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A84505	At the Council-chamber in Whitehall, Monday the 22th. 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.; Proceedings. 1688-10-22	England and Wales. Privy Council.; England and Wales. Privy Council. Proceedings. 1688-11-01.	1688 (1688)	Wing E821B; ESTC R229808	19,601	4

At the Council-Chamber in Whitehall Monday the 22th 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 Lord Chief Justice Herbert Sir Thomas Strickland Sir Nicholas Butler Mr. Titus Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Duke of Norfolke Duke of Graston Duke of Ormond Duke of 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 Montagu 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. Justices of the Kings Bench. Sir Thomas Powel Sir Robert Baldock Justices of the Common Pleas. Sir Thomas Street Sir Edward Lutwich Sir Thomas Jennor Barons of the Exchequer Sir Richard Heath Sir Charles Ingleby Sir John Rotheram His Majesties Serjeants at Law. Sir John Maynard Sir John Holt. Sir Ambrose Philips Sir Thomas Powis His Majesties Attorney General Sir William Williams His Majesties Solicitor Generall 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 Kingdoms 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 immediately 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 replyed She had a pretty good Night and did think she had Quickened 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 saw and immediately went with the Prince carried by Mrs. Delabadie into the Queens 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 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 Rescomon 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 till the Queen was Delivered Assoon 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 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 otherwise but that she was with Child That the said Deponent stood by the Bedside on

was in Labour That the Deponent came presently and was with the Queen all the time of her Labour and that kneeling down by the Midwife giving her Clothes for the Queen the Midwife told this Deponent that immediately on the next Pain the Queen would be Delivered which accordingly she was That this Deponent whispered to the Midwife asking whether it was a Girl she answered No whereupon the Midwife parted the Child and put it into the Receivor that the Deponent had given her and then delivered the Child to the Deponent and bid her go and carry it to the Fire and take care of the Navel which this Deponent did and the King and Council followed her and the King asked this Deponent what it was who answered What he desired The King replied But let me see whereupon the Deponent presently shewed his Majesty that it was a Son and the Privy Councillors then present saw it one after another The Deponent sate with the Prince in her Lap till the Midwife had done with the Queen then the Midwife came and took the Prince from this Deponent and asked for a Spoon for to give it three Drops of the Bloud of the Navel-String which the Midwife cut off by the Advice of the Physicians who said it was good against Fits. That the Deponent held the Spoon when the Midwife dropt the Bloud into it and stirred it with a little Black Cherry Water and then it was given to the Prince That the Queen sent for this Deponent and gave her the Prince to take care of him in quality of Dry Nurse which she has hitherto done and further deposeth it to be the same Child that was born of the Queen And that Mrs. Danvers one of the Princess of Denmarks Women and formerly Nurse to the Lady Isabella coming to see the Prince she told this Deponent she was glad to see the same Marks upon his Eye as the Queens former Children had Mary Anne Delabadie Mrs. Judith Wilks Deposeth THat being the Queens Midwife she came often to her especially when her Majesty was in any danger of Miscarrying and many times felt the Child stir in her Belly and saw the Milk run out of her Majesties Breasts That on Trinity Sunday last in the Morning about Eight of the Clock the Queen sent Mr. White Page of the Back-stairs to call her this Deponent believing her self in Labour when the Deponent came she found the Queen in great Pain and Trembling The Queen told her she feared it was her Labour it being near the time of her first Reckoning she the Deponent desired her Majesty not to be afraid saying she did not doubt that it was her full time and hoped her Majesty would have as good Labour as she always had and whilst her Majesty was sitting trembling her Water broke and immediately she sent for the King he being gone to this own Side and let him know in what Condition she was and desired him to send for whom he pleased to be present The Queen ordered this Deponent to send for Mrs. Dawson and the rest of her Women Mrs. Dawson came presently and the Countess of Sunderland with her and the rest of the Women also That most of them saw her this Deponent make the Bed fit for the Queen to be delivered in which when it was ready her Majesty was put into and about Ten a Clock that Morning the Queen was Delivered of the Prince of Wales by her this Deponents assistance and afterwards she the Deponent shewed the After-burthen to the Physicians and before them the Deponent cut the Navel String and gave the Prince three Drops of his Bloud to prevent Convulsion Fits according to their Order And this Deponent further saith That when the Child was born it not crying the Queen said she thought it was dead this Deponent assured her Majesty it was not and desired Leave to part the Child from the After-burthen which the Queen was unwilling to have done thinking it might be dangerous to her self but the Deponent assuring her Majesty it would not her Majesty gave Consent whereupon the Child presently cried and then the Deponent gave it to Mrs. Labadie Judith Wilks Mrs. Elizabeth Pearse Laundress to the Queen Deposeth THat about Nine of the Clock on the Tenth of June last in the Morning she came into the Bed-Chamber and heard the Queen cry out being in great pain in which she continued until her Delivery after which she the Deponent saw the Prince of Wales given by the Midwife to Mrs. Labadie That immediately after the Deponent saw the Midwife hold up the After-burthen shewing it to the Company and then the Deponent fetcht her Maids and with them took away all the foul Linen hot as the they came from the Queen That for a Month after her Majesties Lying-in the Deponent well knows by the washing of her Linen that the Queen was in the same Condition that all other Women use to be on the like Occasion And that sometime after her Quickning it appeared by her Smocks that her Majesty had Milk in her Breasts which continued until she was brought to Bed and afterwards during the usual time Elizabeth Pearse Frances Dutchess of R●chmond and Lenox Deposeth THat she the Deponent was not at the Queens Labour because she did not know it time enough but as soon as she did she made all the haste she could to Dress her but the Queen was Delivered before she the Deponent came And that at a time when the Queen apprehended she should Miscarry and the Physicians made her Majesty keep her Bed for that Reason the Deponent went one Evening to wait upon her Majesty and as she stood by her Bedside her Majesty said to her My Milk is now very troublesom it runs out so much The Deponent asked the Queen if it used to do so who answered It used to run out a little but now the Fright I am in of Miscarrying makes it run out very much as you may see throwing down the Bed clothes to the middle of her Stomach and shewing her Smock upon her Breast to the said Deponent which was very wet with her Milk. F. Richmond Lenox Charlotte Countess of Lichfield Deposeth THat she was not at the Queens Labour being in Child-bed her self but that she was almost constantly with the Queen while she was with Child and hath put on her Smock and seen the Milk run out of her Breast and felt her Belly so that she is sure she could not be deceived but that the Queen was with Child C. Lichfeild Anne Countess of Marischall Deposeth THat she was several times in the Queens Bed-Chamber when she Shifted her self and hath seen her Smock stain'd with her Milk That she was not at the Queens Labour tho' sent to by one of her Ladies being sick of a Fever but do's in her Conscience believe her Majesty was with Child both by her Belly and her Milk. A. Marischall George Lord Jeffreys Lord Chancellor of