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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48056	Letter from Father La Chaise, confessor to the French King, to Father Peters, confessor to the King of England in which is contained the project and designe of that faction to introduce the Prince of Wales : with some observations on his conception and birth : to which added a letter from Will Penn to Father La Chaise about the affaires of that babe and the ensueing progress of the popish design.	La Chaise, François d'Aix de, 1624-1709.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1688 (1688)	Wing L1465; ESTC R30940	16,996	16

for that purpose whereupon the King was much discomposed and I fear he will by this News comeing to him have his Ague againe and indeed I am my self not a little concerned at this News for Prince William of Furstenburg would immediately have entered into a league with our King to subdue Holland and then should we have had a brave opportunity to carry on our designes in England and to make his Majesty of great Brittaine absolute over his subjects but I must here conclude P. la. Chaise Here Curteous Reader thou hast word by word the Letter of la Chaise to Father Peters being the two principal Traytors in this part of the world and the most unsatisfied suckers of Christian blood here thou feest a proof of their unheard of Cheating and Cruelty and if what you have already read in this Letter is not sufficient to convince you of that abominable cheat in the court of England to bring in and impose a Popish Bastard upon the people for the Kings Son Prince of Wales and heir to the Crowne I will presently better inform you and if you please but to make use of your Judgment and reason you will not have the least ground to doubt it That the King of England hath had a distemper in all his Limoes and members for more then twenty years which hath rendred him unfit to beget vitall Children Especially in the last fourteen or Sixteen years for it happened some years after he came to England as he was lyeing at Anchor in Rotter-dam bay near Ninnyport in Bog-land by an accident let slip his cable and so fell foul of a Scotch sire ship and in the heat of the broile before they could get their tackling clear they both unhappyly took fire and yet were miraculously preserved to the great comfort of the whole nation however by the misfortune of this adventure his lower Tier was so damnified that he remains more fit for shew then service but to lay by all dubious and dark Expressions take the story in plane terms which was thus There was a Scotch noble man whose name was Carnegie but his title South E●k who died the 19 day of February last with this Gentlemans lady the King who was then Duke of York had an Indecent conversation the Earl parceiveing it was very much discontented and said to his Father who was then alive that he would chalenge the Duke of York to give him satisfaction but his father knowing on the one side It was against the law to Chalenge a Prince of the blood and on the other that his son was more a Gentleman them to put up such a wrong gave his son advice to pox his wise and by so doeing he would pox the Duke also The Earl his son approved of the Council and so went to a Bawdy house and desired the old Matron to help him to the pockyest whore that was to be found which she immediately provided and haveing well warmed his codpeice he went home and bestowed it on his wife Now so soon as he saw the work was done he retired and put himself under the hands of a Doctor who restored him in a short time to his pristine health the King then Duke perceiveing the Earl was from home made the best improvement he could of the opportunity and away he went with all hast to his pickled Mistris to cool his Reins not dreaming of a snake in the Grass A while after this was done the Duke began to besick so was his dutchess and the Countéss of South Esk and no body knew what was the matter with them not one of the three haveing the least suspicion of the pox The Countess was the first that was discovered to have that disease which the Duke hearing began to beleeve himself and Dutchess peppered with the same spice which then grew publick and sent for the most shillfull pocky Doctors to advise with about it how they were cured you may guess and it is sufficiently knowne and the King can to his sorrow if he pleaseth testify it that ever since he hath carried a half pik and to this very day he Carrys so much of it about him that he is perfectly unable to get a sound Child and it appears plainly since the year 1669 or 1670 when he was almost dead with it all his Children have dyed of that diseass in a miserable Condition and it is Judged by all knowing men that it is Impossible for him to get a Child that shall live long after t is born Ergo. 2. It is a thing unheard of among Physicians that a woman should be let blood with in a few days of her delivery as the Queen was and what is more that a woman should flood to Excess but a month before her delivery and yet bring a lusty Child Into the world as they say she did Ergo. 3. That it is an Impossible thing for a new born Child to have an Issue as they say the young Prince hath and yet supposed to be but two days old such a peece of non sense that any fool may discover the cheat of it for before we can beleeve this they must make us beleeve that popish Kings successors are of another kind of substance then other new born Children are for the body of a Child of four six or eight days old is not fit for a Chyrurgions Instrument neither is there yet blood or other matter to flow from thence as is in that case Expected tho the body were full of Issues Ergo. 4. That it is a thing unpracticable in England to have the Queen delivered without the Cheifest of the Nobility the Bishop of Canterbury the Lord Mayor of London English Gentlemen of note and the forreigne Ministers being there by as it was now which is sufficient to make all people mistrust t is a peece of Roguery and hath given Just cause to any Ingenious man to Judge the contrivers of this project to be fools in folio if there was no cheat in it and that this small Creature was Son of the King and Queen and lawful Heir to the Crowne of England nay what is more from the very first hour that they reported the Queen to be with Child the English and Scotch Nations and almost the whole world besides that heard of it Concluded it was a cheat Now what way was there to convince them of the truth of it and to stop the Months of Gain sayers but to take care to have it done Regular and publick according to the antient Custom in that case that all man kind might be satisfied it was true and Just but Alas here was the popes finger in it and the French Kings to Ergo. 5. The subtilty they have used to have the Queen delivered in the eight month and that with so much suddennes as if she had not time to call any or give notice to those who ought to have been there they Judging that the world will think from hence

beleeve when you Resolved in earnest by which means you catcht the fools neatly all which were neatly Laid and contrived for which we thank you wishing all succes to your designes and Endeavors toward the perfecting this mighty work Secondly That you keep both their Majestys to their former Resolution in declareing this child to be really theire owne and also by publick proclamation for a day of Thanks giveing to tell the whole Nation he was their son and Heir to the Crowne in spight of all the prateing Inquisitive Hereticks in Holland and England who have got some kind of sent of the work and designe now in hand but I can tell them they think they know more then really they do how ever they have Endeavored by dispersing of various papers to render his Majesty suspected and I assure that your King would have fell of and departed from his pious Resolution for we well know that he is but a weak man and you know such kind of people are easyly led away when they have nothing to depend upon but what lyeth in other mens heads Thirdly That there is such great care taken for the young Prince and also in case of the Kings death to declare his consort Queen Regent and to appoint your self the Lord Chancelor with some other good men to govern while the Prince is under age And by the same manner we defended our King his reputed Father haveing appointed Cardinal Mazarine for his Tutor and Governer till by force of Arms he was able to make his way to the Crowne and if any are so Inquisitive as to ask if this Prince shall be brought to the Crowne by the same manner let such know that it may be easily done for our King hath declared that if there is occasion he will stand by him with his whole fore and power Fourthly That which administers great Joy to me and all the Fathers of our Society is that the King of great Brittain is resolved and hath also promised you that in case this Child should dye there shall be another ready to put into the cradle in his place but if that should prove difficult and that there should not be a Child readily found to carry on the show with some reputation you must take the same course as before and send the King to St. Winifreds well to wash that little he hath let the Queen wear a Cushion upon her belly for nine months and that will certainly produce another Prince of Wals. Fifthly That his Majesty hath given orders to all the priests to write to the forreigne Colledges and desire them to in treat the English Scotch and Irish and all other outlandish Catholicks that are well inclind to advance and further the Kings pious designes and to encourage every one that can with all speed to come over into England with promise that they shall all be advanced according to their several quallifications which will be of great use for the carrying on this blessed work defending the young Prince against his Conspireing Enemies and to root out all the Hereticks In which work I do promise not to be negligent but ro send over as many as I can possibly perswade And now as these things are truely Joyous in themselves so have they in me and all the Fathers of our Society created an un expressible Joy. If I should tell you how I was affected when I heard this news I could say no more but this that my soul was separated from my body and transported with Joy and gladnes into the paradis of the most high which no man can conceive as St. Paul writes of himself when he was taken up into the third heaven Now Concerning the question you have put to me that is what is the best cours to be taken to root out all the Hereticks to which I answer there are divers ways to do that but-we must consider which is the best to make use off in England I am sure you are not Ignorant how many thousand Hereticks we have in france by the power of our Dragons converted in the space of one year and by the Doctrin of those booted Apostles turnd more in one Month then Christ and his Apostles by their preaching could in ten year this is a most Excellent method and far excells those of the great preachers and teachers that have lived since Christ his time But I have spoke with divers Fathers of our Society who do think that your King is not strong enof to accomplish his designe by such kind of force So that we cannot expect to have our work done in that manner for the Hereticks are to strong in the three Kingdoms and therefore we must seek to convert them by fair means before we fall upon them with Fire Sword halters Jailes and other such like punish better advice but to begin with Soft easy means weedle them in by promises of profit and offices of Honor till you have made them dip themselves in treasonable actions against the Laws Established and then they are bound to serve for fear When they have done thus turn them out and serve others so by putting them in their places and by this way gaine as many as you can and for the Hereticks that are in places of profit or Honor turn out or suspend them on pretence of Misbehaviour by which their places are forfeit and they subject to what Judgment you please to give upon them then you must form a Camp that must consist of none but Catholikes this will make the Hereticks heartles and Conclude all means of releife or recovery is gone And lastly take the short and the best way which is to surprise the Hereticks on a sudden and to Incourage the Zealous Catholikes let them Sacrifice them all and wash their hands in their blood which will be an acceptable offering to god and this was the method I took in France which hath well you see succeeded but it cost me many threatnings and Promises before I could bring it thus far our King being a long time very un willing But at last I got him on the hip for he had Lay with his daughter in Law for which I would by no means give him absolution till he had given me an Instrument under his owne hand and Seal to Sacrifice all the Hereticks in one day Now as soon as I had my desired Commission I appointed the day when this should be done and in the mean time made ready some thousands of Letters to be sent into all parts of France in one post night I was never better pleased then at that time but the King was a affected with some Compassion for the Hugonets because they had been a means to bring him to his Crowne and Throne and the longer he was under it the more sorrowful he was often complaining and desireing me to give him his Commission do adviseing him to repent of that hanious sinne and also telling him that the trouble and