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prince_n	england_n	king_n	orange_n	3,749	5	10.1866	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70600	Mr. De Labadie's letter to his daughter, Mrs. Delabadie, nurse to the pretended Prince of Wales written in characters and deciphered by Dr. Wallis ... : which said letter is referred to by Mr. Fuller in his two narratives, and is a plain demonstration of that horrid imposture : with reflections upon it, and a full answer to the material objections, in a late pamphlet entituled, The truest account of Mr. Fullers discovery, &c. / by another hand.	Another hand.; Fuller, William, 1670-1717?; Wallis, John, 1616-1703.; Labadie, James de.; Labadie, Mary Anne de.	1696 (1696)	Wing M2261A; ESTC R10912	12,860	48

having miscarried there was no need of making any enquiry into that affair or of entring a Contradictory Testimony against it We answer that it 's true there was not the same need as in the present Case yet if the matter could have been detected It must be own'd that it would have been of great use and a convincing instance to future Ages that the Papists think no means unlawful how wicked soever if they can any way subserve to promote their Church for this supposed Pregnancy was by the Privy Council ascribed to providence and the Divine care of Christs only flock for the throwing down of the Protestant Heresie and the Physicians Ladies of Honour c. Justify'd the Queens conception as to all signs so that it would have certainly been of very great use at that time and have tended much to bring the Popish Idolatry into disrepute if the methods of the Imposture how they rais'd her Belly and how they impos'd upon the Privy Council and Parliament had been fully displaid And therefore seeing the Particulars of that Imposture tho allowed to be one on all hands neve● came to Light nor that none of the Cabal did ever confess it on their Death beds or otherwise we are not to wonder if this Intrigue should never be fully discovered especially now that they have prevented the Evidence of Mrs. Mary Grey who there 's all the Reason in the World to believe was the true Mother of our pretended Prince Our Author after having finished his account of the Depositions tells us page 22. That none of the Witnesses were under any force neither were they all of one Religion yet they unanimously gave in their Testimony upon Oath and suffer it without any Contradiction to be publickly Recorded in the Court of Chancery as their standing Testimony that the Late Queen Mary was the true Mother of the pretended Prince of Wales To all which it 's answered that their not being all of one Religion is nothing at all to the Advantage of his Cause for it must be own'd to our shame that there are a sort of Protestants in England as bad nay worse than the Papists themselves Charnock King Keys Rookwood Louick Parkins Friend and Cranborn were not all of one Religion yet they were all in one Design against the Laws and Religion of the Nation and it 's obvious to any Man that peruses their Tryals and last Speeches that such of them as professed themselves to be Protestans were a great deal the worse fMen and Christians than those of 'em that Died Papists and we have a very late Instance of one who calls himself a Protestant and a very devout one who forswore himself at his Tryal and denied such things with the most dreadful of Imprecations which he hath since Confessed to be true Then as to the Witnesses being under no force it is as little to the purpose They were all of one Faction a very few of them excepted and so willing to promote the Design that there was no need to force them to an Attestation and whereas he will have it that they gave their Unanimous Testimony upon Oath That the Queen was the true Mother he will find it otherwise upon a second perusal of the Depositions as has been already noted They only Swear what they heard and saw but not one of them Deposed That they were Eye Witnesses of the Birth though our Author has the Confidence to say so again and again And upon the whole it is demonstrable that of all the thirty seven Witnesses there 's only the Widwife who Swears to the thing it self and all the rest swear only to Circumstances which being his own Exception against Mr. Fullers Evidence pag. 23. He must needs allow it to be as Valid against theirs He alledges Ibid that most of the Witnesses were of high quality and that others of them had intimate knowledg in the truth of the Fact As to their Quality we shall say nothing but certainly Iudith Wilks when she gave in her Evidence at the Chancery Bar did not appear like one who deserves that Character and it was indeed observable that she went at other times richly Apparelled yet then she came habited in a Green Apron and a Tattered Scarf that her seeming Simplicity and Meanness might create a belief in the Spectators that she was neither capable of managing such an Intrigue nor fit to be intrusted with it and she being the only Witness who Swears home and having no pretensions to Quality that big word is of no significancy to our Author But because we would not be understood to reflect upon those of Quality or were undoubtedly of the Protestant Religion and yet made use of as Evidence in this Case we desire it may be observed that let their Probity and Quality be never so Eminent matters were so ordered that they were not allowed to be Witnesses of the Birth but having been then at Court they could neither handsomly nor safely refuse to give an Account of what they heard and saw when the King desired it But as we have already said the Examination was neither fairly nor impartially managed Nor durst any of them but with the hazard of their Lives have at that time said any thing which could Administer the least Ground of Suspicion and tho we will grant our Author that none of 'em were under any force yet he cannot pretend but they had cause enough of fear and whereas he alledges that others of the Witnesses had intimate knowledge in the truth of the fact It is a Notorious falsehood for none of 'em pretend to it but the Popish Midwife His ridiculing the Escape Examination and Tragical fate of Mrs. Grey is but a very ordinary piece of Wit Does he think that Lewis XIV and Mary of Modena are persons of such a Refin'd Honour and tender Conscience that they would scruple the Murder of such an Insignificant woman as Mrs. Grey when it 's plain to the World that their boundless Ambition and Zeal for Idolatry hath involv'd Europe in Blood and Flames Was it of no Concernment to those two persons to prevent the discovery of the horrid Imposture by such a Material Evidence Was it below the French Kings Grandeur to Enquire whether her escape had been favoured by the Prince of Oranges Friends as we are told by Mr. Fuller they did at first suspect it to have been Is Lewis XIV's Conscience which is so much hardened with Blood and Destruction that it can digest the Assassination of Soveraign Princes become so very tender of Late that it cannot away with the Blood of a private Woman Or is it reasonable to think that they would trust this poor Creature to our Authors Oublies when they had before-hand Condemn'd her to perpetual Oblivion Were not Coleman and Plunket hang'd to prevent telling of Tales and what reason can our Author assign why Mrs. Grey should have more favour Or supposing she should have escap't into England and there made a discovery does our Author think that his Extraordinary Invention of Charging it as a Forgery of the Prince of Orange and his Friends would have satisfied the World and was it not more wisely done in the French King and his Messalina seeing our Author has put us in mind of it to prevent the occasion of such a superlative piece of Wit then to venture the need of making use of it Might it not have been possible for Mrs. Grey if she had got into England to have directed us to other Concurrent Testimonies to have strengthened her own How does this person of Quality know that she could not have brought the true Father as well as the true Mother for a Witness or why may we not suppose that Mrs. Grey could have quoted such Circumstances as might have turn'd a great part of his thirty six Circumstantial Witnesses against his supposititious Prince Tho our Author could not or would not foresee such dismal Consequences of Mrs. Greys Elopement from the fat Bellied Monks to whom she was married yet Lewis XIV and his Messalina could see further and therefore rather than the whole Catholick cause should suffer it was expedient that one Woman should Perish and thus his Messalina Ne Scelerata fit facit Scelus The Gentleman is so hugely addicted to the Apocrypha that none but Apocryphal Authors will down with him In the beginning he attacks us with the Noble Zorobabel and he brings up his Rere with the Cheva Lier Lestrange but we would have our Author to know that tho Sir Roger was formerly quoted from the Pulpit the Commissioners of Enquiry who were imployed to examine whether his works were to be found in the Canon have made an unanimous return of non est Inventus and thus we bid our Author Farewel FINIS

this Intrigue was the overthrow of the Protestant Religion But the Concluding Paragraph gives us the Finishing Stroke viz. He was afraid of those Hereticks that were about the Queen Why what 's the Danger from those Hereticks why truly they suspected that the Queen like the Grecian-Horse was Big with Designs against our Troy but they poor Souls were attended with Cassandra's Fate viz. They were not believed till the Plot discover'd it self but if there had been no Imposture Design'd Why should they be in such a Mortal dread of the Hereticks Could they kill with a bare Look like the Basilisk Might not the Queens naked Breast and Belly have been exposed to the View of the Heretical Ladies without any danger Might not such Persons have been present at the Labour and have been admitted to see the Child actually delivered from the Queen's Body Or was it below the Queen of England to have been Delivered on a Pallat-Bed in the view of the next Heiress any more than it was below the late Queen of France to be Delivered of the Present King upon a Pallat-bed the Duke of Orleance who was the next Heir being an Eye-witness But the Case is plain the Protestants who were concerned in Conscience and Interest to be strict observers were more likely to discover the Imposture then others and therefore it was necessary they should be put out of the way So that we have the True Reason from Mr. Delabadies Pen why no Protestant Lady was ever Admitted to View the Queen's Breasts and try the Reality of her having Milk either before or after the Pretended Birth and that same is the Reason why no Ladies of the Reformed Religion were ever admitted to see or feel her Belly and in short this unfolds the Mystery of all those Precautions made use of to Amuse the World and to prevent a Discovery as her different Reckonings the keeping of the Place of her Lying-In uncertain and the Methods taken to have all her Physicians and Servants absent at the Time of her Pretended Delivery except those concerned in the Intrigue And for that very same reason it was that she pretended to be delivered in Bed Covered and that the Protestant Ladies might have no opportunity to satisfie themselves it was Ordered that the King and Council should be present in the Room when all things were prepared for the Imposture that so there should be a necessity of the Queen's being covered and a Plausible Reason why the Ladies should not desire the contrary and by this means it was impossible that they could be either Eye-Witnesses of the Birth or actually discover the Cheat. We come now to Examine the Arguments advanced by the Author of the Pamphlet Intituled The Truest Account of Mr. Fuller's Discovery of the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales Born the 10th of June 1688 by a Person of Quality But before we touch on the Particulars it is necessary that the Author should be a little Unmaskt He pretends Page 1. That the Succession of the CROWN is otherwise Legally and Sufficiently Secured against any Title or Plea from the said Prince and that it may reasonably be thought that the Noise some Little Writers have lately made about this Affair has proceeded only from some sordid desire of Lucre by the Sale of their Copies and of rendring themselves Popular and Gracious with the Unthinking Mob rather than out of any Zeal to Serve the Government And Page 5. That the Persons supposed or declared our Enemies have True Faults enough to imploy our Censures and therefore 't is neither a part of Generosity nor Christian Charity to charge 'em with uncertain Suspicions or any thing but what will bear the Test of a Visible Proof All this is only an Amusement by which the Author would Impose upon the World as if he were no Enemy to the Present Government and that he had only undertaken this Province out of a respect to Truth but they must be very silly Birds indeed who are caught with such Chaff The whole design of this Pamphlet is to fix a Note of Injustice upon the present Government as having charged such things upon the late King as he was never guilty of and particularly in relation to this Counterfeit Prince We come now to consider his Arguments which are pag. 1. That Whether the Birth of the pretended Prince of Wales were Legitimate or Supposititious has not yet been thought a Question worthy enough to be examined by publick Authority Which is a downright untruth for the Late King Iames thought it worthy to be proved by such depositions as he was able to procure and to have the said Depositions how Lame and Defective soever entred on a publick Record in Chancery as our Author owns himself pag. 5. and 22. and that they were publisht by Authority just before the Revolution pag. 20. By which its apparent that the Question was thought worthy of a Decision on his side by all the authority that he was Master of which does naturally imply that the truth of the matter was questioned by some Authority or other and that it was really so is plain to the View of the World by the Prince of Oranges Declaration wherein he desir'd that the Examination of this Question might be referred to a free Parliament and this he was impowered to demand by the Authority of our Laws according to which his Princess was the presumptive Heiress to our Crown But King Iames durst not adventure to bring the matter to this Touch-stone and therefore its apparent that instead of alledging that this Question has not been thought worthy enough to be examined by publick Authority our Author ought to have said that the late King Iames durst never submit the matter to such an Examination But we shall suppose the Gentlemans meaning to be this that neither the Convention nor any of the Parliments since the Revolution have thought the matter worthy their Examination And if it be so it 's the less for the Credit of his Party for then it must of necessity follow that they thought the matter so palpable that it needed no further Enquiry But if he mean that the Parliament or Convention ought to have made a scrutiny into this affair before they had proceeded to the settlement of the Crown He may be pleased to consider that they were not under the least obligation to do so for the late King had so much diffidence of the Justice of the English Nation that he durst not trust them with the Determination of the point but immediately sent to France his Queen with her pretended Son Nurse Midwife and other Servants who must have been examined if the matter had been submitted to their Enquiry and having in stead of calling a free Parliament according to the Princes desire recall'd the Writs for Summoning of one which he had endeavour'd to make for his Interest and then withdrawn in person from the Kingdom the succeeding Convention and