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A40696	A brief discovery of the true mother of the pretended Prince of Wales, known by the name of Mary Grey to which is added a further discovery of the late conspiracy against His Majesties sacred person and government, &c., and deposed to a committee of Parliament / by William Fuller, Gent. ...	Fuller, William, 1670-1717?	1696 (1696)	Wing F2479; ESTC R18305	15,098	76

where led by my extraordinary Curiosity in this Affair I was not a little inquisitive to learn if possible the Catastrophe of this unfortunate Gentlewoman as indeed I had been all along little other than a Spy upon her and her concerns relating to that Young Child I confess I had but small occasion of given my self this needless trouble of making the aforesaid Inquiry For Father Sabran who I forgot to tell my Reader was Chaplain to the Young Prince and is now his Tutour did frankly own to me the same Evening they left her That he believed she would not be alive the Day following nor was it fit she should live I might have rested satisfied with what Sabran told me it being undoubtedly too much of Truth However as it could not enter into my heart to think it possible there should be such Inhuman Barbarity in the World as to Murder a poor Woman in cold Blood and that too by the Commands of Crowned Heads my own good Nature in Tenderness for the poor Creature inclined me to the said inquiry about her Besides my own knowledge in this Affair there have been several Letters and Papars found in Mrs. Labodies Fathers's Trunk now still to be produced Relating to this Gentlewoman besides several corroborative Proffs from divers Persons of Quality of Ireland and others as also Capt. Wright that brought her over from Ireland and the other Capt. that carried her over into France that are able to give a great Light into the Discovery of this Grand Imposture Nor were the Managers of this Affair any ways wanting in providing of Two Big-Bellied Women together that if One String failed the other might hit As for the Child he is a very Brisk and Airy no ways Deformed in his Limbs but a Ruddy Complexion fair Hair and Dark coloured brisk Eyes He when but Two Years Old was a great lover of Musick and could distinguish several particular Tunes when Played he is a notable Fighter and does not only beat his young Play-Fellows on the least Distaste But the Dauphin of France going one Day to Kiss his Highness and his Welch or Irish Blood being up he gave the Dauphin a Blow on the Face with his Hand with all his Might None dare cross him for he is so Refractory that upon the least Occasion he will hold his Breath to that degree that the Queen and all about him have thought him really Dead As to my first Introduction to this Trust and Knowledge into the Affairs of the late Court I must inform my Reader that by Sir John Burrows a Zealous Roman Catholick and my particular Patron and the Marquess of Powis to whom by the Mother side I had the Honour to be a little Related I was prefered to be a Page to the Countess of Melford From her Service I was introduced into the Marquess`s Family and from thence as before mentioned I was advanced to the late Queens Service And here to begin with my first Trust and Commands received from her said late Majesty The Sunday before Christmas in the Year 1688. I Embark'd with the late King Jame's Queen her pretended Son the Prince of Wales the Marchioness of Powis the Lady Strickland Mrs. Labody and Count De Lazon with several Others in a Barge from White-Hall And the next Day following arrived at Calais in a Yatch where the said Queen was received by the Governor and Garrison in Arms and continued there Three Days ●●takin● her Journey from thence to Bulloign where she had an Express with the News of King James's being taken at Feversham in Kent On which occasion I was immediately Dispatched for England with Letters to him and came to his Majesty on a Sunday Morning just as he was ready to take Coach for Whiee-Hall from whence I was sent with Letters back to France again the same Night and overtook the Queen Four Days before her Arrival at St. Germains and continued there until King James's Arrival immediately after which I was sent to England again with Letters from King James to his Friends here and arriving safely I was soon ordered back to France with the Answer in the like manner And was likewise sent betwixt France and England several other times bringing Letters not only to several Lords in England but also for such of King James`s Friends as were in Scotland particularly the Lord Viscount Dundee and Commissions for several in Rebellion with him and for Others that promised to Joyn against the Prince of Orange on the first Opportunity I also brought several Bills of Exchange for Money to be Remitted to the said Lord Dundee which was performed by the care of Mr. Ashton the late King James`s Queens Privy-Purse And during my continuance in London I used daily to visit the Lords and Others in the Tower and being young passed freely to them unsuspected carrying Letters to and from them on all occasions relating to King James`s Affairs and brought several Bills from them which was to be employed by their appointment for Listing of Men in England for King James`s Service against a Descent from France which was resolved on at the Court of France and much Solicited for from England it being the chief Subject of the Letteas I carried to King James and the Frence King to intreat the Landing of Men in England in several places particularly in the North and that Five Thousand Men some good Officers with a Hundred Thousand Pound and Thirty or Forty Thousand spare Arms would be sufficient to be sent` and to secure the Kingdom of Scotland with the assistance of those in Arms against the Prince of Orange For this the French Court was almost daily Sollicited by Letters and great Promises from England a●e all possible Provision was made on each side the French having provided a great Fleet and Men ready to make a Descent whilst King James's Friends in England had according to the account they sent to France Listed above Twenty Thousand Men in and about London January 1690. for this cause the Popes Nuncio's Chair-Man was Executed and had provided great numbers of Horse ond Foot Accountrements and Arms and the like was done according to their utmost endeavours in most Counties and Shires in this Kingdom Here I shall omit troubling you or my self with the manner of my coming to serve King William since 't is known to most intelligible Men I propose to acquaint you that having privately Discovered all I knew to His Majesty the now Duke of Shreswsbury then Secretary of State and the Earl of Rumney then Lord Sidney and the Earl of Portland I continued to go to France as before with Letters for King James his Queen and the French Court which Letters I always shewed to King William before I went or to one of the Lords before mentioned as I did also the Answers at my Return The last time of my coming from France was with Mr. Crone at the beginning of Summer in the year 1690. The

Judges and Jury That I had performed very considerable Services to the Advantage and Security of the Present Government and had discharg'd my Duty honestly but having Engag'd for those Men and they not Appearing occasioned my Tryal on which I produced a Certificate under the Hand of His Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury that by the King's Order and his Encouragement I was sent to France for the Service and Security of the Present Government as before mentioned I also desired the Lord Chief Justice Holt to acquaint the Jury who were all Gentlemen of good Account of what he knew being one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council And as to the Matter relating to the Letters I had and the Pardons and Money which was offered me to go back for France all which his Lordship most justly and honourably declared There was likewise a considerable number of Members of Parliament call'd but the Men I engaged for not appearing before the House to certifie them I was found Guilty of a Misdemeanour against them Having thus shewed how far their Malice extended to me I beg you will take Notice how Confidently King James's Friends can oppose any Truth that is against their Interest as now their denying that the French Court or King James's knew of the Design of Murthering King William when the World cannot but remember that Chevalier Granval was Executed in Flanders for Endeavouring to Shoot the KING and that at his Death he Confess'd the Fact And it was sufficiently prov'd That Colonel Parker was engag'd with him and that Parker had Receiv'd Instructions from the Late King and that both of Them with Others were Encouraged from Time to Time by the French Ministers of State Of This I first acquainted his Majesty but it was further Discover'd at one of the Confederate Prince's Courts who earnestly pressed his Majesty to Examine the Matter and being done this Granval was found Guilty and Executed tho' Colonel Parker made his Escape Which may convince any thinking Man that from the First Intended Invasion from France that Court has studied Wayes to Kill King William and his late Royal Consort of ever Blessed Memory As for the Intolerable Injuries that I have undergone Time and their own Devices have at last Demonstrated tho they spared for no Means that might make me Obnoxious to all Good Men I bless God and must acknowledge the abundant Goodness of my Sovereign for my Deliverance from their treacherous and base Villanies and earnestly pray that Almighty God will forgive them as I most freely do Whoever shall peruse these Lines and is not satisfied with the Truth of any Particular I shall be ready to give any Demonstration that is not too impertinent And as I have mentioned the Names of several Great and Good Men I dare refer any Person to them for the Confirmation of the Truth of this Narrative POST-SCRIPT THough the Jacobites and Malecontents of the Kingdom those that either blindly or those that wilfully think too well of their bad Cause will be apt no doubt to quarrel and revile at what I have here declared concerning the Birth of their Darling though weak Hopes the pre●●nded Prince of Wales however more strongly to confirm what I have here deliver'd introductory to the more ample Detection of that shameful Imposture The undoubted spurious Fountain the obscure Original of this Supposititious Birth from good testimony and the Papers of Mrs. Labody's Father c. will in due time be plainly made out to the full Satisfaction of all Europe and the eternal Shame of all the Jacobite Confederates in that wretched Contrivance And to the foregoing General and Succinct Account of my Correspondence and Interest in the late Court and their Affairs together with the hard Measures I received in Return for my well-meaning honest Endeavours to serve the King and the Nation I shall only add a few Remarks on the farther Subtilties and Artifices of the Jacobites That certainly never was there a more cunning Reach of Policy nor a Popish Misrepresentation more Artfully managed to the rendring of Truth Suspected Innocence Exposed and Integrity Ridicul'd than by those Hypocrite false Friends of mine the foremention'd Delaval and Hayes who by a Master-piece of Villany against me could work with me only to blow me up viz. When their fore mentioned Letters and Correspondence with me together with their many fair Promises of Serving the King and Queen in joyning in my Discovery as also their Publick Appearance in the Lobby and other Places to strengthen my too easie Credulity c. were all but a Popish Juggle and Trick to give them Opportunity to vanish off Invisible and by the stink of their own Cloven-Feet they left behind them utterly to blast the whole Credit of all I had said or could say so to expose the King to their own Impious Conspiracies by stifling whatever Truth should pretend to speak for his Preservation and Deliverance And as to the ' Veracity of my Informations and Depositions though render'd by the aforesaid Misrepresentations so discredited by the Government the happy Detection of the late horrid Plot has fully and amply clear'd the unjust Aspersions and false Imputations against me when their Designs are so manifestly proved to be built upon the same Bottom and managed by the very same Persons the same Conspiring hands I then Discovered c. For a clear Demonstration of the unquestion'd Truth of my Discovery I shall only instance one Particular viz. in the Matter of Granval's and Parker's Assassination 'T is known to Mr. William Killigrew and if required will be attested by him That he saw my Papers drawn up concerning Chevalier Granval's Assassination c. and was by when I deliver'd them to the King 's own hand and heard me tell his Majesty part of the Contents and which Papers I desire my Reader to observe were ●●ven to his Majesty in the Winter before 〈◊〉 then setting out for Flanders before the intended Execution of the said Horrid Design his Majesty's timely Warning and ●au●●● being receiv'd from my Information and Intelligence I must confess with Sorrow unspeakable that the unkind Usage I met with expos'd me to some little Shifts which my Soul 〈◊〉 as the running in Debt for necessary Sub●istence being sometimes hardly allow'd ●●ead when I was about his Majesty's Ser●●●● Therefore whoever shall presume to C●●●●●● the Government with keeping me in con●●●●…t Pay for a Spy or Witness as was practis'd in the former Reigns does them much Injury But my Wrongs being now plainly Demonstrated I hope none will reflect on the Justice of the Government in providing for me that I may have a poor Maintenance and be able to render to every one their just Due which is my hearty Desire Lastly As to my no earlier Publication of these Papers I have only this to say That the Disreputation I so long groan'd under till now deterr'd me from appearing in Print as having the Prejudice of a Nation against me and which I well knew would have render'd the whole Truth I had to speak but so much Breath against the Wind. 'T is true I might have publish'd these Papers some few Months sooner had I not then been Commanded to Sea in his Majesty's Service in order to my Apprehending several suspected Persons concern'd in this present Plot which gave me neither that Leisure nor Opportunity FINIS THE Author's Advertisement WHEREAS I am inform'd That there is a Design of Publishing a Surreptitious Copy of this Narrative of the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales by way of Abridgement These are therefore to Certify That the only TRUE COPY as Deliver'd to the KING and Ministers of State is contain'd in this BOOK Price stitcht Six Pence as Witness my Hand this Fourth Day of July 1696. W. FULLER A true Copy of his Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury's Certificate I Do hereby certifie That in November 1689. Mr. William Fuller came to me and did make several considerable Discoveries of the Intreagues of the Enemies of the present Government and He was by my Incouragement sent into France and at his Return did perform very great Service for the Preservation of Their Majesties Sacred Persons and the Peace and Security of their Government And that it was by his Endeavours that Mr. Matthew Crone was detected and convicted of High-Treason Given under my Hand this 15th of April 1692. Shrewsbury