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A65959 The Whole examination of the birth of the pretended Prince of Wales and the true mother of that notorious counterfeit and impostor fully discovered and proved, before the Lords and Commons of England, for the publick satisfaction of the whole kingdom. 1689 (1689) Wing W2056; ESTC R39391 4,571 5

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An Advertisement to the Reader THis Book was written some Years since by an Eminent and Learned Gentleman and having been perused by some Judicious Persons they have advised the Publication of it as very seasonable to the present State of Affairs The whole EXAMINATION BIRTH Of the Pretended Prince of Wales AND THE True MOTHER OF THAT Notorious Counterfeit and Impostor Fully Discovered and Proved Before the LORDS and COMMONS of England for the publick Satisfaction of the whole KINGDOM OF all the Cheats Frauds and Impositions put upon Mankind since Melten Calfs were set up and Adored for Gods the World can hardly parallel this horrid Impostor obtruded upon the Imperial Crown of England for the Enslaving of a Nation The Arts the Labour the Plottings and Cabals as shall be here made out and indeed all the Engines and Engineers set at Work through the whole Management are such a complicated Mass of Villany as cannot be repeated without Horror and Astonishment Considering not only the Impudent falsifying with Men whilst their mistaken Homage and Veneration due only to the Imperial Sacred Blood of Princes has been extorted from them and paid to Dirt and Rubbish but also the prevaricating even with God himself whilst publick Prayers and Solemn Thanksgivings and all alas but so many meer mock Oblations have been made so considerable and indeed so shameful a part of the Pagean●●y● When we read the dreadful Anathema's pronounced against the general Class of Hypocrits to what frightful Apprehensions of the more than common Bolts and Vials or Divine Wrath due to the unexampled Authors and Com-plotters of so amazing a Delusion must our serious Reflections lead us A Delusion so truly Tremendious that the fatal Consequences of it had not the Hand of Providence been even a miraculous Deliverer were almost unimaginable For Instance After Heaven had Commission'd the great Henry Earl of Richmond afterwards Henry the Seventh to Execute its own particular Mandate in the Death of the Bloody Richard the Third a Tyrant that had himself been the Executioner of King Henry the Sixth that Innocent Prince with his own hands the contriver of the Death of the Duke of Clarence his Brother and the Murderer of his Nephews the two young Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower one of them his Lawful King by the Hands of his Ruffians and Hirelings The Uniting of the White Rose and the Red a Dispute that had so often cost so much English Blood by the Marriage of the King the Heir of the Lancastrian and Elizabeth of the House of York seem'd to have laid a lasting Foundation for the future Peace of England Nevertheless as restless Spirits and Ambitious Minds are never wanting to disturb the Quiet even of the most Halcyon Reign it is almost impossible even in the highest Dispensations of Humane Blessings and a National Felicity to have all Men satisfied Henry upon his Accession to the Crown by a State Jealousie a natural Disease in Crown'd Heads had taken Edward Plantagenet Son and Heir of george-George-Duke of Clarence a Male Remnant of the House of York formerly by King Richard's Commandment detained in in safe Custody in a Castle in York-shire and kept him close Prisoner in the Tower. The severity used to this young Prince begat a publick Rumour that King Henry was copying after his Predecessor Richard's Original and that this Princely youth had either already run the Fate of the poor Lamented young Princes before Murdered there or at least that he was speedily threatned with the same untimely End. However this popular Impression was not so Universal but another part of mankind were of an Opinion in the contrary extream viz. that even young Edward and his Brother Richard both or at least one of them were alive still notwithstanding the known Barbarity of their Inhumane Uncle Richard Nor was their Credulity in that point so much to be wondered at that two young Princes privately Butcher'd within the Tower only by four Assassinates might in the popular Faith be believed alive still When a later Unfortunate Gentleman that lost his Head at Noon day upon the open Tower-bill before Four times Four thousand Eye-witnesses can hardly be believed Dead yet At this time as indeed at all times there was a subtile Priest for such they most are call'd Richard Simon This Priest had to his Pupil a youth of about 15 years of Age Named Robert Simnel by his Original Born of the Body of a Bakers VVife and possibly begotten too by the honest Pye crust-Raiser the Baker though in reality so well favour'd and of that extraordinary Dignity and Grace of Aspect as probably might Entitle him to some more Gentleman like Derivation then the courser Veins of his reputed Father the Drudg at the Oven could give him But of the more sure Mother side Dame Simnel more certainly claim'd her maternal propriety in him It came into this Priests Fancy as Embroyling of Kingdoms are seldom out of their Fancies to set up this Lad for a Prince of Wales or a Duke of York either for the first or second Son of King Edward the Fourth before Murdered though by Vulgar Tradition received for Living This projection was first Hammered and resolved upon but an Accident happening made him change his first measures and afterwards designed him to personate Edward Plantagenet the above-named present Prisoner in the Tower. And why because about this time a General Bruit arose that Edward Plantagenet had prevented King Henry's Bloody purpose by an Escape from the Tower and thereby finding him so much beloved amongst the People and such rejoycing at his reported Deliverance the cunning Priest changed his first Copy the young Plantagenet being more in the present Speech and Votes of the People and so it pelced better and followed more close and handsomely to appear a Plantagenet after a Resurrection from so many Years lying Buried in Prison walls then an Edward or a Richard now almost forgotten Accordingly the Ghostly Prince-maker big with wonderous hopes of preferment by the Idol he resolved to set up expecting to be a Bishop at least if his Game was once play'd out began to instruct his young Pupil in all the magisterial Graces and Behaviours of his intended Soveraignty and what by his own and the Queen Dowagers Assistanee from whom this Action had the principal sourse and motion they held the Book so well and and so prompted him in the whole Stage-play that they equipt him for a compleat true Royal-Born immediately and furnisht him with all and all manner of Answers fitted to all Questions and Interrogatories And indeed there was very good Reason for a more than ordinary care and caution in acting so critical a part For alas our new made Prince was not to personate one that had been long before taken out of his Cradle or conveyed away in his Infancy and so almost unknown or at least forgotten but a youth that till the Age of almost Ten years had been