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Depositions taken the 22d of October 1688 before the Privy-Council and peers of England relating to the birth of the (then) Prince of Wales.
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DEPOSITIONS Taken the 22d of October 1688. BEFORE THE PRIVY-COUNCIL AND PEERS of ENGLAND Relating to the Birth of the Then PRINCE of WALES Published by His MAJESTY's Special Command Price Six pence AT The COVNCIL-CHAMBER IN WHITEHALL Monday the 22d of October 1688. THIS Day an extraordinary Council met where were likewise present by His Majesty's 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 King 's most Excellent Majesty Her Majesty the Queen Dowager in a Chair placed on the King's Right Hand His R. H. Prince George of Denmark Lord Chancellor Lord President Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Hamilton Lord Chamberlain Earl of Oxford Earl of Hmntingdon Earl of Peterborow Earl of Craven Earl of Berkeley Earl of Rochester Earl of Murray Lord A. B of Canterbury Duke of Norfolk Duke of Grafton Duke of Ormond Duke of Northumberland Marquiss of Haliyfax Earl of Pembroke Earl of Salisbury Earl of Clarendon Earl of Cardigan Earl of Ailesbury Earl of Burlington Earl of Litchfield Earl of Feversham Earl of Nottingham 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 Viscount Newport Viscount Weymouth Bishop of London Bishop of Winchester Bishop of R chester Bishop of Chester Bishop of St. Davids Lord North Lord Chandois Lord Montague Lord Herbert of Cherbury Lord Vaughan Earl of Carberry Lord Colepepper Lord Churchill Lord Waldgrave The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London Sir Robert Wright Lord Chief Justice of the King 's Bench. Sir Thomas Powel Justices of the King 's Bench. Sir Robert Baldock Justices of the King 's Bench. Sir Thomas Street Justices of the Common Pleas. Sir Edward Lutwich Justices of the Common Pleas. Sir Thomas Jennor Justices of the Common Pleas. Sir Richard Heath Barons of the Exchequer Sir Charles Ingleby Barons of the Exchequer Sir John Rotheram Barons of the Exchequer Sir John Maynard His Majesty's Serjeants at Law. Sir John Holt His Majesty's Serjeants at Law. Sir Ambrose Philips His Majesty's Serjeants at Law. Sir Thomas Powis His Majesty's Attorney-General Sir William Williams His Majesty's Solicitor-General Sir James Butler Mr. North the Queen's Attorney Mr. Montague the Queen's 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 poison'd the Minds of some of my Subjects That by the Reports I have from all Hands I 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 therefor I thought it necessary to have this now done in Order to satisfy the Minds of My Subjects and to prevent this Kingdom 's being engaged in Blood and Confusion after my Death defiring 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 Queen's Labour she came as soon as she could and never stirred from her till she was Delivered of the Prince of Wales Catharina 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 herself several Days and generally saw the Milk and sometimes Wet upon her Smock That sometime 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 Deponent's Return she faw 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 Majesty's Midwife which this Deponent saw and immediatly went with the Prince carried by Mrs. Delabadie into the Queen's little Bed-Chamber where she saw Sir Thomas Witherly sent for by the Midwife who gave the Child Three Drops of something which came into the World with him which this Deponent saw dome 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 Arran 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 Roscommon 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 immediately 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