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A40696	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., and deposed to a committee of Parliament / by William Fuller, Gent. ...	Fuller, William, 1670-1717?	1696 (1696)	Wing F2479; ESTC R18305	15,098	76

Authentick Confession He affirms on Oath That all my Information was true for the Confirmation of this I can appeal to any Member of Parliament that heard Mr. Crone 's or the Lord Preston's Confessions Read before the Honourable House of Commons After this it may seem strange to some how the House came to be so angry with me I beg leave to inform such That the Jacobites by Mr. Crone 's going off knew they had partly secured themselves from the just Power of the Law but were yet concern'd if possible to make the World believe that they never had any Design against the Government And who can blame them for being ashamed of such a Horrid and Bloody Design as they had then contrived against the Government and their own Countrey to Ruine both Church State To cover their Shame as much as may be they had no way but to Invalidate me which they set about with all the Malice that the Devil or Popish Principles cou'd incite them with though for some time my faithful Service and the King 's large Promises of lasting Favours to me was my Support and had continued so but that the Immaturity of my Judgment was so easily impos'd upon by Two Instruments sent by the French Court to accomplish my Ruin viz. Colonel Tho. Dellaval and Mr. George Hayes They were formerly my most intimate Acquaintance both in England and at the Court at St. Germains and were imployed constantly ' twixt England and France on King James's Account as I was The First of these came to me at my Lodgings in White-Hall and told me He desired to come and Serve the Government as I had done provided I wou'd intercede with the Queen for his Pardon and make some Conditions for his coming over Honourably I acquainted the Queen of it immediately the King being then in Flanders and Her Majesty whose Bounty extended to all did most Graciously promise to Write to the King about it and in the mean time committed the Management of this Affair to the Care of His Grace John Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury my very good Friend But before the King's Answer came from Flanders Dalleval received a Letter from the Earl of Melfort requiring his Return immediately to St. Germains which Letter he shewed me and I carried it to the Queen who knowing Melfort's Hand gave Orders That Colonel Dalleval might go for France again provided that he engaged to Return when Her Majesty required him All which he Swore and promimised most Solemnly to do and then went for France accordingly Soon after his Arrival there he sent me several Letters writ in Characters promising to come to King William in Flanders and desired me to meet him there The Arch-Bishop and my self from time to time acquainted Her Majesty of every Particular and I was Commanded to go for Flanders where I continued with the King Three Months on this Occasion and Receiv'd Letters from Colonel Dellaval at St. Germains Twice every Week during the time I was there the Contents of which Letters prov'd very true and of some Use at that time to the King's Affairs but this was only a Snare the more securely to Ruin me to the Purpose For as soon as the King came to England and the Parliament was Sitting Dellaval writ to me and Mr. Hayes likewise to have me get their Pardon and Protection from the King and Parliament promising they wou'd make great Discoveries which His Majesty knew they might this being the Winter before the Second intended Invasion when the Forces with the late King James lay at La Hogue ready to Embark the latter end of April following the Parliament having Addressed the King to cause the Lord Preston's and Mr. Crone 's Confessions to be laid before them and theirs agreeing with mine the Parliament made an humble Address to the King to add to his Bounty to me this did more inflame Mine and the Nations Enemies and Colonel Dellaval and Mr. Hayes sent me abundance of Letters and great Promises of performing considerable Services for Their Najesties and this Kingdom 's Safety At length I did Address the House of Commons in their Behalf Desiring a Pardon and Passport to be given me Blank for Two Gentlemen to come from beyond the Seas and to Return if desired The Honourable Honse granted my Request on Condition I would engage for their Appearance and performing what they promised at this time Only their Majesties and some of Their Most Honourable Privy-Council knew these Mens Names that I engaged for lest the French Court shou'd prevent their Coming as my Credulity caus'd me to believe I had the Protection of the Parliament for them and a Pardon and Passport Signaed by the King and under the Great Seal it was left blank for me to fill up and this I sent for Flanders by a Messenger of my own Recommended by some Members of Parliament It proving very cold hard Weather in those Parts Dellaval and Hayes came to Antwerp some time before my Messenger cou'd get there so they went to Ostend and came from thence to England having heard their Pardon had passed the Seals The Messenger heard of them at Antwerp and other Places and hearing they were come for England he returned As soon as Dellaval and the other arrived they sent one Jones to me with a Letter assuring me they were coming to Town and intended to Attend on the House of Commons the Monday following I was extream joyful to hear of their Arrival and immediately sent their Letter to the House where the Speaker Read it and Monday was appointed for Hearing them At this Unhappy Time I was very dangerously Sick and when Monday came the Gentlemen were seen by many in the Lobby whilst the House was at Prayers But Prayers being ended and they call'd for they were vanished of a sudden which occasioned the House to appoint a Committee to come to me which they did taking all my Papers and Informations on Oath Anthony Bowyer Esquire being Chair-man of the said Committee I gave them an Account where Mr. Hayes had lodged formerly at a Papists in Holborn but they were not to be sound which occasion'd on Wedn'sday the Twenty Fourth of February to pass a Vote against me and to address the King to order the Attorney-General to prosecute me for engaging for these Men and that they did not appear Now King James's Friends had their Desire and Dellaval with the Other having accomplisht their Villanous Designs return'd for France I was brought to my Tryal at my own Request at the King's-Bench at Westminster and even then these Gentlemen Dellaval and Hayes sent me several Letters to excuse themselves and promised to come and Vindicate me And it is most certain That even to this time they have continued to come frequently to England about King James's Business When I was on my Tryal the Attorney-General now Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal and one of the Lords Justices of England told 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 pre●●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 ●●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 ●au●●● 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 Sub●istence being sometimes hardly allow'd ●●ead when I was about his Majesty's Ser●●●● Therefore whoever shall presume to C●●●●●● the Government with keeping me in con●●●●…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