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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40702	Mr. William Fullers third narrative, containing new matters of fact, proving the pretended Prince of Wales to be a grand cheat upon the nation with an answer to some reflections cast upon him, the whole written with his own hand.	Fuller, William, 1670-1717?	1696 (1696)	Wing F2486; ESTC R7021	8,957	47

Alarm the French King and late Queen when her escape could have done them little harm since it had been more Innocent for them to pretend that whatever the woman when in England declared she was hired and words put into her mouth by King William and his Agents c. To this I answer and it is known to most in Europe that the French King is the most unfit person to impose such an untruth on the World For his Gallick Majesty very well knows that had Mrs. Grey come over to England and declar'd this matter all his Declarations or charges against her wou'd have signified but little For the many false Impositions of the French King and his abdicated Brother are too well known for any to trust or believe them for the future without good security And on the other hand all must allow King William never gave incouragement to Villanies nor false Imputations to support his cause or Interest in any kind His Throne is Establish'd on the Basis of true Justice and Vertue This Author adds There was no need of the French Kings being there at the personal Examination of Mrs. Grey and says It was below him nay it was none of his concern but the late King and Queens c. But in this as in other cases he shews his Vanity in opposing truths and sure he must willfully forget that King James was at this time in Ireland which almost every one knows And the late Queen never did any business of concern without consulting the French King to whom at this time she was in a more special manner obliged to apply her self for his assistance fearing without it it might prove Impossible for her to be any longer secured from being expos'd in this her Master-piece of Intriegue on which all her hopes and even those of the late Kings success depended As for their confining Mrs. Grey in some remote Convent as tHat of Oublies c. If ever the late Queen or French King had any such thoughts it must needs be stifled by the late Queens extraordinary Consternation which she had not then recovered But as in the case of the Duke of Monmouth nothing but blood could satisfy her besides as their might happen a breach in those Garden Walls too or some other Contrivance which might afford Mrs. Grey a second opportunity of Leaving them her Death was therefore undoubtedly thought most secure and might easily be practised where 't is not thought so great a sin but may be absolved especially in so important a Cause This Gentleman now falls hard on Mr. Settle for assisting me which God knows he did not for I have no need of help in a Relation of a Matter where I was so nearly concerned And as for his Advice When he writs next for me c. I do tell him That as in the two former Treatises so in This I have writ nothing but what is true and what I will maintain against all Opposers whatever of which I will give the World a further Proof as soon as my business will permit me And by reason I never heard of any Bishop that writ against me I have no occasion to trouble my Self with the matter And as for that of the House of Commons I hope to have a just Hearing and am contented that my Life should lie at stake in case I prove not what I have writ or said in This or Others in my just Defence Having thus answered all the Objections of this malicious Author against me I now proceed to solve some other Queries which have been spread abroad by other Male-Contents who knowing their Instability only Mole-like work under Ground and try all Shifts and Arts to Trap me One of these is Mr. S a Zealous Roman Catholi●k who was in France sometime though now obliged to return for Bread and sets up for an Opposer of my Narrative laying hold of an Error in my first Book committed by the Printer viz. in these words I Embark'd with the late Queen her pretended Son c. from White-Hall whereas in my Original the words were That I Embark'd in the same Barge which carryed the Queen and the next Day following we arrived at Callais in a Yatch I confess I should at first have enlarged on the full Account of this Matter but that I thought it might be too tedious for to trouble my Reader with by reason so many have writ formerly on the same Subject Next it is alledged by some who are either wilfully ignorant or malicious in their Reports That I never was Page of Honour to the late Queen c. I confess it was in France But if the Testimony or Confession of one upon his Tryal for his Life and Death may be credited I hope Mr. Crone 's words may which were on his Tryal these viz. I confess I was in France and introduced to the Queen by Mr. Fuller her Majesty's Page that was in waiting when I came to St. Germains To which he adds and just before his Condemnation That had he but known on what Account I was in France when he was with me he would have used me as I had done him Thus far his Irish Assurance prompted him to Express his Zeal for King James's Cause even when he was found Guilty of High Treason for which he was Condemned at the Old Baily and Reprieved from time to time which he obtained by repeated Promises of making a full and ingenuous Confession of what he knew to the Government which he perform'd after having had Twenty Four Reprieves from the King and Queen upon which he was Pardoned and set at Liberty and Orders were given for the Indictments to be drawn up against such as the said Crone in his Confession had Discovered as also against those to whom with him I brought Commissions and Instructions from the late King and Queen and the French King for the furthering the Designs then on Foot to Kill King William and His Royal Consort Queen Mary and to seize them Dead or Alive with private Instructions to secure in the like manner Alive or Dead all Lords and Others which should oppose King James's Interest or the Authority of those to whom he had given Commission under his Broad Seal bearing Date at Dublin to Act for him as Deputies or Lords Justices of England Concerning this I cannot forbear to acquaint my Reader That these Lords trusted in so great a Concern were appointed by the French King For a Commission of this kind was sent over from Dublin to St. Germains in January 1690. But the French King being displeased with some Persons that King James had Authorized sent it immediately back to him by an Express to notifie his dislike wh●ch King James did not Dispute but instantly dispatched the Lord Thomas Howard to the French King upon the adjusting of that Matter And on his Voyage that unhappy and ingenious Lord had the misfortune to be Cast away and his Fate not being known in

can have no more ground then for the former but resolves if possible to banter such truths as no honest or Conscientious man can deny Such were my discoveries which have been evidently confirm'd by the Lord Preston Mr. Crowe and others which I think do in no wise lessen the services of the above said Gentlemen in their Discoveries of the Conspiracies against the Kings sacred Person and Government as this Spark wou'd Insinuate Confidently affirming That his Majesty nor the Government would hardly take notice of my Informations I think I have in my former sufficiently set forth the Indeavours made use of to Invallidate me to the King and Parliament which the World has now found by experience was the only means to secure the late King's Friends and cover their bloody Designs which from the Year 1689. They have been contriving against the present Government He now begins to bring together the Testimonies of several upon Oaths who he tells you Vnanimously declare the Late Queen to be the true Mother c. Which Depositions are already Printed By these you may see what pains this Gentleman has taken to Collect those Depositions and after a serious view of them I presume most will allow his time but wasted For I cannot find that any one but the Midwife does affirm That they saw the Child come from the Queens Body But on this subject I will not dispute for modesty sake Besides the weakness of those feeble Allegations is a subject that has been often publickly exposed and that lately too which this Quality-writer wisely takes notice of as being unable to Answer I shall therefore quit that needless Argument and proceed to inform you what I know concerning Mrs. Mary Grey and which hath already and will be sufficiently prov'd by a great number of Witnesses First that the said Mary Grey with another Gentlewoman came over from Ireland both big with Child with the Lady Tyconel some short time before the late Queen pretended to be delivered of the supposed Prince of Wales which was on the tenth of June near ten in the Morning Mrs. Mary Grey being several days before Lodged privately in St. James in the narrow Gallery which was near the Queens apartment It is certain that on Saturday the 9th of the same June Mrs. Grey was taken Ill upon which the Queen came suddenly to St. James and one Sunday when her Majesty pretended to be in Labour Mrs. Grey until nine the same morning was heard to Groan and make faint screeks and at her ceasing the Prince was soon Born After which she continued three weeks at St. James and was then sent to France and there Cloystered up in a Convent of the Be●n●dict●●…-Nuns in Paris where there was a breach in the Garden Walls in Febuary 1689 90. At which time she made her escape which Alarm'd the French King and the late Queen and occasion'd my being sent in order to imbark for England to get her dispatcht at her Landing there and that she was carried to St. Germains to the late Queen after her being taken in Paris and also to the French King at Merli I do affirm to be truth nor cou'd the French Court at this time so cuningly disguise the Consternation they were under but it took breath And wou'd our Male-contents who are lately come from France speak truth I am sure they cannot but Remember part of what I relate However I don't question but this matter will be plainly made out to the satisfaction of all Europe very suddenly by a sufficient Number of Witnesses Now to return to the other objections against me alledged by this malicious Gentleman who tells you I have been confessed guilty of Ingratitude to my best Friends and pretended Relations and have been openly Convinced of most Villanous and Malicious Forgery against a Reverend Bishop and of a wicked design against the whole Church of England To these I Answer and appeal to any moderate Judicious and Christian tempered Reader that my Duty to my Country ought to be valued above any private Interest or Friend And I must confess I have always had the greatest value and respect for the Persons of my Friends at St. Germains But the Barbarity of the Intriegues they had imploy'd me in gave me sufficient cause to leave their service in order to prevent the effusion of my Countrys blood and the Ruine of the Liberties of England by bringing it under a French power which looked very dangerously at the time of my coming over For the full Relation of which I refer my Reader to my other Books only I beg leave to inform you that I did not leave the late King and Queens terms without sufficient cause and a serious consideration I mean in regard to the publick good for which I have suffered and glory in my wrongs But as for any Forgery committed by me against a Bishop I stand amazed that a Person of Quality shou'd persist in so known a Lye I have heard I confess of some such Villany committed against the Bishop of Ro●chester but sure I am that his Lordship had never any Reason in the least to suspect me concern'd besides the Persons were convicted and I never till now was charged with such a crime And he would insinuate that I designed against the whole Church of England c. Certainly this Author knows me not for I presume most that do can answer That I profess my self tho unworthy a Member of that Church To which I was brought over and convinced of the Errors of the Church of Rome by the late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Tillotson He continues to repeat my misfortune before the House of Commons and is hardly put to his shifts for Arguments against me to invalidate my Testimony and cover the cunning management of the Impostor-Prince which will be made Good by no less Number of prevailing Witnesses than his mighty Troop of Thirty Seven For Truth tho oppressed and stifled for a time Will at last break forth and maintain its Property against all such scribling lying Opposers as this Gentleman has expos'd himself to be He would reflect on the Papers and Letters which I purpose suddenly to Publish but neither himself nor Party will have much cause for they shall have them as soon as the Parliament sits and which had e're this been publisht only the extraordinary consequence of them will I hope at that time be more serviceable to the true Interest of the present Government I must confess I cannot positively affirm that Mrs. Mary Grey was murthered but after what I had seen and heard from the late Queens Mrs. Grey and Fa. Sabran's own mouths and missing her from the time of Conveying her from the French King's back stairs I had sufficient reasons and did really believe she was murthered He adds That any Man that has not a very strong Faith would Hardly believe without very good proof the escape of such a poor Woman should so mightily