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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

Judges and Jury That I had performed very considerable Services to the Advantage and Security of the Present Government and had discharg'd my Duty honestly but having Engag'd for those Men and they not Appearing occasioned my Tryal on which I produced a Certificate under the Hand of His Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury that by the King's Order and his Encouragement I was sent to France for the Service and Security of the Present Government as before mentioned I also desired the Lord Chief Justice Holt to acquaint the Jury who were all Gentlemen of good Account of what he knew being one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council And as to the Matter relating to the Letters I had and the Pardons and Money which was offered me to go back for France all which his Lordship most justly and honourably declared There was likewise a considerable number of Members of Parliament call'd but the Men I engaged for not appearing before the House to certifie them I was found Guilty of a Misdemeanour against them Having thus shewed how far their Malice extended to me I beg you will take Notice how Confidently King James's Friends can oppose any Truth that is against their Interest as now their denying that the French Court or King James's knew of the Design of Murthering King William when the World cannot but remember that Chevalier Granval was Executed in Flanders for Endeavouring to Shoot the KING and that at his Death he Confess'd the Fact And it was sufficiently prov'd That Colonel Parker was engag'd with him and that Parker had Receiv'd Instructions from the Late King and that both of Them with Others were Encouraged from Time to Time by the French Ministers of State Of This I first acquainted his Majesty but it was further Discover'd at one of the Confederate Prince's Courts who earnestly pressed his Majesty to Examine the Matter and being done this Granval was found Guilty and Executed tho' Colonel Parker made his Escape Which may convince any thinking Man that from the First Intended Invasion from France that Court has studied Wayes to Kill King William and his late Royal Consort of ever Blessed Memory As for the Intolerable Injuries that I have undergone Time and their own Devices have at last Demonstrated tho they spared for no Means that might make me Obnoxious to all Good Men I bless God and must acknowledge the abundant Goodness of my Sovereign for my Deliverance from their treacherous and base Villanies and earnestly pray that Almighty God will forgive them as I most freely do Whoever shall peruse these Lines and is not satisfied with the Truth of any Particular I shall be ready to give any Demonstration that is not too impertinent And as I have mentioned the Names of several Great and Good Men I dare refer any Person to them for the Confirmation of the Truth of this Narrative POST-SCRIPT THough the Jacobites and Malecontents of the Kingdom those that either blindly or those that wilfully think too well of their bad Cause will be apt no doubt to quarrel and revile at what I have here declared concerning the Birth of their Darling though weak Hopes the pre●●nded Prince of Wales however more strongly to confirm what I have here deliver'd introductory to the more ample Detection of that shameful Imposture The undoubted spurious Fountain the obscure Original of this Supposititious Birth from good testimony and the Papers of Mrs. Labody's Father c. will in due time be plainly made out to the full Satisfaction of all Europe and the eternal Shame of all the Jacobite Confederates in that wretched Contrivance And to the foregoing General and Succinct Account of my Correspondence and Interest in the late Court and their Affairs together with the hard Measures I received in Return for my well-meaning honest Endeavours to serve the King and the Nation I shall only add a few Remarks on the farther Subtilties and Artifices of the Jacobites That certainly never was there a more cunning Reach of Policy nor a Popish Misrepresentation more Artfully managed to the rendring of Truth Suspected Innocence Exposed and Integrity Ridicul'd than by those Hypocrite false Friends of mine the foremention'd Delaval and Hayes who by a Master-piece of Villany against me could work with me only to blow me up viz. When their fore mentioned Letters and Correspondence with me together with their many fair Promises of Serving the King and Queen in joyning in my Discovery as also their Publick Appearance in the Lobby and other Places to strengthen my too easie Credulity c. were all but a Popish Juggle and Trick to give them Opportunity to vanish off Invisible and by the stink of their own Cloven-Feet they left behind them utterly to blast the whole Credit of all I had said or could say so to expose the King to their own Impious Conspiracies by stifling whatever Truth should pretend to speak for his Preservation and Deliverance And as to the ' Veracity of my Informations and Depositions though render'd by the aforesaid Misrepresentations so discredited by the Government the happy Detection of the late horrid Plot has fully and amply clear'd the unjust Aspersions and false Imputations against me when their Designs are so manifestly proved to be built upon the same Bottom and managed by the very same Persons the same Conspiring hands I then Discovered c. For a clear Demonstration of the unquestion'd Truth of my Discovery I shall only instance one Particular viz. in the Matter of Granval's and Parker's Assassination 'T is known to Mr. William Killigrew and if required will be attested by him That he saw my Papers drawn up concerning Chevalier Granval's Assassination c. and was by when I deliver'd them to the King 's own hand and heard me tell his Majesty part of the Contents and which Papers I desire my Reader to observe were ●●ven to his Majesty in the Winter before 〈◊〉 then setting out for Flanders before the intended Execution of the said Horrid Design his Majesty's timely Warning and ●au●●● being receiv'd from my Information and Intelligence I must confess with Sorrow unspeakable that the unkind Usage I met with expos'd me to some little Shifts which my Soul 〈◊〉 as the running in Debt for necessary Sub●istence being sometimes hardly allow'd ●●ead when I was about his Majesty's Ser●●●● Therefore whoever shall presume to C●●●●●● the Government with keeping me in con●●●●…t Pay for a Spy or Witness as was practis'd in the former Reigns does them much Injury But my Wrongs being now plainly Demonstrated I hope none will reflect on the Justice of the Government in providing for me that I may have a poor Maintenance and be able to render to every one their just Due which is my hearty Desire Lastly As to my no earlier Publication of these Papers I have only this to say That the Disreputation I so long groan'd under till now deterr'd me from appearing in Print as having the Prejudice of a Nation against me and which I well knew would have render'd the whole Truth I had to speak but so much Breath against the Wind. 'T is true I might have publish'd these Papers some few Months sooner had I not then been Commanded to Sea in his Majesty's Service in order to my Apprehending several suspected Persons concern'd in this present Plot which gave me neither that Leisure nor Opportunity FINIS THE Author's Advertisement WHEREAS I am inform'd That there is a Design of Publishing a Surreptitious Copy of this Narrative of the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales by way of Abridgement These are therefore to Certify That the only TRUE COPY as Deliver'd to the KING and Ministers of State is contain'd in this BOOK Price stitcht Six Pence as Witness my Hand this Fourth Day of July 1696. W. FULLER A true Copy of his Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury's Certificate I Do hereby certifie That in November 1689. Mr. William Fuller came to me and did make several considerable Discoveries of the Intreagues of the Enemies of the present Government and He was by my Incouragement sent into France and at his Return did perform very great Service for the Preservation of Their Majesties Sacred Persons and the Peace and Security of their Government And that it was by his Endeavours that Mr. Matthew Crone was detected and convicted of High-Treason Given under my Hand this 15th of April 1692. Shrewsbury