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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51781	A short view of the lives of those illustrious princes, Henry Duke of Glovcester, and Mary Princess of Orange deceased, late brother and sister of His Majesty the King of Great Brittain collected by T.M. Esq., to whome the same will serve a rule & pattern.	Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1661 (1661)	Wing M446; ESTC R8035	34,733	124

for whom there was a stately and Prince-like preparation made for their entertainment which the whole States taking notice of their stomachs also came down and by their meanes the City of Amsterdam invited the Princesse of Orange to a magnificent feast in remembrance of the great services performed by the house of Orange for them The Dukes in this interim were retired into Flanders to their forces in the Spanish army wherein the Duke of York still continued an eminent actor but the Duke of Gloucester having as he supposed seen sufficient of the warres and hoping that God at length would restore his brother the King he intended to apply himself to such a form of life as that he might by his Counsell be able to help him knowing that most great men Tacit. Annal plura Consilio quam ●vi perfecerent have ever done as much by Counsell as by force 1 Com. C●vill Bel● This made Caesar say Non minus est Imperatoris consilio superare quam gladio A Princes conquests are gained as much by Councell as by the sword We may justly say that this young Duke did truly prove such a one as Basilius the Emperour recommended to his son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Use such Counsellers who have counselled well in their own affaires and managed the same well not such whose imprudence hath made all things go to confusion for they who through too much carelesnesse neglect themselves and their own businesse will never be a good help or adviser to another this I say was so in him for never was any man more atrent to what he undertook nor more carefull either in his own or the affaires of others by which meanes he hoped to shut out all foreiners from counsell lest they should attract envy to his Prince because Consilia externa sunt semper infausta That maxime in him was truly verified Miseria Prudentiae bowa Mater for certainly his afflictions did infinitely refine him He might say with David It is good for me that I have been afflicted ●sal 119. for thereby I have learned not only they Law but have gained an insight into worldly Wisdome nor are Councellors onely bettered by troubles but even Princes themselves are made excellent whom a various fortune hath sometimes exercised Charles the fifth of France was endued with an admirable Wisdome and gained the sirname of Wise but few men were ever so variously tossed up and down even from his very childhood his Father King Iohn being lead away Prisoner and the Kingdome harrassed over by another Nation So Lewis the eleventh a wise Prince yet for divers years driven both from his Father Friends and Countrey and forced to live as an exile with Philip Duke of Burgundy many others we might joyn in the same rank but what need we go from home since we have among us the most religiously wise King in the World whose tryals have exceeded all before going Most true therefore is that saying of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a quibus laesus ab jis doctus In this condition we will leave him at his serious studies to see how the Princess of Orange his Sister speeds with her pleased friends of Holland the Sta●es having upon their second and better thoughts reconciled themselves to the Prince his Mother as a testimony thereof gave them a magnificent entertainment being welcomed by the chief of the Town accompanied with many horses richly accoutred and many Coaches the Burgomasters at their reception giging high thanks to the Princess fo● dignifying them with her presence As a recreation after the Feast wa● presented in various shews the memorable Acts of the five last Princes of Orange the Emperour Adolp● of Nassaw and others of that family in the shew was placed a representation of the present young Princ● in the Arms of Religion nothin● was wanting that might grace s● solemne an accasion but onely the Prince of Orange himself the People longing with an unsatisfied expectation to see his person for now as he grew up apace so he began to draw the eyes and observation of most men in those parts towards him as the person ordained to reduce things to the antient lustre as they were wont to be in the dayes of the Princes of Orange his predecessours Which others of a more factious and wicked nature murmured at rather desiring that he might be layd aside This made his Mother to looke about her and with care to keep correspondencies especially with those Provinces that refused a confaederacy with the English like a good Prince minding Patriae beneficium the advantage of the Country more then her own private ends and that the world might take notice thereof she bore her Son company to Leyden when he went thither to be instructed in the Languages and Sciences and were by the Magistraces of that City honourably received The Princess Royal being returned to the Hague and intending to go thence to Bredah her Son the Prince came thither for a few dayes from Leyden to take his leave of her and as soon as she was gon he returned back again to his studyes The Duke of Glocester all this while remained private only sometimes visiting in publick his Illustrious brothers being grown famous by his retirement and his Councils looked on as Oracles his knowledge being weighed not by the length of his life but the observations he made upon all occurrents proving thereby that he that liveth long and seeth much but observeth nothing shall never prove any wise man There was not any the meanest action whereof he took not notice weighing the coherence of causes effects counsels and successes with the proportion and likewise between nature and nature fortune and fortune action and action state and state time past and time present thereby being able to render an account both of the manners and customes both of the places and people wherein he had resided The Princess of Orange was now at Bredah where she was carressed and courted by many forraign Princes and States onely the King of France by what or whose instigation is not certainly known began to play foul for while the old Princess Dowager of Orange and she were with some heat contesting about the Guardianship of the Principality of Orange the French King surprises the same takes into his own possession the Ammunition and Arms with all other strengths thereof and gives out that he will keep them all for the young Princes use during his minority and as a faithful Steward deliver them all up again when he comes to full age A fair pretence but much to be feared that it will with great difficulty be performed it being too generally found true that Great men many times do wrong because they have a power in their hands and so long as that power lasts they will and do maintain the same by doing greater But although the Princess and all her friends did much both doubt and fear such

were out of hopes ever to bring to passe for about November 1655. that devillish Rebell Cromwell having engrossed into his own hands the reines of government and brought the English Nation to a slavish submission to his Tyrant●cal power not onely within his own limits did what he listed but quarrelled downright with forein Princes especially the King of Spain upon whom he had made a violent breach in the Indies by the assayling of Hispaniola and surprizing and taking of the Island of Jamaica And now finding the King of Spain inraged at the attempt he attaches him likewise nearer home that is to say in Flanders To which purpose by the assistance of the Cardinall of France Mazarine and the help of money in hopes to weaken the Spaniard by strengthening the French he enters into a Treaty with them and on a sudden concludes a league offensive and defensive on the twenty eighth of November aforesaid 1655. a peace was solemnly proclaimed with France At the time of these transactions was the Duke of Gloucester in France accompanying his brother of York in the warres there yet both still having an eye to the King of Englands affaires when upon the conclusion and proclaming of the peace aforesaid it was suddenly propounded although before it was agreed that they should all be gone from thence in a certain time how great an affront and indignity this was to such persons who had so highly and eminently deserved at the hands of that people I leave to all discerning spirits to judge The King therefore upon good advice having considered the nature of that rash and inconstant Nation and minding how once they were like to have served Henry the seventh by delivering him into the hands of Richard the third his messengers was not minded either to run the hazard of his own sacred Person or of either of his brothers the Dukes of York and Gloucester but by a timely retirement to make an absolute prevention and so not only to take away their power but their hopes of doing him any inconvenience Hereupon they remove not over hastily as in fear but as befitted their Grandeur scorning to be driven they leisurely go into Germany and for some time abode at Colen Here the Duke of Gloucester again retired himself to a more melancholy life by his present reading fitting himself for future employment To this end he was much conversant in Histories thereby setling his judgement in matters morall politick and military so improving that which they intended as a dishonourable banishment that it proved an advantagious retirement Adversity bendeth but never breaketh a noble and undaunted courage he abandons not himself though all the world forsake him but hopes that when Fortune is come to the Brumal Solstice of her frowning she will be Retrograde and shine again with the beames of better successe this made him therefore though plunged to the lowest deep of disasters not to sink into the nethermost hell of despair whence is no redemption but reserve himself to better fortune according to that of the Greek Historian and Philosopher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Decet utrum vere generosum ferre tum bona tum mala si lapsus fuerit During this time of abode at Colen came thither the newes of an irreconcileable breach between England and Spain as a certainty whereof they heard that the Spaniard at Dunkirk had proclaimed open warre against the English this was taken as a fit and hopefull opportunity by our exiled Princes who not long after were very ceremoniously invited into Flanders where being come and having received the first entertainment as of strangers the next seemed to carry with it a friendship which so encouraged our two young Nobles of York and Gloucester that intending a revenge upon France for her unhandsome sending them away with some new raised forces which they had gotten together they went into the Spanish Camp and joyned themselves to the Prince of Conde who was a Protestant Prince of the blood Royall of France but now upon discontent in armes against the French King To him I say they joyned as assured to do more then if they were all Spanish in regard the secrets of the whole Kingdome were well known to him and not onely Conde but our English Princes by their long residence there had observed both his friends and confederecies and upon what respects they leagued with him they knew his power and strength both in regard of his Countrey and his forces being well acquainted as having been trained up in Martial discipline with many of his chief Commanders and in cruth they nothing failed of their expectation although the French by the conjoyned forces of England did things beyond their accustomed manner besieging and taking Mardike Dunkirk and other forts from the Spaniard although the Spanish forces did as much as could be expected from men and the English in the quarter where the Dukes of York and Gloucester lay acted wonders even against their own Country-men neither would our Princes leave the Spaniard for the first losse but continued helping them with an undaunted courage even till the happy restauration of the King of England to his throne and Kingdomes In this military posture they made many intodes into the enemies countrey and that with such successe as made their valour applauded and their judgement admired We left the Princesse of Orange newly out of chil●bed and mother of a Posthumus son the tendernesse of whose yeares had hitherto kept him as to the generality of the world unknown but now his yeares having made him seem capable of a more discerning judgement the States of the Country begin to complement him and by a serious endeavour strive to train him up in the military art that thereby he might in the future be able to do as his forefathers and not only imitate their vertues but their valour and to this end there was a company of young Noble men and Gentlemen raised of whom the Prince was to the Commander in chief the Lord Breherode Lieutenant and the young Lord Wassenaer Ensign A good rule sure so by custome and use in youth to enure to practise that their most perfect age shall not scruple at the toyle but rather count all difficult things pleasurable as knowing that Ardua virtutis est via But it is often seen that men are weary of well doing and so were these Hollanders quitting their widow Princesse and her Son and closing with English factions against the King which being seen by Prince William Governour of Friesland he together with the whole Country declared their dissent against any such agreement and stand highly on their punctilios for their young Princes and his mothers honour and right This gallantry and noblenesse of the Frieslander was highly commended by many forein Princes especially the Brandenburgher whose Electoral Princesse with all her trayne came to give a visit to the Princesse of Orange whither also came the Dukes of York and Gloucester