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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

Benedictine Nuns in Paris she having been in a Nunnery in Ireland sometime before she came for England After the new Happy Revolution the Winter following and King James`s Abdication I being at that time Servant to her Majesty in France commended and prefer`d to her Majesty`s Service by my kind Patroness the Marchioness of Powis and the late Queen reposing a peculiar Trust and Confidence in my Fidelity from the Character she had received of me from the Marchioness I proceed to let you know That in February 1689 I being at St. Germains the late Queens Court in France was one Sunday-Night ordered to attend the Queen immediately Her Majesty being as was reported Indisposed it seems with a Fright which made Her keep her Chamber where I attending Her Commands Her Majesty told me I must immediately prepare to go to England with some Letters to the Lord Montgemery and Others about extraord●●arry Business Her Majesty gave me her Letters and that my Journey might no. be in Vain was pleased to tell me It was a matter that nearly concern●d the late King and her Self And lest in my Voyage to England or at my Landing I might meet with so strict a Search as might oblige me to fling my Letters into the Sea or some other way dispose them to conceal them from being taken her Majesty thought fit to give me a Ring which I was to deliver to the Lord Montgomery in England by way of Credentials for what I had to say to him by Word of Mouth upon any unfortunate forementioned Miscarriage of my Letter and by that to tell him That the same Woman which came from Ireland with the Lady Tyrconnel in May 1688 was stollen out of the Nunnery in Paris where she was kept there having been a Breach in the Garden-Walls and that it was the Opinion of the French Court that she had been assisted by some of the Prince of Orange`s Friends in Paris to make her said Escape from thence in order to come for England The late Queen farther Commanded me to tell him That the French King had taken all possible care to prevent her going off but least his Endeavours might prove Ineffectual it was her desire that immediately after my Arrival in England the Lord Montgomery and Others should take care to place People on the Coast of England that might inform them when she Landed vnd then they were positively commanded to use all Endeavours to get her Dispatcht to prevent whatever Design she might Pretend to Here the Reader may Observe That the Queen was infinitely Zealous both for her Apprehension and Dispatch and that must be some very threatning Fears they Convinced from this poor Womans Escape that could pull down all this Mortal Vengeance upon her Head Nay the Queen was so very solicitous for Executing the said Vengeance that for fear of Failure or Miscarriage of her Commands in Black and White she trusted me with some part of the bloody Commission on that Account ` T is true her Furious Zeal in this Case did nor directly tell me the very particular Crime this Offending Lady had committed deserving Death that part of my Intelligence into this Secret History was my own Observation and Discovery This was the Contents of the Queens Letters and what I had Orders to inform the Lord Montgomery and Others of his Party which the Ring as a Token was to Confirm The late Queen gave me also another Letter to carry to Father Petre who by the French King`s Order was constrained to live privately at Albeville a City between Paris and Callais Accordingly I took Post and came to Albeville where I was forced to tarry six Hours before I could meet with Father Petre to give him the Queens Letter which was to require him To go to St. Omers to observe whether or no the Woman might come that Way in order to her Embarking for England Just as I came to my Inn and was going to take Horse there arrived one Mr. Crane Gentleman-Usher to the Queen from the Queens Court to order me to return with him to St. Germains again were we arrived the next Night and then waiting on the Queen she told me The lost Sheep was found at a private House in Paris and as I afterwards soon understood was then in the same Nunnery again under the care of the Countess of Sussex and others But the next day following Father Sabran was to go in one of her Majesties Coaches to Paris in order to bring the Countess of Sussex with the Woman to St. Germains and the Queen ordered me to accompany the said Father Sabran which I did in the Coach the next day and coming to the Nunnery they continued there about an Hour and a half and then the Countess of Sussex with Sabran and my self returned with the Woman to St. Germains where she was conveyed privately to the Queens Back-Stairs by Father Sabran whilst I attended the Lady Sussex who went in to acquaint the Queen That the Woman was come after which by the Queens Command I went to the Back Stairs to convey the Woman to the Queen in her Bed Chamber where she continued with the Queen the Lady Powis the Countess of Sussex and several others above an Hour and was afterwards conveyed down the Back Stairs and cross the Gallery under the Prince of Wales's Lodgings to a private Appartment belonging to the Lady Powis where the said Woman continued a day or two After which the late Queen with the whole Court going to visit the French King at his Court at Marli Three Miles from St. Germains in the same Evening the said Woman with the Countess of Sussex Father Sabran and my self went in the Princes Coach with Six Horses to the same Place and were there convey'd to a Chamber or Room belonging to the Arch-Bishop of Paris where the Woman Sabran and my self continued about half an Hour whilst the Countess of Sussex went publickly to wait upon the French King and the late Queen Then the Womam Sabran and my self were conducted by a Priest a Chaplain of the arch-Arch-Bishops privately to the French King's Back Stairs The Woman lamenting her Fate which she said was occasioned by her last being in England she grieved to that excess that she Fainted several times before they could get her up the Stairs to the French King's Apartment whither she was conducted by a Jesuite and continued about half an Hour with the French King and the late Queen During which time I waited with Father Sabran at the bottom of the Stairs till she came down with the Jesuite that conveyed her up at which time she wept bitterly and told Father Sabran and me That now she must take her Everlasting Farewel of us and so was carried away by the Jesuite and never more seen or heard of notwithstanding my most diligent Inquiry after her at all the English Scotch and Irish Nunneries in Paris and other Places where I had great Acquaintance and

French Fleet been then very numerous and ready to Sail and all things in England and Scotland seemed in a posture to receive them and a French Army on the other side King William was almost ready to take his Journey for the Reducing of Ireland The said Mr. Crone with my self was sent to England now with several Commissions from King James by the way of France from Ireland The chief Commissions we brought was for Levying a War against the Prince and Princess of Orange and all such as resisted the Power and Authority of King James and to Impower Persons to Seize and Imprison the Persons of the said Prince and Princess of Orange By a Commission under the Great Seal dated at Dublin King James Authorized several Lords to Act as his Deputies during his Absence We likewise brought over several Commissions to constitute Commissioners of the Treasury Impowering them to Raise and Collect Moneys on King James's Account as also several Commissions for Colonels of Regiments of Foot and Horse By the way permit me to inform my Reader That in the above-mentioned Commission for Levying of War King James did Command and Authorize his loving Subjects by force of Arms to seize the Persons of the present King and his Royal Consort Queen Mary the Second Alive or Dead And Three Months before I came last from France Colonel Parker had undertaken to Shoot King William for which Intent he came to England and went into Lancashire there to continue until the King came that way on his Journey for Ireland that being the place proposed to Murther King William at And to Advise it there was many Letters sent to the Court of France desiring that the French Fleet might Sail at or near the time King William set out for Ireland At this last time Mr. Crone and my self brought over many Letters containing full Instructions for the intended Designs of Killing and Imprisoning their Majesties King William and Queen Mary and for the Raising of great Numbers of Men in several Places against them for King James and the French Interest I will first give you a short Narrative of the Contents of a few of the Letters I carried to France and so proceed to the Design before mentioned Several Letters I carried to and brought from France were made up as the Mould of a Button and so work'd over with Silk or Silver and worn on my Cloaths Others I brought over in the Pipes of Keys and some writ Obscurely which Writing was discovered by the Steem of a Compound of several Spirits Mettals and Sulphure boyl'd together and made Liquid the Writing was seen no longer than the said Steem was near the Paper on which it was Writ Many of the Letters I carried to King James his Queen and the French Court were from the chief of their Friends in England and were full of great Promises and large Incouragements to the French King But his Gallick Majesty well observed That whilst they were daily promising great Assistance to his Army when they Landed in England they were for the most part unwilling to part with any Money but continually desired Supplies from France Some in England to my certain Knowledge Writ to King James to assure him that they had taken the Oaths to King William on purpose to make themselves more able to serve King James`s Interest by delaying King William`s Affairs in the Houses of Parliament Of this and part of which I had discovered to His Sacred Majesty King William he was pleased to acquaint his Parliament in his Gracious Speech to both Houses a short time before he went for Ireland Adding in his Speech at the same time That he spoke it to let them and his Enemies know that he was not unacquainted with their Designs Now to return to my last Coming from France with Mr. Crone I having informed His Majesty of all I knew Mr. Crone was seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower the rest of the Conspirators and their Designs being known and narrowly observed His Majesty went for Ireland committing the Management to the Queen and the Ministers of State Yet although the Jacobites and the French Court were Blessed be Almighty God disappointed of the Kings being Kill'd on his Journey to Ireland they continued to go on with their other Designs Colonel Parker being also order'd for Ireland to Kill His Majesty there But the Government knowing their Intriegues took care to secure this Kingdom by Raising the Militia and securing of Conspirators before the French Fleet came on our Coast as they did and lay some time expecting to hear of their Friends in England being in Arms to receive them At this time several Lords and others were sent to the Tower and others whose Intriegues were discovered fled from Justice which occasioned several Proclamations to be Published for apprehending them and the Tower and all the Goals in London and several others were filled with Conspirators They finding their whole Design unravelled and that I had discovered all I knew and Mr. Crone was safe and to be suddenly Tryed which might make him Confess they instantly got me poysoned in hopes to have prevented Crone 's Tryal but it pleasing Almighty God to restore me to my Health again after Ten Weeks Sickness I was able to come to the Old-Baily where Mr. Crone was Tryed and Condemned for High Treason He had several Reprieves from time to time on his Promise of making a full Confession but as he was lingring it out about Six Months after his Conviction I Receiv'd a Letter at my Lodgings in the Pall-mall from the Earl of Melford King James's Secretary in which I was promised King James's Pardon and all the Favour I could desire from him and the Court of France and Five Hundred Pounds down if I would return to France and Recant from what I had done I carried this Letter to the King who sent me to the Lord Chief Justice Holt for his Advice how far I might proceed by Law thinking thereby to discover something more but his Lordship and several others were of Opinion that it was a Trick purely to invalidate my Evidence They still being apprehensive of Mr. Crone 's Confession which they knew must be so agreeable to my Informations that the Heads of King James's Friends had been intirely at King William's Mercy And this Matter highly concern'd the French Court for had Crone been just to Him that gave him his Life there might have been but small Incouragement from England to the French long since and consequently no Plotting now They of King James's Party as well has appeared to the Court made it their Indeavour to have Crone Hang'd to stop his Mouth and that as I am well informed occasioned his making almost a full Discovery Though he went for France as soon as he was let out of Newgate being invited back with great Promises as I before had been I must thank him for his Justice to me in his last and most