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A40700	Mr. Fuller's letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor being an answer to a late scandalous pamphlet, intituled, Fuller's Plain proof of the true mother of the pretended Pr. of Wales, made out to be no proof, &c. : with that part of His Majesty's declaration, relating to that imposture, publish'd in December, 1688.; Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor	Fuller, William, 1670-1717?	1700 (1700)	Wing F2484; ESTC R21236	5,649	26

Mr. Fuller's Letter To the Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR BEING AN ANSWER To a Late Scandalous Pamphlet INTITULED Fuller ' s Plain Proof of the True Mother of the Pretended Pr. of Wales Made out to be no Proof c. With that Part of His Majesty's Declaration Relating to that IMPOSTURE Publish'd in December 1688. LONDON Printed for the Author and to be Sold by Eliz. Harris at the Harrow in Little-Britain 1700. THE PREFACE WHoever shall meet with this following Letter I do assure them it is the Contents of a Letter I carry'd to the present Lord Mayor and forasmuch as what is contain'd in my former Books will be shortly made as apparent as the Nature of the Subject can possibly afford or be reasonably required by a sufficient Number of Witnesses and a large Number of Letters prov'd Authentick I desire all impartial Persons to take Notice That the true Copy of my last Book has been much abus'd by being printed only in part in a single Sheet which had not the Testimony of several material Passages nor the Observations which renders the Truth most apparent so I have order'd the true Book intituled A Plain Proof of the True Father and Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales by several Letters c. Printed for my self to be Sold with this Letter only by Mrs. Eliz. Harris Bookseller at the Harrow in Little-Britain And my former Books publish'd in 1696. are only truly to be had at Mrs. Ann Baldwin's in Warwick-Lane W. F. Mr. Fuller's Letter To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor c. SIR THERE having been lately spread abroad a most scurrilous and scandalous Pamphlet intituled Fuller's Plain Proof of the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales made out to be no Proof I think my self much obliged in Duty to my present King and Country to make a short Reply to the base Suggestions of that malicious Author who makes bold grosly to reflect on the Government under a false Notion of a Well-wisher to his Country and a specious Pretence of vindicating Truth as he terms it whereas his main Intention is to vindicate the Legitimacy of that horrid Impostor the Pretended Prince of Wales For were this Gentleman what he pretends to be a Friend to Truth and Honesty or a Well-wisher to the Protestant Religion certain I am he wou'd not take such Pains to expose his Folly and ill Nature with worse Breeding by bantering Truth with scandalous Reports and forged Imaginations of his own inventing like that most wicked lying Book intituled My Life printed some Years since by A. Ropper and writ by Elcanah Settle the latter of which has many times before Witness begg'd my Pardon for it and own'd that the greatest Part of that Book was the Invention of his and the Printer's Brain to get Money And this Book is that Life of mine which this late scribling Author takes notice of saying I have read his Life too late to be in Love with his manner of Living and what he next charges me with of a Design of getting Money from your Lordship for my Dedication I do humbly assure your Lordship is false the only Ambition I had next to the Publick Service was the Honour your Lordship's and your Worthy Brethren the Right Worshipful the Aldermen of this City would do me in favouring me with the Reading of my said Book And though the present Government has no Occasion at this time to fear any Danger from that Pretended Prince or his highly bigoted Party yet surely it cannot be amiss to let the World know from whence that Imposture sprung That this Information was no sooner given is an Inquiry easily enough resolv'd by asserting the true Cause which is our present Government 's gracious Disposition and Readiness to pass by the greatest Affronts and Injuries as our Great and Good King has so bravely done even to the Admiration of his very Enemies And in this Case I am very sure His Majesty knew the Management of this Suposititious Birth long before I came into his Majesty's Service and had both the Letters and Informations of a great many Persons of Note plainly discovering the same as witness His Majesty's Declaration when Prince of Orange in December 1688. But to Crown all there are great and violent Presumptions inducing us to believe that those evil Counsellors in order to the carrying on of their ill Designs and to the gaining to themselves the more Time for the effecting of them for the encouraging of their Complices and for the discouraging of all good Subjects have publish'd That the Queen hath brought forth a Son though there have appear'd both during the Queen's pretended Bigness and in the Manner in which the Birth was managed so many just and visible Grounds of Suspicion that not only we our selves but all the good Subjects of this Kingdom do vehemently suspect that the Pretended Prince of Wales was not born by the Queen And it is notoriously known to all the World that many both doubted of the Queen's Bigness and of the Birth of the Child and yet there was not any one Thing done to satisfie them or to put an end to their Doubts And several Persons have been examined upon the same as Captain Wright and others I formerly mention'd as is very well known to the Greatest Men at Court which is so apparent that no less than the Insolent Assurance of a very scandalous Noble or a most infamous Non-juring Parson one of which we suspect our late Author to be could so openly dare presume to assert that there is no Proof but mine whereas it is evident that there is a greater Number of Witnesses by far to prove almost every Particular which I have set down than there was to prove the pretended Prince's Birth And I hope it will not be long e're those Witnesses are call'd that the World may see how much my Adversaries are in the Wrong But I shall beg your Lordship's Patience whilst I further answer briefly his chief Objections against my Testimony and the Truth of the Letters As to the First He tries to invallidate my Assertions by saying I am a notorious Lyar and was discredited by the House of Lords and Commons whereas my Business was never yet in debate in the House of Lords And it is evident that I never was Sentenc'd by them nor my Testimony refus'd And as for the Displeasure that I incurr'd from the House of Commons the Occasion is manifestly known to have proceeded from a Stratagem contriv'd at the Court of St. Germains to work my Ruine and was managed by Col. Dalleval and Mr. Hays Two Agents of that Court who pretending to serve the present Government easily prevail'd on the Immaturity of my Judgment so that I foolishly engag'd to the House of Commons for their Appearance And I have sufficiently prov'd they came to England accordingly and were in the Lobby of the House of Commons on Monday the 22d of Febr. 1692.

at 9 a Clock in the Morning and being call'd for a short time after were not to be found tho' since it is demonstrated by many Witnesses how they got off to France and continue there And this is the true Cause of my lying under the Censure of the House of Commons for which I suffer'd which has given the Enemies of the Government occasion basely to magnifie the Matter and to make this Oversight of mine occasion'd meerly by want of cautionary Advertency appear as the highest Crime imaginable But Thanks be to God there is already landed or hourly expected a Gentleman from Holland who serv'd in the Court of St. Germains at that time and was privy to the whole Matter and I shall speedily convince the World how far I was from endeavouring to impose any Falsities on the Government nor did I ever in my Life make Oath against Person or Persons who was not fairly convicted and afterwards of his or their own accord did frankly confess all that I alledg'd against them to be truth And to prove this my Assertion I do humbly appeal to the King 's most Excellent Majesty to the Lords and others of His Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council and the Judges of this Land who sat in the Courts where my Testimony was given And if what I affirm in my own behalf be not really and substantially true I desire to be punish'd with the uttermost Severity imaginable Only thus much I do own that after the Delivery of my own positive Information to the House of Commons upon my being a third time call'd in I did deliver a List of Names of several Great Persons which I took from a pretended Address at St. Germains as I had it from the late Queen 's own Hand but I never did directly nor indirectly charge any of those Noble Persons or others with the Knowledge of or the Signing of the said Address For I do solemnly declare before God and Man that I do believe that Address was forged in England by Mr. Ashton and two or three more of the late King's Friends and sent into France in order to impose on the French Court by endeavouring to make their Interest in England seem much Greater than it was as thro' God's great Mercy Experience has shewn them But to return to our unknown Author he charges me next with Forgery and would insinuate as if those Letters were of my own Invention but to his Confusion be it known the Originals are yet in the Hands of the Government and above 200 more which will be suddenly exposed also and the greatest Part of them I never saw until after they had been in the King 's and the late Queen's of ever blessed Memory Custody some time nor did I to my Knowledge ever know or see the Gentlemen that sent them to their Majesties And as for their being truly writ by the late King James his Queen and Ministers of State I dare affirm to all the World that there is not a more infallible Judge nor do they better know their own Writing than his present Majesty does so that he has no need of Forgery or any other base Stratagems as used in the late Reign to mantain his Truth and Glorious Cause neither is it possible to deceive His Majesty's Judgment in such Matters And as for that Letter of Mr. Carrell's which our Author takes most Notice of that is still in being with the rest and was in the Hands of the Government some time before the King ever saw my Information and was sent by Persons of Honour that took it out of the Dutchess of Tyrconnell's Trunk as is plainly proved beyond any Pretence or Question As for my being guilty of Forgery I am verily persuaded that every one that converses with me and with humble Submission I may say what several Ministers of State have observ'd that I could neither alter my Hand-Writing nor spell tolerable English such a Blockhead I freely own my self And for what he suspects that I put the Letters into the D. of Tyrconnel's Trunk it must needs be false for I was at that Time in England it being not many Days after Mr. Crone 's Tryal that the said Letters were taken out of the Trunk in a Day or two after the Fight of the Boyne But this Gentleman cannot pretend to disprove me and as he will say something to oblige his charitable Benefactors the Jacobites I can easily forgive his scandalous Aspertions fo far as they extend only to my own Personal Concern for I am as ready to confess and forsake my unhappy Folly in the Immature Management of my private Concerns as he is to accuse me And as I have served the Government which this Author though saucily cannot but own by reason one of the best and worthiest of Men His Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury has certified it and the most intelligible Part of the Nation knows it so I will never endeavour either publickly or privately to impose any Untruths on any Man and however he ridicules my Depositions I am ready to make Oath that all I have affirm'd in my late Book intituled A Plain Proof of the True Father and Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales c. to the best of my Knowledge is Truth and I declare also that I will freely offer my self to the severest Death that can be invented provided I prove not the Contents of the said Book to be Truth by many Witnesses whenever the great Wisdom of the Nation thinks fit to require it and more sure cannot be desired This Author is not only content to invalidate me but he basely reflects on Two Gentlemen in Ireland of noble Families and known Honour and Integrity as also on their Ladies who are by all esteem'd Ladies of unblemish'd Reputation on these I say he without any Ground casts his insolent Suggestions by reason they honestly attest what they know concerning that Part of the Management of this Imposture which was manag'd in Ireland I wonder much he does not if his Printers dare put it to the Press invent some new Aspersions against the King and his Ministers which if I am not misinformed is no new thing either to the said Author his Printer B ll the Bookseller in Fleetstreet and the Publisher I humbly beg your Lordship's Pardon for detaining you so long which I have done to convince the World that what I have dedicated to your Lordship is worthy your taking notice of and as that scandalous Pamphlet against the Government and my self is publish'd by Mr. Nutt and printed by the most famous Jacobite Printer of the City I wish them no other Punishment but the true Mark of what they are I am My Lord Your Lordship 's most Humble Servant Octob. 19 1700. W. Fuller POSTSCRIPT BEfore and since my publishing the last Book I have had several Letters sent me from unknown Hands warning me to desist from this Subject threatning a severe Punishment that shall otherwise speedily fall on me And tho' I little regard them yet I cannot omit taking Notice of a Letter sent as we have several Reasons to believe from the Author I have been just now answering to Mrs. Snowden who prints the Flying-Post upon her Advertisement of my Book in the said News-Paper which put the poor Woman into no small Fright and the other News-Mungers were fearful to mention my said Book for fear of being thought Williamites or as they frankly own'd to disoblige the Jacobites The Letter is as olloweth Mrs. Snowden YOV may assure your self to be very well whipp'd if not hang'd between this and May next for your great Care in inserting the Advertisement concerning His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and this is only that you may timely perswade the Rascal Fuller to be ready to stand your Friend I pitty you that at this Time when neither Knave nor Fool doubt the Birth of His Royal Highness you and your Rogues should and I will now certifie you that your unfortunate Rogues could never have taken such a Time to abuse that Prince that not only all the Princes in Europe acknowledge Legitimate but our Great Council never doubted it for if they had it would be a Thing of great Moment Can you or your Fools and Rogues charge the Parliament with so great Neglect in so great Points And you may know Fuller a perjured Rogue who expects Bread from abusing the Weakest it is too late the Eyes of the People are open and see better than that poor Wretch your Husband did when he swore Anderton's Letter to the Murder of an honest Man when afterwards it appear'd to be Mr. Newbolt and Mr. Butler that printed the Paper Lament your poor lost Husband and encourage no such Villany and consider 't is forbidden to slander your Neighbour much more your Prince You may with your perjur'd Rogues expect your Reward here After God forgive Oct. 8. 1700. Your Monitor D. B. I am in Haste for I am sending your Advertisement to His Royal Highness his Father and Mother as well as to his Highness who will with Laughter pronounce your Reward FINIS