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
at this time I was more intrusted by the late Queen than ever and was often with her two or three hours together in private about Business and I often waited on the French King and Monsieur Louie from the late Queen which by reason of my Youth rais'd a great Admiration amongst most about the Queen that so young a Head should be trusted in matters of so high a concern I receiv'd many and large Gratifications from both the French-King and the late Queen and at the end of February 169 0 1 upon a Sunday the Queen order'd me to attend her after her Supper and Mr. Crone was to do the same which we did and as soon as the Company was gone from Court I was sent for into her Majesties Closet where she told me I must go with Crone the next Morning for England and in order thereunto the Queen gave me many Letters for her Friends in England and other Papers made up in the Pipe of Keys and many others written by strange Devises The Queen gave me Commissions to bring with me Collonels of Horse and Foot Regiments which were all ready and to be privately raised in England Crone was sent for into her Majesties Closet and received many Papers and Letters to bring also and the Queen gave him a Commission under King James's Broad Seal which was to impower some Lords in England to act in all cases for him as if he were here present We continued with the Queen until Four a Clock in the Morning receiving her Majesties Directions how to order our Affairs and how to encourage the late King's Friends in England by giving them a particular Account of what Ships the French King would have at Sea the Summer following and at what time he intended to land his Forces in England as also the number of them As soon as the Day appear'd we began our Journey to Paris from whence we took Post and came to Calais where the Governour furnish'd us with a Privateer which landed us in Romney-Marsh near Lid in Kent from which place we began our Journey to London Crone came by Tenterden and I by Canterbury we appointing a place of meeting which was at Madam Clifford's a zealous Roman-Catholick in Golden Square I made haste to London and at my arrival went to wait on the Lord Sydney and was conducted to the King and deliver'd all the late King and Queen's Letters and Papers to His Majesty with a full Account of all his Enemies Designs which happen'd accordingly for at the time I then inform'd King William of the French Fleet 's coming on the Coast of England and they did come and the number of their Ships was according to my Information and all the rest of their Designs which as is known I acquainted His Majesty first of five months before these bloody Designs were to be accomplish'd But to return As soon as I had given the King the afore-mention'd Letters Papers and Informations Resolutions were taken for the apprehending Crone which I manag'd and accomplish'd thus I went to meet Crone at his Lodging and finding him in Bed we most lovingly saluted one-another I desiring Crone to meet me that Night with some Gentlemen he consented and the Place appointed for our meeting was the Bull-head Tavern in Wood-street at Six a Clock at which time I with Major Kitchill and Mr. C. Harflet went to the said Tavern where Crone came to us I had provided a Messenger in the House with a Constable and had the Earl of Shrewsbury's Warrant against Crone but the Messenger was not to execute his Office until Crone had discover'd his Business fully to Major Kitchill and Mr. Harflet which he did I having told him That they were great Friends of King James's and would disburse Money for his Service However Crone thought himself not safe enough in that House therefore we concluded to go to the Ship Tavern in Gracechurch-street whither we went in a Coach I taking an Opportunity to speak to the Messenger to follow us thither which was perform'd and coming to the Ship-Tavern I and Crone with the other two Gentlemen went up two pair of Stairs into a large Room where Crone thought himself safe and then began to discourse freely and to drink King James's and the late Queen's and Prince of Wales's Health telling them all his Business After two hours or more I went down Stairs under pretence of some urgent business and there order'd the Messenger and Constable and others to follow me up Stairs at a small distance of time and One of them was only to enter the Room under pretence of speaking to Mr. Harflet and was to take an Opportunity of seizing Crone and then the rest were to enter pretendingly to seize me also which was done and we were put into Coaches and carried to Whitehall severally Crone was that Night kept under a strict Guard and the next Day committed to the Tower But a few days after this Crone 's Friends fearing him and themselves to be in Danger hired one Mr. W an Acquaintance of mine to poyson me which he did and the Poyson working put me into a most deplorable Condition upon which several Physicians were sent for and great Care was taken of me But notwithstanding I had such a violent Feaver for a whole month that I was given over for a Dead Man my Hair came off and my Nails turned black and came off also and for Eight Weeks after I was not able to walk cross the Room during which time the Jacobites firmly reported That I was dead declaring That my Death had saved many of their Friends Lives But I being recover'd Crone was Try'd at the Old-Baily and as plainly convicted of High-Treason and was condemn'd for the same but was repriev'd from time to time by Their Majesties and at last making a plain Confession he had Their Majesties Pardon But during the time that he lay in Newgate under the Sentence of Death I by the King's Command went for Ireland presently after the Fight of the Boyn and waited first on the King there at Chapel Lizard near Dublin and from thence I waited on His Majesty to the Siege of Limerick and afterwards to Waterford where His Majesty imbarked for England after which I waited on the Lord Sydney to Dublin But the Jacobites seeing me thus neglected and fearing that Crone should make a full Confession he being still in Newgate resolved if possible to perswade me to go into France and to that purpose they procur'd King James's Pardon and Letter for me to assure me that if I would return to France I should be there kindly receiv'd notwithstanding all I had done against them and have Five hundred Pounds to carry me over if I would Sign a Note to that purpose This Pardon and Letter was brought to me by a Gentleman with whom I was formerly well acquainted but I did not accept them at first until I had informed the King of it Upon which I was order'd not to have any more Converse with them since it plainly appear'd to His Majesty that their Design was to get me into France or to insnare me here that my Evidence might be of no Effect in case Crone should confess and be a Witness against such as I and he had brought Letters to from the late King and carried Letters from them to him The Papists finding they could not perswade me to go to France began a new Strategem which was by sending Dallevall and Hayes the latter of which was the Person that brought over the late King's Letters to the Convention at Westminster And thus I have given you a brief Account of the manner of my Introduction into the Late Queens Service and how I was employ'd in their most Secret Intrigues only I have for Brevity sake omitted troubling my Reader with every particular Time of my going to France since the late Happy Revolution which was in all Eleven times Which I hope will convince the World or at least all Rational People how Capable I was to give Evidence concerning the Pretended Prince of Wales and of the other Intrigues against the Interest and Security of these Kingdoms And to render this matter yet the more Incontestible I purpose suddenly to publish the True Copies of the LETTERS sent by the French King King James the Late Queen and their Ministers of State to their Adherents in England being the Originals that I brought from France as also the Copies of all I carried to France with Mr. Crone 's Confession not hitherto made publick FINIS
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 LONDON Printed for the AUTHOR 1696 Advertisement THere is lately publish'd A brief Discovery of the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of WALES known by the Name of Mary Grey By William Fuller Gent. Page of Honour to the late Queen A Further CONFIRMATION That MARYGREY was the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales c. SIR COming this Day out of the Country I found Yours left for me and â—hink it a Duty to my Counâ—ry to give you this short Anâ—wer to your several Inquiries â—iz First You tell me That you â—dmire I did not Publish this Narrative sooner To which I Answer That my Misfortunes before the House of Commons occasioned by my Engageing for Col. Dalleval and Mr. Hayes had not only rendered me obnoxious but groaning under the Intolerable burthen of my unjust Usage I was denyed leave to Publish my own Defence by the Lord N. notwithstanding the whole Narrative as is now Publish'd Entituled The Discovery of the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales waâ— laid before the present King and His late Royal Consort of Blessed Memory in the Year 1690 at the last time of my coming from France And it is wel known to most Great men that several Persons of Quality of Ireland and many more in England have been Examined concerning this matter whose Depositions agreed with my Narrative besides Mrs. Labodies Letters to her Father concerning the whole Intriegue being taken and remitted to Their Majesties did plainly Demonstrate the Management of this Supposititious Birth And it is well known that the Queen Commanded the Copies of Madam Labodies Letters to be Printed which the Lord N. prevented by pretending they were mislaid In your Second Inquiry you say You cannot Imagin that the Late King James ' s Queen being so discreet a Woman should trust me a mere boy at that time with matters that so nearly concern'd their Intrest To which I answer that many knows that I not only went off with the late Queen at her first going for France but I was the first by her sent back into England after her Arrival there with Letters to King James when he was taken at Feversham I overtook his Majesty at Rochester and delivered the Queens Letters to his own Hand and waited on him to London and back to Rochester again from whence I was Dispatcht with his Majesty's Letters back to the late Queen in France again How much I was favoured and trusted by the late King and Queen at St. Germains is generally known to most Intelligible Persons for whilst I was there it was matter of Admiration to most about the Court that I had such frequent Admittance to their Majesties daily in Private Thirdly You say You admire that having been under the Censure of the Honourable House of Commons and Convicted of a Misdemeanor I should assume so much as the least hopes of being Credited In answer therefore permit me to tell you and all the World That my Misfortunes before the House of Commons was not the Effects of my Informations for when those were laid before the House it was on the same Day that the Lord Preston's and Mr. Crones's Confessions on Oath were read and Corroborated mine insomuch that the House made an humble Address to His Majesty to advance my Pension which was accordingly done My Misfortunes were occasioned thro' the Immaturity of my Judgment which was too easily Impos'd upon by the perfidiousness of my false Friends viz. Dalleval and Hayes before-mentioned of which you have a particular Relation in my Narrative Therefore I now only touch on this point flinging my self intirely on the Justice of any Judicious Member of Parliament for the Confirmation of what I relate that was present in the House when my Informations and the others Confessions were read And furthermore 't is evident that the late horrid Conspiracy against His Majesties Sacred Person and the Kingdom in general is just the same and managed by the very same Persons which I so long since Discovered Therefore tho' Truth be Oppress'd and suffer for a while the World I hope will not be so Unjust as to deny me this Oppertunity of Vindicating my Integrity which Just Heaven has at Last afforded me as I shall shortly undeniably prove to the World 'T is true I was convicted and suffered for a Misdemeanor But it was only for those Gentlemen viz. Dallevall and Hayes not appearing in which Case I was most Barbarously used for there where several Oppertunities of taking them at their Coming to England afterwards but I was in Prison and the Lord N. who knew of their being in Town instead of Detecting them allow'd them Leave to go beyond Sea and afterwards pretended his Hand and Seal was Counterfeited This is also known to many and I hope will Satisfie any Impartial Judge Fourthly You Charge me with Having published my Narrative purely to get money for Bread which you apprehend I want being lately come out of the Kings-Bench But in that as in Other matters you suspect me basely For I Declare to the World and the Printer with whom I am concerned will Depose on Oath if required that I gave him the Copy gratis and never received nor am I to receive one Penny for it tho I must confess in the like Case those that have less occasion for Money have sold their Copies And for your other Charge I have been freed from the King's-Bench near Twenty Months Fifthly You likewise Charge me That when I was in Flanders I borrowed money by pretending to be Son in-Law to his Grace the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury To this I answer that the latter part is false Tho I cannot deny that I charged a Bill of fifty Pounds on his Grace which sum I borrowed of one Mr. Brand a Scotchman at Brussels which was by the Bishops Permittance for the matter I went then about was only known to the Queen and his Grace who at my departure from England told me I might draw a Bill on him in Case my Occasions required it and the said Bill was paid out of the Privy Purse My business was matter of consequence and required Secresie and therefore when I met with Impertinent Questions I was constrain'd to divert them by Answers that might give no Suspicion of the matter I was Engaged in Your last Objection against me is The many Pranks you say I have played in the World to get Money as was Published in a Libel some Years since It was Published at a time when I could have no Justice otherwise I
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