proved an Excellent Prince Procus Silvius had two Sons Numitor and Amulius Amulius having chased his Elder Brother Numitor out of the Country caused also his Daughter Rhea to become a Vestal-Virgin she becomes great of two Sons and delivered These Amulius exposes Fortune provides 'em for Nurse a Shee-Wolfe bereaved of her Whelps and willing to have her Duggs drawn who often suckles them Faustulus the King's Shepherd takes notice of this wond'rous Accident and brings them up in a Country way At length they revenge the Injury done to Numitor and restore him These Miraculously nourish't-Twins were ordained to be Founders of the City Rome the future Lady of the World And so by an unexpected Providence were preserved as Justin and other Authors Hiero King of Sicily was a Bastard and exposed by his Father Hieroclitus Wanting Humane Helps the Bees nourish him which his Father knowing and consulting the South-sayers holds it for a good Omen takes him home and gives him agreeable Education This was he that succeeded the Great Pyrrhus in the Sicilian Kingdom and of whom Justin gives a most Royal Character Homay Queen of Persia left with Child by her Husband at five Months end is deliver'd of a Son The Astrologers are conven'd who consult the Stars and find He should cause great Miseries and Ruin to his Realms so as many were of opinion he should be put to Death The Mother would not yield to that but caused him to be put in a little Cradle enclosed within a Coffer or Ark of Wood in which she put many precious Jewels of great value to the end if any poor Man found him he might the rather afford to bring him up He was carried far from thence upon the River Jehun and was taken up by a poor Landerer or Washer of Linnen He brings him up when he was grown Great nothing would serve him but the Profession of Arms. He enters into the Army of his unknown Mother performs Wonders is brought before her and after Questions aks't is by her acknowledg'd and succeeds in the Kingdom Exceeding all his Predecessors in Bounty and Wisdom contrary to the Opinion of the Chaldeans or Astrologers who do not always Preach the Gospel Ex Chronio Persico Kozrar King of Persia upon a Dream caused Jazdegard his Grand-Son to be carried into a Solitary and Desart Place exposed to the Mercy of Wild Beasts where certain Herdsmen passing by took him and gave him Breeding according to their poor Quality Coming to Age he found means to know his Beginning and having a Mind agreeable to his Birth he went to Court where he carried himself so bravely that at length he was acknowledged for what he was so as after he was made King and Governed exceeding well On St. Dunstan's Day 1251. Eâ—â—anor the Queen Wife to Henry the Third sitting with her Children in a Chamber at Windsor-Castle a marvellous Tempest of Thunder and Lightening beat down to Dust the Chimney of the said Chamber where they were they receiving no harm She was a devout and good Queen and the Children are supposed to be Prince Edward then some Twelve Years old Edmund Earl of Lancaster Margaret after Queen of the Scots Beatrix afterwards Dutchess of Britain Stow. Anno 1287. The fore-said Prince Edward now become King sitting with the Queen together in a Chamber a Thunder-Clap entring the Window passed between them and slew two of their Houshold Servants they remaining unhurt Stow. This was that Famous Edward that tamed the Scots and Welch See Weaver pag. 456 457 458 459. During his being in the Holy-Land he was wounded by a Saracen with a venom'd Knife the Poison whereof was sucked out by his Queen otherwise the Wound thought uncurable Fox the Martyrologist in the Beginning of his Discourse of this Princes Reign has a Memorable Passage That he once playing at Chess with a certain Souldier suddenly upon no occasion given rose up and went his way when presently a mighty Stone fell down from the Vault directly upon the Place where he sate which had undoubtedly brained him Henry the Eighth following his Hawk leapt over a Ditch with a Pole which broke so that if Edmund Moody a Foot-man had not leapt into the Water and lift up the King's Head which stuck in the Clay he had been drown'd This Foot-man was rewarded both with Means and Arms speaking his Service done to his Prince
the Little a Man of admirable Courage and Conduct King of Jerusalem and Hungaria and many other Provinces had at his Coronation several ill Omens among many others a multitude of Crows seated themselves upon the Royal Palace and immediately after his Coronation he was traiterously and miserably Massacred See the fore recited Authors in their Genealogick History of the House of France Hâ—ylen speaking in Chaldea of Divination or Southsaying says a Company of Crows accompanying home Sejanus with great Clamours and Croakings was deemed Fatal to that great Favourite and so it proved Ovid lib. 5. of his Metam in his story of Ascalaphus terms the Owl Ignavus Bubo dirum mortalibus Omen Lib. 6. he calls it Prophanus Bubo and says It sate upon the Bride-bed of Tereus and Progne fore-boding the unluckiness of that Marriage So Lib. 10. Funereus Bubo And Lib. 15. he terms Stygius Bubo Tristia mille locis Stygius dedit Omnia Bubo Virgil. Georg. Lib. primo versus finem And again Aen. Lib. 4. The First hinting the Death of Caesar the last of Dido by divers Portents Among the which the Owl acts her Part. Learned Selden p. 36. of his Comment upon Poly-olbion quotes Silius Italicus Obseditque frequens castrorum limina Bubo a presage of the Romans Overthrow at Canna Look the Book of Martyrs sub H. 5. and you find the Pourtraict of the Council of Constance and the ill-ominous Owl that appear'd there prodigiously presaging the Deposition of Pope John 24. But see Camcrarius p. 244. who elegantly relates the Story and highly praises the excellent Qualifications of this Pope Heylen in the Place before recited observes an Owl screeching in the Senate-House was deemed Ominous to Augustus Mellificium Historicum says Two Eagles sat upon the Pallace-top a whole day when Alexander the Great was born which the South-sayers averr'd to portend the double Empire of Europe and Asia A certain Monk foretold to Philippicus Bordanes that he should be Emperor by the Augury of an Eagle which he saw Shadowing the Head of the said Philippicus as he slept Les Estats du Monde The Romane Histories tell us That the snatching off the Cap of Tarquinius Priscus by an Eagle and the putting of it on again was by the Augur interpreted as a Presage of his future Possessing the Roman Diadem And Justin reports That Hiero that excellent King of Sicilia whom Livy also highly extols was foretold to be a King by an Eagle lighting upon his Shield when He first entred upon the Military Employ The Dove was accounted Fortunate among the Heathen and Recorded for Blessed in Sacred Writ But let us see what Authors say of the candid Swan All esteem him for a Bird-Royal and oftentimes in Coats and Crests we meet him either Crown'd or Coronally Collar'd I could give several instances I will only mention that of the Famous Dutchy of Stormaria which the Learned Civilian Vredus Blazons thus Cygnus argenteus aureá circa collum coronâ in Solo Caeruleo Bl. a Swan Ar. Collared with a Crown Or. And he was the Badge of several great English Princes of which anon Mr. Guillim but indeed Dr. Barkham as Mr. Fuller avers in his Worthies says He is a Bird of great Beauty and Strength also and this is reported of him That he uses not his strength to prey or tyrannize over any other Fowl but only to be revenged of such as offer him wrong In which case says Aristotle he often vanquishes the Eagle Pierius says He signifies Purity of Mind nay Apollo himself Now in antient time he was consecrated to Apollo Apollo signifying nothing else but the Sun which is Oculus Lux Mundi Gen. 1. 16 17 18. Apollo is sometimes called Liber Pater a Liberal Father the Latin word bears that sense as well as others and that is confirmed Deut. 33. 14. Astrologers term him Rex Planetarum and says He gives Rule Riches and Honour is Significator of Emperors Kings Princes c. The Swan is the Bird of the Sun and also of his Royal Highness Martianus says Shipmen take it for good luck if in Peril of Shipwrack they meet Swans I hope the Attendance of these Swans the Matter in hand forebodes his Royal Highness's happy Deliverance from all his stormy tempestuous vexatious Troubles Let us see what brave Princes have used this happy Bird commended by St. Ambrose for their Cognizance First Edward 3. a brave Prince as ever was and concern'd in the Auspicious Fate of 14th Octob. used it at a Tournament being embroider'd on his Shield and Surcoat with this Motto Mr. Ashmole his Garter 885. Hay hay the Wyth Swan By God's Soul I am thy Man Secondly Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Gloucester used it continually John Gower that Famous Poet much bewails the Murder of that excellent Prince Stiling him Cygnus de corde Benignus oftentimes giving him the Epithet of Swan See Weaver 638. A Swan with a Coronet about his Neck was one of the Supporters to King Hen. 4. as Mr. Sandford in his Gen. History 258. A Prince of singular Valour and Clemency for he refused not the Duel with Tho. Mowbray Duke of Norfolk see Stâ—m Anno 1â—78 And Secondly He pardon'd Owen Glendowrdy that had so damnably plagu'd him see Stow Anno 1401 1402. Bis. 1403 1404 1405 c. at the request only of David Holbech Esq that was but a Servant of his own and formerly Acquaintance of the said Owens ibid. 1404. Certainly he was an Admirable Prince by that wise and honest Advice he gave his Son upon his Death-bed as R. Brook p. 27 viz. To Minister the Laws indifferently To ease the Oppressed To beware of Flatterers Not to defer Justice Nor to be sparing of Mercy Punish quoth he the Oppressors of the People so shalt thou obtain Favour of God and Love of thy Subjects who whilst they have Wealth so long shalt thou have Obedience but being made poor by Oppressions will be ever ready for Rebellion But let me not forget that before he came to be King the Swan was his Badge and was imbroider'd upon his Caparisons when he entred the Lists aforesaid against the Famous Duke his Adversary as a Mss. given to the Heralds Office by Sir William Dudg Garter The Seal of Cicely Nevil Dutchess of York a little Woman but Famous among our Writers for her great Spirit was supported by a Swan see Mr. Sandford Lancast Herald p. 352. She was Mother to Edw. the Fourth and Rich. the Third as also to George Duke of Clarence Princes of great Valour and Wit She saw first her Husband and third Son slain Secondly She saw the two Princes her Grand-children Murder'd by their own Uncle and her Son Thirdly She saw her said Son also slain Yet bearing all these Crevecoeurs with a most even and invincible mind she lived to the 11th of Hen. 7th admirably making good Mala sunt superanda ferendo Ladislaus King of Jerusalem Sicilie Hungaria and many other Provinces had