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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40699	A further confirmation that Mary Grey was the true mother of the pretended Prince of Wales together with an account of the private messages and letters sent by the French king, King James, the late Queen, and other persons of quality to their agents in England / published by William Fuller, who was privy to the whole management ; to which is added the author's vindication of himself from the male-contents of this kingdom.	Fuller, William, 1670-1717?	1696 (1696)	Wing F2482; ESTC R38751	10,384	49

had answered it and prov'd it most Scandalous False and a meer bundle of Untruths Composs'd by the Instigation of the Devil and the malice of the Jacobites such as their pretending to make the World believe that I passed sometimes for a Lord and sometimes for a Knight and such like most Ridiculous and Unreasonable Stories for where they falsely affirm I did this as at the Hague and Brussels there were at the same time when I was there several Hundreds of English Gentlemen and others that knew me as the Kings Envoy and Resident with whom I had business on His Majesties Account These Stories tho' never so false and most unreasonable to be Credited have been receiv'd by many for Truth I will only now instance one at present which is I am charged in that Libel with borrowing Two Hundred Pounds of Major General Kirk And that I was coming from Holland to England without paying him with several other ridiculous Circumstances In answer to which I refer my Reader to Major General Kirk's Relations now living who will Certifie them that he owned before his Death at Brussels that I never had any Mony of him nor did I ever so much as ask a Penny of him This is known to the Honourable Mr. Polly who was then going His Majesty's Envoy to the Duke of Savoy and was continually with Major General Kirk during the short Correspondence we had But these Falsities I little regard being ready to prove them generally false And tho' I must confess the hard usage I have met with and my Disappointments have obliged me to contract some Debts even when I was employed in the Nations Service yet I don't question but the Justice of the Government will afford me wherewithall to render every one their due which God knows is my greatest desire If these Answers be not sufficient to solve your Doubts I am ready and willing to prove every part of my Narrative when required YOURS W. Fuller I proceed now to give you a short Narrative of my Life and introduction into the late King and Queen's Service WITH AN ACCOUNT Of the Private Messages Letters Sent by the French King King James the late Queen and other Persons of Quality c. I Was born at Milton near Sittingborne in Kent in the Year 1671. My Father's Name was Robert Fuller and my Mothers was Catherine Herbert Daughter to the Honourable Charles Herbert Esq of Montgomery-shire in Wales I was Educated some time at Maidstone and Canterbury by my Father-in-Law And was afterwards brought to London to School at the Charge of one Cornelius Harflet Gent. But I was by the Instigation of one Sir John Burrows Knight and a Zealous Roman Catholick perswaded to imbrace that Faith and to that purpose the Knight brought me acquainted with many Priests particularly one Father Emanuel belonging to his Excellency the Spanish Ambassador and Father Lewis Sabran a Jesuit Chaplain to the Marquess of Powis under whose Tuition I continued for the space of one whole year about the end of which Father Sabran had prepared me for making my Confession which I did and soon after Received the Sacrament but Sabran not thinking it safe to let me continue amongst Hereticks spoke to the Marchioness of Powis to receive me into her Family which her Ladiship did most willingly she having formerly been well acquainted with my Mother I continued some time at the Marquess of Powis's House where indeed I was entertained like a Gentleman and from thence was Recommended to the Earl of Melfort where I was Page to the Countess and kindly used during my Continuance there which was till about the time the Prince of Orange who is now our Gracious King Landed in England in the year 1688. At that time the Lord Powis the Earl of Melfort and others Recommended me to the Late Queen and was one of those which attended her late Majesty to Callais where I continued two days with her and from thence attended her to Bullion where her Majesty stay'd Eleven days waiting for the French King's Coaches and Guards for to Conduct her to St. Germains at which time I was Dispatcht with Letters for the late King and being young passed freely without any Interruption and coming to England found the late King at Rochester where I delivered my Letters to him and in a day or two Returned for France again and followed her Majesty to Saint Germains And four days after coming to Saint Germains the late King Arrived there with three Gentlemen only from England but was received in great Splendor by the French King Soon after this I was Commanded by King James to come for England again which I accordingly did and brought with me several Letters from the late King and Queen some for the Lord D and for the Earl of D and several others I also brought with me many Letters from the Marquiss of Powis and his Lady and from several other Persons of Quality then at Saint Germains to their Friends and Correspondence here in England And at my Arrival at London I sheltered my self by Lodging privately and in disguise where no notice was taken of me by the present Government and during my Continuance I seldom failed to wait daily on the Lords and others in the Tower and particularly on the Earl of P. the Earl of S. the Earl of Castlemaine the Lord Montgomery the Lord Preston and the Lord F. Sir John F. Sir Robert H. and others from each of which I often received Letters and Papers which I carried to Father Emanuel then in the Spanish Ambassador's Family which said Letters the zealous Father sent to France for the late King and Queen as directed and I very often carried Letters to the said Lords and others which came from France for being young the Warders which tended me on the Lords never questioned me so much as once when I went to the late Lord Chancellor Jefferies and to Sir Edward Hales who where kept more strictly and I often carried Letters from these Lords to others abroad of the Cabal as is very well known to the Earl of F. the Earl of L. the Earl of A. the late Bishop of Ely and others And the May following I was dispatcht for France with their Letters and an account of what they had been doing in order to prepare Men and Horses to meet Dundee in Scotland as also to give the late King a full Account of what Men they were assured of for that purpose with these Accounts I took my Voyage from Deal in an open Boat with which I was furnished by one Bowles Son to Bowles a Quaker of that place and the said young Bowles with the Master of the Boat whose Name was Mr. Man Conveyed me to Callais from whence I went Post to Saint Germains where the late Queen continued by whom I was kindly received and upon my Arrival the late Queen sent an Express immediately for Ireland with the late Kings Letters so I

continued there and at Paris until the Queen received the late Kings Answer to the Letters which I brought from England And during my Continuance there I had the Honour to attend the French King with the Lord W to give him an account of some particular Passages in England for which I receiv'd a Bountiful Reward No sooner was the Express above mentioned come from Ireland but I was ordered to England again with above thirty of the late King and Queens Letters with which by the help of a French Privateer I arrived safely near Foulston in Kent and so came for London and immediately went to the Lords and Gentlemen in the Tower and else where to deliver my Letters and Messages And afterwards continued about the Town to serve them as formerly I had done But it having pleased the Almighty God to disappoint that Party and to make void their wicked Counsels and bloody Designs by the Death of the Viscount Dundee they immediately resolved on one Mons Messuers which was to address the French King to send such a Number of Forces into Scotland and the North of England as might be able with those they had ingaged and provided to joyn them and so to meet and oppose King William and his Army even amongst whom they promised themselves many Friends haveing made it their business to imploy many to perswade and ingage several in their Majesties Army and Fleet to desert them or to go over to King James and the French when ever they had an opportunity and they did solemnly affirm to the French King that they had provided some Persons to Assassinate their present Majesties and to destroy such Noble Men and others of their Majesties King William and Queen Mary's Friends as they thought would most oppose the late King and the French Interest In order to the Accomplishing this their bloody design many Contributed large summs of Money and more Men were continually privately Raised and Listed for King James and Horses were bought and Arms provided with all things necessary and a pretended Declaration of the late Kings was Printed and spread abroad to try how the People stood affected it was composed at Tatnam and spread abroad by Mr. Adam Blare Dr. Gray and others but the Summer being spent and no Forces from France were Landed either in Scotland or England the Lords and Gentlemen began to be uneasy so that I was dispatcht to France again amongst the rest to carry more Letters for the late King and Queen I arrived at Saint Germains again and delivered my Letters as formerly but the Gentlemen in England being zealous for a French Government furnished the late Queen and the French King every day for a Month together with Letters by Expresses from England by which means I was sent back to England again with Letters and the French King 's Final Resolution of endeavouring to do all that in him lay to answer their requests the next Summer following and at that time the Jesuits and Priests of other Orders contributed great Sums of mony for K James's use and for their so doing he gave them assurances under his Hand and Broad Seal dated in Ireland for several great Estates in England which were formerly belonging to their several Orders which said Estates the Priests were to Possess at the late King 's being Established on his Throne again Thus was much Mony raised and the French King at that time caused five thousand Pistols to be paid to Collonel Parker who undertook to provide persons to assist him in the Assassinating his most Sacred Majesty K. William before he went for Ireland the French King having given great Assurances to K. James's friends in England both the Papists and pretended Protestants of that party resolved to mix their Hands equally in the effusion of their Country Mens Blood and they made solemn Covenants amongst themselves to lose their Lives Estates Laws aud Liberties rather than continue under the Present Government the Priests and others in England provided for this purpose did daily by their Instigations draw men of desperate fortunes to their party and for want of Priests and other Fellows to ingage more Fools to them they were forced to make use of the Common Whores of this Town who added daily also to their number And it was affirmed to the late King and Queen that they were his best Agents in London But to return I being unwilling thus to see my Country ruin'd with the Effusion of so much English Blood as was most treacherously and barbarously to be spilt I resolv'd to frustrate their Designs to the uttermost of my Power and to this end I had long been perswaded by some Gentlemen of note by whom I was conducted to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Lord Sydney by whom I was kindly received after they had seen my Letters and Papers which I had from the Chief of the late King's Party In a word I gave the King by those worthy Lords before-mention'd a full and very plain Account of all the Designs of his Enemies and soon after I yet continuing my Correspondence with the Jacobites as formerly was desir'd by them to go for France again with their Letters of which I acquainted the King and was encourag'd by His Majesty to go and accordingly had a Pass from the Earl of Shrewsbury privately and then in order to my Journey I receiv'd Letters from the Earl of S the Earl of P the Earl of L the Earl of H the Earl of F the Earl of C the Lord D the Lord M the Earl of A the Earl of D the Lord P the Lord G and from several other Lords and Gentlemen for the late King and Queen with a List of the Men that were listed in England for their Service All which I shew'd to the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Lord Sydney before I went for France and then I set forth for St. Germain's to the late Queen I was as kindly received as formerly and continued there near four Months during which I gave the Lord Sydney an account Weekly of what was doing in France and Ireland And this I did by directing my Letters to a Gentleman in London who lived under the notion of a great and zealous Friend of the late King 's to whom I directed my Letters by the late Queen's Permission About the beginning of February Mr. Crone arrived at that place and being a Stranger at that Court was conducted to the Queen by myself and Crone being then come from Ireland came to France through England from whence he brought many Letters from Persons of Note to whom he carried Letters from King James in Ireland but the matter then in dispute was to be decided by the French King which was the chief occasion of Crone 's coming to that Court The late Queen order'd me to assist him in getting him good Lodging and I lodged him within my own Lodgings by which means we grew intimately acquainted and