otherwise but that she was with Child That the said Deponent stood by the Bed-side on the 10th of June last in the Morning while the Queen was Delivered of the Prince of Wales P. Peterborow Anne Countess of Sunderland Deposeth THat June the 10th 1688 being Trinity Sunday the Deponent went to St. James's Chappel at Eight of the Clock in the Morning intending to receive the Sacrament but in the beginning of the Communion Service the Man which looks to the Chappel came to the Deponent and told her she must come to the Queen The Deponent said She would as soon as Prayers were done In a very little time after another Man came up to the Altar to the Deponent and said The Queen was in Labour and the Deponent must come to her Majesty who then went directly to the Queens Bed-Chamber As soon as the Deponent came in her Majesty told her this Deponent She believed she was in Labour By this time the Bed was warmed and the Queen went into Bed and the King came in The Queen asked the King if he had sent for the Queen Dowager He said he had sent for every Body The said Deponent stood at the Queens Bolster the Lady Rosecomon Mrs. Delabadie and the Midwife on that side of the Bed where the Queen was Delivered After some lingring Pains the Queen said she feared she should not be brought to Bed a good while but enquiring of the Midwife she assured her Majesty that she wanted only one thorow Pain to bring the Child into the World Upon which the Queen said It is impossible the Child lies so high and commanded this Deponent to lay her Hand on her Majesties Belly to feel how high the Child lay which the Deponent did but soon after a great Pain came on at past Nine of the Clock and the Queen was Delivered which the Midwise by pulling the Deponent by the Coat assured her was a Son it being the Sign she told the Deponent she would give her the Queen having charged her not to let her Majesty know presently whether it was Son or Daughter As soon as the Midwife had given the Deponent the Sign the Deponent made a Sign to to the King that it was a Son. When the Midwife had done her Office she gave the Child to Mrs. Delabadie which was a Son and she carried it into the little Bed-Chamber A. Sunderland Isabella Countess of Roscomon Deposeth THat on the 10th of June last she stood by the Lady Sunderland in the Queens Bed-Chamber while the Queen was in Labour and saw the Prince of Wales when he was taken out of the Bed by the Midwife J. Roscomon Margaret Countess of Fingal Deposeth THat she waited on the Queen Dowager her Mistriss into the Queens Bed-Chamber at St. James's when the Queen was in Labour and stood by the Beds Feet when her Majesty was Delivered of the Prince That the Deponent saw the Prince carried away into another Room and soon after followed and saw him in that Room Marg. Fingall Lady Sophia Bulkeley Deposeth THat she was sent for on Trinity Sunday last past about Eight a Clock in the Morning to go to St. James's for the Man that came said the Queen was in Labour and he and others were sent to call every Body That this Deponent made as much haste as she could to rise and be drest but did not get to the Queens Bed Chamber until a little after Nine a Clock and then this Deponent found the Queen in her Bed and the Queen Dowager there set upon a Stool and some of the Ladies about her After this Deponent having staid a little while and thinking the Queen in no strong Pain she this Deponent went out and being next to the Room where the Queens Linen was a warming heard a noise and lookt to see what was the matter and finding no body there this Deponent ran and found the Lord Feversham in the Queens little Bed-Chamber who told this Deponent the Child was just born This Deponent ask't him What is it His Lordship said he could not tell So this Deponent ran on to the Queens Beds side and heard the Queen say to the Midwife Pray Mrs. Wilks don't part the Child which signifies don't cut the Navel string until the after-Birth is come away And while the Queen was with Child this Deponent hath heard her Majesty command her Midwife not to do otherwise it being counted much the safest way But to what the Queen said just then to the best of this Deponents Remembrance Mrs. Wilks replyed Pray Madam give me leave for I will do nothing but what will be safe for Your Self and Child The Queen Answered Do then and then cryed where is the King gone His Majesty came immediatly from the other side of the Bed from just having a sight of the Child and answered the Queen Here I am the Queen said Why do ye leave me now The King kneeled on the Bed on that side where the Deponent stood and a little after the Midwife said All is now come safe away Upon that the King rose from the Bed and said Pray my Lords come and see the Child The king followed Mrs. Labadie and the Lords His Majesty into the Little Bed-chamber where this Deponent followed also and saw as well as they that it was a Prince and that Mrs. Wilks was in the right to desire to part the Child for the Princes face especially his Forehead was blackish being stunn'd as I have seen some other Children when they have been just newly come into the World but God be thanked in two hours time that he was drest and washt which the Deponent staid by and saw done the Prince lookt very fresh and well This Deponent doth further add That all the while the Queen was with Child this Deponent had the honour to pay her Duty very often Mornings and Nights in waiting upon her Majesty in her dressing Room and Bed-chamber and for the last three or four months this Deponent hath oftentimes seen the Queens Milk as well as when this Deponent hath had the honor to put on her Majesties Smock S. Bulkeley Susanna Lady Bellasyse Deposeth THat on Trinity Sunday the 10th of June last the Deponents servant seeing the Queen Dowagers Coaches in St. James's at an unusual hour went and asked the Occasion and was told the Queen was in Labour whereupon he came into the Deponents Chamber and awaked her That the Queen having come to Lodge at S. James's but the Night before they being in a great hurry forgot to call the Deponent as her Majesty had ordered That the Deponent made all the haste she could into her Majesties Bed chamber and found the Queen in Bed and Mrs Wilks her Majesties Midwife sitting by the Bed-fide with her Hands in the Queens Bed The Queen asked her the said Midwife what she thought Mrs Wilks assured her Majesty that at the next great Pain the Child would be born Whereupon the King ordered the
I R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT AT THE COUNCIL-CHAMBER IN WHITEHALL Monday the 22. of October 1688. THis day an Extraordinary Council met where were likewise Present by His Majesties Desire and Appointment Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and such of the Peers of this Kingdom both Spiritual and Temporal as were in Town And also the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London The Judges and several of Their Majesties Council Learn'd hereafter Named The Kings Most Excellent Majesty Her Majesty the Queen Dowager in a Chair placed on the Kings Right Hand His R. H. Pr. George of Denmark Lord Chancellor Lord President Lord Privy Seal Duke of Hamilton Lord Chamberlain Earl of Oxford Earl of Huntingdon Earl of Peterborow Earl of Craven Earl of Berkeley Earl of Rochester Earl of Moray Earl of Middleton Earl of Melfort Earl of Castlemain Viscount Preston Lord Bellasyse Lord Godolphin Lord Dover Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Master of the Rolls L. Ch. Justice Herbert Sir Thomas Strickland Sir Nicolas Butler Mr. Titus Lord A.B. of Canterbury Duke of Norfolke Duke of Grafton Duke of Ormond Duke or Northumberland Marquess of Halyfax Earl of Pembroke Earl of Salisbury Earl of Clarendon Earl of Cardigan Earl of Ailesbury Earl of Burlington Earl of Litchfeild Earl of Feversham Earl of Nottingham Viscount Newport Viscount Weymouth Bishop of London Bishop of Winchester Bishop of Rochester Bishop of Chester Bishop of St. Davids Lord North Lord Chandos Lord Mountagu Lord Herbert of Chirbury Lord Vaughan Earl of Carbery Lord Colepeper Lord Churchill Lord Waldegrave The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London Sir Robert Wright Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Sir Thomas Powel Sir Robert Baldock Justices of the Kings Bench. Sir Thomas Street Sir Edward Lutwich Sir Thomas Jennor Justices of the Common Pleas. Sir Richard Heath Sir Charles Ingleby Sir John Rotheram Barons of the Exchequer Sir John Maynard Sir John Holt Sir Ambrose Philips His Majesties Serjeants at Law. Sir Thomas Powis His Majesties Attorney General Sir William Williams His Majesties Solicitor General Sir James Butler Mr. North the Queens Attorney Mr. Mountagu the Queens Solicitor Sir Charles Porter To whom His Majesty Spake to this Effect My Lords I Have called you together upon a very extraordinary Occasion but extraordinary Diseases must have extraordinary Remedies The Malicious Endeavours of my Enemies have so poisoned the Minds of some of my Subjects that by the Reports I have from all Hands I have Reason to believe That very many do not think this Son with which God hath blessed Me to be Mine but a Supposed Child But I may say that by particular Providence scarce any Prince was ever Born where there were so many Persons present I have taken this time to have the Matter Heard and Examined here Expecting that the Prince of Orange with the first Eastwardly Wind will Invade this Kingdom And as I have often ventured My Life for the Nation before I came to the Crown so I think My Self more obliged to do the same now I am KING and do intend to go in Person against him whereby I may be exposed to Accidents and therefore I thought it necessary to have this now done in order to satisfie the minds of My Subjects and to prevent this Kingdom 's being engaged in Blood and Confusion after my Death desiring to do always what may contribute most to the Ease and Quiet of my Subjects which I have shewed by Securing to them their Liberty of Conscience and the Enjoyment of their Properties which I will always preserve I have desired the Queen Dowager to give Her Self the trouble to come hither to Declare what she knows of the Birth of My Son and most of the Ladies Lords and other Persons who were present are ready here to Depose upon Oath their Knowledge of this Matter Whereupon the Queen Dowager was pleased to say THat when the King sent for her to the Queens Labour she came as soon as she could and never stirred from her till she was Delivered of the Prince of Wales Catherina R. And the following Depositions were all taken upon Oath Elizabeth Lady Marchioness of Powis Deposeth THat about the 29th of December last the Queen was likely to Miscarry whereupon she immediatly went unto her and offered her some effectual Remedies which are made use of on the like Occasion which the Queen ordered this Deponent to acquaint the Doctors with The Day following the Queen Dowager sent this Deponent to see how the Queen did who replied She had a pretty good Night and did think she had Quickned but would not be positive till she felt it again That after this the Deponent did frequently wait on the Queen in the Morning and did see her Shift her several Days and generally saw the Milk and sometimes Wet upon her Smock That some time after this Deponent went into the Country and came not up till a few Days before the Queen was brought to Bed and from the time of this Deponents Return she saw the Queen every Day till she was brought to Bed and was in the Room a Quarter of an hour before and at the time of her Delivery of the Prince by Mrs Wilks her Majesties Midwife which this Deponent law and immediatly went with the Prince carried by Mrs. Delabadie into the Queens little Bed. Chamber where she saw Sir Thomas Witherley sent for by the Midwife who gave the Child Three Drops of something which came into the World with him which this Deponent saw done And this Deponent doth Aver this Prince to be the same Child which was then born and that she has never been from him one Day since Eliza. Powis Anne Countess of Aran Deposeth THat she went to the Queen from Whitehall to St. James's as soon as she heard that her Majesty was in Labour When she came she found the Queen in Bed complaining of little Pains The Lady Sunderland Lady Rosecomon Mrs. Labadie and the Midwife were on that side of the Bed where the Queen lay and this Deponent with a great many others stood on the other side all the time while the Queen was Delivered As soon as her Majesty was Delivered she said O Lord I don't hear the Child Cry and immediatly upon that this Deponent did hear it Cry and saw the Midwife take the Child out of the Bed and give it to Mrs. Labadie who carried it into the little Bed-Chamber where she this Deponent followed her and saw that it was a Son and that likewise she the Deponent hath several times seen Milk run out upon the Queens Smock during her being with Child A. Aran. Penelope Countess of Peterborow Deposeth THat she was often with the Queen while her Majesty was last with Child and saw the Milk often upon her Majesties Smock when she the Deponent took it off from the Queen and often saw her Majesties Belly so as it could not be
Privy Councillors to be called in That this Deponent stood behind the Midwifes Chair and immediatly after the Queens having another great Pain the Prince was born That this Deponent saw the Child taken out of the Bed with the Navel-string hanging to its Belly That this Deponent opened the Receiver and saw it was a Son and not hearing the Child cry and seeing it a little black she was afraid it was in a Convulsion Fit. S. Bellasyse Henrietta Lady Waldegrave Deposeth THat she was in the Queens Bed-chamber a quarter of an hour before her Majesty was Delivered and standing by the Bed-side she saw the Queen in Labour and heard her cry out much Henrietta Wentworth Mrs. Mary Crane one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-chamber to the Queen Dowager Deposeth THat she went with the Queen Dowager to the Queens Labour on the Tenth of June last and never stirred out of the Room till the Queen was Delivered That this Deponent did not follow the Child when it was first carried out of the Room but staid in the Bed-chamber and saw all that was to be seen after the Birth of a Child That she the Deponent then went to see the Prince and found him look ill and immediatly went to the King and told his Majesty she feared the Child was sick That his Majesty went immediately to the Prince and came back and said it was a mistake the Child was very well Mary Crane Dame Isabella Wentworth one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-chamber to the Queen deposeth THat she often saw the Milk of her Majesties Breast upon her Smock at which the Queen was troubled it being a common saying that it was a sign the the Child would not live And that she the Deponent did once feel the Child stir in the Queens Belly while her Majesty was in Bed and that she was present when the Child was Born and staid till she heard it cry and then went to fetch Vineger for the Queen to smell to she the Deponent heard the Queen command the Midwife not to tell her of what Sex it was for fear of surprizing her Majesty When the Deponent brought the Vineger she did desire to see the Child Mrs. Delabadie having it in her Arms. The Child looked black whereupon the Deponent desired Doctor Waldegrave to look to it believing it was not well That the Deponent saw the Navel-string of the Child cut and three dops of the Blood which came fresh out given to him for the Convulsion Fits. Isabella Wentworth Dame Catherine Sayer one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-Chamber to the Queen Dowager Deposeth THat she waited on the Queen Dowager to the Queens Labour and was all the time by the Bed-side and stood there till the Queen was Delivered and followed the child when it was carried by Mrs. Delabadie to the little Bed-chamber and took a warm Napkin and laid it on the Childs Breast believing the Child was not well Catharina Sayer Dame Isabella Waldegrave one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-Chamber to the Queen Deposeth THat she was constantly with the Queen when her Majesty was likely to miscarry and had often seen Milk on her Majesties Breasts and was with the Queen at the time of her Labour with the Prince and saw the Prince taken out of the Bed and went after Mrs. Delabadie with the Prince in her Arms into the little Bed-chamber and was by when the Child was shewn to the King that it was a Son and this Deponent took the After-burthen and put it into a Bason of Water and carried it into the Queens Closet Isabella Waldegrave Mrs. Margaret Dawson one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-Chamber to the Queen Deposeth THat on the Tenth of June last in the morning she was sent for by the Queen out of St. James's Chappel where she was at Prayers and that coming up into the Queens Chamber she found her sitting all alone upon a stool by the Beds-head when the Queen said to her this Deponent she believed her self in Labour and bid her the Deponent get the Iallate bed which stood in the next Room to be made ready quickly for her but that Bed having never been aired the Deponent perswaded the Queen not to make use of it After which the Queen bid the Deponent make ready the Bed she came out of which was done accordingly The Deponent further saith That she saw fire carried into the Queens Room in a warming-Pan to warm the Bed after which the Queen went into her Bed and that the Deponent stirred not from the Queen until her Majesty was Delivered of a Son. That she this Deponent well remembers that on the 29th of December last her Majesty was afraid of Miscarrying which was about the time she quickned and that after the Queen had gone 22 weeks with Child her Majesties Milk began to run which she the Deponent often saw upon her smock and that the 9th of May her Majesty apprehended Miscarrying again with a fright Margaret Dawson Mrs. Elizabeth Bromley one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-Chamber to the Queen Deposeth THat she was sick all Winter till a little before Easter last when she the Deponent came into waiting That from that time till the Queen was brought to Bed she the Deponent saw the Queen put on her Smock every morning by which means she saw the Milk constantly fall out of her Majesties Breasts and observed the bigness of her Majesties Belly which could not be counterfeit That the Deponent came from Whitehall to the Queens Labour to St. James's the tenth of June last and remained in the Room till the Queen was Delivered and afterwards but did not follow the Child till some time after when she the Deponent went to see what coloured Eyes he had Elizabeth Bromley Mrs. Pelegrina Turini one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-Chamber to the Queen Deposeth THat she constantly attended the Queen when she was last with Child and that on the 10th of June last she was in waiting on her Majesty who called her on the said 10th of June in the morning and told her the Deponent she was in Pain and bid her send for the Midwife her Ladies and Servants after which she the Deponent staid with the Queen during her Labour and until she was Delivered of the Prince of Wales The Mark of Pelegrina X Turini Mrs. Anna Cary one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-Chamber to the Queen Dowager Deposeth THat she waited on the Queen Dowager from Somerset House to St. James's the day the Queen was brought to Bed and went into the Queens Bed-chamber where she this Deponent staid till the Queen was Delivered and saw the Prince as soon as he was born Anna Cary. Mrs. Mary Anne Delabadie Dry Nurse to the Prince Deposeth THat she was with the Queen all the time her Majesty was with Child and drest her every day and in all the nine months did not miss above six days and that at several times by reason of sickneâ—â— That