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cause_n	england_n	france_n	king_n	3,694	5	4.2233	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40696	A brief discovery of the true mother of the pretended Prince of Wales, known by the name of Mary Grey to which is added a further discovery of the late conspiracy against His Majesties sacred person and government, &c., and deposed to a committee of Parliament / by William Fuller, Gent. ...	Fuller, William, 1670-1717?	1696 (1696)	Wing F2479; ESTC R18305	15,098	76

where led by my extraordinary Curiosity in this Affair I was not a little inquisitive to learn if possible the Catastrophe of this unfortunate Gentlewoman as indeed I had been all along little other than a Spy upon her and her concerns relating to that Young Child I confess I had but small occasion of given my self this needless trouble of making the aforesaid Inquiry For Father Sabran who I forgot to tell my Reader was Chaplain to the Young Prince and is now his Tutour did frankly own to me the same Evening they left her That he believed she would not be alive the Day following nor was it fit she should live I might have rested satisfied with what Sabran told me it being undoubtedly too much of Truth However as it could not enter into my heart to think it possible there should be such Inhuman Barbarity in the World as to Murder a poor Woman in cold Blood and that too by the Commands of Crowned Heads my own good Nature in Tenderness for the poor Creature inclined me to the said inquiry about her Besides my own knowledge in this Affair there have been several Letters and Papars found in Mrs. Labodies Fathers's Trunk now still to be produced Relating to this Gentlewoman besides several corroborative Proffs from divers Persons of Quality of Ireland and others as also Capt. Wright that brought her over from Ireland and the other Capt. that carried her over into France that are able to give a great Light into the Discovery of this Grand Imposture Nor were the Managers of this Affair any ways wanting in providing of Two Big-Bellied Women together that if One String failed the other might hit As for the Child he is a very Brisk and Airy no ways Deformed in his Limbs but a Ruddy Complexion fair Hair and Dark coloured brisk Eyes He when but Two Years Old was a great lover of Musick and could distinguish several particular Tunes when Played he is a notable Fighter and does not only beat his young Play-Fellows on the least Distaste But the Dauphin of France going one Day to Kiss his Highness and his Welch or Irish Blood being up he gave the Dauphin a Blow on the Face with his Hand with all his Might None dare cross him for he is so Refractory that upon the least Occasion he will hold his Breath to that degree that the Queen and all about him have thought him really Dead As to my first Introduction to this Trust and Knowledge into the Affairs of the late Court I must inform my Reader that by Sir John Burrows a Zealous Roman Catholick and my particular Patron and the Marquess of Powis to whom by the Mother side I had the Honour to be a little Related I was prefered to be a Page to the Countess of Melford From her Service I was introduced into the Marquess`s Family and from thence as before mentioned I was advanced to the late Queens Service And here to begin with my first Trust and Commands received from her said late Majesty The Sunday before Christmas in the Year 1688. I Embark'd with the late King Jame's Queen her pretended Son the Prince of Wales the Marchioness of Powis the Lady Strickland Mrs. Labody and Count De Lazon with several Others in a Barge from White-Hall And the next Day following arrived at Calais in a Yatch where the said Queen was received by the Governor and Garrison in Arms and continued there Three Days ●●takin● her Journey from thence to Bulloign where she had an Express with the News of King James's being taken at Feversham in Kent On which occasion I was immediately Dispatched for England with Letters to him and came to his Majesty on a Sunday Morning just as he was ready to take Coach for Whiee-Hall from whence I was sent with Letters back to France again the same Night and overtook the Queen Four Days before her Arrival at St. Germains and continued there until King James's Arrival immediately after which I was sent to England again with Letters from King James to his Friends here and arriving safely I was soon ordered back to France with the Answer in the like manner And was likewise sent betwixt France and England several other times bringing Letters not only to several Lords in England but also for such of King James`s Friends as were in Scotland particularly the Lord Viscount Dundee and Commissions for several in Rebellion with him and for Others that promised to Joyn against the Prince of Orange on the first Opportunity I also brought several Bills of Exchange for Money to be Remitted to the said Lord Dundee which was performed by the care of Mr. Ashton the late King James`s Queens Privy-Purse And during my continuance in London I used daily to visit the Lords and Others in the Tower and being young passed freely to them unsuspected carrying Letters to and from them on all occasions relating to King James`s Affairs and brought several Bills from them which was to be employed by their appointment for Listing of Men in England for King James`s Service against a Descent from France which was resolved on at the Court of France and much Solicited for from England it being the chief Subject of the Letteas I carried to King James and the Frence King to intreat the Landing of Men in England in several places particularly in the North and that Five Thousand Men some good Officers with a Hundred Thousand Pound and Thirty or Forty Thousand spare Arms would be sufficient to be sent` and to secure the Kingdom of Scotland with the assistance of those in Arms against the Prince of Orange For this the French Court was almost daily Sollicited by Letters and great Promises from England a●e all possible Provision was made on each side the French having provided a great Fleet and Men ready to make a Descent whilst King James's Friends in England had according to the account they sent to France Listed above Twenty Thousand Men in and about London January 1690. for this cause the Popes Nuncio's Chair-Man was Executed and had provided great numbers of Horse ond Foot Accountrements and Arms and the like was done according to their utmost endeavours in most Counties and Shires in this Kingdom Here I shall omit troubling you or my self with the manner of my coming to serve King William since 't is known to most intelligible Men I propose to acquaint you that having privately Discovered all I knew to His Majesty the now Duke of Shreswsbury then Secretary of State and the Earl of Rumney then Lord Sidney and the Earl of Portland I continued to go to France as before with Letters for King James his Queen and the French Court which Letters I always shewed to King William before I went or to one of the Lords before mentioned as I did also the Answers at my Return The last time of my coming from France was with Mr. Crone at the beginning of Summer in the year 1690. 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