Benedictine Nuns in Paris she having been in a Nunnery in Ireland sometime before she came for England After the new Happy Revolution the Winter following and King James`s Abdication I being at that time Servant to her Majesty in France commended and prefer`d to her Majesty`s Service by my kind Patroness the Marchioness of Powis and the late Queen reposing a peculiar Trust and Confidence in my Fidelity from the Character she had received of me from the Marchioness I proceed to let you know That in February 1689 I being at St. Germains the late Queens Court in France was one Sunday-Night ordered to attend the Queen immediately Her Majesty being as was reported Indisposed it seems with a Fright which made Her keep her Chamber where I attending Her Commands Her Majesty told me I must immediately prepare to go to England with some Letters to the Lord Montgemery and Others about extraordâ—â—arry Business Her Majesty gave me her Letters and that my Journey might no. be in Vain was pleased to tell me It was a matter that nearly concernâ—d the late King and her Self And lest in my Voyage to England or at my Landing I might meet with so strict a Search as might oblige me to fling my Letters into the Sea or some other way dispose them to conceal them from being taken her Majesty thought fit to give me a Ring which I was to deliver to the Lord Montgomery in England by way of Credentials for what I had to say to him by Word of Mouth upon any unfortunate forementioned Miscarriage of my Letter and by that to tell him That the same Woman which came from Ireland with the Lady Tyrconnel in May 1688 was stollen out of the Nunnery in Paris where she was kept there having been a Breach in the Garden-Walls and that it was the Opinion of the French Court that she had been assisted by some of the Prince of Orange`s Friends in Paris to make her said Escape from thence in order to come for England The late Queen farther Commanded me to tell him That the French King had taken all possible care to prevent her going off but least his Endeavours might prove Ineffectual it was her desire that immediately after my Arrival in England the Lord Montgomery and Others should take care to place People on the Coast of England that might inform them when she Landed vnd then they were positively commanded to use all Endeavours to get her Dispatcht to prevent whatever Design she might Pretend to Here the Reader may Observe That the Queen was infinitely Zealous both for her Apprehension and Dispatch and that must be some very threatning Fears they Convinced from this poor Womans Escape that could pull down all this Mortal Vengeance upon her Head Nay the Queen was so very solicitous for Executing the said Vengeance that for fear of Failure or Miscarriage of her Commands in Black and White she trusted me with some part of the bloody Commission on that Account ` T is true her Furious Zeal in this Case did nor directly tell me the very particular Crime this Offending Lady had committed deserving Death that part of my Intelligence into this Secret History was my own Observation and Discovery This was the Contents of the Queens Letters and what I had Orders to inform the Lord Montgomery and Others of his Party which the Ring as a Token was to Confirm The late Queen gave me also another Letter to carry to Father Petre who by the French King`s Order was constrained to live privately at Albeville a City between Paris and Callais Accordingly I took Post and came to Albeville where I was forced to tarry six Hours before I could meet with Father Petre to give him the Queens Letter which was to require him To go to St. Omers to observe whether or no the Woman might come that Way in order to her Embarking for England Just as I came to my Inn and was going to take Horse there arrived one Mr. Crane Gentleman-Usher to the Queen from the Queens Court to order me to return with him to St. Germains again were we arrived the next Night and then waiting on the Queen she told me The lost Sheep was found at a private House in Paris and as I afterwards soon understood was then in the same Nunnery again under the care of the Countess of Sussex and others But the next day following Father Sabran was to go in one of her Majesties Coaches to Paris in order to bring the Countess of Sussex with the Woman to St. Germains and the Queen ordered me to accompany the said Father Sabran which I did in the Coach the next day and coming to the Nunnery they continued there about an Hour and a half and then the Countess of Sussex with Sabran and my self returned with the Woman to St. Germains where she was conveyed privately to the Queens Back-Stairs by Father Sabran whilst I attended the Lady Sussex who went in to acquaint the Queen That the Woman was come after which by the Queens Command I went to the Back Stairs to convey the Woman to the Queen in her Bed Chamber where she continued with the Queen the Lady Powis the Countess of Sussex and several others above an Hour and was afterwards conveyed down the Back Stairs and cross the Gallery under the Prince of Wales's Lodgings to a private Appartment belonging to the Lady Powis where the said Woman continued a day or two After which the late Queen with the whole Court going to visit the French King at his Court at Marli Three Miles from St. Germains in the same Evening the said Woman with the Countess of Sussex Father Sabran and my self went in the Princes Coach with Six Horses to the same Place and were there convey'd to a Chamber or Room belonging to the Arch-Bishop of Paris where the Woman Sabran and my self continued about half an Hour whilst the Countess of Sussex went publickly to wait upon the French King and the late Queen Then the Womam Sabran and my self were conducted by a Priest a Chaplain of the Arch-Bishops privately to the French King's Back Stairs The Woman lamenting her Fate which she said was occasioned by her last being in England she grieved to that excess that she Fainted several times before they could get her up the Stairs to the French King's Apartment whither she was conducted by a Jesuite and continued about half an Hour with the French King and the late Queen During which time I waited with Father Sabran at the bottom of the Stairs till she came down with the Jesuite that conveyed her up at which time she wept bitterly and told Father Sabran and me That now she must take her Everlasting Farewel of us and so was carried away by the Jesuite and never more seen or heard of notwithstanding my most diligent Inquiry after her at all the English Scotch and Irish Nunneries in Paris and other Places where I had great Acquaintance and
where led by my extraordinary Curiosity in this Affair I was not a little inquisitive to learn if possible the Catastrophe of this unfortunate Gentlewoman as indeed I had been all along little other than a Spy upon her and her concerns relating to that Young Child I confess I had but small occasion of given my self this needless trouble of making the aforesaid Inquiry For Father Sabran who I forgot to tell my Reader was Chaplain to the Young Prince and is now his Tutour did frankly own to me the same Evening they left her That he believed she would not be alive the Day following nor was it fit she should live I might have rested satisfied with what Sabran told me it being undoubtedly too much of Truth However as it could not enter into my heart to think it possible there should be such Inhuman Barbarity in the World as to Murder a poor Woman in cold Blood and that too by the Commands of Crowned Heads my own good Nature in Tenderness for the poor Creature inclined me to the said inquiry about her Besides my own knowledge in this Affair there have been several Letters and Papars found in Mrs. Labodies Fathers's Trunk now still to be produced Relating to this Gentlewoman besides several corroborative Proffs from divers Persons of Quality of Ireland and others as also Capt. Wright that brought her over from Ireland and the other Capt. that carried her over into France that are able to give a great Light into the Discovery of this Grand Imposture Nor were the Managers of this Affair any ways wanting in providing of Two Big-Bellied Women together that if One String failed the other might hit As for the Child he is a very Brisk and Airy no ways Deformed in his Limbs but a Ruddy Complexion fair Hair and Dark coloured brisk Eyes He when but Two Years Old was a great lover of Musick and could distinguish several particular Tunes when Played he is a notable Fighter and does not only beat his young Play-Fellows on the least Distaste But the Dauphin of France going one Day to Kiss his Highness and his Welch or Irish Blood being up he gave the Dauphin a Blow on the Face with his Hand with all his Might None dare cross him for he is so Refractory that upon the least Occasion he will hold his Breath to that degree that the Queen and all about him have thought him really Dead As to my first Introduction to this Trust and Knowledge into the Affairs of the late Court I must inform my Reader that by Sir John Burrows a Zealous Roman Catholick and my particular Patron and the Marquess of Powis to whom by the Mother side I had the Honour to be a little Related I was prefered to be a Page to the Countess of Melford From her Service I was introduced into the Marquess`s Family and from thence as before mentioned I was advanced to the late Queens Service And here to begin with my first Trust and Commands received from her said late Majesty The Sunday before Christmas in the Year 1688. I Embark'd with the late King Jame's Queen her pretended Son the Prince of Wales the Marchioness of Powis the Lady Strickland Mrs. Labody and Count De Lazon with several Others in a Barge from White-Hall And the next Day following arrived at Calais in a Yatch where the said Queen was received by the Governor and Garrison in Arms and continued there Three Days â—â—takinâ— her Journey from thence to Bulloign where she had an Express with the News of King James's being taken at Feversham in Kent On which occasion I was immediately Dispatched for England with Letters to him and came to his Majesty on a Sunday Morning just as he was ready to take Coach for Whiee-Hall from whence I was sent with Letters back to France again the same Night and overtook the Queen Four Days before her Arrival at St. Germains and continued there until King James's Arrival immediately after which I was sent to England again with Letters from King James to his Friends here and arriving safely I was soon ordered back to France with the Answer in the like manner And was likewise sent betwixt France and England several other times bringing Letters not only to several Lords in England but also for such of King James`s Friends as were in Scotland particularly the Lord Viscount Dundee and Commissions for several in Rebellion with him and for Others that promised to Joyn against the Prince of Orange on the first Opportunity I also brought several Bills of Exchange for Money to be Remitted to the said Lord Dundee which was performed by the care of Mr. Ashton the late King James`s Queens Privy-Purse And during my continuance in London I used daily to visit the Lords and Others in the Tower and being young passed freely to them unsuspected carrying Letters to and from them on all occasions relating to King James`s Affairs and brought several Bills from them which was to be employed by their appointment for Listing of Men in England for King James`s Service against a Descent from France which was resolved on at the Court of France and much Solicited for from England it being the chief Subject of the Letteas I carried to King James and the Frence King to intreat the Landing of Men in England in several places particularly in the North and that Five Thousand Men some good Officers with a Hundred Thousand Pound and Thirty or Forty Thousand spare Arms would be sufficient to be sent` and to secure the Kingdom of Scotland with the assistance of those in Arms against the Prince of Orange For this the French Court was almost daily Sollicited by Letters and great Promises from England aâ—e all possible Provision was made on each side the French having provided a great Fleet and Men ready to make a Descent whilst King James's Friends in England had according to the account they sent to France Listed above Twenty Thousand Men in and about London January 1690. for this cause the Popes Nuncio's Chair-Man was Executed and had provided great numbers of Horse ond Foot Accountrements and Arms and the like was done according to their utmost endeavours in most Counties and Shires in this Kingdom Here I shall omit troubling you or my self with the manner of my coming to serve King William since 't is known to most intelligible Men I propose to acquaint you that having privately Discovered all I knew to His Majesty the now Duke of Shreswsbury then Secretary of State and the Earl of Rumney then Lord Sidney and the Earl of Portland I continued to go to France as before with Letters for King James his Queen and the French Court which Letters I always shewed to King William before I went or to one of the Lords before mentioned as I did also the Answers at my Return The last time of my coming from France was with Mr. Crone at the beginning of Summer in the year 1690. The
French Fleet been then very numerous and ready to Sail and all things in England and Scotland seemed in a posture to receive them and a French Army on the other side King William was almost ready to take his Journey for the Reducing of Ireland The said Mr. Crone with my self was sent to England now with several Commissions from King James by the way of France from Ireland The chief Commissions we brought was for Levying a War against the Prince and Princess of Orange and all such as resisted the Power and Authority of King James and to Impower Persons to Seize and Imprison the Persons of the said Prince and Princess of Orange By a Commission under the Great Seal dated at Dublin King James Authorized several Lords to Act as his Deputies during his Absence We likewise brought over several Commissions to constitute Commissioners of the Treasury Impowering them to Raise and Collect Moneys on King James's Account as also several Commissions for Colonels of Regiments of Foot and Horse By the way permit me to inform my Reader That in the above-mentioned Commission for Levying of War King James did Command and Authorize his loving Subjects by force of Arms to seize the Persons of the present King and his Royal Consort Queen Mary the Second Alive or Dead And Three Months before I came last from France Colonel Parker had undertaken to Shoot King William for which Intent he came to England and went into Lancashire there to continue until the King came that way on his Journey for Ireland that being the place proposed to Murther King William at And to Advise it there was many Letters sent to the Court of France desiring that the French Fleet might Sail at or near the time King William set out for Ireland At this last time Mr. Crone and my self brought over many Letters containing full Instructions for the intended Designs of Killing and Imprisoning their Majesties King William and Queen Mary and for the Raising of great Numbers of Men in several Places against them for King James and the French Interest I will first give you a short Narrative of the Contents of a few of the Letters I carried to France and so proceed to the Design before mentioned Several Letters I carried to and brought from France were made up as the Mould of a Button and so work'd over with Silk or Silver and worn on my Cloaths Others I brought over in the Pipes of Keys and some writ Obscurely which Writing was discovered by the Steem of a Compound of several Spirits Mettals and Sulphure boyl'd together and made Liquid the Writing was seen no longer than the said Steem was near the Paper on which it was Writ Many of the Letters I carried to King James his Queen and the French Court were from the chief of their Friends in England and were full of great Promises and large Incouragements to the French King But his Gallick Majesty well observed That whilst they were daily promising great Assistance to his Army when they Landed in England they were for the most part unwilling to part with any Money but continually desired Supplies from France Some in England to my certain Knowledge Writ to King James to assure him that they had taken the Oaths to King William on purpose to make themselves more able to serve King James`s Interest by delaying King William`s Affairs in the Houses of Parliament Of this and part of which I had discovered to His Sacred Majesty King William he was pleased to acquaint his Parliament in his Gracious Speech to both Houses a short time before he went for Ireland Adding in his Speech at the same time That he spoke it to let them and his Enemies know that he was not unacquainted with their Designs Now to return to my last Coming from France with Mr. Crone I having informed His Majesty of all I knew Mr. Crone was seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower the rest of the Conspirators and their Designs being known and narrowly observed His Majesty went for Ireland committing the Management to the Queen and the Ministers of State Yet although the Jacobites and the French Court were Blessed be Almighty God disappointed of the Kings being Kill'd on his Journey to Ireland they continued to go on with their other Designs Colonel Parker being also order'd for Ireland to Kill His Majesty there But the Government knowing their Intriegues took care to secure this Kingdom by Raising the Militia and securing of Conspirators before the French Fleet came on our Coast as they did and lay some time expecting to hear of their Friends in England being in Arms to receive them At this time several Lords and others were sent to the Tower and others whose Intriegues were discovered fled from Justice which occasioned several Proclamations to be Published for apprehending them and the Tower and all the Goals in London and several others were filled with Conspirators They finding their whole Design unravelled and that I had discovered all I knew and Mr. Crone was safe and to be suddenly Tryed which might make him Confess they instantly got me poysoned in hopes to have prevented Crone 's Tryal but it pleasing Almighty God to restore me to my Health again after Ten Weeks Sickness I was able to come to the Old-Baily where Mr. Crone was Tryed and Condemned for High Treason He had several Reprieves from time to time on his Promise of making a full Confession but as he was lingring it out about Six Months after his Conviction I Receiv'd a Letter at my Lodgings in the Pall-mall from the Earl of Melford King James's Secretary in which I was promised King James's Pardon and all the Favour I could desire from him and the Court of France and Five Hundred Pounds down if I would return to France and Recant from what I had done I carried this Letter to the King who sent me to the Lord Chief Justice Holt for his Advice how far I might proceed by Law thinking thereby to discover something more but his Lordship and several others were of Opinion that it was a Trick purely to invalidate my Evidence They still being apprehensive of Mr. Crone 's Confession which they knew must be so agreeable to my Informations that the Heads of King James's Friends had been intirely at King William's Mercy And this Matter highly concern'd the French Court for had Crone been just to Him that gave him his Life there might have been but small Incouragement from England to the French long since and consequently no Plotting now They of King James's Party as well has appeared to the Court made it their Indeavour to have Crone Hang'd to stop his Mouth and that as I am well informed occasioned his making almost a full Discovery Though he went for France as soon as he was let out of Newgate being invited back with great Promises as I before had been I must thank him for his Justice to me in his last and most
Judges and Jury That I had performed very considerable Services to the Advantage and Security of the Present Government and had discharg'd my Duty honestly but having Engag'd for those Men and they not Appearing occasioned my Tryal on which I produced a Certificate under the Hand of His Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury that by the King's Order and his Encouragement I was sent to France for the Service and Security of the Present Government as before mentioned I also desired the Lord Chief Justice Holt to acquaint the Jury who were all Gentlemen of good Account of what he knew being one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council And as to the Matter relating to the Letters I had and the Pardons and Money which was offered me to go back for France all which his Lordship most justly and honourably declared There was likewise a considerable number of Members of Parliament call'd but the Men I engaged for not appearing before the House to certifie them I was found Guilty of a Misdemeanour against them Having thus shewed how far their Malice extended to me I beg you will take Notice how Confidently King James's Friends can oppose any Truth that is against their Interest as now their denying that the French Court or King James's knew of the Design of Murthering King William when the World cannot but remember that Chevalier Granval was Executed in Flanders for Endeavouring to Shoot the KING and that at his Death he Confess'd the Fact And it was sufficiently prov'd That Colonel Parker was engag'd with him and that Parker had Receiv'd Instructions from the Late King and that both of Them with Others were Encouraged from Time to Time by the French Ministers of State Of This I first acquainted his Majesty but it was further Discover'd at one of the Confederate Prince's Courts who earnestly pressed his Majesty to Examine the Matter and being done this Granval was found Guilty and Executed tho' Colonel Parker made his Escape Which may convince any thinking Man that from the First Intended Invasion from France that Court has studied Wayes to Kill King William and his late Royal Consort of ever Blessed Memory As for the Intolerable Injuries that I have undergone Time and their own Devices have at last Demonstrated tho they spared for no Means that might make me Obnoxious to all Good Men I bless God and must acknowledge the abundant Goodness of my Sovereign for my Deliverance from their treacherous and base Villanies and earnestly pray that Almighty God will forgive them as I most freely do Whoever shall peruse these Lines and is not satisfied with the Truth of any Particular I shall be ready to give any Demonstration that is not too impertinent And as I have mentioned the Names of several Great and Good Men I dare refer any Person to them for the Confirmation of the Truth of this Narrative POST-SCRIPT THough the Jacobites and Malecontents of the Kingdom those that either blindly or those that wilfully think too well of their bad Cause will be apt no doubt to quarrel and revile at what I have here declared concerning the Birth of their Darling though weak Hopes the preâ—â—nded Prince of Wales however more strongly to confirm what I have here deliver'd introductory to the more ample Detection of that shameful Imposture The undoubted spurious Fountain the obscure Original of this Supposititious Birth from good testimony and the Papers of Mrs. Labody's Father c. will in due time be plainly made out to the full Satisfaction of all Europe and the eternal Shame of all the Jacobite Confederates in that wretched Contrivance And to the foregoing General and Succinct Account of my Correspondence and Interest in the late Court and their Affairs together with the hard Measures I received in Return for my well-meaning honest Endeavours to serve the King and the Nation I shall only add a few Remarks on the farther Subtilties and Artifices of the Jacobites That certainly never was there a more cunning Reach of Policy nor a Popish Misrepresentation more Artfully managed to the rendring of Truth Suspected Innocence Exposed and Integrity Ridicul'd than by those Hypocrite false Friends of mine the foremention'd Delaval and Hayes who by a Master-piece of Villany against me could work with me only to blow me up viz. When their fore mentioned Letters and Correspondence with me together with their many fair Promises of Serving the King and Queen in joyning in my Discovery as also their Publick Appearance in the Lobby and other Places to strengthen my too easie Credulity c. were all but a Popish Juggle and Trick to give them Opportunity to vanish off Invisible and by the stink of their own Cloven-Feet they left behind them utterly to blast the whole Credit of all I had said or could say so to expose the King to their own Impious Conspiracies by stifling whatever Truth should pretend to speak for his Preservation and Deliverance And as to the ' Veracity of my Informations and Depositions though render'd by the aforesaid Misrepresentations so discredited by the Government the happy Detection of the late horrid Plot has fully and amply clear'd the unjust Aspersions and false Imputations against me when their Designs are so manifestly proved to be built upon the same Bottom and managed by the very same Persons the same Conspiring hands I then Discovered c. For a clear Demonstration of the unquestion'd Truth of my Discovery I shall only instance one Particular viz. in the Matter of Granval's and Parker's Assassination 'T is known to Mr. William Killigrew and if required will be attested by him That he saw my Papers drawn up concerning Chevalier Granval's Assassination c. and was by when I deliver'd them to the King 's own hand and heard me tell his Majesty part of the Contents and which Papers I desire my Reader to observe were â—â—ven to his Majesty in the Winter before 〈◊〉 then setting out for Flanders before the intended Execution of the said Horrid Design his Majesty's timely Warning and â—auâ—â—â— being receiv'd from my Information and Intelligence I must confess with Sorrow unspeakable that the unkind Usage I met with expos'd me to some little Shifts which my Soul 〈◊〉 as the running in Debt for necessary Subâ—istence being sometimes hardly allow'd â—â—ead when I was about his Majesty's Serâ—â—â—â— Therefore whoever shall presume to Câ—â—â—â—â—â— the Government with keeping me in conâ—â—â—â—…t Pay for a Spy or Witness as was practis'd in the former Reigns does them much Injury But my Wrongs being now plainly Demonstrated I hope none will reflect on the Justice of the Government in providing for me that I may have a poor Maintenance and be able to render to every one their just Due which is my hearty Desire Lastly As to my no earlier Publication of these Papers I have only this to say That the Disreputation I so long groan'd under till now deterr'd me from appearing in Print as having the Prejudice of a Nation against me and which I well knew would have render'd the whole Truth I had to speak but so much Breath against the Wind. 'T is true I might have publish'd these Papers some few Months sooner had I not then been Commanded to Sea in his Majesty's Service in order to my Apprehending several suspected Persons concern'd in this present Plot which gave me neither that Leisure nor Opportunity FINIS THE Author's Advertisement WHEREAS I am inform'd That there is a Design of Publishing a Surreptitious Copy of this Narrative of the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales by way of Abridgement These are therefore to Certify That the only TRUE COPY as Deliver'd to the KING and Ministers of State is contain'd in this BOOK Price stitcht Six Pence as Witness my Hand this Fourth Day of July 1696. W. FULLER A true Copy of his Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury's Certificate I Do hereby certifie That in November 1689. Mr. William Fuller came to me and did make several considerable Discoveries of the Intreagues of the Enemies of the present Government and He was by my Incouragement sent into France and at his Return did perform very great Service for the Preservation of Their Majesties Sacred Persons and the Peace and Security of their Government And that it was by his Endeavours that Mr. Matthew Crone was detected and convicted of High-Treason Given under my Hand this 15th of April 1692. Shrewsbury
A Brief DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE MOTHER of the PRETENDED PRINCE of Wales c. A Brief DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE MOTHER Of the PRETENDED Prince of Wales Known by the NAME of Mary Grey To which is added A further DISCOVERY of the late Conspiracy against His Majesties Sacred Person and Government c. As laid before the KING c. and Deposed to a Committee of Parliament By WILLIAM FVLLER Gent. sometime Page of Honour to the late Queen in France LONDON Printed for the AUTHOR Anno Dom. 1696. TO HIS HIGHNESS THE Duke of Glocester SIR FOR this Tender of my Duty to Your Highness in a Publick Dedication I can only make this Plea for my Presumption viz. by telling You That the Royal Blood that fills Your Rich Veins and the whole concentring Hopes of Three Kingdoms that wait Your Illustrious Birth gave You a Court even in Your Cradle whilst Addressers and Petitioners were Your Highness's earliest Train of Homagers The Restless Endeavours of Rome's too great and consequently England's too little Friends have not been wanting for Religious Frenzy shrinks at nothing in the most unaccountable Measures for carrying on their sinister Ambition in the following Vnnatural Imposture But as hideous as such a vile Conspiracy may appear 't is but too reasonable to believe that the same infatuated Zeal of Popish Bigottry that can so poorly descend to Commission Ruffians and Cut-throats with Daggers and Musquetoons might as easily with the same stretch of Romish Conscience stoop to as vile Artifices for a Heretick Exclusion as a Heretick Assassination of the Two the more Important Service to their Cause and consequently their warmest Temptation And here to joyn the Parallel of both those Romish Machinations the World must look upon Your Highness as beset round with Enemies in nay before Your very Cradle You had so far the start of Great William's Danger and Deliverance as to be that forward Aim of Romish Conspiracies so early a Mark of their Indignation and Vengeance as to be struck at even Vnborn a Blow level'd at the Cedar Root before the Royal Syen sprung And now give me leave to joyn in the Vniversal Veneration and Survey You in all the Perfections of a most Active and most Promising Youth the Morning Lustre of the Great Soul those Paternal Sparks of GLORY Born with You and so early Shining from You whilst Your Highness's young Martial Inclinations even point You out as form'd by Nature and design'd by Heaven for no less than the HEROE With a Mind so amply furnisht for all the Noblest Impressions of true Honour may the continued Smiles of Providence so build upon that fair Foundation so lengthen out Your happy Years to Your compleating the great work of Your Creation in all the Accomplishments of our Young British Alcides And as You have already performed the First Herculean though Infant Labour in strangling the Conspiring Snakes against You so may You succeed our Great Nassau till You arrive at the Last Labour too viz. the supplying our Albion Atlas which is the Prayer of Your HIGHNESS's Most Dutiful Servant W. Fuller THE True MOTHER OF THE Pretended PRINCE of Wales DISCOVERED IN May Anno Dom. 1688. the Countess of Tyrconnel whose Zeal for the late King James's Cause and Service is not unknown to the World came from Ireland to England in the Monmouth Yatch Capt. Wright Commander who besides her own Daughters and Servants that attended her hither brought over Two Gentlewomen both big with Child The First of which was about Thirty Years of Age a lusty and healthful Countenanced Woman The Second was a tall and slender Woman darkish Hair'd and something above Twenty The First of these Women was brought to Bed at St. Albans in her way to London The Second whose Name was Mrs. Grey was conveyed to St. James's Palace and was Lodged in two private Rooms over or within the Lady Strickland s Lodgings in the Narrow Gallery between the Queens's Appartment and the great Chappel In these Lodgings this Young Gentlewoman was Delivered on Sunday-Morning the Tenth of June the same day and but a little time before the late Queen pretended to be Delivered of a Prince of Wales About the latter end of June this Young Gentlewoman was removed from those Lodgings to the Marchioness of Powis's Appartment which was in the same Gallery she being then Governess to the pretended Prince of Wales and to whose Charge and Care this Lady was particularly Committed At that very time was I in the Marchioness Family and by her special Commands daily and almost hourly attended the said Young Gentlewoman being ordered to supply her with all Necessaries and do all other Offices of Service during her Continuance at St. James's her present Indisposition requiring a more than ordinary Assiduity and Attendance upon her During her said continuance at St. James's she was very little Visited by any Person but the Marchioness herself excepting some of her Women in proper Occasions of Female Nursery and Service appearing by this to be some more than ordinary Charge of the Marchioness's She seemed very well contented with her Entertainment and the Marchioness's Care and Adoption of her and was hardly ever or at least very seldom desirous to stir over the Threshold of her own Lodgings excepting sometimes that she exprest a desire and that as I observed with a particular Zeal and Delight to go and Visit the Young Prince which was sometimes granted her and whither I attended her by the Marchioness's Command and waited on her back again Amongst the general Devoirs that were then publickly paid to that young Infant I remarkt that nothing appeared so warmly fond as her self and when as a peculiar Favour she was permitted to take him in her Arms her Kisses and Embraces seemed more than usually Tender and Passionate About the middle of July following when her Health and Strength were visibly improved it was thought fit by some Authority from Above that she should be Transported into France and accordingly one Father Sabran and one Mrs. Jones and my self by Command attended her to Dover in order to her Voyage Before her Departure I observed that she seemed mightily concerned at her leaving England and in my hearing both before and all the way to Dover exprest a great deal of Trouble on that account as compelled to visit France much against her Inclination which I the more wondred at as believing she was a Native of Ireland and had not been two Months in this Kingdom And before she took her leave of the Court she desired to Pay her last Duty to the Queen and here taking her farewel of the Young Prince she betrayed that extraordinary Effeminate Weakness that she melted into down right Tears When she arrived at Dover she was met by one Father Grey her supposed Brother or such he pretended himself a Secular Priest and an Irish-man with whom she Embarked for Calais in order to be conveyed to the Convent of