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A65959 The Whole examination of the birth of the pretended Prince of Wales and the true mother of that notorious counterfeit and impostor fully discovered and proved, before the Lords and Commons of England, for the publick satisfaction of the whole kingdom. 1689 (1689) Wing W2056; ESTC R39391 4,571 5

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brought up in a Court where infinite Eyes had been upon him However as bold a Masquerader as this Attempt would make him the Hazard shall be no Barr to the Design For that enterprize must be very hardy indeed where the Forehead of a Priest shall redden at the undertaking However for the fore-mentioned Reasons it was not thought convenient that he should make his first Entry upon the English Stage least the too curious English Opticks should pry a little too narrowly and too near into the Disguise and therefore 't is Decreed to give him his first start in Ireland where not only the distance would give Credit to the Figment but also the strong Bent of the Irish Inclination to the House of York would yield him the more favourable Countenance and Reception Accordingly our Priest and his Imper●●l Nursling Embark'd for Ireland where th●● no sooner Landed but all things were so ready prepared for Revolt and Mutiny the Natural Distemper of the Clime as if his Success and Tryumph had been the Study not the Lottery of his good Fortune all things seemed Plotted before hand Simon● First Address was to the Lord Deputy of Ireland before whose Eyes and Irish Understanding our Prince-look'd Puppit cast such a Mist as joyn'd perhaps with some inward Vapours of Ambition left him fully possest that it was the true Plantagenet The Deputy communicated the Matter to the Irish Nobles and finding their Pulses beat so exactly with his own they resolved to take a taste of the Peoples Inclinations But if the more Noble Irish Grandees were in so much forwardness no wonder that the meaner Teague those thinner Sould Dear Joys were all Fury and Transport Insomuch that with a marvellous consent and applause this counterfeit Plantagenet was brought with great Solemnity to the Castle of Dublin and there Saluted Served and Honoured as King and in a few Days after Proclaimed in Dublin by the Name of King Edward the Sixth there being not one Sword drawn in King Henry's Quarrel The King alarm'd with this unexpected Accident amongst several other Councils to Ward against this growing Danger caused the true Edward to be releas'd from his long Confinement and shew'd in the most publick manner that could be devised to disabuse and sedate the mistaken part of Mankind and convince them of their Error and Frenzy and thereby expose the Levity and Imposture of the proceedings in Ireland Hereupon the true Plantagenet was upon a Sunday brought throughout the principal Streets of I●●nd●● to be seen of the People and from thence in Solemn procession conducted to St. Pauls Church the King having taken care that those of the Nobility that he most suspected as also those that knew the person of Plantagenet best should hold Communication with the Young Gentleman by the way which in effect much marred the Irish Pageant with the Subjects here Nevertheless in Ireland it wrought little or rather no effect at all but on the contrary what with their Irish Intellects and Irish Impudence together they turned the Imposture back upon the King audaciously charging him with tricking up a false Plantagenet to Defeat the true Inheritor The Rebels in Ireland continuing still obstinate to Reason so privily transacted with several English Nobles as to draw them off to their party But that which chiefly supported the Reputation of this Impostor was the countenance It received from France from the Lady Margaret of Bergundy the most inveterate Enemy of the Lancastrian Family The Earl of Lincoln with others the Confederate English Lords retiring into Flanders and succoured with some Thousands of Forces from the Lady Margaret immediately Embark for Ireland where upon this new accession of Power the Irish proceed to Grown their new King in the Cathedral Church of Dublin and after several Debates it was resolv'd to Transport their Army and assert His Right and make Their Fortunes in England In the mean time the King of England finding the Impostors cause upheld by such powerful Abbettors provides and prepares accordingly by making Levies suitable to oppose so formidable an Enemy The Irish in the mean time headed by their Lord Deputy the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Lovell c. Landed at Fouldrey in Lancashire and from thence took their March towards York but were much deceived in their Expectation of the Countries Concourse to them nevertheless they resolved to give the King Battle being now past Hopes of a Retreat The King and his Party with all alacrity came to the Decision upon the Plains near Newark where the Battle was on both sides desperately fought Nevertheless the Divine Providence was pleased to carry Victory to the Rightful Cause The Kings Conquest was compleat nor did the Irish and their Allies fail in Courage or Fierceness There dyed upon the place all the Chieftains of the Rebels viz. the Earl of Lincoln Earl of Kildare Francis Lord Lovel Martin Swart commander of Two thousand Almains all dying without giving Ground Of the Irish fell 4000. and amongst the Prisoners taken was the Counterfeit Plantagenet now plain Lambert Simnell again and the crafty Priest his Tutor As for Lambert the King disdained to take his Life both out of magnanimity as taking him but as an Image of VVax that others had tempered and moulded and also as much out of policy as thinking by his Execution he would be forgotten too soon but being kept alive would be a continued Subject of the peoples Laughter and Derision and consequently a kind of Spell or Antidote against all future Frensies and Infatuations For which Reason he very prudently took him Into service in the Court and posted him in the Office of a Scullion in the Kings Kitchin Thus by a Caprice of Fortune poor Simnel comes from weilding a Scepter to turning a Spit where behaving himself a quieter Subject then he had raigned a Prince he had the Honor afterwards to advance to the preferment of one of the Kings Faulconers The overthrow of such a Villanous Imposture was that National Deliverance as is not a little worthy the English Remembrance and the same sort of Artifices and Machinations form'd and practised in this present Age we have just Reason to believe by the same over-ruling Providence are and shall be as fully and as happily detected frustrated and defeated With Allowance London Printed for E. B. 1689.