Mr. Fuller's Letter To the Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR: BEING AN ANSWER To a Late Scandalous Pamphlet, ENTITLED, Fuller ' s Plain Proof of the True Mother of the Pretended Pr. of Wales; Made out to be no Proof, etc. With that Part of His Majesty's Declaration, Relating to that IMPOSTURE, Published in December, 1688.  
LONDON: Printed for the Author; and to be Sold by Eliz. Harris, at the Harrow in Little-Britain. 1700.   

THE PREFACE.  
WHoever shall meet with this following Letter, I do assure them, it is the Contents of a Letter I carried to the present Lord Mayor; and forasmuch as what is contained in my former Books, will be shortly made as apparent, as the Nature of the Subject can possibly afford, or be reasonably required, by a sufficient Number of Witnesses, and a large Number of Letters, proved Authentic; I desire all impartial Persons to take Notice, That the true Copy of my last Book has been much abused by being printed only in part, in a single Sheet, which had not the Testimony of several material Passages, nor the Observations, which renders the Truth most apparent; so I have ordered the true Book, entitled, A Plain Proof of the True Father and Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales, by several Letters, etc. Printed for myself, to be Sold with this Letter only by Mrs. Eliz. Harris, Bookseller, at the Harrow, in Little-Britain: And my former Books, published in 1696. are only truly to be had at Mrs. Ann Baldwin's, in Warwick-Lane.  
W. F.   

Mr. Fuller's Letter To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, etc.  
SIR,  
THERE having been lately spread abroad a most scurrilous and scandalous Pamphlet, entitled (Fuller's Plain Proof of the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales; made out to be no Proof:) I think myself much obliged, in Duty to my present King and Country, to make a short Reply to the base Suggestions of that malicious Author who makes bold grossly to reflect on the Government under a false Notion of a Wellwisher to his Country, and a specious Pretence of vindicating Truth (as he terms it) whereas his main Intention is to vindicate the Legitimacy of that horrid Impostor the Pretended Prince of Wales: For were this Gentleman, what he pretends to be, a Friend to Truth and Honesty, or a Wellwisher to the Protestant Religion, certain I am, he would not take such Pains to expose his Folly and ill Nature with worse Breeding, by bantering Truth with scandalous Reports and forged Imaginations of his own inventing; like that most wicked lying Book, entitled, My Life, printed some Years since by A. Ropper, and writ by Elcanah Settle, the latter of which has many times before Witness begged my Pardon for it, and owned that the greatest Part of that Book was the Invention of his and the Printer's Brain to get Money: And this Book is that Life of mine which this late scribbling Author takes notice of, saying, I have read his Life too late to be in Love with his manner of Living; and what he next charges me with, of a Design of getting Money from your Lordship for my Dedication, I do humbly assure your Lordship is false; the only Ambition I had next to the Public Service, was the Honour your Lordship's and your Worthy Brethren, the Right Worshipful, the Aldermen of this City would do me, in favouring me with the Reading of my said Book. And though the present Government has no Occasion at this time to fear any Danger from that Pretended Prince or his highly bigoted Party; yet, surely, it cannot be amiss to let the World know from whence that Imposture sprung: That this Information was no sooner given, is an Inquiry easily enough resolved by asserting the true Cause, which is our present Government's gracious Disposition and Readiness to pass by the greatest Affronts and Injuries, as our Great and Good King has so bravely done, even to the Admiration of his very Enemies. And in this Case, I am very sure, His Majesty knew the Management of this Suposititious Birth long before I came into his Majesty's Service, and had both the Letters and Informations of a great many Persons of Note, plainly discovering the same, as witness His Majesty's Declaration, when Prince of Orange, in December, 1688.  
But to Crown all, there are great and violent Presumptions, inducing us to believe, that those evil Counsellors, in order to the carrying on of their ill Designs, and to the gaining to themselves the more Time for the effecting of them, for the encouraging of their Complices, and for the discouraging of all good Subjects, have published, That the Queen hath brought forth a Son; though there have appeared, both during the Queen's pretended Bigness, and in the Manner in which the Birth was managed, so many just and visible Grounds of Suspicion, that not only we ourselves, but all the good Subjects of this Kingdom, do vehemently suspect, that the Pretended Prince of Wales was not born by the Queen. And it is notoriously known to all the World, that many both doubted of the Queen's Bigness, and of the Birth of the Child, and yet there was not any one Thing done to satisfy them, or to put an end to their Doubts.  
And several Persons have been examined upon the same, as Captain Wright and others, I formerly mentioned, as is very well known to the▪ Greatest Men at Court; which is so apparent, that no less than the Insolent Assurance of a very scandalous Noble—, or a most infamous Non-juring Parson (one of which we suspect our late Author to be) could so openly dare presume to assert, that there is no Proof but mine; whereas it is evident, that there is a greater Number of Witnesses by far, to prove almost every Particular, which I have set down, than there was to prove the pretended Prince's Birth. And I hope it will not be long  those Witnesses are called, that the World may see how much my Adversaries are in the Wrong: But I shall beg your Lordship's Patience, whilst I further answer briefly his chief Objections against my Testimony, and the Truth of the Letters.  
As to the First, He tries to invallidate my Assertions, by saying, I am a notorious Liar, and was discredited by the House of Lords and Commons; whereas my Business was never yet in debate in the House of Lords: And it is evident, that I never was Sentenced by them, nor my Testimony refused: And as for the Displeasure that I incurred from the House of Commons, the Occasion is manifestly known to have proceeded from a Stratagem contrived at the Court of St. Germains, to work my Ruin, and was managed by Col. Dalleval and Mr. Hays, Two Agents of that Court, who pretending to serve the present Government, easily prevailed on the Immaturity of my Judgement, so that I foolishly engaged to the House of Commons for their Appearance: And I have sufficiently proved they came to England accordingly, and were in the Lobby of the House of Commons, on Monday the 22d of Febr. 1692. at 9 a Clock in the Morning, and being called for a short time after, were not to be found; tho' since it is demonstrated by many Witnesses how they got off to France, and continue there. And this is the true Cause of my lying under the Censure of the House of Commons, for which I suffered, which has given the Enemies of the Government occasion basely to magnify the Matter, and to make this Oversight of mine (occasioned merely by want of cautionary Advertency) appear as the highest Crime imaginable. But Thanks be to God, there is already landed, or hourly expected a Gentleman from Holland, who served in the Court of St. Germains at that time, and was privy to the whole Matter; and I shall speedily convince the World, how far I was from endeavouring to impose any Falsities on the Government; nor did I ever in my Life make Oath against Person or Persons, who was not fairly convicted, and afterwards of his, or their own accord, did frankly confess all that I alleged against them to be truth. And to prove this my Assertion, I do humbly appeal to the King's most Excellent Majesty, to the Lords and others of His Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council, and the Judges of this Land, who sat in the Courts where my Testimony was given. And if what I affirm in my own behalf be not really and substantially true, I desire to be punished with the uttermost Severity imaginable. Only thus much I do own, that after the Delivery of my own positive Information to the House of Commons, upon my being a third time called in, I did deliver a List of Names of several Great Persons, which I took from a pretended Address at St. Germains, as I had it from the late Queen's own Hand; but I never did directly, nor indirectly charge any of those Noble Persons or others with the Knowledge of, or the Signing of the said Address: For I do solemnly declare before God and Man, that I do believe that Address was forged in England by Mr. Ashton, and two or three more of the late King's Friends, and sent into France, in order to impose on the French Court, by endeavouring to make their Interest in England seem much Greater than it was (as through God's great Mercy) Experience has shown them.  
But to return to our unknown Author, he charges me next with Forgery, and would insinuate as if those Letters were of my own Invention; but, to his Confusion be it known, the Originals are yet in the Hands of the Government, and above 200 more, which will be suddenly exposed also, and the greatest Part of them I never saw until after they had been in the King's and the late Queen's (of ever blessed Memory) Custody some time, nor did I, to my Knowledge, ever know or see the Gentlemen that sent them to their Majesties: And as for their being truly writ by the late King James his Queen and Ministers of State, I dare affirm to all the World, that there is not a more infallible Judge, nor do they better know their own Writing, than his present Majesty does; so that he has no need of Forgery, or any other base Stratagems (as used in the late Reign) to mantain his Truth and Glorious Cause, neither is it possible to deceive His Majesty's Judgement in such Matters. And as for that Letter of Mr. Carrell's, which our Author takes most Notice of, that is still in being with the rest, and was in the Hands of the Government some time before the King ever saw my Information, and was sent by Persons of Honour that took it out of the Duchess of Tyrconnell's Trunk, as is plainly proved beyond any Pretence or Question. As for my being guilty of Forgery, I am verily persuaded, that every one that converses with me, and with humble Submission I may say, what several Ministers of State have observed, that I could neither alter my Handwriting, nor spell tolerable English, such a Blockhead I freely own myself: And for what he suspects, that I put the Letters into the D. of Tyrconnel's Trunk, it must needs be false; for I was at that Time in England, it being not many Days after Mr. Crone's Trial; that the said Letters were taken out of the Trunk in a Day or two after the Fight of the Boyne. But this Gentleman cannot pretend to disprove me; and as he will say something to oblige his charitable Benefactors the Jacobites, I can easily forgive his scandalous Aspersions foe far as they extend only to my own Personal Concern; for I am as ready to confess and forsake my unhappy Folly in the Immature Management of my private Concerns, as he is to accuse me. And as I have served the Government, which this Author (though saucily) cannot but own, by reason one of the best and worthiest of Men His Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury has certified it, and the most intelligible Part of the Nation knows it; so I will never endeavour, either publicly or privately, to impose any Untruths on any Man; and however he ridicules my Depositions, I am ready to make Oath, that all I have affirmed in my late Book, entitled (A Plain Proof of the True Father and Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales, etc.) to the best of my Knowledge, is Truth; and I declare also, that I will freely offer myself to the severest Death that can be invented, provided I prove not the Contents of the said Book to be Truth by many Witnesses, whenever the great Wisdom of the Nation thinks fit to require it, and more sure cannot be desired.  
This Author is not only content to invalidate me, but he basely reflects on Two Gentlemen in Ireland, of noble Families, and known Honour and Integrity; as also on their Ladies, who are by all esteemed Ladies of unblemished Reputation; on these, I say, he, without any Ground, casts his insolent Suggestions, by reason they honestly attest what they know concerning that Part of the Management of this Imposture, which was managed in Ireland. I wonder much he does not (if his Printers dare put it to the Press) invent some new Aspersions against the King and his Ministers, which, if I am not misinformed, is no new thing either to the said Author, his Printer B—ll, the Bookseller in Fleetstreet, and the Publisher.  
I humbly beg your Lordship's Pardon for detaining you so long, which I have done to convince the World, that what I have dedicated to your Lordship is worthy your taking notice of; and as that scandalous Pamphlet against the Government and myself, is published by Mr. Nutt, and printed by the most famous Jacobite Printer of the City, I wish them no other Punishment but the true Mark of what they are. I am,  
My Lord, Your Lordship's most Humble Servant, Octob. 19, 1700. W. Fuller.   

POSTSCRIPT.  
BEfore and since my publishing the last Book, I have had several Letters sent me from unknown Hands, warning me to desist from this Subject, threatening a severe Punishment that shall otherwise speedily fall on me: And tho' I little regard them, yet I cannot omit taking Notice of a Letter sent, as we have several Reasons to believe, from the Author I have been just now answering, to Mrs. Snowden, who prints the Flying-Post, upon her Advertisement of my Book in the said News-Paper, which put the poor Woman into no small Fright; and the other News-Mungers were fearful to mention my said Book, for fear of being thought Williamites, or as they frankly owned, to disoblige the Jacobites. The Letter is as olloweth:  
Mrs. Snowden,  
YOU may assure yourself to be very well whipped, if not hanged, between this and May next, for your great Care in inserting the Advertisement concerning His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; and this is only that you may timely persuade the Rascal Fuller to be ready to stand your Friend. I pity you, that at this Time, when neither Knave nor Fool doubt the Birth of His Royal Highness, you and your Rogues should; and I will now certify you, that your unfortunate Rogues could never have taken such a Time to abuse that Prince, that not only all the Princes in Europe acknowledge Legitimate, but our Great Council never doubted it; for if they had, it would be a Thing of great Moment. Can you or your Fools and Rogues charge the Parliament with so great Neglect in so great Points? And you may know Fuller, a perjured Rogue, who expects Bread from abusing the Weakest; it is too late, the Eyes of the People are open, and see better than that poor Wretch your Husband did, when he swore Anderton's Letter to the Murder of an honest Man, when afterwards it appeared to be Mr. Newbolt and Mr. Butler that printed the Paper. Lament your poor lost Husband and encourage no such Villainy; and consider 'tis forbidden to slander your Neighbour, much more your Prince. You may with your perjured Rogues expect your Reward here. After God forgive  
Oct. 8. 1700. Your Monitor, D. B.— I am in Haste, for I am sending your Advertisement to His Royal Highness his Father and Mother, as well as to his Highness, who will with Laughter pronounce your Reward.  
FINIS.