Bed-chamber when she shifted herself and hath seen her Smock stained with her Milk that she was not at the Queen's Labour tho' sent to by one of her Ladies being Sick of a Fever but does in her Conscience believe Her Majesty was with Child both by her Belly and her Milk. A. Marischal George Lord Jeffreys Lord Chancellor of England Deposeth THAT he being sent for to St. James's on the Tenth of June last by a Messenger that left Word the Queen was in Labour soon after he this Deponent came to St. James's and was sent for into the Queen's Bed-chamber and to the best of his the Deponent's Apprehension the Queen was in Labour and had a Pain or Two to the best of the Deponent's Remembrance before the rest of the Lords were called in The Deponent stood all the Time at the Queen's Bed-side and heard her cry out several Times as Women in Travel use to do and at length after a long Pain it was by some of the Women on the other Side of the Bed said the Child was born The Deponent heard the Queen say she did not hear it cry the Deponent immediately asked the Lord President what it was he whispered that it was a Boy which the Deponent understood he had hinted to him by the Lady Sunderland Immediatly the Deponent saw a Gentlewoman who he hath since heard her Name to be Mrs. Delabadie carry the Child into another Room whither the Deponent followed and saw the Child when she first opened it and saw it was black and reaking so that it plainly seemed to this Deponent to have been newly come from the Womb. The Deponent doth therefor depose he doth stedfastly believe the Queen was delivered of that Child that very Morning Jeffreys C. Robert Earl of Sunderland Lord President of His Majesty's Privy Council and principal Secretary of State Deposeth THAT on Sunday Morning the Tenth of June last he was sent to to come to St. James's the Queen being in Labour the Deponent immediately went and found many of the Lords of Council there After having been some Time in an outward Room first the Lord Chancellor and then the rest of the Council were called into the Queen's Bed-chamber where in a short Time Her Majesty was brought to Bed the Deponent saw Mrs. Delabadie carry the Child into the next Room whither the Deponent followed with many more and saw it was a Son and had the Marks of being new born Sunderland P. Henry Lord Aruudel of Wardour Lord Privy Seal deposeth THAT on the Tenth of June last being Sunday he had Notice given him that the Queen was in Labour whereupon the Deponent repaired to St. James's betwixt Nine and Ten of the Clock in the Morning where he found several Lords of the Council in a little Time after they were all called into the Queen's Bed-chamber in less than a Quarter of an Hour after she sell into the Sharpness of her Labour her Crys were so Vehement and especially the last that the Deponent could not forbid himself the being concerned for her great Pain which the Deponent expressing to the Lord Chancellor he told the Deponent it was a Sign her Majesty would the sooner he delivered or Words to that Purpose which proved very true for presently after she was so the Deponent heard a Whispering up and down that it was a Prince for no Man was permitted to speak it aloud lest the sudden Knowledge of It might have discomposed the Queen the Deponent did not go in with some Lords when the Child was carried into the next Room which was the Occasion the Deponent did not see him when he was uncovered and drest Arundel C. P. C. John Earl of Mulgrave Lord Chamberlain of His Majest's Houshold saith it is not to be expected one of his Sex should be able to give full Evidence in such a Matter but deposeth THAt he was just at the Bed's Feet and heard the Queen cry very much then the Deponent followed the Child into the other Room and it seemed a little black the Deponent also saw it was a Boy Mulgrave William Earl of Craven deposeth THat he attending the King at St. James's the Tenth of June last in the Morning to receive the Word of His Majesty the King had Notice brought him that the Queen was upon the Point of falling into Labour upon which the King commanded this Deponent's Stay and Attendance and after the Space of one Hour and something more this Deponent was with some other Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council called into the Queens ' great Bed-chamber to be present at her Delivery and as near as this Deponent can remember the Queen made three Groans or Squeeks and at the last of Three she was delivered of a Child the which was carried out into the little Bed-chamber and there by the Fire this Deponent saw it cleansing And this Deponent further saith That he took that particular Mark of this Child that he may safely aver that the Prince of Wales is that very Child that then was so brought out of the Queen 's Great Bed-chamber where this Deponent and others were present as aforesaid at Her Majesty's Labour and Deliver Craven Lewis Earl of Feversham Lord Chamberlain to Her Majesty the Queen Dowager Deposeth THat being in Bed upon the 10th of June betwen 8 and 9 a Clock in the Morning Mr. Nicolas one of His Majesty's Grooms of His Bed-chamber came into this Deponent's Room and told him that the King had sent him to tell the Queen Dowager that the Queen was in Labout and told him further that the Queen Dowager had given Order for Her Coach as soon as she heard the News of the Queen's Labour The Deponent dressed himself with all Speed and came to wait upon the Queen Dowager who was ready to go into heer Coach as she did the Deponent went into one of her Coaches to wait upon Her Majesty as he used to do having the Honour to be Her Lord Chamberlain We went to St. James's and then led Her Majesty into the Queen's Bed-chamber and finding the Queen in Pain the Deponent went into the next Room where were several Lords of the Privy Council from whence the Deponent heard the Queen cry out several Times and a very little after the Lords of the Council were called in and the Deponent followed them into the Bed-chamber and a very little after the Queen cried louder and then said Pray do not tell me what it is yet The Deponent went out of the Room to tell the News that the Queen was brought to Bed and when the Deponent came in agai the News was That it was a Prince and immediatly the Deponent saw Ms. Delabadie with the Child wrapt up in her Hands and in the Crowd upon which the Deponent desired to make Room for the Prince and followed her into the little Bed-chamber where the Deponent saw the Prince as a Child newly born as he believed it Feversham Alexander Eorl of
not to St. James's till the Queen was delivered the Deponent meeting just as he was going into the Bed-chamber Mrs. Delabadie with the young Prince in her Arms the King and several of the Lords soon afteer following into the little Bed-chamber where the Deponent saw the Child naked before it was cleansed from the Impurities of the Birth and also saw the Navel-string cut and some Drops of fresh Blood received into a Spoon which she mingled with a little Black cherry water and saw them given by the Physicians Orders to the Child and afterwards going into the great Bed-chamber where the Queen was delivered he saw the After-burthen c. fresh Ja. St. Amand. After these Depositions were taken His Majesty was pleased to acquaint the Lords That the Princess Anne of Denmark would have been present but that she being with Child and having not lately stirred abroad could not come so far without Hazard Adding further AND now My Lords although I did not question but every Person here present was satisfied before in this Matter Yet by what you have heard you will be better able to satisfy others Besides if I and the Queen could be thought so wicked as to endeavour to impose a Child upon the Nation you see how impossible it would have been neither could I my Self be imposed upon having constantly been with the Queen during her being with Child and the whole time of her Labour And there is none of you but will easily believe Me who have suffered so much for Conscience sake uncapable of so great a Villany to the prejudice of my own Children And I thank God that those that know Me know well that it is My Principle to do as I would be done by for that is the Law and the Prophets And I would rather die a thousand Deaths than do the least Wrong to any of my Children His Majesty further said IF any of My Lords think it necessary the Queen should be sent for it shall be done But their Lordships not thinking it necessary Her Majesty was not sent for 'T IS Ordered this Day by His Majesty in Council That the several Declarations here before made by his Majesty and by her Majesty the Queen Dowager together with the several Depositions here entred be forthwith Enrolled in the Court of Chancery And the Lord Chancellor is Ordered to cause the same to be Enrolled accordingly IN Pursuance of which Order in Council the Lord Chancellor on Saturday the 27th Day of October following in the High Court of Chancery many of the Nobility and Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council being there present caused the aforesaid Order of Council and Declaration of His Majesty and likewise that of Her Majesty the Queen Dowager to be openly and distinctly Read in Court and the same are Entred in the Words aforesaid in the Council Book And the Lords and Ladies and other Persons who made the respective Depositions aforesaid being present in Court were Sworn again and having heard their several Depositions distinctly Read in the Words aforesaid and being severally Interrogated by the Court to the Truth thereof they all upon their Oaths affirmed their respective Depositions to be true And did likewise Depose except some few who came in late to the Council Chamber or some who stood at too great a Distance That they heard His Majesty and her Majesty the Queen Dowager make the several Declarations aforesaid and that the same as they had been Read were truly Entred as they did believe in the Council Book according to the Sense Intent and Meaning of what His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen Dowager did then declare And forasmuch as the Earl of Huntingdon and the Earl of Peterburrow who were able to Depose to the Matters aforesaid had not been examined at the Council Board but had brought their several Depositions in Writing which they delivered into Court the said Lord Chancellor after the said Earls were severally Sworn Ordered their Depositions to be openly Read in the Words following UPON Trinity Sunday Tenth of June 1688 I went to St. James's House about Nine a-clock in the Morning and followed my Lord Chancellor through the Lodgings to the Dressing Room next to the Queen's Bed-chamber where divers Lords of the Council were met upon occasion of the Queen's being in Labour the King came several times into the Room and amongst other things was pleased to tell us that the Queen came exactly according to her first Reckoning which was from the King 's Return from his Progress to Bath in September 1687 After this the Counsellors were ordered to come into the Bed-chamber and I stood on that Side of the Bed that had the Curtains drawn open I heard Her Majesty cry out several times I stay'd in the Room during the Birth of the Prince of Wales I saw him carried in to the Little Bed-chamber whither the King the Lords and my self in particular did follow him Huntingdon I Had the Honour to be in the King's Chamber in the Morning when Word was brought him the Queen was not well and followed him into the Dressing Room next Her Majesty's Bed-chamber where I stay'd till his Majesty call'd me to come in which was about the Beginning of her Pains I confess the Compassion I had for her Majesty hearing her Cries made my Stay there very uneasy one of the last especially seem'd to me so sharp as it really forced me for a little Time to stop my Ears with my Fingers to avoid hearing more of the like when setting them at liberty I heard no more but perceived a sudden Satisfaction in the Faces of the Assistants several saying that the Queen was Delivered and soon thereupon I saw the Prince brought from about the Bed and carried into the Little Bed-chamber whither I went afterwards to behold him more particularly where I saw him as a Child newly Born. Peterburrow AFter which the said Earls did severally upon their Oaths affirm their Depositions to be true as they had been Read and that they were present in Council and heard His Majesty and Her Majesty the Queen Dowager make the several Declarations aforesaid and that the same were Entred in the Council Book as they did believe according to the Effect true Sense and Meaning of what their Majesties declared in Council Whereupon his Majesty's Attorney General moved the Court that the said Declarations of His Majesty and of Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the several Depositions and the Order of Council should be Enrolled in the Petty-bag-office and in the Office of Enrolments in the Court of Chancery for the safe Preservation and Custody of them which the Lord Chancellor Ordered accordingly EDINBURGH The Ninth Day of November 1688 Years Present in Council The Earl of Perth Lord H. Chancellor The Lord Arch-bishop of St. Andrew's The Lord Arch-bishop of Glasgow The Marq. of Athol Lord Privy-Seal The Lord Duke of Gordon The Earl of Errol The Earl of Cassils The Earl of Linlithgow L. Justice General The Earl of Dumferline The Earl of Strathmore The Earl of Lauderdale The Earl of Traquaire The Earl of Belcarras The Earl of Broadalbine The Lord Vis Tarbat The Lord Strathnaver The Lord Maitland The Lord Duffus The Lord Kinaird The M. of Balmerinoch The Lord P. of S. The Lord Advocat The Lord J. Clerk. The Lord Castlehill The Lord Lochore Sir George Monro The Laird of Nidry The proceeding Depositions concerning the Birth of HIs Royal Highness JAMES Prince of Scotland and Wales being transmitted to His Majesty's Privy-Council of this Kingdom by the Secretaries of State and being solemnly read in Council were ordered to be forthwith printed and published Extracted forth of the Records of Privy-Council by me WILL. PATERSON Cls. Sti. Concilii
her Majesty's Bed-chamber and found the Queen in Bed and Mrs. Wilks her Majesty's Midwife sitting by the Bedside with her Hands in the Queen's Bed The Queen asked her the said Midwife what she thought Mrs. Wilks assured her Majesty That at the next great Pain the Child would be born Whereupon the King ordered the Privy Counsellors to be called in That this Deponent stood behind the Midwife's Chair and immmediately after the Queen's having another great Pain the Prince was born That this Deponent saw the Child taken out of the Bed with the Navel-string hanging to its Belly That this Deponent opened the Receiver and saw that it was a Son and not hearing the Child cry and seeing it a little black she was afraid it was in a convulsion Fit. S. Bellasyse Henrietta Lady Waldegrave Deposeth THAT she was in the Queen's Bed-chamber a quarter of an Hour before her majesty was delivered and standing by the Bedside she saw the Queen in Labour and heard her cry out very much Henrietta Wentworth Mrs. Mary Crane one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-chamber to the Queen Dowager Deposeth THAT she went with the Queen Dowager to the Queen's Labour on the 10th of June last and never stirred out of the Room till the Queen was delivered That this Deponent did not follow the Child when it was first carried out of the Room but staid in the Bed-chamber and saw all that was to be seen after the Birth of a Child That she the Deponent then went to see the Prince and found him look ill and immediately went to the King and told his Majesty she feared the Child was sick That his Majesty went immediately to the Prince and came back and said it was a Mistake the Child was very well Mary Crane Dame Isabella Wentworth one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-chansber to the Queen Deposeth THAT she often saw the Milk of her Majesty's Breast upon her Smock at which the Queen was troubled it being common Saying that the Child would not live And that she the Deponent did once feet the Child stir in the Queen's Belly while her Majesty was in Bed and that she was present when the Child was born and stard till she hear'd it cry and then went to fetch Vinegar for the Queen to smell to she the Deponent heard the Queea command the Midwife not to tell her of what Sex it was for fear of surprising her Majesty When the Deponent brought the Vinegar she did desire to see the Child Mrs. Delabadie having it in her Arms. The Child looked black whereupon the Deponent desired Doctor Waldegrave to look to it believing it was not well That the Deponent saw the Navel-string of the Child cut and three Drops of the Blood which came fresh out given to him for the convulsion Fits. Isabella Wentworh Dame Kathatind Sayer one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-chamber to the Queen Dowager Deposeth THAT she waited on the Queen Dowager to the Queen's Labour and was all the Time by the Bed-side and stood there till the Queen was delivered and followed the Child when it was carried by Mrs. Delabadie to the little Bed-chamber and took a warm Napkin and laid it on the child's Breast believing the Child was not well Katharine Sayer Dame Isabella Waldegrave one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-chamber to the Queen Deposeth THAT she was constantly with the Queen when her Majesty was likely to miscarry and bad often seen Milk on her majesty's Breasts and was with the Queen at the Time of her Labour with the Prince and saw the Prince taken out of the Bed and went after Mrs. Delabadie with the Prince in her Arms into the little Bed chamber and was by when the Child was shewn to the King that it was a Son and this Deponent took the After burden and put it into a Bason of Water and carried it into the Queen's Closet Isabella Waldegrave Mrs. Margaret Dawson one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-chamber to the Queen Deposeth THAT on the 10th of June last in the Morning she was sent for by the Queen out of St. James's Chappel where she was at Prayers and that coming up into the Queen's Chamber she found her sitting all alone upon a Stool by the Beds-head when the Queen said to her this Deponent she believed herself in Labour and bid her the Deponent get the Iallate-bed which stood in the next Room to be made ready quickly for her but that Bed having never been aired the Deponent persuaded the Quen not to make use of it After which the Queen bid the Deponent make ready the Bed she came out of which was done accordingly The Deponent further saith That she saw Fire carried into the Queen's Room in a warming Pan to warm the Bed after which the Queen went into her bed and that the Deponent stirred not from the Queen untill her Majesty was delivered of a Son. That she this Deponent well remembers That on the 29th of December last her Majesty was afraid of Miscarrying which was about the Time she quickned and that after the Queen had gone 22 Weeks with Child her Majesty's Milk began to run which she the Deponent often saw upon her Smock and that the 9th of May her Majesty apprehended Miscarrying again with a Fright Margaret Dawson Mrs. Elizabeth Bromley one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-Chamber to the Queen Deposeth THAT she was sick all Winter till a little before Easter laft when she the Deponent came into waiting That from that Time till the Queen was brought to bed she the Deponent saw the Queen put on her Smock every Morning by which means she saw the Milk constantly fall out of her Majesty's Breasts and observ'd the Bigness of her Majesty's Belly which could not be counterfeit That the Deponent came from Whitehall to the Queen's Labour to St. James's the 10 of June last and remained in the Room till the Queen was Deliver'd and afterwards but did not follow the Child till some time after when she the De pone went to see what coloured Eyes he had Elizabeth Bromley Mrs. Pelegrina Turini one of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-chamber to the Queen Deposeth THAT she constantly attended the Queen when she was last with child and that on the Tenth of June last she was in waiting on her Majesty who call'd her on the said Tenth of June in the Morning and told her the Deponent she was in Pain and bid her send for the Midwife her Ladies and Servants after which she the Deponent stay'd with the Queen during her Labour and until she was Delivered of the Prince of Wales The Mark of Pelegrina X Turini Mrs. Anna Carey One of the Gentlewomen of the Bed-Chamber to the Queen Dowager Deposeth THAT she waited on the Queen Dowager from Somerset-house to St. James's the Day the Queen was brought to bed and went into the Queen's Bed-chamber where she this Deponent stay'd till the Queen was Delivered and saw the Prince asson
as he was born Anna Carey Mrs. Mary Anne Delabadie Dry Nurse to the Prince Deposeth THAT she was with the Queen all the Time her Majesty was with child and dress'd her every Day and in all the nine Months did not miss above six Days and that at several times by reason of Sickness That on Sunday-morning the Tenth of June last she the Deponent was sent for to the Queen who 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 Recevoir 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 replyed but let me see whereupon the Deponent presently shewed his Majesty that it was a Son and the Privy Counsellors then present saw it one after another whereupon the Deponent sat 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 ask'd for a Spoon for to give it Three Drops of the Blood 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 Blood into it and stirr'd it with a little black Cherry Water and then it was given to the Prince that the 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 Denmark's 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 Queen 's former Children had Mary Anne Delabadie Ms. Judith Wilks Deposeth THAT being the Queen's Midwife she came often to her especiallys 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 Majesty's 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 herself 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 his 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 Depondent 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 Depondent 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 Deponent's 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 Blood 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 Chiid from the After-burthen which the Queen was unwilling to have done thinking it might be dangerous to herself but the Deponent assuring Her Majesty it would not Her Majesty gave Consent whereupon the Child presently cryed and then the Deponeut gave it to Ms. Delabadie Judith Wilks Mrs. Elizabeth Pearse Landress to the Queen Deposeth THAT about Nine a 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 whieh she the Deponent saw the Prince of WALES given by the Midwife to Mrs. Delabadie 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 Linnen hot as they came from the Queen that for a Month after Her Majesty's Lying-in the Deponent well knows by the Washing of her Linnen that the Queen was in the same Condition that all other Women use to be on the like Occasion and that some Time after her quickening 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 Richmond and Lennox Deposeth THAT she the Depouent was not at the Queen's 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 Qeen 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 Bed-side Her Majesty said to her My Milk is now very troublesome 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 Lennox Charlotte Countess of Lichfield Deposeth THAT she was not at the Queen's Labour being in Child-bed herself but that she was almost constantly with the Queen while she 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. Litchfield Anne Countess of Marischal Deposeth THAT she was several Times in the Queen's
Murray Deposeth THat he came not to St. James's till Half an Hour after the Queen was brought to Bed and only heard That Her Majesty was brought to Bed of a Prince which the Deponent verily believes as he is alive She brought into the World that very Morning being the 10th of June last 1688. Murray Charles Earl of Middleton one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State Deposeth THat the 10th of June last past betwixt 8 and 9 of the Clock in the Morning he had Notice That the Queen's Majesty was in Labour whereupon the Deponent made what Haste he could to St. James's The Deponent found the Earl of Craven waiting at the Queen's Bed-chamber Door towards the Drawing Room which was then shut Just after the King opened it and called the Earl of Craven and the Deponent in The Deponent asked His Majesty How the Queen was He was pleased to answer the Deponent You are a married Man and so may know these Matters The Water is broke or come away or to that Effect and then bid the Deponent go into the Dressing Room within the Bed-chamber where the Deponent found several Persons of Quality Above Half an Hour after to the best of this Deponent's Memory all the Company in that Room were called into the Bed-chamber The Deponent stood near the Bed's Feet on the Left Side where he heard the Queen's Groans and presently after several loud Skreeks the last the Deponent remembers continued so long that he then wondred how any Body could hold their Breath so long Presently after the Deponent heard them say the Queen was delivered whereupon the Deponent stepped up to the Bed-side and saw a Woman he supposes the Midwife kneeling at the other Side of the Bed who had her Hands and Arms within the Bed-clothes for a pretty while then the Deponent saw her spread a Cloth upon her Lap and laid the End of it over the Bed-clothes and then fetch a Child as the Deponent firmly believes for he could not then see it out of the Bed into that Cloth and give it to Ms. Delabadie who brought it round to the Side where the Deponent stood and carried it into a little Room into which the Deponent immediatly followed the King and saw her sit down by the Fire and heard her say It is a Boy upon which the King said let me see it whereupon she laid open the Cloth and shewed all the Child saying There 's what you wish to see The Deponent doth not charge his Memory with the very Words but the Sense of what he heard The Deponent looked upon the Child at the same Time which appeared to be very foul This Deponent desireth Pardon if he doth not know the proper Expression but hopes his Meaning is Plain Middleton John Earl of Melfort Deposeth THat on Sunday the 10th of June last betwixt 8 and 9 in the Morning the Deponent was informed That the Queen was in Labour the Deponent went to St. James's and waited in the Queen's Drawing-Room till some of the Gentlemen told him he might go in the Deponent scratched at the Door of the Bed-chamber and finding no Answer he ran down by the Garden Side and came to the Queen's Back-Stairs and finding the Dressing-Room Door open the Deponent went in to the Queen's Bed-chamber where he saw a great Number of Company Lords and Ladies standing about the Bed The Deponent heard the Queen cry out in great Pain as Women use to do when they are near being brought to Bed the Deponent heard her complain and a Womans Voice which the Deponent thought to be the Midwife telling her she would be quickly well she would be brought to Bed immediatly within a little the Deponent heard the Ladies behind the Bed say the Queen was brought to Bed and the Queen cry out The Child is dead I do not hear it cry and immediatly the Child cried Within a little the Deponent saw a Woman bring a Child from within the Bed the Deponent looked so earnestly at the Child that he knew not what Woman it was The Child was in the Condition of a new born Child lapt up in loose Clothes The Deponent saw him carried into the little Bed-chamber and went about by the Dressing-Room and entred by the other Door into the Room where the Prince was and saw him in the Condition of a New born Child and the Deponent by the Oath he hath taken believes him to be the Queen's Child Melfort Sidney Lord Godolphin Lord Chamberlain to the Queen Deposeth THat he was called into the Queen's Bed-chamber with the rest of the Lords of the Council being one of the last and the Queen Dowager being there and several Ladies the Room was so full That the Deponent could not get near the Bed but stood by the Chimney There the Deponent heard the Queen cry out several Times as Women use to do that are in Labour and the last Cry that the Deponent heard was much greater than the other Immediatly upon that the Deponent was called out of the Room to give some Directions about the Lodgings that were preparing for the Child which were not ready The Deponent made Haste back again but as he was coming he met People running with the News that the Queen was deliver'd of a Son whereupon the Deponent went into the little Bed-chamber and saw the Child Godolphin Sir Stephen Fox Knight Deposeth THat on Sunday the 10th of June last past about 9 of the Clock as he came out of the Chappel at Whitehall after the first Sermon hearing that the Queen was in Labour he the Deponent made Haste to St. James's because in waiting as an Officer of the green Cloth to warn the several Servants below Stairs to be in their Offices that upon that Occasion there might not happen to be any Thing wanting of Houshold Provisions and Necessaries under his this Deponent's Command but first going up by the Back-Stairs into her Majesty's Dressing-Room and being there with many others he heard Her Majesty cry out very loudly whereupon this Deponent hastned to the Green-Cloth and ordred the several Servants to deliver out of their several Offices whatsoever should be called for and as this Deponent was returning back to the Queen 's said Dressing-Room he was told a Prince was born Upon which News he this Deponent went into the Queens little Bed-chamber and saw the young Child before He was dress'd Ste. Fox Lieut. Col. Edward Griffin Deposeth THat upon Sunday the 10th of June last he had the Honour to be in waiting upon the King with the Stick and between 8 and 9 in the Morning this Deponent was in the Queen's Dressing-Room at St. James's with several Lords of the Council and after some Time we were there the King came out of the Queen's Bed-chamber and called all the Lords in and this Deponent went in along with them being in waiting immediatly after the saids Lords and this Deponent were in the Room the Queen cried out