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A40701	A plain proof of the true father and mother of the pretended Prince of Wales by several letters written by the late Queen in France, the Earle of Tyrconnel, Lord Deputy of Ireland, the Dutchess of Powis, governess to the pretended prince, Mr. Sarroll, the Queens secretary, and Father Lewis Sabran, chaplain & tutor to the prince : with informations of several persons of note, plainly discovering the whole management of that imposture / collected from the originals as they were intercepted and deliver'd to His present Majesty, and never before made publick ; new published by William Fuller, Gent.	Fuller, William, 1670-1717?	1700 (1700)	Wing F2485; ESTC R7450	15,018	26

A PLAIN PROOF OF The true Father and Mother of the pretended PRINCE of WALES BY Several Letters written by the late Queen in France The Earle of Tyrconnel Lord Deputy of Ireland The Dutchess of Powis Governess to the pretended Prince Mr. Carrell the Queens Secretary and Father Lewis Sabran Chaplain Tutor to the Prince WITH Informations of several Persons of Note Plainly discovering the whole Management of that Imposture COLLECTED From the Originals as they were Intercepted and Deliver'd to his present Majesty And never before made publick New Published by WILLIAM FULLER Gent. LONDON Printed for the AUTHOR And Sold by the Book-selers of London and Westminster 1700 A true Copy of his Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury's Certificate I Do hereby certify that in November 1689. Mr. William Fuller came to me and did make severall considerable Discoveries of the Intreagues of the Enemies of the present Government And he was by my encouragement sent into France And at his Return did perform very great Service for the Preservation of their Majesties Sacred Persont 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 To the Right Honourable Sir Richard Levett Kt. Lord Mayor And to the Right Worshipful the Aldermen and Sheriffs of the City of London I Hope the same Noble Disposition which has inspir'd you bravely on all occasions to demonstrat your Zeal for the Preservation of the present Government by supporting the best of Kings will induce you favourably to look on and protect this short but true Narrative of the most socret and subtile Design of the late Reign which was a Contrivance so deeply laid to root out the Protestant Religion and all things else valuable to every true English Man that nothing but the mighty power and favour of God could deliver this Nation from I hope there can be no Danger of a Relapse And verily believe there will not unless Sins and Ignorance rule the People of this Land into a Lethargy of Security You Gentlemen are the Rulers over a great People and it is much in your power by your Authority and Example to preserve the lasting Peace of this Kingdom Therefore I humble beg your partronage of this piece which as a strange Mountain bids Defiance to all its Opposers And the Truth thereof may at one time be more powerful than the Arms of a Popish pretender and thereby be of Vse to you and your posterity May Almighty GOD long preserve the present King under whose Care you and your famous City are sure of peace and Prospetity it is the Prayers of Your most Devoted and Obedient Servant W. FULLER The PREFACE SInce the happy Conclusion of the Peace that many of your Nation have had their Tours into France It is very observeable how strangely the Mouths of some come back are filled with the mighty Actions of that Heroick Gentleman pretended Prince of Wales they seem so to adore him that were he truly what they pretend King James's or His Queens Son as he is neither these Gentlemen could not exceed their flattering Praises It must be confess'd That Pomp and Shew often makes Men seem what they are not and so it does here For this young Spark being by the late King and Queen own'd as their Son as soon as Born of Mrs. Gray it behoves them to mantain him as such whilst there is any hopes of imposing him to the Advantage of the Roman Catholick Cause which was the first Ground of their Design and even at this day is no less than what the Jesuits and Priests both at Home and Abroad do very confidently affirm will answer their design of settling Popery in this Kingdom in a short time Being my self in July last at Antwerp and conversing there with several English Priests and Jesuits particularly one Father Hunter a Jesuit the only English in the great and famous Colledge there he told me plainly That however Matters seem'd to stand against the Interest of the Church of Rome at this time He question'd not but to hear Mass said a Hundred times in St. Paul's Church in London before he Died adding for one Reason That he was much younger than King William and hoping to out live him he saw no other obstacle in their way most of the other Jesuits and Priests gave their Opinion to the same Effect and seem'd to speak not of their own Judgment barely but according to their Advice from England c. And did frankly tell me That they had now notwithstanding the late Act of Parliament against them above Seven Thousand Priests in England And I know very well that there is every Week very great Sums of Money remitted from England for the use of the Religious there So much do Intreagues and Interest prosper which if rightly consider'd is a sufficient cause for every true English Men to join in the Suppressing such a growing Evil But to return to our Business in hand since the most unhappy most unspeakable loss of His Highness the Duke of Gloucester has given new and strange Hopes to that Party of England's Foes I● cannot be a miss once more to remind them whose Son their darling Hopes the pretended Prince of Wales is which is here done by several Letters sufficiently attested to be the true Copies taken from the Originals of the late Queen and her chief Persons of Quality's own Writing and some of the Originals as they were sent from Ireland by persons of Quality their that took them out of the Dutchess of Tyronnel's Trunk are ye● in being and ready to be produced when occasion offers If it may be objected why they were not publish'd sooner I Answer That I did intend it four Years ago and hoping from time to time to have brought the matter to a Hearing before the Right Honourable the House of Lords I was constraind to delay the publishing of them on that Score only But having been beyond the Seas and conversing with Father Lewis Sabran who was Chaplain to the pretended Prince and one cheif Manager of this Intreague now refiding at the English Colledge in Liege I do undertake to Answer the said Father by proving not only the Suppositious Birth of the pretended Prince but the whole Management in every particular at the time of the late Queen's pretending to deliver'd at St. James's the 10th of June 1688. with a particular account of the true Mothers being cruelly Murtder'd in March 1690. A Plain Proof of the true Father and Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales ABout four Years since I published a small Narrative shewing by several Circumstances how Reasonable it was for every dis●●●●ing ●udgement impartially to discern by those ●ruths I related how cunningly the Transactions 〈…〉 Reign were managed by imposing a●●mp●stor Child to be H●ir to the Crowns of these Kingdoms of Great Brittain and

She terms it the greatest She ever had And no doubt but She thonght it so at shat Time For the first News of Ms. Grey's escape put Her into a Fever And its true that the Queen kept Her Chamber two Days upon it Her Majesty was much afraid of the Prince of Oranges Agents So true it is that Guilty Persons Tremble at evry shaddow The whole Letter is so plain that I need say no more about it LETTRE III. WHen I wrote last by Hays I was under some Mortification concerning Mrs. Grey who that Morning made her escape and gave us upon some Examination a Jealousie that she was convey'd to England but I am very Thankful to Almighty GOD that we had no occasion to trouble you concerning her there She is now safe past doing any Damage but I fear that the Concern we were under and the Search we caus'd to be made after her has a little taken Air and is convey'd to the Knowledge both of some of our Friends and Enemies in England which is proper to be stiffled Therefore I have given Directions to Carrol to send you full Instructions how to proceed with Mrs. Grey's Relations now in London to prevent their Resentment of our proceedings which otherwise may be of ill Consequence and their Rashness the common Defect of their Countrey-mens Judgement may give dangerons occasions to the never ceasing Watchfulness of our Enemies And at this time it much behoves us to prevent even the least Disputes among our good Subjects And to this purpose I have ordered a sufficient Sum of Money to be remitted amongst the Bills which F. brings over to Ashton I pray GOD to give a Gracious Issue to this and all other your Endeavours for His Glory and the Defence of the King I am Your Friend Mary R. Mr. Crone coming from France with Mr. Fuller the latter caus'd him for to be apprehended and the said Crone in June following being arreign'd at the Old Baily for High-Treason by a Commission of Oyer and Terminer for that purpose before the then Lord Mayot Sir Tho Pilkin●on and all the Judges of England after a long and most fair Tryal Mr. Crone was found Guilty of High-Treason and received Sentence accordingly And several Warrants were sign'd for his Execution which was from time to time put off by 2● several Reprieves until the said Crone gave to the present Government a free Confession of what he knew of the designs carrying on against the present Government at that time all which he not only gave to His Majesty's Ministers of State in Writing but afterwards deposed on Oath That all the Matter contain'd in those Papers was Truth and that this and others were the true Letters which he he brought from the late Queens own hand And this Confession of Mr. Crone 's was laid before the Honourable House of Commons according to an Address of that Honourable House to His Majesty in November 1692. for that purpose Note Mr. Crone having obtain'd his Pardon in June was let out of Newgate for his Health the Government not believing he ever would venture into France again and after having made so large a Confession and Discovery of the Court of St. Germains which was so very material that Mr. Crone continu'd in England until His Majesty's Attorney-General had proceeded upon the Prosecuting such as Crone and Fuller had given Information against there 's no doubt but it had prevented several Conspiracies which have since been carryed on by the same conspyring Hands But But Crone went went for France and some affirm it was by Invitation from King James with Assurance of His Pardon and Favour Others affirm He was caryed on ship-board by six Men disguised who came Armed by Night taking him by Force and Gagging Him convey'd Him into a Boat and so off But however it were he is now in France and used kindly which shews his being there is very agreable to the Court of St Germains● And considering he was made a Major of Horse o● the Account of his being serviceable in going betwixt France England and Ireland the two first Years of the War when the greatest Conspiracies were on Foot it cannot but be Imagined but this Crone was greatly Instrusted by the Late King James and his Queen even in their most secret Intrigues and what he did confess to to the Government was so plainly demonstrated that there is no Room for the least Particular Besides it confirmed every Particular of what Fuler had given in Information before And both were afterwards confirmed by the Viscount Preston only this and some other Letters Mr. Crone was only privy to which He confirmed on Oath came from the late Queens own H●nds in France and a more positive Proof surely cannot be Required So I proceed to make a short Observation from some parts of it viz. Observation III. Now the Queen writes the Letter her Fears concerning Mrs Grey being over but yet some Jealousies Remain of their late Dealings with Mrs. Grey's taking Air. The Queen is mighty Jealous of the Spyes in France and knowing that King William and his Royal Consort had some time before the Revolution learnt something of this intreague and the pretended Princes being Mrs. Greys Son Her late Majesty at St. Germains who wants not thought instantly weighs how much it concern'd her to keep this Murther and dealings with Mrs. Grey as secret as might be well knowing that the least Air or Knowledge of it in England would put an end to her pretended Sons Right The Persons the Queen most dreaded were Mrs. Greys Relations who were some of them in England but all Natives of Ireland and Priests Her Majesty orders her Secretary Mr. Carrol to provide and send over Means to stop their Mouths that was an Invitation into France with the promise of Perferment and a Sum of Money the seldom or never failling Cure for all Mischief Mr. Ashton was to pay the Money he was Her Majesty's Treasurer in England and since hanged for his Zeal in a bad Cause which the Queen terms God's Glory and the Kings Service The next is Letter wrote by Father Lewis Sabran a Jesuit and Chaplain to the pretended Prince of Wales to the Dutchess of Tyrconnel in Ireland and was sent by Fuller who was sent to that Kingdom by the late Queen from France by the way of England where F opened the said Letter shewing it to the late Queen of ever Blessed Memory who ordered the Copy to be taken after which Fuller went for Ireland and delivered the said Letter as directed Dated at St. Germains March 15th 1689. LETTER IV. Madam IN obedience to the Commands I received from your Grace I have several times visited Mrs. Mary Grey endeavouring to convince her how inconsistent with Reason her several requests to your Grace are I assured her how kindly ready you were to condescend to the doing her every good Office which might cond●ce to her Eternal as well as perfect Happiness

there being a Breach in the Garden-Walls of that Cloyster at that time did make her escape out of the said Convent of English Benedictine Nuns in Paris and upon which a diligent Search was made after her in Paris and after three days she was found again This I prove by several Persons Inhabitants in Paris who dwell near the Convent which will remember the Breach at that time and the search which was made after a Woman who had made her escape And if our Enemies shou'd here alledge it was another Woman and not Mrs. Grey I answer It behoves them to prove who that other Wowan was And forasmuch as in a few Days after Mrs. Grey was carried to St. Germains from the said Convent where she was kept under a strict Guard after her Escape it likewise concerns them to demonstrate what became of her afterwards And whereas I do further charge them with Murthering her certainly if they 're no● Guilty it is easy to disprove my Assertion by either producing her or proving where and how she died And yet further I do attest That this Mary Grey was meerly Murther'd she being the true Mother of the pretended Prince of Wales to prevent her discovering the same to the honest People of England whom they rerm the Enemies of the late King and Queen Therefore if she were not put to Death meerly on that account it will be a mighty Justification to the Court of St. Germains if they please to shew for what cause she was Murther'd so that these my positive Assertions being so answer'd as I propose I will not only confess my Error but shall freely lay my Life at their Mercy tho' I am sure to find none As for Father Sabran I verily believe I have left him little or no Room for a Reply But partly pursuant to a former promise of mine in my first and second Narrative and to make the matter more apparent I here following present the Courtious Reader with a few ●●●e Copies of Letters writ by the late King James's Queen and others concerning Mrs. Grey and the first two Letters were wrote upon the occasion of a great Fright which Mrs. Grey gave the Queen when she made her escape which occasion'd the Queen to order me to go for England with the saids Letters immediatly but Mrs. Grey being taken and exprss was dispatch'd after me to call me back to St. Germains when I found the Queen overjoy'd at taking of the lost Sheep as the Queen was pleased to term Mrs. Grey The following Letter was wrote by the Queens own hand directed to me to deliver to the Lord Montgomery in England LETTER I. At St. Germains Feb 10. 1690. I Desire You my Lord instantly to Repair to Rummy Marsh and take with You my Servant Ashton with others whom You can trust For Mrs. Grey is convey'd out of the Cloyster no doubt by the Help of our Enemies Agents at Paris I need not urge to You the dangerous Consequence of this Womans ariving safly in England But as You tender the Interest of Our Holy Mother and all things else which I believe are dear to You. I charge You not to fail to get her dispatcht at her Landing which must be consequently in those Parts in a small Vessel Care being raken to prevent her Eskape otherwise the Bearer will inform You further I shall pray for Your Success Your assured Friend Mary R. This Letter was Writ by the late Queens hand and copyed by Fuler to whom the Queen gave it to deliver to the Lord Montgommery and the said better being made up in the Pipe of a Key he had the Oportunity of taking the Contents Which Mr. Fuler deliverd to the present King on the 2 of March following and Deposed an Oath that the Copy was truely taken from the Original as the late Queen in France gave it to Me with her own Hand which Letter was by Me delivered back to the Queen upon My being Recal'd to Saint Germans as I was upon My Journey to England upon the account of Mis. Mary Grey's being taken in Paris as You have it set down in My first Narrative OBSERVATION I. By this Letter it is easie to discern how much the late Queen fear'd the Consequence of rhis Womans getting safely into England and surely were not the Cause extraordinary Her Maiesty whose Soul is haughty enough would not be so Frighted at her Escape But the Interest of the Holy Church was as the stake that is the Imposture she fear'd would be Exposed her Masterpiece of Intrigue brought to nothing but redound to her eternal dishonour So poor Ms. Grey must Die whatever Trouble or Pains it cost even one of the best Friends the late Queen had in England and that too at her first Landing before the mighty Secret was divulged and what that Secret was surely her Majesty in this Letter does Her self fo plainly hint at that it needs no further Interpretation The next was given me at the same time and is much to the some Purpose A Letter from the late Queen to the Right Honourable the E. of Castlemain on the same Occasion Dated at St. Germains Feb 10. 1690. LETTER II. I Never My Lord had any Occasion of greater Consequence than what now offers now to try Your Disposition for the King 's and my own Service Nor do I in the least question Your Diligence in executing my Wil when You know as is too true that Ms. Grey who came from Ireland with the Dutches of Tyrconnel in 1688 is by the same means stoln out of the Cloyster and upon Ezamination appears too plain that she must be assisted by some Agent of the Prince of Oranges and consequently designed to be conveyed to England and made the Instrument of Our Disgrace which Motive obliges Me to desire You with al imaginable Speed to go in Disguise with such a number of proper Persons as You shall judg convenient to the coast of Kent where most conveniently she may be Landed near Deal I have writ to My Lord Montgomery to go to Rumy-Marsh and wish You to confer together before it be too late I hope the Goodness of Our Cause will inspire Hour Zeal to Act as becomes a Christian and Faithful Subject The Bearer will inform You more from Your assured Friend Mary R. It was also copyed by M. William Fuller being delivered to him by the Late Queens own Hand and made up in the Pipe of a Key us the former to the Lord Montgomery and was Orderd to be deliver'd to the Earl of Castlemain in England but Returned back to the Queen at M. Fuller's being cal'd back to S. Germains This Copy was also delivered to his present Majesty King Wil by Me ot the same time with the former when I Deposed on Oath that it is a true Copy of the late Queens Letter Observation II. The Queen here speaks so very plain to this Lord that nothing can well Express a greater Concern

And I thought my self at first happy by having fully evinced her how much she was mistaken by desiring to leave the Holy Societie which she now enjoies and the Dangers that attend a Woman of her Constitution by being abroad in the World where all things strive to wound the Soul I urged to her the Co●●●eration of her former Miscarriage and much Reas●n● she has continually to send up her prayers and to endure a continual Mortification to merit Blessings 〈…〉 Son that by him so many Millions might one 〈…〉 made happy Much more I offered and pressed it home but tho then she seem'd satisfied I am sory to to tell your Grace that she is now run into the Extravagancy of meer Frenzy and nothing will content her unless the Queen permit her leave to take some Employ that she may attend the Price continually I dare not let the Queen as yet know it but have left is to the Discretion of my good Lady the Dutchess of Powis to inform her Majesty as she finds occasion tho I heartily wish there may be none I have twice obtained leave by the Queens Commands to my Reverend Lady A●●e●s for Mrs. Greys coming to St. Germains to see the Child which I fear has done more hurt than contrary wise Malady seems to be much increased I truly pity her and pray for her begging your Grace to write frequently to her for I kn●w nothing that so much Influence with her as your Graces prudent Admonutions I bless GOD the Prince thrives even beyond Expection and I hope the whole Course of his Life will be blest to Crown their Majesty's and your Graces most worthy Endeavours I am Madam your Graces most humble and Devoted Sevant Lewis Sabran This Letter with the following and several others were taken in a Trunk of the said Dutchess of Tyrconnel's which Trunk was left at her Daughters in Dublin and being search'd soon after the the Fight of the Boyne the said Letters were presented to the King and afterwards remitted to the Queen in England then by Commmand delivered to me in order to the publishing them with other Papers Observation IV. Mrs. Grey being a Relation of the E. of Tyrconnel's and by his and his Ladys Istigation drawn ●●to this fatal Intreague the Countess of Tyrconnel to whom Mrs. Grey made her frequent Appeals from the Monastery injoyns Father Sabran to give her Advice Mrs. Grey being uneasie for being kept so Close from her Child who no doubt was very dear to her though raifed to such a heighth of Princely Honours that she poor Lady begg'd only to be his Minal Servant But the Queen and others judge it not proper for these Reasons First That the Women of Ireland are the most Passionat Lover of Children in the World which might have given Cause of Observation Secondly The present King of England as before-mentioned having some Notice of this Intreague might by some means they at St. Gerami●s suspected have found out ways to get her off which could not they knew be so easily done at the Cloyster The Father in his Letter plainly calls the pretended Price her Son and sets forth what mighty Deeds he hopes to see accomplish'd by him and surely were he not her Son why should such Care be taken to gratify her in carrying her to St. Germaius to see him The Latter is very plain and true The next which was found in the Dutchess of Tyrconnel's Trunk is a Letter from the Marchioness of Powis to the Dutchess of Tyrconnel in Ireland Dated at Germains Feb. 23. 1690. LETTER V. Dear Madam I Wish to shun this Talk and be assured that nothing but the Queens indisputable Command could extort it from me to tell you what Mrs. Greys folly had at last wrought that both you and I know tha● all her Friends feared would in some measure happen to her Indeed my dearest Lady it is unspeakable how many Fears and Frights she has by her continual Uneasiness put the good Queen into and that by reason she was not admitted continually to attend the Prince which if 't had heen allowed her must have terminated in the overthrow of all the Queens Genius and the Glorious Design of our Holy Cause And her strange Uneasiness could not but give divers Thoughts to the Queen to the Quen and others especially that unadvised Act of Stealing from the Convent which savoured too much of a secret Corrospondence with the Rebellious Subjects who saw too deeply into the Matter when your Grace came to London with her And so miserably stuborn if 〈◊〉 worse was her Temper that nothing but her Death could give Security of preventing the wretched Effects of her folly and that she must now under●o I wish it might be order'd otherwise but present it seems impossible And there is so many Reasons for hastning of her Death that fear it will not he delayed Let not then the News dear Madam surprize you but the thoughts of so Glorious a Design supply the loss of one I know you dearly loved For who indeed 〈◊〉 nor themselves lay down a Thousand Lives for 〈◊〉 a Cause if it were in their power Let this then 〈◊〉 your Repose that we cannot be Instruments of Gods Glory and the Holy Churches Prosperity at too dear a 〈◊〉 The good Queen is much diurb'd that that things 〈◊〉 of necessity urg'd to such a period and would do anything were it possible to divert it The Prince is very ●ell and Mrs. Grey is now in my Lodging so that in a 〈◊〉 Days your Grace shall know a final event I am 〈◊〉 concern'd at the Fears you daily suffer and hope 〈◊〉 will shortly avert them that we may meet with Praise 〈◊〉 the Divine Bounty and unspeakable Joy to each other 〈◊〉 give my Service to your good Lord and Family 〈…〉 Madam your most humble Servant Powis 〈…〉 foregoing is a plain Demonstration of Mrs. Mary 〈◊〉 being designedly to be put to Death in order to 〈…〉 any discovery she might make of the pretended 〈…〉 of Wales being her Son of which the late Queen 〈…〉 extreamly jealous and that not without sufficient 〈…〉 as doth appear by Mr. Carol. the late Queens 〈…〉 by her Maiestyies Command the said Letter was 〈◊〉 in the Lady Tyrconnels Trunk and sent over to 〈◊〉 with the former and being expos'd to several 〈◊〉 of Honour of Mr. Carols Acquaintance is judg'd 〈◊〉 of them to be write by his own hand and that 〈◊〉 as found in my Lady Tyrconnels Trunk is sufficienly 〈◊〉 by several Witnesses that were at the opening 〈◊〉 same it is dated at St. Germa●ns Feb 24. Observation V. The Dutches of Powis the Queens chief Confident here excuses the Proceedings against Ms. Grey to the Dutchess of Tyrconnel Tels her plainly the Queens Sentiments and why Ms Grey must Die This Dutchess speaks plainly so I need observe no more but proceed to Letter VI. LETTER VI. May it Please Your Grace I Am comanded by the Queen to