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A43885	An historical narrative of the German princess containing all material passages, from her first arrivall at Graves-end, the 30th of March last past, untill she was discharged from her imprisonment, June the sixth instant. Wherein also is mentioned, sundry private matters, between Mr. John Carlton, and others, and the said princess; not yet published. Together with a brief and notable story, of Billing the Brick-layer, one of her pretended husbands, coming to New-Gate, and demanding of the keeper her deliverance, on Monday the eighth instant. Written by her self, for the satisfaction of the world, at the request of divers persons of honour.	Carleton, Mary, 1642?-1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing H2106; ESTC R213459	17,499	24

which I did Thursday the 2d of April Mr. John Carlton came in his Coach with two Foot-men attending of him calling him my Lord and Mistriss King did also call him my Lord. With that I askt Mrs. King if it was not the same person that din'd with us yesterday she said True it was so but he was in a Disguize then and withall that in a humour he would often do so But saith she I do assure you he is a Lord. Upon that I replyed Then his Father must be an Earl if living She affirmed that he was a person of great Honour The same time my Lord presented me with a rich Box of Sweet-meats I could do no less then thankfully accept thereof My Lord came every day afterwards to Mr. Kings and by his importunity would carry me abroad in a Coach to Holyway and Islington Mrs. King would often ask me what my Lord did say to me I told her Nothing that I observed but his Lordship abounded in civility-mixt with Complements How said she Madam He loves you Loves me for what Mistriss King I replyed She said For your great Parts and Endowments I asked her How my Lord could tell that I had either She said My Lord could see within me I answered That my Lord must have very good eyes if he could see within me or else I must be very transparant After which I did order the matter so that his Access to me was not so easie Mistriss King importuneth me to admit my Lord to visit me I told her plainly That I did not understand his Lordships meaning He provided me a great Banquet at which his Lordships Mother was very fine drest who questioned what I was I told my Lord That I had received Civilities from him and he had the like from me and that I had no necessity to give any account to any person what I was for any thing that I intended and that if any Design or Affair of his required any such thing out of conveniencie or otherwise he might forbear it His Lordship excused his Mothers Inquisitions by saying She was his Mother and that Parents did think themselves concerned in looking after the good of their Children But said he Madam Wave all this however I will marry you to morrow What said I my Lord without my consent My Lord I desire your Lordship not to come near me any more I will not lye under such questioning and scrutinie Your Lordship will be safe in following my advice in not coming at me at any more Upon this his Lordship wept bitterly I with-drew my self from his presence He writ a Letter of high Complements to me the which Letter perished in the storming and taking of my Out-works by the Forces of Mr. George Carleton my Husbands Father at the same time I had a Gown making upon my own account by Mistriss Kings Taylor in the Strand I took a Coach and went thither all this while the young Lord not knowing where I was remained impatient untill my return where I found him standing at the Bar not the Bar his Lordship was afterwards pleased to be one of the Instruments to make me stand at at the Exchange-Tavern and suddainly claspt about my middle and violently carryed me to my Chamber I asked his meaning He answered That I had forbid him my presence that it had almost made him mad that he desired nothing more of me then but to let him look upon me Upon that he did with a very strange Jesture fix his eyes upon me In compassion to him I askt him what his Lordship meant and intended he replied in a kind of discomposed manner I would have you to be my Wife I answered him My Lord I rather think you have Courted me for a Mistris then for a Wife I assure you that I will never be a Mistris to the greatest of Princes I will rather chuse to be a Wife to the meanest of men Upon which he uttered divers asseverations in confirmation of the reality of his intentions and earnest desire of the Honour in making me his Wife without any respect to what I had The next day being Saturday Easter Eve the Taylor brought me my Gown to my Lodging I being drest and adorned with my Jewels he again renewed his Sute to me with all importunity imaginable and a little before that time having intercepted my Letters and understanding how my Estate did lie he and all his friends renewed their Sute to me to give my consent to marry the young Lord His courteous Mother is now most forward pressing me to consent by telling me that she should lose h●r Son and he his wits he being already impatient with denyals and delayes adding withall that he was a person hopeful and might deserve my condiscention I withstood all their sollicitation although they continued it untill 12. of the Clock that night The young Lord at his taking his leave of me told me he would attend me betimes the next morning and carry me to St. Pauls Church to hear the Organs saying that there would be very excellent Anthemes performed by rare voyces during which time young Captain Sakvell who they had made privy to their undertaking out of some discontent threatned to discover the whole business but he was promised 200l to be silent and plied closely with Sack that he was dead drunk that night the morrow being Saturday the 19th of April last in the morning betimes the young Lord cometh to my Chamber-door desiring admittance which I refused in regard I was not ready yet so soon as my head was dressed I let him have Access he hastned me and told me his Coach was at the door he carrieth me to his Mothers in the Gray-fryers London where I was assaulted by the young Lords teares and others to give my consent to marry him telling me that they had a Parson and a License ready So I being amazedly importuned thereunto did then and not before give an amazed Consent to the Church of Great St. Bartholomews we are carried married by one Mr. Smith from thence we travelled to Barnet that it might not be known at Court that he had married a forraign Princess He lyeth with me Sunday and Monday right we return to St. Bartholomews again and were there married again the second time with a License they having before falsly pretended a License that there might be no defect or flaw in the Marriage On Friday following being the 24. of April Lodgings are taken for my Lord and my Self in Durham Yard and much State and Grandeur is used for the Credit of his Lordship The next Friday following being May Day his Lordship with great State carrieth Me into Hide-Park where I was accommodated by the Courteous Respect of divers Persons of Quality with great Rarities My Husband by this time publickly owned the Title of Lord by the which Title privately he carried on his design upon me he being one day in company with some of his

An Historicall NARRATIVE OF THE German Princess CONTAINING All material PASSAGES from her first Arrivall at Graves-end the 30th of March last past untill she was discharged from her Imprisonment June the Sixth instant Wherein also is mentioned Sundry private Matters between Mr. John Carlton and others and the said PRINCESS Not yet Published Together with a brief and notable STORY of Billing the Brick-Layer one of her pretended Husbands coming to New-Gate and demanding of the Keeper her Deliverance on Monday the Eighth instant Written by her Self for the Satisfaction of the World at the Request of divers Persons of Honour London Printed for Charles Moulton 1663. Most Noble Generous and Vertuous LADIES and GENTLEWOMEN I Am not ignorant what great advantage the frequent false Reports of my Actions and Demeanours hath given to the dishonour of our Sex Let me tell you I had rather chuse to be dissolved into Attoms then justly to deserve to be the occasion of any such thing I therefore Adventured upon this Collection to evince to the World the Falshood and Insufficiency of the Designs against me There is no Person of Understanding but may easily discern and conclude as much as I desire for Vindication of my self from those Things my Enemies aspersed me with or that have lately been upon the Stage He who was first the Contriver and Promoter of the False Suggestions against Me coming to Visit me within one hour after the Just Sentence of NOT GUILTY I told him If the Modesty of my Sex would permit me I would Require the Comba●e of him to appear in the Field I look'd upon him but as a base Detractor I required his Retiring from my Presence He obeyed His looks represented his Guilt I could mention him but it 's below me to take notice of him further then to know him for a Villain But it being the Opinion of all Philosophers and Divines as well Ancient as Modern That Detraction is the Chief Branch of Envy which is nourished by Lying by which People of Honest Conversation are grievously wounded Diogenes the Cinick being ask'd What Beast Bit most Deadly Answered Amongst Furious and Wild Beasts None like the Detractor And amongst Tame and Gentle Beasts None like the Soother and Flatterer Themistocles the Thebane upon the same occasion said There was no greater Pain nor Misery in the World then to behold the Honour or Credit of an Honest or Good Man or Woman to be in the Mercy of a venomous Tongue and to be tortured by Detracting Speeches A Spanish Author that I have seen hath this saying That all Nations do observe it as a Law That a Dissolute Life in Men is not held to be such a Vice as in Women That let a Report passe of a Woman True or False Irreparably she lyeth under Infamy Therefore I do imagine that our Ancestors were so prudent that in the Instituting of several Orders of Knights they had still in Charge That they should defend Innocent Ladies And I never read of any Knight that undertook a Distressed Ladies Quarrell but he Vanquished and Overcame That Example of Valentinus Barnthius a Native of Toledo in Spain in his History wherein he mentioneth a Daughter of one of the Kings of England that was Married to the Duke of Saxony and Prince of Piedmont She not yielding to the Immodest Sollicitation and Request of Pancalier whom the Duke her Husband had left as his Lieutenant in his Absence whilest he was busied in the Warrs of France The Count Imposed on her the Crime of Adultery For Confirmation wanting other proof he Required the Combat of any that should gainsay his Assertion The which was Accepted by a Knight of the Noble House of Mendoza Who slew him notwithstanding many Disadvantages of a late Sickness of his long Travel and Disproportion of his Strength and Stature c. Francis the First of that Name King of France granted the Combat to Castaigneray and the Lord Jarnac Castaigneray having by words dishonoured a Lady that was by Blood Allied to Jarnac In the Opinion of all Persons Castaigneray by reason of his often Combats Strength Judgment in Arms and the use of Weapons would be too hard for the Lord Jarnac yet the Lord Jarnac slew him The which Convinced all the Spectators That the Innocency of the Lady Influenced the Sword of Jarnac Many other Stories of like nature I could Instance but I shall conclude with this Sure there is none will a Woman deprave Unless he be a Coward or a Knave I do not mention these Stories to reflect upon any of the English Gallants for not Taking part in my Cause I at first apprehended I needed it not and now do much lesse need it for that my Enemies by their Insufficient Prosecution made way for the World to conclude my Innocency But I may in some sort complain of my Husband who wore a Sword by his side and yet could suffer me to be stript of my necessary Rayment But instead of that Civil Defence the least of Kindnesses he might have afforded me that had enjoyed all Hymen's Rites with me so lately before that Tragick-Part he encountreth me with a Volume of one Sheet in Quarto wherein he hath these Passages That I by my Parts deluded him In answer to which He deluded me by his Pretences Reader Thou shalt receive them from his own Pen In his Epistle to the said Work he hath this Passage I shall not give my self the Trouble to recollect and declare the severall Motives and Inducements that deceitful but wise enough Woman used to deceive me with c. In Page the 4 h he saith Her Wit did more and m●re Ingage me and charm me Her Qualities deprived me of my own Her Courteous Behaviour her Majestick Humility to all Persons her Emphaticall Speeches her Kind and Loving Expressions and amongst other things her High Detestation of all manner of Vice as Lying c. Her great Pretence to Zeal in her Religion her Modest Confidence and Grace in all Companies Fearing the knowledg of none her Demeanour was such that she left no room for Suspition not only in my Opinion but also in others both Grave and Wise Some other things he Insists upon as his undertaking to tell the Story of the Management of the Business betwixt us In which he is so far from doing Me Justice therein that he wrongeth Me and his own Soul by lying For Confutation of which I refer the Reader to the ensuing Discourse Only there is one Passage that I am unwilling to let slip that is in page the 6th he saith That my Father was in Town upon my Commitment and did acknowledg me to be his Daughter and that I had playd many such Tricks It 's strange this Father of mine could not be produced at the Tryal if that had been true As strange it was That the Jury-Man himself that was one of the Jury upon the Tryal of Mary Mauders that they produced who seemed to

be a Man of Conscience and Judgment could not swear nor say That I was the Mary Mauders alias Stedman But I wave all and make it my Request to all Ladies and Gentlewomen seriously to consider the whole ensuing Discourse The which if done I may rest Confident that there is none but will set a Hand to the Erecting my Reputation to a higher Pitch then from whence my Detracting Enemies endeavoured to depress it From my Lodging June 12 1663. Ladies and Gentlewomen Yours in all Submissive Observance Mary Carlton EPimenides the Philosopher being asked by the Rhodians What that Virtue called Truth was answered Truth is that thing whereof more then all others the Gods do make profession and the Virtue that illuminateth the Heaven and the Earth maintaineth Justice governeth preserveth and protecteth a State or Kingdom and cannot indure any wicked thing near it also it maketh all doubtful and ambiguous matters clear and apparent The Corinthians also demanded of Chilo the Philosopher what Truth was said It was a sure Gage and Standard to measure all things by it who neither diminisheth at one time nor increaseth at another it s a Buckler a Shield that can never be pierced it s an Army never danted a Flower that never faileth a Haven that none shall perish in or suffer peril The Lacedemonians inquisitive after this rare Virtue importuned Anaxachus to delineate Truth to them he drew its Portraicture in these fair Lines viz. Truth is a perpetual Health and Welfare a Life without ending an Unguent that healeth all misfortunes a Sun always shining that never suffereth by Eclipse a Gate never shut a Journey in which none can wax weary It s a Virtue without which all Strength is feebleness and infirmness it self Wisdom Folly and Madness Without it Patience is but a Counterfeit and Liberty but a Prison Augustus Caesar in the Triumphs that he made for Mark Anthony and Cleopatra brought with him to Rome a Priest of Egypt aged 60 years that was famous for not telling a Lye in his whole Life the Senate ordered his Statue to be erected and himself to be High-Priest In the time of the Emperour Claudius there dyed at Rome one Pamphilus that was upon good ground suspected never to have told Truth all the days of his life He by the Emperour's Order was denyed Buriall his House to be razed his Goods confiscate in detestation of so venomous a Beast who was so suspected that when by accident he did speak Truth the Hearers suspected their own Knowledge I am not to insist upon this Theam but Truth is an amiable and delightful thing it hath been no less my Deliverer then it was my Sanctuary its Precepts will I observe in this ensuing Discourse that as to matter of Fact I will have due regard that Time nor Envy shall have no Advantage against me to detect me in any particular or material Circumstance my Ambition never tempted me to write a History of my Life but my Necessity hath constrained me to give you a History of part of my Life that is to say from the first time of my l●st coming into England for that the World yet never had an exact Account of what passed between Me and Mr. John Carleton now my Husband by the Law of England unto which we are both Subjects I having been at Colen the place of my Nativity from thence for dispatch of some Affairs of mine I went to Vtrick from thence to the Brill where I took shipping in a small Vessel bound for England and landed at Graves-end the 30th of March last past in the Evening and came in the Tilt-Boat from thence to London betimes the next morning In the Company that were Passengers there was one a Parson for so his habit did be speak him who offered me the Civility of a Glass of Wine but it being so early we passed several Taverns and could not procure admittance from Billings-gate until we came to the Exchange-Tavern against the Stocks kept by one Mr. King the Door being open and Mr. King in the Bar counting of Brass Farthings the Parson askt him if we might have a pint of Wine Mr. King replyed That we might A pint of Rhenish Wine and a pint of Sack was c●lled for and during the drinking of it the Parson offering to kiss me I refused Mr. King perceiving that I did not much like the Parsons company came in and entertained me in Discourse askt me if I was a Stranger I told him Yes I came from Colen in Germany and Mr. King said Since it was so early that I could not go with conveniency to seek a Lodging if I pleased to repose my self for a time his house was free that although it was a publike house yet he had not overmuch to do in it I might be assured it was a civil house and that he had a kindness and a pity for Strangers and moreover added to his courteous Discourse his care of me saying That if I had a Charge I should have a care for the Town was full of wickedness and that I might have some trick put upon me I thankt him and told him that I had a charge that I was so much a Stranger that I had no where to go unto that I knew of at present but where e're I went I had wherewith to defray my charges Mr. King said His house should be at my service I answered him That I lookt upon him as a civill person I took my leave of the Parson and upon Mr. Kings Invitation went to my Chamber parcel of his house that he had alotted me for my appartment Returning Mr. King many thanks for his civility I took my leave of him also He told me that his Wife should wait upon me when I rose Let the World judge if it be probable that I could design any thing to insnare Mr. Carleton when at my accidental coming into that house nothing could be more remote from my Thoughts or Apprehension then he was or then that which hapned afterwards By what I shall further say I doubt not but to undeceive the World and demonstrate that they designed against me And whether I have that Estate they dreamt of it is not material I am not much to be blamed if I have it and conceal it since they have pursued me in that envious sort of which the World is Witness Well when I rose about 11 of the Clock Mistris King the Mistriss of the house attended me I was furnished with all respect with what I askt for or what was necessary After which I applyed my self to writing of my Letters sent them away by the Post beyond the Seas wherein I gave Instructions for the managing of those Affairs that concerned me Wednesday the first of April Mrs. King made a great Feast where were divers persons of quality as she said amongst the rest her Brother Mr. John Carleton At this Entertainment Mrs. King did advise me to call her Cozen the