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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40701	A plain proof of the true father and mother of the pretended Prince of Wales by several letters written by the late Queen in France, the Earle of Tyrconnel, Lord Deputy of Ireland, the Dutchess of Powis, governess to the pretended prince, Mr. Sarroll, the Queens secretary, and Father Lewis Sabran, chaplain & tutor to the prince : with informations of several persons of note, plainly discovering the whole management of that imposture / collected from the originals as they were intercepted and deliver'd to His present Majesty, and never before made publick ; new published by William Fuller, Gent.	Fuller, William, 1670-1717?	1700 (1700)	Wing F2485; ESTC R7450	15,018	26

And I thought my self at first happy by having fully evinced her how much she was mistaken by desiring to leave the Holy Societie which she now enjoies and the Dangers that attend a Woman of her Constitution by being abroad in the World where all things strive to wound the Soul I urged to her the Co●●●eration of her former Miscarriage and much Reas●n● she has continually to send up her prayers and to endure a continual Mortification to merit Blessings 〈…〉 Son that by him so many Millions might one 〈…〉 made happy Much more I offered and pressed it home but tho then she seem'd satisfied I am sory to to tell your Grace that she is now run into the Extravagancy of meer Frenzy and nothing will content her unless the Queen permit her leave to take some Employ that she may attend the Price continually I dare not let the Queen as yet know it but have left is to the Discretion of my good Lady the Dutchess of Powis to inform her Majesty as she finds occasion tho I heartily wish there may be none I have twice obtained leave by the Queens Commands to my Reverend Lady A●●e●s for Mrs. Greys coming to St. Germains to see the Child which I fear has done more hurt than contrary wise Malady seems to be much increased I truly pity her and pray for her begging your Grace to write frequently to her for I kn●w nothing that so much Influence with her as your Graces prudent Admonutions I bless GOD the Prince thrives even beyond Expection and I hope the whole Course of his Life will be blest to Crown their Majesty's and your Graces most worthy Endeavours I am Madam your Graces most humble and Devoted Sevant Lewis Sabran This Letter with the following and several others were taken in a Trunk of the said Dutchess of Tyrconnel's which Trunk was left at her Daughters in Dublin and being search'd soon after the the Fight of the Boyne the said Letters were presented to the King and afterwards remitted to the Queen in England then by Commmand delivered to me in order to the publishing them with other Papers Observation IV. Mrs. Grey being a Relation of the E. of Tyrconnel's and by his and his Ladys Istigation drawn ●●to this fatal Intreague the Countess of Tyrconnel to whom Mrs. Grey made her frequent Appeals from the Monastery injoyns Father Sabran to give her Advice Mrs. Grey being uneasie for being kept so Close from her Child who no doubt was very dear to her though raifed to such a heighth of Princely Honours that she poor Lady begg'd only to be his Minal Servant But the Queen and others judge it not proper for these Reasons First That the Women of Ireland are the most Passionat Lover of Children in the World which might have given Cause of Observation Secondly The present King of England as before-mentioned having some Notice of this Intreague might by some means they at St. Gerami●s suspected have found out ways to get her off which could not they knew be so easily done at the Cloyster The Father in his Letter plainly calls the pretended Price her Son and sets forth what mighty Deeds he hopes to see accomplish'd by him and surely were he not her Son why should such Care be taken to gratify her in carrying her to St. Germaius to see him The Latter is very plain and true The next which was found in the Dutchess of Tyrconnel's Trunk is a Letter from the Marchioness of Powis to the Dutchess of Tyrconnel in Ireland Dated at Germains Feb. 23. 1690. LETTER V. Dear Madam I Wish to shun this Talk and be assured that nothing but the Queens indisputable Command could extort it from me to tell you what Mrs. Greys folly had at last wrought that both you and I know tha● all her Friends feared would in some measure happen to her Indeed my dearest Lady it is unspeakable how many Fears and Frights she has by her continual Uneasiness put the good Queen into and that by reason she was not admitted continually to attend the Prince which if 't had heen allowed her must have terminated in the overthrow of all the Queens Genius and the Glorious Design of our Holy Cause And her strange Uneasiness could not but give divers Thoughts to the Queen to the Quen and others especially that unadvised Act of Stealing from the Convent which savoured too much of a secret Corrospondence with the Rebellious Subjects who saw too deeply into the Matter when your Grace came to London with her And so miserably stuborn if 〈◊〉 worse was her Temper that nothing but her Death could give Security of preventing the wretched Effects of her folly and that she must now under●o I wish it might be order'd otherwise but present it seems impossible And there is so many Reasons for hastning of her Death that fear it will not he delayed Let not then the News dear Madam surprize you but the thoughts of so Glorious a Design supply the loss of one I know you dearly loved For who indeed 〈◊〉 nor themselves lay down a Thousand Lives for 〈◊〉 a Cause if it were in their power Let this then 〈◊〉 your Repose that we cannot be Instruments of Gods Glory and the Holy Churches Prosperity at too dear a 〈◊〉 The good Queen is much diurb'd that that things 〈◊〉 of necessity urg'd to such a period and would do anything were it possible to divert it The Prince is very ●ell and Mrs. Grey is now in my Lodging so that in a 〈◊〉 Days your Grace shall know a final event I am 〈◊〉 concern'd at the Fears you daily suffer and hope 〈◊〉 will shortly avert them that we may meet with Praise 〈◊〉 the Divine Bounty and unspeakable Joy to each other 〈◊〉 give my Service to your good Lord and Family 〈…〉 Madam your most humble Servant Powis 〈…〉 foregoing is a plain Demonstration of Mrs. Mary 〈◊〉 being designedly to be put to Death in order to 〈…〉 any discovery she might make of the pretended 〈…〉 of Wales being her Son of which the late Queen 〈…〉 extreamly jealous and that not without sufficient 〈…〉 as doth appear by Mr. Carol. the late Queens 〈…〉 by her Maiestyies Command the said Letter was 〈◊〉 in the Lady Tyrconnels Trunk and sent over to 〈◊〉 with the former and being expos'd to several 〈◊〉 of Honour of Mr. Carols Acquaintance is judg'd 〈◊〉 of them to be write by his own hand and that 〈◊〉 as found in my Lady Tyrconnels Trunk is sufficienly 〈◊〉 by several Witnesses that were at the opening 〈◊〉 same it is dated at St. Germa●ns Feb 24. Observation V. The Dutches of Powis the Queens chief Confident here excuses the Proceedings against Ms. Grey to the Dutchess of Tyrconnel Tels her plainly the Queens Sentiments and why Ms Grey must Die This Dutchess speaks plainly so I need observe no more but proceed to Letter VI. LETTER VI. May it Please Your Grace I Am comanded by the Queen to

there being a Breach in the Garden-Walls of that Cloyster at that time did make her escape out of the said Convent of English Benedictine Nuns in Paris and upon which a diligent Search was made after her in Paris and after three days she was found again This I prove by several Persons Inhabitants in Paris who dwell near the Convent which will remember the Breach at that time and the search which was made after a Woman who had made her escape And if our Enemies shou'd here alledge it was another Woman and not Mrs. Grey I answer It behoves them to prove who that other Wowan was And forasmuch as in a few Days after Mrs. Grey was carried to St. Germains from the said Convent where she was kept under a strict Guard after her Escape it likewise concerns them to demonstrate what became of her afterwards And whereas I do further charge them with Murthering her certainly if they 're no● Guilty it is easy to disprove my Assertion by either producing her or proving where and how she died And yet further I do attest That this Mary Grey was meerly Murther'd she being the true Mother of the pretended Prince of Wales to prevent her discovering the same to the honest People of England whom they rerm the Enemies of the late King and Queen Therefore if she were not put to Death meerly on that account it will be a mighty Justification to the Court of St. Germains if they please to shew for what cause she was Murther'd so that these my positive Assertions being so answer'd as I propose I will not only confess my Error but shall freely lay my Life at their Mercy tho' I am sure to find none As for Father Sabran I verily believe I have left him little or no Room for a Reply But partly pursuant to a former promise of mine in my first and second Narrative and to make the matter more apparent I here following present the Courtious Reader with a few ●●●e Copies of Letters writ by the late King James's Queen and others concerning Mrs. Grey and the first two Letters were wrote upon the occasion of a great Fright which Mrs. Grey gave the Queen when she made her escape which occasion'd the Queen to order me to go for England with the saids Letters immediatly but Mrs. Grey being taken and exprss was dispatch'd after me to call me back to St. Germains when I found the Queen overjoy'd at taking of the lost Sheep as the Queen was pleased to term Mrs. Grey The following Letter was wrote by the Queens own hand directed to me to deliver to the Lord Montgomery in England LETTER I. At St. Germains Feb 10. 1690. I Desire You my Lord instantly to Repair to Rummy Marsh and take with You my Servant Ashton with others whom You can trust For Mrs. Grey is convey'd out of the Cloyster no doubt by the Help of our Enemies Agents at Paris I need not urge to You the dangerous Consequence of this Womans ariving safly in England But as You tender the Interest of Our Holy Mother and all things else which I believe are dear to You. I charge You not to fail to get her dispatcht at her Landing which must be consequently in those Parts in a small Vessel Care being raken to prevent her Eskape otherwise the Bearer will inform You further I shall pray for Your Success Your assured Friend Mary R. This Letter was Writ by the late Queens hand and copyed by Fuler to whom the Queen gave it to deliver to the Lord Montgommery and the said better being made up in the Pipe of a Key he had the Oportunity of taking the Contents Which Mr. Fuler deliverd to the present King on the 2 of March following and Deposed an Oath that the Copy was truely taken from the Original as the late Queen in France gave it to Me with her own Hand which Letter was by Me delivered back to the Queen upon My being Recal'd to Saint Germans as I was upon My Journey to England upon the account of Mis. Mary Grey's being taken in Paris as You have it set down in My first Narrative OBSERVATION I. By this Letter it is easie to discern how much the late Queen fear'd the Consequence of rhis Womans getting safely into England and surely were not the Cause extraordinary Her Maiesty whose Soul is haughty enough would not be so Frighted at her Escape But the Interest of the Holy Church was as the stake that is the Imposture she fear'd would be Exposed her Masterpiece of Intrigue brought to nothing but redound to her eternal dishonour So poor Ms. Grey must Die whatever Trouble or Pains it cost even one of the best Friends the late Queen had in England and that too at her first Landing before the mighty Secret was divulged and what that Secret was surely her Majesty in this Letter does Her self fo plainly hint at that it needs no further Interpretation The next was given me at the same time and is much to the some Purpose A Letter from the late Queen to the Right Honourable the E. of Castlemain on the same Occasion Dated at St. Germains Feb 10. 1690. LETTER II. I Never My Lord had any Occasion of greater Consequence than what now offers now to try Your Disposition for the King 's and my own Service Nor do I in the least question Your Diligence in executing my Wil when You know as is too true that Ms. Grey who came from Ireland with the Dutches of Tyrconnel in 1688 is by the same means stoln out of the Cloyster and upon Ezamination appears too plain that she must be assisted by some Agent of the Prince of Oranges and consequently designed to be conveyed to England and made the Instrument of Our Disgrace which Motive obliges Me to desire You with al imaginable Speed to go in Disguise with such a number of proper Persons as You shall judg convenient to the coast of Kent where most conveniently she may be Landed near Deal I have writ to My Lord Montgomery to go to Rumy-Marsh and wish You to confer together before it be too late I hope the Goodness of Our Cause will inspire Hour Zeal to Act as becomes a Christian and Faithful Subject The Bearer will inform You more from Your assured Friend Mary R. It was also copyed by M. William Fuller being delivered to him by the Late Queens own Hand and made up in the Pipe of a Key us the former to the Lord Montgomery and was Orderd to be deliver'd to the Earl of Castlemain in England but Returned back to the Queen at M. Fuller's being cal'd back to S. Germains This Copy was also delivered to his present Majesty King Wil by Me ot the same time with the former when I Deposed on Oath that it is a true Copy of the late Queens Letter Observation II. The Queen here speaks so very plain to this Lord that nothing can well Express a greater Concern