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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80352	The case of Madam Mary Carleton, lately stiled the German Princess, truely stated with an historical relation of her birth, education, and fortunes; in an appeal to his illustrious Highness Prince Rupert. By the said Mary Carleton.	Carleton, Mary, 1642?-1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing C586A; ESTC R229508	39,449	320

a speedy and secret marriage Let the World now judge whither being prompted by such plain and publique signes of a design upon me to counterplot them I have done any more then what the Rule and a received principle of Justice directs to deceive the deceiver is no deceit I knew not nevertheless which way their Artifices tended till Master King brought into my acquaintance old Mr. Carleton his Father in Law and soon after Mr. John Carleton his Son it seems it had been consulted to have preferred George the Elder Brother He troubled with a simple modesty and a mind no way competent to so much greatness was laid aside and the younger flusht and encouraged to set upon me By this time they had obtained my Name from me viz. Maria de Wolway which passage also hath suffered by another lender Imposture and allusory sound of De Vulva in the language of which I am better versed then to pick out no civiller and eleganter impress To the Addresses of Mr. John Carleton I carried my self with so much indifference not superciliously refusing his visits or readily admitting his suit not disheartening him with a severe retiredness or challenges of his imparity nor encouraging him with afreedom or openness of Heart or arrogance of my own condition that he and his friends were upon the spur to consummate the match which yet I delayed and dissembled with convenient pretences but herein I will be more particular in the ensuing Pages In the mean while to prevent all notice of me and the disturbance of their proceedings that might be occasioned thereby they kept me close in the nature of a Prisoner which though I perceived yet I made no semblance thereof at all but colluded with them in their own arts and pretended some aversness to all company but onely my enamourate Mr. Carleton nor was any body else suffered to come near me or to speak with me Insomuch as I have bin informed that they promised 209 l. to one Sackvil whom for his advice they had too forwardly as they thought imparted the business the sum of 200 l. to be filent lest that it should be heard at Court and so the Estate and Honour which they had already swallowed would be lost from their Son and seized by some Courtier who should next come to hear of this great Lady After many visits passed betwixt Mr. Carleton and my self Old Mr. Carleton and Mr. King came to me and very earnestly pressed the dispatch of the Marriage and that I would be pleased to give my Assent setting forth with all the qualities and great sufficiencies of that Noble person as they pleased to stile him I knew what made them so urgent for they had now seen the answers I had received by the Post by which I was certified of the receipt of mine and that accordingly some thousands of Crowns should be remitted instantly to London and Coach and Horses sent by the next Shipping with other things I had sent for and to reinforce this their commendamus the more effectually they acquainted me that if I did not presently grant the suit and their request Mr. Carleton was so far in love with me that he would make away with himself or presently travail beyond Sea and see England no more I cannot deny but that I could hardly forbear smiling to see how serious these Elders and Brokers were in this Love-killing story but keeping to my business after some demurs and demands I seemed not to consent and then they began passionately urging me with other stories some of which long repetition I will now insert 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 which entertainment Mrs. King did advise me to call her Cozen the which I did Thursday the second of April Mr. John Carleton came in his Coach with two Footmen attending on him calling him my Lord and Mrs. King did also call him my Lord. With that I asked Mrs. King if it was not the same person that dined with us yesterday she said True it was so but he was in a Disguise then and withal that in a humour he would often do so But saith she I do assure you he is a Lord. Upon that I replied 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 to Mr. Kings and by his importunity would carry me abroad in a Coach to Holloway 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 Mistris King I replied She said For your great parts and Endowments I asked her How my Lord could tell that I had either She said My Lord must have very good eyes if he could see within me or else I must be very transparent After which I did order the matter so that his access to me was not so easie Mistris 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 convenience or otherwise he might forbear it His Lordship excused his mothers inquisition 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 scrutiny Your Lordship will be safe in following my advice in not coming at me 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 was lost in that violent surprize of me and my things by the force of Mr. George Carleton my Husbands Father At the same time I had a Gown making upon my own account by Mrs. 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 until my return where I found him standing at the Bar in a very pensive and melancholy manner as if he had been arraigned for not paying his reckoning at the Exchange-Tavern and

suddenly 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 gesture 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 Mistress 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 realty of his intentions and earnest desire of the Honour in making me his Wife without any respect to what I had After my Lord had insinuated his affections so far that I began to understand him and did mix and scatter some such like acceptable words which put him into some confidence of obtaining me he began like other Lovers to set forth the amplitude of his Fortunes and those brave things he would do if I would finish his suit among many other finenesses and Grandures he would bestow on me I well remember he told me that he had given order for a great Glass Coach of the new fashion to be presently made against our wedding was over where eleven or twelve might conveniently sit and that he would sute it with a set of Lacquies and Pages the neatest and handsomest of the Town for their Liveries and persons That I might see I had married a person that not onely dearly loved me but would also highly honour me with the most splendid accomodations that England yeilded At the very same time he had changed as he told me and part of it I saw two hundred pound of silver into two hundred peices of Gold for the better portableness thereof that his Princess might see nothing of meanness belonging to him and that as soon as the Coach was made and all things fitted to it he would presently go to Court and carry me with him and introduce me to the King and Queen his further intention being which as yet he concealed to me to get a Knight-hood and have something of honour to oppose the envy of men that so great an Estate was conferred on a private person And now my Lord spoke nothing but Rodomantadoes of the greatness of his Family of the delights and stateliness of his Lands and houses the game of his Parks the largeness of his stables and convenience of Fish and Foul for furnishing his liberal and open House-keeping that I should see England afforded more pleasure then any place in the World but they were without the Host reckoned and charged before-hand to my account and to be purchased with my estate which was his by a figure of anticipation when we two should be all one and therefore he lyed not but onely equivocated a little But he did not in the least mention any such thing to me nor made any offer of enquiry what I was no not the least semblance or shadow of it he seemed to take no notice of my fortunes it was my person he onely courted which having so happily and accidentally seen he could not live if I cherisht not his affections Nor did I think it then convenient or civil to question the credit of his words and the report given me of him His demeanour I confess was light but I imputed that to his youth and the vanity of a Gallant as necessary a quality and as much admired as wit in a Woman The last day of my virgin state Easter Eve the Taylor brought me my Gown to my Lodging I being drest and adorned with my Jewels he again renewed his suit to me with all importunity imaginable His courteous Mother was also now most forward pressing me to consent by telling me that she should lose her Son and his wits he being already impatient with denyals and delays adding withal that he was a person hopeful and might deserve my condiscention I withstood all their sollicitation although they continued it until twelve 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 Anthems performed by rare voices the morrow being Sunday the 19. 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 ready at the door in which he carried me to his Mothers in the Grey-fryers London where I was assaulted by the young Lords tears and others to give my consent to marry him telling me that they had a Parson and a License ready which was a meer falshood and temporary falacy to secure the match So on Easter morning with three Coaches in which with the Bride and Bridegroom were all the kindred that were privy to the business and pretended a Licence they carried me to Clothfair by Smithfield and in the Church of Great St. Bartholomews Married me by one Mr. Smith who was well paid for his paynes and now they thought themselves possessed of their hopes but because they would prevent the noise and fame of their good fortune from publique discourse that no sinister accident might intervene before Mr. Carleton had bedded me offence being likely to be taken at Court as they whispered to themselves that a Private Subject had Married a Forraign Princess they had before determined to go to Barnet and thither immediately after the celebration of the Marriage we were Driven in the Coaches where we had a handsome treatment and there we staid Sunday and Munday both which nights Mr. Carleton lay with me and on Tuesday morning we were Married again a License being then obtained to make the match more fast and sure at their instance with me to consent to it This being done and their fears over they resolved to put me in a garb befitting the Estate and dignity they fancied I had and they were so far possessed with a beleif of it that they gave out I was worth no less then 80000 li. per annum and my Husband as I must now stile him published so much in a Coffee-house adding withal to the extolling of his good hap that there was a further Estate but that it was my modesty or design to conceal it And that he could not attribute his great fortune to any thing but the Fates for he had not any thing to ballance with the least of my Estate and Merits So do conceited heighths of sudden prosperity and greatness dazzle the eyes