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At the Council-Chamber in Whitehall, Monday the 22, of October, 1688
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before it was cleansed from the Impurities of its Birth and also saw the Navel-string cut and some drops of fresh Blood received into a Spoon which the Deponent mingled with a little Black-cherry-water and saw given by the Physitians Orders to the Child And afterwards going into the great Bed-chamber where the Queen was delivered he saw the After-burthen c. fresh Ja. St. Amand. After these depositions were taken His Majesty was pleased to acquaint the Lords That the Princess Anne of Denmark would have been present but that she being with Child and having not lately stirred abroad could not come so far without hazard Adding further ANd now my Lords although I did not question but every Person here present was satisfied before in this matter Yet by what you have heard you will be better able to satisfie others Besides If I and the Queen could be thought so wicked as to endeavour to impose a Child upon the Nation you see how impossible it would have been Neither could I my Self be imposed upon having constantly been with the Queen during her being with Child and the whole time of her Labour And there is none of you but will easily believe Me who have suffered so much for Conscience sake uncapable of so great a Villany to the prejudice of my own Children And I thank God that those that know me know well that it is my Principle to do as I would be done by for that is the Law and the Prophets And I would rather dy a thousand deaths than do the least wrong to any of my Children His Majesty further said IF any of My Lords think it necessary the Queen should be sent for it shall be done But their Lordships not thinking it necessary Her Majesty was not sent for IT is Order'd this day by His Majesty in Council That the several Declarations here before made by His Majesty and by her Majesty the Queen-Dowager together with the several Depositions here entered be forthwith Enrolled in the Court of Chancery And the Lord Chancellor is Ordered to cause the same to be Enrolled accordingly IN Pursuance of which Order in Council the Lord Chancellor on Saturday the 27th Day of October following in the High Court of Chancery many of the Nobility and Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council being there present caused the aforesaid Order of Council and Declarations of His Majesty and likewise that of Her Majesty the Queen Dowager to be openly and distinctly Read in Court as the same are Entered in the Words aforesaid in the Council Book And the Lords and Ladies and other Persons who made the respective Depositions aforesaid being present in Court were Sworn again and having heard their several Depositions distinctly Read in the Words aforesaid and being severally Interrogated by the Court to the Truth thereof they all upon their Oaths affirmed their respective Depositions to be true and did likewise Depose except some few who came in late to the Council Chamber or some who stood at too great a distance that they heard His Majesty and Her Majesty the Queen Dowager make the several Declarations aforesaid and that the same as they had been Read were truly Entered as they did believe in the Council Book according to the Sence Intent and Meaning of what His Majesty the King and her Majesty the Queen-Dowager did then Declare And forasmuch as the Earl of Huntingdon and the Earl of Peterborow who were able to Depose to the Matters aforesaid had not beer Examined at the Council Board but had brought their several Depositions in Writing which they delivered into Court the said Lord-Chancellor after the said Earls were severally Sworn Ordered their Depositions to be openly Read in these Words following UPon Trinity Sunday 10th June 1688. I went to St. James's House about Nine a Clock in the Morning and followed my Lord Chancellor through the Lodgings to the Dressing Room next to the Queens Bed-Chamber where divers Lords of the Council were met upon occasion of the Queens being in Labour the King came several times into the Room and amongst other things was pleased to tell us that the Queen came exactly according to her first Reckoning which was from the Kings Return from his Progress to Bathe in September 1687. After this the Counsellors were ordered to come into the Bed-Chamber and I stood on that side of the Bed that had the Curtains drawn open I heard Her Majesty Cry outseveral times I staid in the Room during the Birth of the Prince of Wales I saw him carried into the little Bed Chamber whither the King the Lords and my self in particular did follow him Huntingdon I Had the Honor to be in the King's Chamber in the Morning when word was brought him the Queen was not well and followed him into the Dressing Room next her Majesties Bed-Chamber where I staid till His Majesty called me to come in which was about the beginning of her Pains I confess the Compassion I had for Her Majesty hearing her Crys made my stay there very uneasie One of the last especially seemed to me so sharp as it really forced me for a little time to stop my Ears with my Fingers to avoid hearing more of the like when setting them at Liberty I heard no more but perceived a suddensatisfaction in the Faces of the Assistance several saying that the Queen was Delivered and soon thereupon I saw the Prince brought from about the Bed and carried into the little Bed-Chamber whither I went afterwards to behold him more particularly where I saw him as a Child newly Born. Peterborow AFter which the said Earls did severally upon their Oaths affirm their Depositions to be True as they had been Read and that they were present in Council and heard His Majesty and Her Majesty the Queen-Dowager make the several Declarations aforesaid and that the same were Entered in the Council Book as they did believe according to the effect true Sense and Meaning of what their Majesties declared in Council Whereupon His Majesties Attorny General moved the Court that the said Declarations of His Majesty and of Her Majesty the Queen-Dowager and the several Depositions and the Order of Council should be Enrolled in the Petty-Bag-Office and in the Office of Inrolments in the Court of Chancery for the safe Preservation and Custody of them which the Lord Chancellor Ordered accordingly Published by His Majesties Special Command Edinburgh Re-printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty 1688.