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A50564
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A Melius inquirendum into the birth of the Prince of Wales, or, An account of several new depositions and arguments pro and con and the final decision of that affair by the grand inquest of Europe, being a supplement to the depostions.
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1689
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Wing M1646; ESTC R918
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Dragon firm and unmoved notwithstanding the rigours of the Penal Laws There was to be seen two Guardian Angels near the person of the Prince to deliver him from the Ambuscades of the Quakers Conformists and Nonconformists from the Presbyterians the Arminian Bishops the Calvinists Lutherans Anabaptists and other Seets There the Dragon was to be seen devoured by its own proper Flames while the Crown and all other Figures were intire which was a Prognostick That his Majesty should bring about his great designs After this ought the Hereticks to maintain that the Young Prince is not legitimate And that all this hath been done for a supposited Child The Secretary of Monsieur D' Albeville Came forwards with all speed and softly put his Excellency in mind to add something of a number of incomparable flying Squibs Fire-pots Rackets Wheels c. which filled the air full of Stars and Serpents which proved that the Prince was legitimate because they produced the effect that was designed The ORACLE Ordered the Jesuits to enter together with the Pricits that framed these Fire-works He that composed the Inscription came first saying Non si commencia bene se non dal Cielo I have my self Composed Veritas Justitia fulcimentum Throni Patris erunt mei As Virtue and Justice are the support of my Father's Throne so also shall they be of mine I have moreover composed this fine device Religio libertas amplexatae sunt Liberty and Religion are united Adding That this was convincing and that he had not composed this for an Insant supposited The Almoner of the Embassador of France Came in his turn and said That he himself had Composed a short Prayer which begun Ad Deum Optimum Maximum pro Rege Principe Gente Britanica Procuto brevis To the Great God for the King Prince and Brittish Nation a short Prayer After this one ought not to question that the Prince of Wales was not legitimate A Jesuit of the S sh Ambassador Pressed hard and being come in said That he had distributed a General Alms that Morning and given to the poor several Shillings and a Pint of Wine to every one to drink the Health of the Young Prince that all this might serve to prove and disabuse the vulgar incredulity All the Domesticks of Monsieur Albeville Came in their turn and said That they had laboured more than 15 days to put things in order and prepare a most sumptuous Feast Adding That there could not remain any doubt of the Young Princes legitimacy since the Ambassador had been at so great expence All the Musicians came also and said That they had sung that day a very fine Te Deum with excellent Musick and an incomparable Symphony composed by Monsieur Hacquart and that this alone was fully convincing The Players on the Violins came also and said that they were carried in a Boat during the time of the Feast and that they had played the Follies of Spain the Descent of Mars and many other fine pieces proper to the occasion for to divert the Embassadors who were in the Pallace of Prince Maurice and that all this could not be done for a supposited Child Those that had discharged the Cannon which came from England on purpose for this day came and said It was not reasonable to suppose so much noise made for nothing Those that had pierced several Tuns of Wine came also and said That the Street was overflowed by six Fountains of excellent Wine part Claret and part White-wine of France and Spain and one ought to believe that this was made for an Illegitimate Child An Unknown POET Desired the Pretress to permit him to enter into the holy Cavern to repeat some Verses which he had composed for the Glory of the Young Prince on the day of his Triumph he being come in said Some Protestant LORDS Sliding in in the Crowd desired the Divinity to give them Audience one of them said That this Young Prince had let fall his Sceptre while he was upon the Globe and that this was an ill presage Another said That they had given the Hydra but 6 Heads because it was said they would not represent by it the 7 Provinces Another said That St. George was devoured by the Monster instead of the Monster being devoured by St. George and that all this proves manifestly that the Child was supposited The ORACLE Ordered the Pretress to introduce Monsieur the PRINCE Madam la Princess d' O Messieurs Le ESTATS To see what they had to answer to so many Witnesses who had maintained the Kings side The Pretress went out of the Holy Cavern and was humbly desired that she would dispense with them for a great many reasons which was granted them The Pretress had order to call Dr. B t. Who being entred said to the DIVINITY Who desired her That she would dispense with him from speaking of the Affairs of England for fear of saying too much The DIVINITY Ordered him to tell his thoughts of the Queens lying-in and of the Birth of the Prince of Wales Dr. B t Answered That supposing the Prince of Wales was legitimate and that the Queen was truly his Mother as they would maintain It is to be presumed that it was extreamly the interest of the King at a time when his people did with difficulty obey him to contrive that the Queens lying-in should be made according to the forms by calling thither all the Peers of the Realm as was always practised in the Court of England because it is known that the people are naturally very difficult to perswade they scarce believing the things they see Author of the Book whose Title is The Mischiefs that threaten the Protestants of England Seeing that every one endeavoured to speak desired the Pretress to permit him to recite a History of Puffendorfe which proves marvelous well that it is easie to supposit a Young Prince since we have in Histories many Examples of it The ORACLE Ordered him to recite the said History Poffendorfe a Celebrated Historian speaking of the Kings of Spain saith After John the II. his Son Henry the IV. the disgrace and infamy of that Crown succeeded to the Kingdom of Casteile for since he was esteemed impotent to remove that conceit from the people he made one Berrand Curva lye with the Queen and for a recompence of that service he made him Earl of Desina this Adultery produced a Daughter named Jane which Henry proclaimed Successor to the Crown This action is the more likely to be true because this Queen had sometime after a Bastard by another But in fine to discover this cheat and to exclude Jane from succeding They united together and carried things so high that they exposed upon a Theatre the Figure of Henry dressed in all his Royal Ornaments and after having made a Process against him and brought an Accusation against him they stripped him of all his Cloaths and threw him from top to
bottom After they proclaimed Alphonsus King Brother of Henry But this Farce caused terrible Shocks and furious Agitations in the Kingdom which came to bloody Battels at last Alphonsus died during these Troubles in the year 1468. The DIVINITY Ordered the three Sisters of Father Peters to be brought out of the Grote they were shut in The Pretress conducted them into the Holy Cavern being veiled The ORACLE Told That it was no longer time now to dissemble that wanting nothing but their Depositions they ought seriously to reflect and to speak to him the plain truth that all the World did with impatience expect the revealing this Mystery She that stayed in London said That she had seen one Peters her Brother go often into three diffirent Houses where there liv'd big-belly'd Women viz. a Baker's House a Sword Cutlers and a Millers that she had followed him step by step several times and she had observed that he stopped oftnest at the Miller 's and that she had observed that this Woman had been brought to Bed without any body knowing what became of the Child APOLLO Seeing that the Question had been long enough debated made all the Powers be informed that he was about to pronounce the Divine Oracle After the Divine Cavern was shut of a sudden and the Pretress had ordered That they ought to wash themselves in the River Hercinas after which to make a Sacrifice to Trophonius and all the Family to Apollo to Jupiter to Saturn to Ceres Europa Nurse to Trophonius and not to eat during the three days of the Sacrificing but of the Flesh Sacrificed and then appeared the last time the DIVINITY Accompanied with her Pretress and there was heard throughout the Cavern many Voices saying The Child Supposited the Monk reigning The Commissioners of the High-Court of JUSTICE Established by the Parliament to try Charles Stuart came in a body from the other World causing a Sword of Justice and the Mace to be carried before them The President BRADSHAW Being placed in a Chair of Crimson Velvet thus spoke to the DIVINITY We have made an Unjust Process against C. Stuart when shall we form a Just one against James II. his Son The ORACLE When the Patiance of the good English shall be weary of suffering a false Prince of Wales to be put upon them CROMWELL one of the Members of the High-Court Advanced for a moment out of the Crowd and said Jesu my God! What is it they say of James the II. all all the World cries out and complains against him ORACLE Answers him That King James the II. is a good Jesuit and pretends to die a Martyr of that Society DUKE of MONMOVTH Before he presented himself to the Divinity the Pretrâ—ss made him kiss the Statue of Apollo of Claros and made him at the same time drink a Glasâ— of Water called Lethe to make him forget his shameful death and said I made too much haste to Death and I have lost by it O would to God I were now living What afair occasion should I have to secure the Libarties of the English Nation The ORACLE It is long since you have been predestinated by the Society to go reign in another World. The Q. D r to the ORACLE Since the death of the King my Husband I have had no satisfaction at Court where nothing rules out Jesuitism And as the Society is full of fury and rage when it atracks Heresie I have resolved to go into Portugal to avoid the Storm that is rising They have so moved the people that one is obliged to suffer the Supposititiousness of the Prince of Wales The ORACLE The Lightnings have flashed and the Thunder grumbled if you love peace and repose stay not until the Bolts fall The EMPEROR The same Pretresses that yet afore conducted Alexander and Vâ—spasian into the Sanctuary of Hammon came to introduce the Emperor Leopold and having made him a present of a Crown of Lawrels conducted him into the Holy Cavern and said to the DIVINITY I have already filled the Universe with the News of my Victories extended the Frontiers of my Empire even to Belgrade Planted Christianity in all the Mosques of Mahomet Delivered the Electors of my Empire from the Ottoman fury snatched off the Crescent and planted the Standard of the Roman Eagle on all the Towers of Hungary made Rome to Triumph and the Cross of Jesus Christ in the midst of the terrors of War my Generals being tired with so many labours sollicit me to make peace What ought I to do The ORACLE Leopold Leopold if thou wilt believe me hearken no more to Loyola make Peace with the Crescent Turks and War against the Sun. France Arch-Duke JOSEPH King of Hungary Having heard of the Surrender of that Important place of Alba Regalis came on and said to the DIVINITY The Emperor my Father hath gained on one side and lost on the other France hath promised not to break the Truce and notwithstanding he every day advanceth on the Rhine on the other side the Jesuits promise him the Universal Monarchy if he continues the War. I beg you to discover the mystery ORACLE The Jesuits are Traytors to the Empire banish them the Court. The EMPRESS After she had ended her short Devotions at St. Stevens where Te Deum was sung for the Prosperity of the Imperial Arms she came and said to the ORACLE The House of Aushia hath triumphed over its greatest Enemies and if the Emperor my Husband would believe me we should spill no more Ottoman blood The ORACLE When the Emperor shall have shed as much French as he hath of the Ottoman Blood he shall secure his Conquests and have no more to fear The GRAND SEIGNIOR Emperour of the Turks Seeing afar off the Prophetick Temple he approached the Holy Cavern the entrance of which was covered with Leaves of Lawrel which bespake the Success of the Christian Arms and making several Sighs said to the DIVINITY La illa alha Mahomet rasoul alha The Great God and our great Prophet Mahomet my Brother Sultan is Dethroned to raise me upon his Throne and in despite of the Rage of my Janisaries and of his Party I have extinguished the Fire that burned in the heart of my Empire Being unskilful in the Art of War I propose a Peace to the Christian Emperor and I yield him all his Conquests adding thereto even Belgrade fearing that my Bassaw should betray me and that the Uncircumcised Army do not advance to Constantinople I have ordered my Treasury to be carried into Asia Day and Night my Priests go to the Holy Temple of Sophia where the Alcoran is kept and I send my Dervices to Meccha and Medina to Pray our Great Prophet to have pity on the true Musselmen and to desire the State of Venice to make Peace The ORACLE Notredame Cent. 3. Quat II. The KING of S n CHARLES the Second Afore the descended into the Divine Cavern he was ordered to spend a certain number