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A compleat history of the pretended Prince of Wales from his supposed conception by the late abdicated Qeen [sic], to the fatal exit of his true mother Mrs. Mary Grey. Wherein all the depositions of the witnesses procur'd by King James, are fairly stated and examined, and all that has been writ upon that subject consulted, in order to set the whole intrigue in its true light.
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and then they were positively commanded to use all Endeavours to get her dispatched to prevent whatever designs she might pretend to Mr. Fuller having received his orders set forward for England and came as far as Abbeville where he delivered a Letter to Father Peters requiring him to go to St. Omers to observe whether or no the Woman might come that way in order to her embarquing for England but Mr. Crane Gentleman Usher to the late Q. arriving in the mean time with a Counter order commanding him to return to St. Germans the Q. told him that the lost sheep was found at a private house in Paris and was now under the care of the Countess of Sussex The next day Mr. Fuller and Father Sabran went in one of the Queens Coaches to bring the Countess and Mrs. Grey to St. Germains where the latter was conveyed privately to the Queen by Mr. Fuller and she staid in her Majesties Chamber together with the Marchioness of Powis the Countess of Sussex and others above an hour and was afterwards conveyed to a private Appartment belonging to the Lady Powis where she continued a day or two after which the late Queen and the whole Court went to visit the French King at Marli three miles from St. Germains and that same Evening Mr. Fuller Father Sabran the Countess of Sussex and Mrs. Grey went thither in the Prince's Coach with six Horses and were conveyed to a room belonging to the Archbishop of Paris while the Countess went publickly to wait upon the French King and the late Queen after which Mr. Fuller Father Sabran and Mrs. Grey were conducted privately to the French King's Backstairs the poor Woman Lamenting her hard fate mean while which she said was occasioned by her last being in England she grieved so excessively that she fainted several times before they could get her to the French Kings apartment whither she was conducted by a Jesuit and where she continued about half an hour with the French King and the late Queen being brought down again by that same Jesuit she wept bitterly and told Father Sabran and Mr. Fuller that now she must take her everlasting farewell of them and so she was carried away by the said Jesuit and never more seen nor heard of by Mr. Fuller tho' he made most diligent Enquiry after her at all the English Scots and Irish Nunneries in Paris and other places where he had great acquaintance and Father Sabran who was Chaplain to the pretended Prince and is now his Tutor did frankly tell Mr. Fuller that he believed she would not be alive the day following nor was it fit she should live He adds that besides his own knowledge in this affair there have been several Letters and Papers found in Mrs. Labadie's Fathers Trunk relating to Mrs. Grey and the whole Intrigue besides several Corroborating proofs from divers persons of quality in Ireland and others as also the Captain that brought her over from Ireland and him that carried her over to France As to his not publishing his Narrative sooner he answers that it was laid before the King and Queen in 1690. that many others have been examined in this matter whose depositions agree with his and that the Lord Preston's and Mr. Crone 's Confessions upon Oath corroborate his but that the Lord N would not suffer him to Print his own defence and did also prevent the printing of Madam Labadies Letters notwithstanding the Queens Command pretending they were misllaid To Conclude then it 's evident that all these things being laid together they amount to as full and Concluding a demonstration of the Imposture of the pretended Prince of Wales as the thing is capable of except the parties concerned should actually confess it The bringing of this Mrs. Grey bigg with Child from Ireland and her being brought to bed in St. James's at the very time when the Queen pretended to be brought to be confirms all the Exceptions made against the Evidence in the foregoing sheets and seeing there 's none of the depositions but what may consist with a Cheat except Mr. Wilks's who was a tool fitted to their purpose it is the strongest Confirmation Imaginable that all the steps of the Imposture here related are certainly true But the Imposture appears still in more lively Colours when we compare the former part of this History with Mr. Fuller's Narrative for it Mrs. Grey was not the Mother of the pretended Prince why should she above all others have the Privilege of hugging him why should she have discovered so much concern at leaving him why should the late Queen be in such a Mortal fright at her escaping out of the Nunnery at Paris why should she Imagine that the Prince of Orange's friends contributed to that Escape why should such bloody and positive orders have been given for her destruction and such care taken to prevent her arrival in England or at Whitehall and why when found again should the French King have been so much concerned in the matter as to Examine her and why should such bloody Expressions have dropt from Father Sabran's mouth as that he believed she would not be alive next day and that it was not fit she should live if they were not Conscious to themselves that she was the true Mother and that therefore it was their Interest to prevent any possibility of her making a discovery the fear of which had put them into such disorder and the Consequences of which might have been so dangerous to them so that upon the whole there 's no man who is not possess 't with invincible prejudice but must needs be convinced of the imposture designed to be put upon the Nation in this affair FINIS ADVERTISEMENTS THe Character of Charles II. King of England With a short account of his being Poysoned Written by a Person of Honour With an Introduction exhibiting the Different Characters given him by the several different Parties of Roman Catholicks Churchmen and Dissenters c. By another hand London Printed and are to be Sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms-Inn in Warwick-lane 1696. Price 6d The Art of Assassinating Kings taught Lewis XIV and James II. By the Jesuites Wherein is Discovered the Secret of the last Conspiracy form'd at Versailles in Sep. 1695. against the Life of William III. King of Great Britain And discovered at White-Hall Feb. 1691. Done out of French Price 1s The State of Vtopia Or a Dialogue betwixt Jack and Will concerning the Times Both sold by E. Whitlock near Stationers-Hall
after that he and several Lords of the Council had waited about half an hour whence it appears that they dar'd not to approach till the King called And Immediately after the Queen cried out Extreamly and said Oh I die I die you kill me you kill me then presently Mrs. D n made this Deponent the sign that the Child was born The Lord F m waited on the Queen Dowager to Saint James's and led her into the Q. Consort 's Bed Chamber then went into the next room and heard the Queen Crie out several times and afterwards saw the Prince as a Child newly born Sir St. F x's the Earl of M ves's E. of Pet h's A l's E. Su d's and Lord Geff y's depositions all of 'em lay the stress on hearing the Queen crie out and seeing the Child foul and as the latter says reeking all which is consistent enough with a Cheat for the Child might be brought in that Condition from the true Mother's Apartments and yet appear as they have deposed Dr. W ly deposes he was present when the Prince was born but does not say he saw him born he says likewise he saw him foul and the after-burthen and that he and other Physicians took two drops of blood from the Navel string and gave it the Child in a spoonfull of Black-Cherry water by the Queens Command Dr. Sc h says he found the Q. in good Condition but weary and panting which it was easie for her to counterfeit And that the above said Medicine of giving the Child some drops of Blood from its own Navel-string being mentioned among the Ladies he consulted Sir T. W ly and the other Physicians who allowed it as conceiving it no way dangerous which proves the falsehood of Mrs. W s and D e's Assertion who said that it was administred at the desire and advice of the Physicians Sir W. W ve deposes that her Majesty took astringent Medicines during the time of her being with Child to prevent miscarriage but does not swear that he saw her take them The like is to be said as to Mr. St lt d's preparing Restringent Medicines for the Queen seeing he does not Swear that he saw her take them Dr. B ys Deposition is only that he saw the Child in Mrs. Labady's lap and the Navel-string hanging down towards the Virile parts which is nothing at all to the purpose And now having gone thro all the Depositions I shall conclude with this Observation upon the whole viz. That those that gave them in were for the most part partial unfit or illegal persons and their Examination manag'd with apparent design and partiality so that if they had been really more positive and particular than they are it could not have been sustained as Lawful Evidence Then if all this be compared with Mr. Fuller's Discovery the Imposture can no longer remain a doubt The Substance of his Discovery is thus That in May 1688 the Countess of Tyrconel brought over with her from Ireland in the Monmouth Yacht Captain Wright Commander two Gentlewomen bigg with Child the first was brought to Bed at St. Albans in her way to London but the 2d whose name was Mrs. Gray was conveyed to the Pallace of St. James's and Lodg'd in two private Rooms over or within the Lady Strickland's Lodgings in the narrow Gallery between the Queen's Apartment and the Great Chapel In these Lodgings this Mrs. Gray was delivered on Sunday Morning the 10th of June the same day and but a little time before the Queen pretended to be delivered About the latter end of June this young Gentlewoman was removed to the Marchioness of Powis's Apartments in the same Gallery the Marchioness being then Governess to the pretended Prince and Mrs. Grey was at the same time committed also to her Charge and Care At that very time Mr. Fuller being Page to the Marchioness he did by her command attend Mrs. Grey constantly and supplyed her with all necessaries she was very little visited by any but the Marchioness and some of her Women on proper occasions she very seldom desired to stir over the threshold of her own Lodgings except sometimes to visit the pretended Prince which she did with a particular Zeal and Delight Mr. Fuller constantly attending her thither and back again he observed that nothing was so warmly fond of the Infant as her self and when as a peculiar favour she was permitted to take him in her Arms her Kisses and Embraces were more than usually tender and Passionate About the middle of July following when her strength was improved it was thought fit by some authority from Court she should be transported into France and accordingly Mr. Fuller one Father Sabran and one Mrs. Jones attended her to Dover she exprest a great deal of trouble before she went and the like on her way as being compelled to visit France against her Inclination and when she took her farewel of the pretended young Prince she betrayed an extraordinary Concern and burst forth into Tears She was met at Dover by one Father Grey a Priest who pretended to be her Brother and Embarkt for Calis in order to be conveyed to the Convent of Benedictin Nuns at Paris she having been in a Nunnery in Ireland before Mr. Fuller being after this preferred to the Queen's Service he went over to France with her Majesty and the supposed Prince at the Revolution and the Queen putting great trust in him upon the Marchioness of Powis's Recommendation in February 1689 her Majesty sent for him to St. Germains one Sunday night to her Chamber where she kept being as 't was reported indisposed by some Fright her Majesty told him that he must prepare immediately to go for England with Letters to the Lord Montgomery and others about extraordinary business She did accordingly give him her Letters telling him that it was a matter that nearly concern'd the K. and her self and if he should happen by a strict search to be obliged to throw his Letters into the Sea or otherwise she gave him a Ring which he was to deliver to the Lord Montgomery by way of Credentials for what he had to say to him by word of Mouth which was to tell him that the same Woman which came from Ireland with the Lady Tyrconnel in May 1688 was stolen 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 escape from thence in order to come for England She Commanded him also to tell the Lord Montgomery 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 Mr. Fuller's Arrival in England the Ld. Montgomery and others should take care to place people on the Coast of England that might inform them when she Landed