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_Marlborough at Blenheim._--Extract from a MS. sermon preached at Bitton
(in Gloucestershire?) on the day of the thanksgiving for the victory
near Hochstett, anno 1704. (By the Reverend Thomas Earle, afterwards
Vicar of Malmesbury?)
"And so I pass to the great and glorious occasion of this day, wh
gives us manifold cause of praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God
for ... mercies and deliverances. For ye happy success of her
Majesty's arms both by land and sea [under the] Duke of
Marlborough, whose fame now flies through the world, and whose
glorious actions will render his name illustrious, and rank him
among the renowned worthies of all ages. Had that threatning
Bullet, wh bespattered him all over with dirt, only that he might
shine the brighter afterwards; had it, I say, took away his Life,
he had gone down to the grave with the laurels in his hand."
Is this incident of the bullet mentioned in any of the cotemporary
accounts of the battle?