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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40699	A further confirmation that Mary Grey was the true mother of the pretended Prince of Wales together with an account of the private messages and letters sent by the French king, King James, the late Queen, and other persons of quality to their agents in England / published by William Fuller, who was privy to the whole management ; to which is added the author's vindication of himself from the male-contents of this kingdom.	Fuller, William, 1670-1717?	1696 (1696)	Wing F2482; ESTC R38751	10,384	49

had answered it and prov'd it most Scandalous False and a meer bundle of Untruths Composs'd by the Instigation of the Devil and the malice of the Jacobites such as their pretending to make the World believe that I passed sometimes for a Lord and sometimes for a Knight and such like most Ridiculous and Unreasonable Stories for where they falsely affirm I did this as at the Hague and Brussels there were at the same time when I was there several Hundreds of English Gentlemen and others that knew me as the Kings Envoy and Resident with whom I had business on His Majesties Account These Stories tho' never so false and most unreasonable to be Credited have been receiv'd by many for Truth I will only now instance one at present which is I am charged in that Libel with borrowing Two Hundred Pounds of Major General Kirk And that I was coming from Holland to England without paying him with several other ridiculous Circumstances In answer to which I refer my Reader to Major General Kirk's Relations now living who will Certifie them that he owned before his Death at Brussels that I never had any Mony of him nor did I ever so much as ask a Penny of him This is known to the Honourable Mr. Polly who was then going His Majesty's Envoy to the Duke of Savoy and was continually with Major General Kirk during the short Correspondence we had But these Falsities I little regard being ready to prove them generally false And tho' I must confess the hard usage I have met with and my Disappointments have obliged me to contract some Debts even when I was employed in the Nations Service yet I don't question but the Justice of the Government will afford me wherewithall to render every one their due which God knows is my greatest desire If these Answers be not sufficient to solve your Doubts I am ready and willing to prove every part of my Narrative when required YOURS W. Fuller I proceed now to give you a short Narrative of my Life and introduction into the late King and Queen's Service WITH AN ACCOUNT Of the Private Messages Letters Sent by the French King King James the late Queen and other Persons of Quality c. I Was born at Milton near Sittingborne in Kent in the Year 1671. My Father's Name was Robert Fuller and my Mothers was Catherine Herbert Daughter to the Honourable Charles Herbert Esq of Montgomery-shire in Wales I was Educated some time at Maidstone and Canterbury by my Father-in-Law And was afterwards brought to London to School at the Charge of one Cornelius Harflet Gent. But I was by the Instigation of one Sir John Burrows Knight and a Zealous Roman Catholick perswaded to imbrace that Faith and to that purpose the Knight brought me acquainted with many Priests particularly one Father Emanuel belonging to his Excellency the Spanish Ambassador and Father Lewis Sabran a Jesuit Chaplain to the Marquess of Powis under whose Tuition I continued for the space of one whole year about the end of which Father Sabran had prepared me for making my Confession which I did and soon after Received the Sacrament but Sabran not thinking it safe to let me continue amongst Hereticks spoke to the Marchioness of Powis to receive me into her Family which her Ladiship did most willingly she having formerly been well acquainted with my Mother I continued some time at the Marquess of Powis's House where indeed I was entertained like a Gentleman and from thence was Recommended to the Earl of Melfort where I was Page to the Countess and kindly used during my Continuance there which was till about the time the Prince of Orange who is now our Gracious King Landed in England in the year 1688. At that time the Lord Powis the Earl of Melfort and others Recommended me to the Late Queen and was one of those which attended her late Majesty to Callais where I continued two days with her and from thence attended her to Bullion where her Majesty stay'd Eleven days waiting for the French King's Coaches and Guards for to Conduct her to St. Germains at which time I was Dispatcht with Letters for the late King and being young passed freely without any Interruption and coming to England found the late King at Rochester where I delivered my Letters to him and in a day or two Returned for France again and followed her Majesty to Saint Germains And four days after coming to Saint Germains the late King Arrived there with three Gentlemen only from England but was received in great Splendor by the French King Soon after this I was Commanded by King James to come for England again which I accordingly did and brought with me several Letters from the late King and Queen some for the Lord D and for the Earl of D and several others I also brought with me many Letters from the Marquiss of Powis and his Lady and from several other Persons of Quality then at Saint Germains to their Friends and Correspondence here in England And at my Arrival at London I sheltered my self by Lodging privately and in disguise where no notice was taken of me by the present Government and during my Continuance I seldom failed to wait daily on the Lords and others in the Tower and particularly on the Earl of P. the Earl of S. the Earl of Castlemaine the Lord Montgomery the Lord Preston and the Lord F. Sir John F. Sir Robert H. and others from each of which I often received Letters and Papers which I carried to Father Emanuel then in the Spanish Ambassador's Family which said Letters the zealous Father sent to France for the late King and Queen as directed and I very often carried Letters to the said Lords and others which came from France for being young the Warders which tended me on the Lords never questioned me so much as once when I went to the late Lord Chancellor Jefferies and to Sir Edward Hales who where kept more strictly and I often carried Letters from these Lords to others abroad of the Cabal as is very well known to the Earl of F. the Earl of L. the Earl of A. the late Bishop of Ely and others And the May following I was dispatcht for France with their Letters and an account of what they had been doing in order to prepare Men and Horses to meet Dundee in Scotland as also to give the late King a full Account of what Men they were assured of for that purpose with these Accounts I took my Voyage from Deal in an open Boat with which I was furnished by one Bowles Son to Bowles a Quaker of that place and the said young Bowles with the Master of the Boat whose Name was Mr. Man Conveyed me to Callais from whence I went Post to Saint Germains where the late Queen continued by whom I was kindly received and upon my Arrival the late Queen sent an Express immediately for Ireland with the late Kings Letters so I

at this time I was more intrusted by the late Queen than ever and was often with her two or three hours together in private about Business and I often waited on the French King and Monsieur Louie from the late Queen which by reason of my Youth rais'd a great Admiration amongst most about the Queen that so young a Head should be trusted in matters of so high a concern I receiv'd many and large Gratifications from both the French-King and the late Queen and at the end of February 169 0 1 upon a Sunday the Queen order'd me to attend her after her Supper and Mr. Crone was to do the same which we did and as soon as the Company was gone from Court I was sent for into her Majesties Closet where she told me I must go with Crone the next Morning for England and in order thereunto the Queen gave me many Letters for her Friends in England and other Papers made up in the Pipe of Keys and many others written by strange Devises The Queen gave me Commissions to bring with me Collonels of Horse and Foot Regiments which were all ready and to be privately raised in England Crone was sent for into her Majesties Closet and received many Papers and Letters to bring also and the Queen gave him a Commission under King James's Broad Seal which was to impower some Lords in England to act in all cases for him as if he were here present We continued with the Queen until Four a Clock in the Morning receiving her Majesties Directions how to order our Affairs and how to encourage the late King's Friends in England by giving them a particular Account of what Ships the French King would have at Sea the Summer following and at what time he intended to land his Forces in England as also the number of them As soon as the Day appear'd we began our Journey to Paris from whence we took Post and came to Calais where the Governour furnish'd us with a Privateer which landed us in Romney-Marsh near Lid in Kent from which place we began our Journey to London Crone came by Tenterden and I by Canterbury we appointing a place of meeting which was at Madam Clifford's a zealous Roman-Catholick in Golden Square I made haste to London and at my arrival went to wait on the Lord Sydney and was conducted to the King and deliver'd all the late King and Queen's Letters and Papers to His Majesty with a full Account of all his Enemies Designs which happen'd accordingly for at the time I then inform'd King William of the French Fleet 's coming on the Coast of England and they did come and the number of their Ships was according to my Information and all the rest of their Designs which as is known I acquainted His Majesty first of five months before these bloody Designs were to be accomplish'd But to return As soon as I had given the King the afore-mention'd Letters Papers and Informations Resolutions were taken for the apprehending Crone which I manag'd and accomplish'd thus I went to meet Crone at his Lodging and finding him in Bed we most lovingly saluted one-another I desiring Crone to meet me that Night with some Gentlemen he consented and the Place appointed for our meeting was the Bull-head Tavern in Wood-street at Six a Clock at which time I with Major Kitchill and Mr. C. Harflet went to the said Tavern where Crone came to us I had provided a Messenger in the House with a Constable and had the Earl of Shrewsbury's Warrant against Crone but the Messenger was not to execute his Office until Crone had discover'd his Business fully to Major Kitchill and Mr. Harflet which he did I having told him That they were great Friends of King James's and would disburse Money for his Service However Crone thought himself not safe enough in that House therefore we concluded to go to the Ship Tavern in Gracechurch-street whither we went in a Coach I taking an Opportunity to speak to the Messenger to follow us thither which was perform'd and coming to the Ship-Tavern I and Crone with the other two Gentlemen went up two pair of Stairs into a large Room where Crone thought himself safe and then began to discourse freely and to drink King James's and the late Queen's and Prince of Wales's Health telling them all his Business After two hours or more I went down Stairs under pretence of some urgent business and there order'd the Messenger and Constable and others to follow me up Stairs at a small distance of time and One of them was only to enter the Room under pretence of speaking to Mr. Harflet and was to take an Opportunity of seizing Crone and then the rest were to enter pretendingly to seize me also which was done and we were put into Coaches and carried to Whitehall severally Crone was that Night kept under a strict Guard and the next Day committed to the Tower But a few days after this Crone 's Friends fearing him and themselves to be in Danger hired one Mr. W an Acquaintance of mine to poyson me which he did and the Poyson working put me into a most deplorable Condition upon which several Physicians were sent for and great Care was taken of me But notwithstanding I had such a violent Feaver for a whole month that I was given over for a Dead Man my Hair came off and my Nails turned black and came off also and for Eight Weeks after I was not able to walk cross the Room during which time the Jacobites firmly reported That I was dead declaring That my Death had saved many of their Friends Lives But I being recover'd Crone was Try'd at the Old-Baily and as plainly convicted of High-Treason and was condemn'd for the same but was repriev'd from time to time by Their Majesties and at last making a plain Confession he had Their Majesties Pardon But during the time that he lay in Newgate under the Sentence of Death I by the King's Command went for Ireland presently after the Fight of the Boyn and waited first on the King there at Chapel Lizard near Dublin and from thence I waited on His Majesty to the Siege of Limerick and afterwards to Waterford where His Majesty imbarked for England after which I waited on the Lord Sydney to Dublin But the Jacobites seeing me thus neglected and fearing that Crone should make a full Confession he being still in Newgate resolved if possible to perswade me to go into France and to that purpose they procur'd King James's Pardon and Letter for me to assure me that if I would return to France I should be there kindly receiv'd notwithstanding all I had done against them and have Five hundred Pounds to carry me over if I would Sign a Note to that purpose This Pardon and Letter was brought to me by a Gentleman with whom I was formerly well acquainted but I did not accept them at first until I had informed the King of it Upon which I was order'd not to have any more Converse with them since it plainly appear'd to His Majesty that their Design was to get me into France or to insnare me here that my Evidence might be of no Effect in case Crone should confess and be a Witness against such as I and he had brought Letters to from the late King and carried Letters from them to him The Papists finding they could not perswade me to go to France began a new Strategem which was by sending Dallevall and Hayes the latter of which was the Person that brought over the late King's Letters to the Convention at Westminster And thus I have given you a brief Account of the manner of my Introduction into the Late Queens Service and how I was employ'd in their most Secret Intrigues only I have for Brevity sake omitted troubling my Reader with every particular Time of my going to France since the late Happy Revolution which was in all Eleven times Which I hope will convince the World or at least all Rational People how Capable I was to give Evidence concerning the Pretended Prince of Wales and of the other Intrigues against the Interest and Security of these Kingdoms And to render this matter yet the more Incontestible I purpose suddenly to publish the True Copies of the LETTERS sent by the French King King James the Late Queen and their Ministers of State to their Adherents in England being the Originals that I brought from France as also the Copies of all I carried to France with Mr. Crone 's Confession not hitherto made publick FINIS