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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