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A70600	Mr. De Labadie's letter to his daughter, Mrs. Delabadie, nurse to the pretended Prince of Wales written in characters and deciphered by Dr. Wallis ... : which said letter is referred to by Mr. Fuller in his two narratives, and is a plain demonstration of that horrid imposture : with reflections upon it, and a full answer to the material objections, in a late pamphlet entituled, The truest account of Mr. Fullers discovery, &c. / by another hand.	Another hand.; Fuller, William, 1670-1717?; Wallis, John, 1616-1703.; Labadie, James de.; Labadie, Mary Anne de.	1696 (1696)	Wing M2261A; ESTC R10912	12,860	48

following Parliaments had all the reason in the World to take it pro confesso that he own'd the Imposture and therefore there was no reason that they should give themselves any further trouble about it The Gentleman is likewise desir'd to Consider that the Late K. Iames had by the methods above-mentioned rendered any such Examination wholly impracticable for if the Parliament had been entrusted with such a National Concern the Queen the Child and all the Deponents then in being ought to have been personally present that they might have answered such Interrogatories as the Wisdom of the Nation should have thought fit to propound to them but whereas instead of ordering it so the Late King sent the principal persons out of the way who could best have attested the Reality of the Birth or of the Imposture it 's an Argument sufficient to convince an Indifferent person that there were some deeds of Darkness in the Case which could not abide the Test of an Examination If it be answered that the Parliament however ought to have summoned those Witnesses to appear before them or at least to have Examined such as Remain'd behnid We Reply that the Late K. Iames having thought it his Interest to carry off the Witnesses would certainly never have suffered them to come for that had been a direct owning the Convention Parliaments Authority and Power to examine and decide that Question which he would never have submitted to tho they had been call'd by himself and much less when they were called by another and therefore it had been very imprudent in them to have deferred the Settlement of the Nation upon that account especially seeing the Late King did never desire that they should make an Enquiry into that affair and as to the Examining of the Witnesses that were left behind it was to no purpose seeing the most material Witnesses were carried beyond Sea so that it if it should have happened upon the Cross Examination of those that were left here that the Imposture should have been discovered the party would still have raised a Clamour that Justice was not done them because the most material Witnesses were absent Our Author page 5. Says he will now lay before us Some proofs of another nature from a numerous Troop of Honourable Eye-Witnesses whose Testimony is on publick Record and which tho contradicted by Mr. Fuller and his Secretary yet never was retracted and much less Condemned nor any other Equivalent Contradictory Testimony entred as yet in the like Records against it these all unanimously declare the Late Queen to be his true Mother A very plausible story and a handsome skreen indeed to cover the Imposture but will no more abide the Test of an Examination than the pretended Birth The Gentlemans Confidence is truly superlative to impose upon us in this manner as if the Depositions imported that the Deponents been made by such as were all of 'em Eye-Witnesses of the Prince's Birth when by the same depositions it's plain and evident that the Queen was covered in her Bed and pretended to be so delivered so that it was morally impossible for any of them to be Eye-Witnesses of the delivery and this the Gentleman may soon be convinc'd of if he do but cast his Eye on the very first of his Depositions which is that of the Countess of Sunderland wherein we are told that the Midwife pull'd her Ladyship by the Coat which was the sign agreed on betwixt them to let her know that it was a Son which had been altogether Needless if the Countess had been an Eye-Witness and it is plainer still by the reason of the private Sign which was that the Queen had charg'd the Midwife not to let Queen Dowager know presently whether it was a Son or a Daughter so that neither the Countess of Sunderland nor yet the Queen Dowager whose Religion and Character entitled her to a pretence of seeing all that could be seen were Eye-Witnesses of the Birth tho present all the time of the pretended Labour Hence then it appears that our Author does plainly equivocate in a Jesuitical manner for the support of his Popish Cause for every body will easily perceive the difference betwixt being Eye-Witnesses that a Child lately Born was taken out of the Bed from the Queen where she lay covered and being Eye-Witnesses that the Child was really Born of the Queen's Body Then whereas he says that they do all Unanimously upon Oath declare the late Queen to be his true Mother it is notoriously false There are many of 'em indeed who talk of the Queens being Delivered but that proceeded only from the common Idea which all Mankind form to themselves in such cases when they see or hear of a Womans being in Child-bed but that they could justly depose upon Oath That the Queen was his true Mother was morally impossible seeing they were not Eye Witnesses of his being Born of the Queen's Body As to their Evidences never being retracted we know no reason why it should be expected many of the Witnesses were so devoted to the Cause as Wilks Iurini de Labadie c. That to make use of the common Expression they would swear through an Inch-board to serve it and as for that part of the Evidence which relates to the seeing of the Queen's Shift wet with Milk and a Child taken out of the Bed from her there 's no need of retracting it for no body questions the Truth of it as to the Milk it might either be Counterfeit or real without prejudice to our Cause it being no extraordinary Phaenomenon in Nature for those to have Milk who have had no Children for several Years tho there 's more reason to suspect a Counterfeit in this Case and as to the Child there 's no doubt of it being taken out of the Queen's Bed but all the question is how it came there The Author tells us pag. 8. in Mrs. Dauson's Depositions That the Queen was wholly left alone immediately before her pretended Labour and that while she was in her imaginary pains she saw the Fire carried into the Queen's Room in a Warming-Pan to warm the Bed though all agree that the Pan was covered and the Author knows the Report which did then Universally obtain that the Child was brought in the same from a neighbouring Apartment and now that Mr. Fuller has Discovered Mrs. Mary Greys being brought to bed in the Narrow Gallery between the Queen's Apartment and the Great Chapple at the very same time there 's no room left to doubt but her Child was conveyed to the Queen's Bed and if there was not some such abominable Cheat in Hand why should the Queen have been left alone in such adangerous condition as she was then pretended to be in Why should the King have gone to the other side of the House with all the Men Why should all her own Servants be sent to the Chappel as if there had been no reason to attend upon

the Queen but that the Imposture might be carried on with the more secrecy by the few that were to be Actors in the Intrigue What other Reason can there be assign'd for the Queens sudden Removal to St. Iames's and that also in the Night and why there was no more publick Provision made for her Lying In and that it was not so much as talkt of or seemingly apprehended by her Servants that very Morning in so much that they were all sent from about her but because they could not be certain whether Mrs. Grey should bring forth a Dead or a Living Child or a Son or a Daughter till the very Critical Minute that so if it had either been a Female or a Dead Child they might have found some other way either to carry on the Imposture or drop it at that time but as soon as Mrs. Grey was delivered of a Boy then all of a sudden the Queen's pretended Labour comes on We don't know what de facto proof would satisfy our Author but certainly all those things together with the Queens being covered in Bed and that neither of the Princesses nor their Deputies nor none of the Privy Councellors nor Ladies Protestants or Papists were suffered to be the Eye Witnesses of the Childs being actually taken out of her Body as they ought to have been considering the strong and Violent suspition there was of a Cheat I say that all those things being Considered it is as strong a proof of the Imposture at least as his Depositions are of the Real Birth for which there is but one single Witness who swears positive and that is the Midwife a begotted Papist and a Tool fitted for the design so that he has no reason to object against the single Testimony of Mr. Fuller when the Title of their pretended Prince has no more but one to support it and that also the Evidence of such an one whose Testimony cannot be reviv'd in a civil Cause We would moreover desire our Author to reconcile the Contradiction between the depositions of the said Mrs. Wilks and the Lady Bellasis the former swears that she cut The Childs Navel string in Bed and that as soon as it was cut the Child cried The latter swears that she saw the Child taken out of the Bed with the Navel-string hanging to his Belly and opening the Receiver saw it was a Son and not hearing the Child cry and seeing it a Little black she was afraid it was in a Convulsion fit Now this Lady deposes she stood behind the Midwifes Chair and therefore it 's strange she should not have heard the Child cry as well as the Midwife But for these things we refer to the Compleat History of the pretended Prince of Wales where the depositions are considered more at Large Then as to the Testimonies being on publick Record He must give us leave to tell him that there can be no less laid on that Examination where the King was Defendant the Papists Maintainers so that His Majesty sat as Judge and the Popish Defendants were examined for themselves and none to interrupt them By that same Rule which the party think his present Majesty and the Parliament were obliged to have summoned the Witnesses who made those depositions in order to have made an Enquiry into that affair the Late King was obliged to have made publick Proclamation that all who know any thing concerning the matter should come and depose upon Oath such their knowledge with his Royal promise to Indemnify and not molest them and the Examination ought to have been made in presence of the two Princesses and the Princes their Husbands who should have had Liberty to put such Cross questions to the Evidence as they thought fit But nothing of this being done and the Late King having also declin'd to submit the Enquiry into the whole affair unto a free Parliament our Author must give us leave to retain our suspicion notwithstanding his strenuous endeavours to amuse the World with his Numerous Train of Eye-Witnesses The Instance of a forged Bond from a Gentleman in Grays-Inn to his Laundress after he was Dead and to which the Witness swore positively at first pleads strongly for the necessity of Cross Interrogatories seeing upon the Rebound the same Witnesses who swore that they saw him sign the Bond did afterwards discover that it was by a Pen put in his hand and guided by another after he was Dead Then as to their Testimonies never being condemned nor any other contradictory equivalent Testimony entred it 's plain from what is already said that King Iames hath rendred that impracticable in ordinary course of Law nor is it indeed necessary Our Author being a Person of Quality cannot be ignorant that the Imposture designed by the former Queen Mary was never for any thing we know condemned by Publick Authority Nor did Queen Elizabeth cause any contradictory equivalent Testimony to be entred against it and yet the Truth of the Imposture is generally believed nor would it have failed of coming as great a Length as this if Philip II. had not been of a more generous temper than Iames II. and Lewis XIV It was certainly much better Founded than this last Imposture for not only the Privy-Council sent Orders abroad to make Prayers for the Child but the Parliament was so far impos'd upon as to enter into the consideration of Provisions for the Child which was far greater Circumstance of the Reality of the Pregnancy than any thing that can be pretended to in this of the Last Prince of Wales and therefore iti snot to be wondred at that so many Lords and Ladies should be deceived in this case seeing they were not allowed to see the Actual Delivery and so they have rendered the Birth of their supposed Prince for ever uncapable of being proven that way by any but the Tool of a Midwife who cannot be admitted as a Witness in Law so that all the proof which they can pretend to now is only that the Child was taken out of the Queen's Bed c. whereas all this might have been prevented had the Princess of Denmark or any other Protestant Ladies been allowed to see the Child taken out of the Queen's Body It is also observable that the former Queen Marys Imposture was managed in the same manner for none during her pretended bigness was admitted on behalf of the Lady Elizabeth to view her Breasts or Belly and several persons were put out of favour and discarded for speaking plainly in the Case there being a General suspicion amongst Protestants then as there was now as appears by Bakers History and Foxes Acts and Monuments it must be own'd that Queen Marys Game was much harder to play then the Late Queens because King Philip was an utter Enemy to the Imposture but it cannot be so said of the Late King Iames for it is evident that he was a Zealot in it It may be objected that Queen Mary Tudors design