Mr. William Fuller's THIRD NARRATIVE CONTAINING New Matters of FACT Proving the pretended Prince of WALES TO BE A Grand Cheat upon the Nation WITH An Answer to some Reflections cast upon Him The whole Written with his own Hand LONDON Printed in the Year 1696. THE PREFACE TO THE READER Tunbridge-Wells August 30 96. COming on Saturday night last to Bonds-Coffe-house on the Walks I met with some Letters and a Book intituled The truest Account of Mr. Fuller's Discovery of the True Mother of the pretended Prince of Wales Born June the 10th 1688. By a Person of Quality Upon my perusing it I confess I cou'd not forbear to pity the vanity of the Author who has made use of not so much as one true Argument or substantial Evidence or Circumstance to disprove any particular of my Narrative which is the business he but indeed only seems to endeavour But I neither fear or value what he or any of the late King's Party can say or do in opposition of what I have writ on this Subject Such snarling Impudent Lyers I presume are no ways extreamly serviceable to the late King or his pretended Son's Interest for their Lyes Perjuries and Shams have been so often detected from time to time that they will hardly ever gain any credit from the most rational Men of this Kingdom untill they give us some strong proofs of their Reformation which this Spark I am sure has not done and may well be ashamed to discover his name Certainly he thinks the bare name of Quality has a strong influence on the belief of the People of England but the Cheat is grown as common with Authors as Vizard-masks are indeavouring to pass under the same Notion in a side Box or middle Gallery What I have writ in the following Treatise is my own the Stile is mean which I hope the Reader will pardon since the matter is truth I writ it in hast on Monday morning August the 30th 1696. without any help as I can prove by several at the Wells with me Mr. FULLER'S THIRD NARRATIVE THis Author first declares that whether the Birth of the pretended Prince of Wales were Legitimate or supposititious has not been questioned or thought worthy to be examined publick by authority and therefore seems to add that the Birth must be Legitimate because the present Government has not exposed that vile Imposture As I am sure they justly might though the Clemency of our present King and his late Royal Consort of Blessed Memory whose goodness have always been equal to their Royal Births and Greatness having in this as in many other Cases been willing to pass by the Greatest Abuses and Injuries committed against them for which their Majesties have been only abused by those they spared which the Queen was very well assured of and did once command Mrs. Labaddies Letters and other Papers relating to this supposititious Birth to be Published And how little soever this Quality or rather Billingsgate Writer wou'd make me appear I shall prove him much in the wrong and assure him that this matter concerning Mrs. Mary Grey has been examined before Great and Lawful Authority as the Chief Ministers of State of this Kingdom and the positive and corroborating Proofs of several Persons of Quality and others have all agreed sufficiently to convince the World of the reality of this Impostor And that I published it for filthy Lucre is basely false for my Printer and Publisher will Depose upon Oath that I gave the Copy gratis and would never accept of any Present No on the contrary I did it to serve my King and Country and will maintain so just a Truth to my last breath Next he charges me with calling in the assistance of a Poet to exert so much of his Wit and Eloquence as might help me to entertain the Multitude with this so diverting a Tragy Comedy as he calls it as my Discovery of the Mother and the Murther of the Mother of the pretended Prince of Wales I cannot but stand amazed at his Frenzy or Impudence to charge me with such a notorious falsity which is known to be so to the King himself and several of the Ministers of State to whom I gave the above mentioned Narrative of the True Mother of the pretended Prince of Wales as is now Published and I can produce a hundred Gentlemen to whom I shewed the said Narrative and gave them exact Copies Soon after my lost coming from France which was some years before I knew Mr. Settle And as to the latter part of that Narrative relating to my own unhappy credulity occasioned by the immaturity of my Judgment and the perfidy of Dalleval and Hays for whose appearance I engaged to the House of Commons with the relation of what I discovered to the King concerning several former Designs against his Sacred Person and Government was all writ by my own Hand at Canterbury where I expos'd it to several the same day I writ it and I do Declare that neither Mr. Settle nor any other Persons gave me any assistance in either of my Books only the Dedication which I confess he did I having not been acquainted with things of that kind nor shou'd I indeed pretend to Publish any thing but This which is matter of Fact and a Truth which I defie the World to Disprove As for my Birth I gave an account of it in my last Book And if it were not so certainly this Great Zealot for this sham Princes Cause might easily disprove me Those of his Stamp seldom want Witnesses to Swear at Pleasure But it is evidently known that I have had all opportunities of an ingenuous Education and had once the great Sabran now Tutor to the pretended Prince for my School-Master or Governour And as for what he mentions pag. 3. of a Plot upon a Worthy and Reverend Prelate of this Kingdom I cannot imagine and especially since he says And how shamefully and visibly his meaning my self veracity came by the Lee and the lye too in the Affair This assurance of his I look on but as a pure piece of Popish Principles by which they wou'd yet indeavour by palpable lyes to support a bad Cause for I do declare I never gave any information against any Bishop but the late Bishop of Ely only it was my misfortune to read a Copy of a pretended Address to the French King which Mr. Hayes carried to the late Queen at St. Germains to which there was fixed the names of several Bishops and others whom I always believed knew nothing of it which I declared to the House when I presented it as it was my Duty so to do Therefore I may justly affirm this Charge as false as his others Next He tells you that my Secretary seems to Envy for my sake that Mr. Pendergrass Mr. Porter and Mr. De la Rue with their Companions shou'd go away with the whole Glory of the late Discovery c. But for this Conjecture he
some time occasioned a tedious delay in this Matter But the French King recommending such Persons as he thought fit for this weighty Affair sent his Opinion or rather Commmand to King James and so instantly passed a new Commission as the French King Nominated To this Affair I was Privy as being sent by Monsieur Lovie recommended by the Queen to King James in Ireland where I staid until the News was Confirmed of my Lord Thomas Howard's hard Fate Upon which I returned from King James at Dublin to France with a Gentleman who brought the last Commission to the French Court with which Mr. Crone and my Self was dispatcht for England with several other Commissions as soon as the French Court had News that their Fleet was ready to Sail in the Year 1690. being the time King James's Party had procured so great an Intrest and Provision in England in order to assist a French Army The Services I performed for the present Government on this occasion I need not mention since the King in part was Graciously pleased to declare it to the Parliament immediately after my Coming from France I having writ this former Narrative at Tunbridge-Wells and coming Post to Town the Day following in order to Publish it a Friend of mine brought me a few Lines which he tells me were writ by an Eminent Citizen and one of the Gentlemen that was of Mr. Crone 's Jury The words as I have them fairly written are as followeth viz. SIR WHat I Vrg'd relating to Mr. Fuller was this viz. That Mr. Crone in his own Defence Alledged That he was employed by the late Queen to raise such Sums of Money as Mr. Fuller charged upon him but not for carrying on the War only for the Queens Debts and a Natural Child of the Abdicated King 's c. To support the Allegation be earnestly desired a Lady might be called who produced a Letter in Court importing that Mr. Crone was entrusted to raise such Sums c. One of the Judges asking Who wrote the Letter Mr. Crone answered My Sollicitor my Lord which startled the Sollicitor who said to Crone Plague Damn you and so with drew himself Crone 's Answer was pretermitted by another Judge's asking the Lady How long long she had had the Letter c. SIR My self with several others of the Jury heard Mr. Crone 's Answer which absolutely Establishes the whole Truth of what Mr. Fuller charg'd Mr. Crone withall ab Origine because Mr. Crone on his Tryal Defended himself by a Fictitious Allegation and proved it to be such by the premention'd Forged Letter which Demonstrates to impartial Persons that Mr. Crone offered nothing towards invalidating Mr. Fuller's Evidence but Fiction and Forgery I shall Conclude this Narrative with the Observations this Gentleman makes That Crone endeavoured to invalidate me by the basest and vilest means which the Devil or Malice could invent and such has been the restless Endeavours of the late King's party ever since and particularly the practice of this late Author whom I advise in return of his Kindness to Me to be better inform'd before he pretends to write again FINIS Advertisement THese Two Books following were Written and Published by Mr. WILLIAM FULLER Page of Honour to the late Queen in France Author of this Book viz. I. 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 Majesty's Sacred Person and Government c. As laid before the King c. and Deposed to a Committee of Parliament By WILLIAM FVLLER Gent. sometimes Page of Honour to the late Queen in France Price Six Pence II. 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 FVLLER Gent. who was privy to whole Management To which is added the Author's Vindication of Himself from the Male-Contents of this Kingdom Price Six Pence Mr. De Labadie's LETTER to his Daughter Mrs. De Labadie Nurse to the Pretended Prince of Wales Written in Characters and Deciphered by Dr. Wallis Professor of Geometry in Oxford 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 Price Six Pence
can have no more ground then for the former but resolves if possible to banter such truths as no honest or Conscientious man can deny Such were my discoveries which have been evidently confirm'd by the Lord Preston Mr. Crowe and others which I think do in no wise lessen the services of the above said Gentlemen in their Discoveries of the Conspiracies against the Kings sacred Person and Government as this Spark wou'd Insinuate Confidently affirming That his Majesty nor the Government would hardly take notice of my Informations I think I have in my former sufficiently set forth the Indeavours made use of to Invallidate me to the King and Parliament which the World has now found by experience was the only means to secure the late King's Friends and cover their bloody Designs which from the Year 1689. They have been contriving against the present Government He now begins to bring together the Testimonies of several upon Oaths who he tells you Vnanimously declare the Late Queen to be the true Mother c. Which Depositions are already Printed By these you may see what pains this Gentleman has taken to Collect those Depositions and after a serious view of them I presume most will allow his time but wasted For I cannot find that any one but the Midwife does affirm That they saw the Child come from the Queens Body But on this subject I will not dispute for modesty sake Besides the weakness of those feeble Allegations is a subject that has been often publickly exposed and that lately too which this Quality-writer wisely takes notice of as being unable to Answer I shall therefore quit that needless Argument and proceed to inform you what I know concerning Mrs. Mary Grey and which hath already and will be sufficiently prov'd by a great number of Witnesses First that the said Mary Grey with another Gentlewoman came over from Ireland both big with Child with the Lady Tyconel some short time before the late Queen pretended to be delivered of the supposed Prince of Wales which was on the tenth of June near ten in the Morning Mrs. Mary Grey being several days before Lodged privately in St. James in the narrow Gallery which was near the Queens apartment It is certain that on Saturday the 9th of the same June Mrs. Grey was taken Ill upon which the Queen came suddenly to St. James and one Sunday when her Majesty pretended to be in Labour Mrs. Grey until nine the same morning was heard to Groan and make faint screeks and at her ceasing the Prince was soon Born After which she continued three weeks at St. James and was then sent to France and there Cloystered up in a Convent of the Beâ—nâ—dictâ—â—…-Nuns in Paris where there was a breach in the Garden Walls in Febuary 1689 90. At which time she made her escape which Alarm'd the French King and the late Queen and occasion'd my being sent in order to imbark for England to get her dispatcht at her Landing there and that she was carried to St. Germains to the late Queen after her being taken in Paris and also to the French King at Merli I do affirm to be truth nor cou'd the French Court at this time so cuningly disguise the Consternation they were under but it took breath And wou'd our Male-contents who are lately come from France speak truth I am sure they cannot but Remember part of what I relate However I don't question but this matter will be plainly made out to the satisfaction of all Europe very suddenly by a sufficient Number of Witnesses Now to return to the other objections against me alledged by this malicious Gentleman who tells you I have been confessed guilty of Ingratitude to my best Friends and pretended Relations and have been openly Convinced of most Villanous and Malicious Forgery against a Reverend Bishop and of a wicked design against the whole Church of England To these I Answer and appeal to any moderate Judicious and Christian tempered Reader that my Duty to my Country ought to be valued above any private Interest or Friend And I must confess I have always had the greatest value and respect for the Persons of my Friends at St. Germains But the Barbarity of the Intriegues they had imploy'd me in gave me sufficient cause to leave their service in order to prevent the effusion of my Countrys blood and the Ruine of the Liberties of England by bringing it under a French power which looked very dangerously at the time of my coming over For the full Relation of which I refer my Reader to my other Books only I beg leave to inform you that I did not leave the late King and Queens terms without sufficient cause and a serious consideration I mean in regard to the publick good for which I have suffered and glory in my wrongs But as for any Forgery committed by me against a Bishop I stand amazed that a Person of Quality shou'd persist in so known a Lye I have heard I confess of some such Villany committed against the Bishop of Roâ—chester but sure I am that his Lordship had never any Reason in the least to suspect me concern'd besides the Persons were convicted and I never till now was charged with such a crime And he would insinuate that I designed against the whole Church of England c. Certainly this Author knows me not for I presume most that do can answer That I profess my self tho unworthy a Member of that Church To which I was brought over and convinced of the Errors of the Church of Rome by the late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Tillotson He continues to repeat my misfortune before the House of Commons and is hardly put to his shifts for Arguments against me to invalidate my Testimony and cover the cunning management of the Impostor-Prince which will be made Good by no less Number of prevailing Witnesses than his mighty Troop of Thirty Seven For Truth tho oppressed and stifled for a time Will at last break forth and maintain its Property against all such scribling lying Opposers as this Gentleman has expos'd himself to be He would reflect on the Papers and Letters which I purpose suddenly to Publish but neither himself nor Party will have much cause for they shall have them as soon as the Parliament sits and which had e're this been publisht only the extraordinary consequence of them will I hope at that time be more serviceable to the true Interest of the present Government I must confess I cannot positively affirm that Mrs. Mary Grey was murthered but after what I had seen and heard from the late Queens Mrs. Grey and Fa. Sabran's own mouths and missing her from the time of Conveying her from the French King's back stairs I had sufficient reasons and did really believe she was murthered He adds That any Man that has not a very strong Faith would Hardly believe without very good proof the escape of such a poor Woman should so mightily