A LETTER From FATHER Lafoy CHAISE, Confessor to the French King, To FATHER PETER, Confessor to the King of England.  
In which is Contained the project and design of that faction to Introduce the Prince of Wales; with some observations on his Conception and birth, to which is added a Letter from Will Penn to Father la Chaise about the affairs of that babe and the Ensueing progress of the Popish design.  
Printed in the City of Philadelphia in the Land of promise by order of Father Penn and are to be sold by Stephen Job at the sign of Apostasy, in priest-craft lane next door to the Alamode Religion.   

A LETTER From FATHER Lafoy CHAISE, Confessor to the French King, To FATHER PETER, Confessor to the King of England.  
Honoured Father,  
WIth unexpressible Joy I received yours of June the 22 by which I understand the good effect of our Endeavours which we have so Long been Labouring in: and am glad to hear the work is so well managed and done, you following the advise we gave as well by divers Letters as word of mouth from our Ambassador Barillon now at whitehall. And as soon as I had received the news I went to the King my Master and acquainted him that there was one of the Holy babes of your own getting brought to the queen and that both the King and she did own it for their own son and Prince of Wales, and under that notion it was showed and published to the whole Nation, than I acquainted the Fathers of our Society who had with sacred Instruments for the purpose Calculated the whole project Long before: and showed their Constant zeal in this weighty affair: they also were Extremely Joyful when they heard it, and it is impossible. To express the mirth and Jollyty of all our friends in this Country who have heard of this weighty Concern, for now it seems as if heaven itself did Contribute to our give the Holy Church greater Dominion, and render our Enemies the longer the weaker. For in our Country the Heretics are very near quite destroyed: in Piedmont and Sauby they are Reduced to a small weak number, in Himgary they shall no Longer Continue then till the Emperor and the Turk have made peace, for it is the opinion of our Society that the Emperor doth not stand in need of the Assistance of the Protestant Electors, nor need he fear them when that War is Ended. Then shall we persuade him not only to destroy them in all his Territories but also to make war upon the Netherlands & so root out all the Heretics from the face of the Earth; and indeed the Heretics in Holland are not far from their Ruin, as for the Palatinate it will be Easily done there because we have got a Popish Elector Chosen, and for the King of Denmark we doubt not but to make him in his Country follow the Example of the great Monarch in ours either to make them turn or Run, and though the friendship between that Crown and ours seems weak yet it is not so much decayed as some people wish and pretend. And if I please I can quickly make him zealous, and a perfect servant to our King and that he shall assist in the Romish Cause as faithfully as the best Catholic as ever was born, for in his Country the sheep yield him but a small fleece, and let our King but send him a good present of Pistols and he shall do all that we desire him though it were to subscribe to the Koran and turn Mahometan.  
England Holland and Switzerland are indeed the only bulworks and places of Refuge that the Heretics have left: and it hath Cost us many a night's study and divers meetings to Consult how we may bring them under, and now we have an Excellent opportunity, to which purpose our King hath resolved to bring the Switsers under his Dominion and Convert those Heretics by his Dragoons: and also to in Holland, which resolution I will Constantly put him in mind off as often as I give him absolution.  
When I Consider of these things it rejoiceth me to think how zealous his Majesty of England is to perfect his designs, which are to us of great Cencerns, to which purpose he hath the assistance of our troops. And Cardinal Furstenberg [when he shall be made Elector of Collen] Can bring Holland under his obedience, having first made himself master of his own people and brought them in subjection to his absolute power: I say when I Consider and think of these things they do so rejoice me that I am almost overwhelmd there with; nay it is so great that I am not able to write it, and indeed it is the greatest pleasure I have in this world, and I must say that since the last Letter I received from you things have been so forwarded that I must now necessaryly Conclude we are not far from the highest step: and nothing can be said to be perfect now, till I can demonstrably see such signs that will testify the work is complete.  
And as Concerning that Letter of yours which gave us that Incomparable satisfaction and joy, the principle things therein are these following: first, you did very wisely not to follow the Litteral direction that we had laid down, but to use such endeavours and devices as the then accidents and present affairs did require, and indeed they were such as did much conduce to the perfection of our bussines: namely, the sending the Bishops to the Tower: the Prince and Princess of Denmark to the Bath, and divers Heretic Gentlemen to Windsor where they Expected the Queen should lie in: in which inventions you showed your admirable skill and Judgement: for they without doubt would have been present and you say the Laws of England do so require it. Therefore it was your wisdom to advise the King to impose some not in honour do, and so find occasion to send them to the Tower and there keep them till the great work was done.  
Neither was the other part of your Invention les to be admired, when you persuaded the Prince and Princess of Denmark, that it was a month or six weeks before the Queen could be delivered and they might easily return sooner, and therefore if you had not taken this course they would have waited and have been prying into the bussines, and the other is also as praise worthy as any, for you could not have tricked those Heretic fops better than to send them like fools to windsor with a Commission to set up a bed, provide a Cradle and a Nurse and divers other things necessary for her lying in, and also to wait there till she came, which you never intended she should, and likewise it was a good project of yours to give out that the Queen altered her mind often about the place she would be delivered at, for when you had given out seven or eight several times it was resolved to be windsor, Hampton court, Richmond, St. James', &c. they did not at last believe when you Resolved in earnest, by which means you catcht the fools neatly: all which were neatly Laid and contrived, for which we thank you wishing all success to your designs and Endeavours toward the perfecting this mighty work.  
Secondly. That you keep both their Majesties to their former Resolution in declareing this child to be really their own, and also by public proclamation for a day of Thanks giving to tell the whole Nation he was their son, and Heir to the Crown: in spite of all the prating Inquisitive Heretics in Holland and England, who have got some kind of sent of the work and design now in hand, but I can tell them, they think they know more then really they do, how ever they have Endeavoured by dispersing of various papers to render his Majesty suspected, and I assure that your King would have fell of and departed from his pious Resolution, for we well know that he is but a weak man, and you know such kind of people are easily led away: when they have nothing to depend upon but what lieth in other men's heads.  
Thirdly. That there is such great care taken for the young Prince, and also in case of the King's death to declare his consort Queen Regent, and to appoint yourself, the Lord Chancellor with some other good men to govern while the Prince is under age. And by the same manner we defended our King, his [reputed] Father having appointed Cardinal Mazarine for his Tutor and Governer till by force of Arms he was able to make his way to the Crown, and if any are so Inquisitive as to ask if this Prince shall be brought to the Crown by the same manner, let such know that it may be easily done for our King hath declared that if there is occasion he will stand by him with his whole fore and power.  
Fourthly. That which administers great Joy to me and all the Fathers of our Society, is, that the King of great Britain is resolved and hath also promised you that in case this Child should die, there shall be another ready to put into the cradle in his place, but if that should prove difficult and that there should not be a Child readily found to carry on the show with some reputation, you must take the same course as before and send the King to St. Winifred's well to wash that little he hath, let the Queen wear a Cushion upon her belly for nine months and that will certainly produce another Prince of Wals.  
Fifthly. That his Majesty hath given orders to all the priests to write to the foreign Colleges and desire them to in treat the English Scotch and Irish and all other outlandish Catholics, that are well inclined to advance and further the King's pious designs: and to encourage every one that can with all speed to come over into England: with promise that they shall all be advanced according to their several qualifications, which will be of great use for the carrying on this blessed work, defending the young Prince against his Conspireing Enemies, and to root out all the Heretics. In which work I do promise not to be negligent, but ro send over as many as I can possibly persuade.  
And now as these things are truly Joyous in themselves, so have they in me and all the Fathers of our Society created an un expressible Joy. If I should tell you how I was affected when I heard this news, I could say no more but this, that my soul was separated from my body, and transported with Joy and gladness into the paradis of the most high, which no man can conceive; as St. Paul writes of himself when he was taken up into the third heaven.  
Now Concerning the question you have put to me, that is what is the best course to be taken to root out all the Heretics? to which I answer, there are divers ways to do that, but-we must consider which is the best to make use off in England, I am sure you are not Ignorant how many thousand Heretics we have in france by the power of our Dragons converted in the space of one year: and by the Doctrine of those booted Apostles turned more in one Month then Christ and his Apostles by their preaching could in ten year: this is a most Excellent method and far excels those of the great preachers and teachers that have lived since Christ, his time. But I have spoke with divers Fathers of our Society who do think that your King is not strong enof to accomplish his design by such kind of force. So that we cannot expect to have our work done in that manner for the Heretics are to strong in the three Kingdoms, and therefore we must seek to convert them by fair means before we fall upon them with Fire Sword halters, Jails and other such like punish better advice but to begin with Soft easy means, weedle them in by promises of profit and offices of Honour till you have made them dip themselves in treasonable actions against the Laws Established, and then they are bound to serve for fear: When they have done thus turn them out and serve others so by putting them in their places, and by this way gain as many as you can: and for the Heretics that are in places of profit or Honour turn out or suspend them on pretence of Misbehaviour, by which their places are forfeit and they subject to what Judgement you please to give upon them: than you must form a Camp that must consist of none but Catholics this will make the Heretics heartless and Conclude all means of relief or recovery is gone. And lastly take the short and the best way which is to surprise the Heretics on a sudden; and to Encourage the Zealous Catholics let them Sacrifice them all and wash their hands in their blood, which will be an acceptable offering to god: and this was the method I took in France which hath well you see succeeded: but it cost me many threatenings and Promises before I could bring it thus far, our King being a long time very un willing.  
But at last I got him on the hip: for he had Lay with his daughter in Law for which I would by no means give him absolution till he had given me an Instrument under his own hand and Seal to Sacrifice all the Heretics in one day: Now as soon as I had my desired Commission I appointed the day when this should be done, and in the mean time made ready some thousands of Letters to be sent into all parts of France in one post night, I was never better pleased then at that time, but the King was a affected with some Compassion for the Huguenots because they had been a means to bring him to his Crown and Throne: and the longer he was under it the more sorrowful he was, often complaining and desiring me to give him his Commission do, adviseing him to repent of that heinous sin, and also telling him that the trouble and Horror of his spirit did not proceed from any thing of evil in those things that were to be done, but from that great wickedness which he had done; and that he must resolve to undergo the severe burden of a troubled mind for one of them or the other, and if he would remain Satisfied as it was, his sin being forgiven there would in a few days be a perfect atonement made for it and he perfectly reconciled to god again but all this would not pacify him for the longer the more Restless, and therefore I ordered him to retire to his closet and there spend his time Constantly in prayer without permitting any one to interrupt him: and this was in the morning early when the Evening following I was to send away all my Letters, I did indeed make the more haste for fear he should disclose it to any one, yet I had given him a strict Charge to keep it to himself, and the very thing that I most feared to my great sorrow came to pass, for Just in the nick of time the Devil who hath always his Instruments at work sent the Prince of Conty to the court, who asked for the King, and it was told him that he was in his Closet and would speak with no man: he Impudently answered that he must and would speak with him: and so went directly to his Closet: he being a great Peer no man durst hinder him, and being come to the King he soon perceived by his Countenance that he was under some great trouble of mind for he looked as if he had been going into the other world immediately: Sir [said he] what is he matter with you, the King at the first refused to tell him, but he pressing harder upon him, at last the King with a sorrowful Complainent burst out and said I have given Father la Chaise under my own hand a Commission to murder all the Huguenots in one day, and this Evening will the Letters performing it: So that there is but small time left for my Huguenot subects to live who have never done me any harm, whereupon this cursed Rogue answered, let him give you, your Commission again: the King said how shall I get it out of his hand: for if I shall s●nd to him for it, he will refuse to send it: this devil Answered, If your Majesty will give me order I will quickly make him return it; the King was soon persuaded being willing to give Ease to his troubled spirit, and said: well go then, and break his neck if he will not give it you, whereupon this son of the devil went to the Post house: and asked if I had not a great number of Letters there, and they said, yes more than I had sent thither in a whole year before, then said the Prince: by order from the King you must deliver them all to me: which they durst not deny, for they knew well enof who he was And no sooner was he got into the Posthouse and had asked these questions, but I came also in after him, to give order to the Postmaster to give notice to all those under him in the several parts of the Kingdom that they might take care to deliver my Letters with all speed imaginable. But I was no sooner come into the house but he gave his servant's order to secure the door: and said confidently to me: You must by order from the King give me the Commission which you have, forced from him; I told him I had it not about me: but I would go and fetch it: thinking to get from him and so go out of town and send the contents of those Letters another time, but he said: You must give it me, and if you have it not about you, send some body to fetch it or else never Expect to go alive out of my hands, for I have an order from the King either to bring it or break your neck: and I am Resolved either to carry back that to him in my hand, or your heart's blood on the point of my sword: I would have made my Escape but he set his sword to my breast and said you must give it me or Dye, therefore deliver it or else this goeth through your body.  
So when I saw nothing else would do I put my hand in my pocket and gave it him, which he carried immediately to the King and gave him that and all my Letters which they burned: and being all done the King said that now his heart was at Ease, now how he should be Eased by the devil, or so well satisfied with a falls Joy I cannot tell, but this I know that it was a very wicked and ungodly action as well in his Majesty as the Prince of Conty: and did not a Little increase the burden and danger of his Majesties sins: I soon gave an account of this affair to several Fathers of our Society, who promised to do their best to prevent the foresaid Prince doing such another act, which was accordingly done: for with in the space of six days after the damned action he was Poisoned and well he deserved it. The King also did suffer to, but in another fashion, for discloseing the design to the Prince and harkening to his Council: and many a time since when I have had him at Confession I have shaken hell about his Ears, and made him sigh fear and tremble before I would give him absolution; nay more than that I have made him beg for it upon his knees before I would consent to absolve him, by this I saw that he had still an Inclination to me and was willing to be under my government: so I set the baseness of the action before him by telling the whole Story and how wicked it was: and that it could not be forgiven till he had done some good action to balance that and Expiate the crime, whereupon he at last asked me what he must do? I told him that he must root out all the Heretics from his Kingdom, so when he see there was no rest for him without doing it, he did again give them all into the power of me and our Clergy: under this Condition that we should not murder them; as he had before given orders; but that we should by fair means or force convert them to the Catholic Religion, to which End he gave us his Dragoons to be at our devotion and service that we might use them as we saw Convenient to convert them to the true Religion, now when we had got the Commission we presently put it in practice, and what the Issue of it hath been you very well know.  
But now in England the work cannot be done after this manner: as you may perceive by what I have said to you, if you have carefully observed what hath been delivered, so that I can not give you better Council then to take that course in hand wherein we were so unhappily prevented, and I doubt not but it will have better success with you then with us, and the rather because your King and his Son are under the government of our Society, and are to obey the orders of our General, and do all that can be contrived for the destroying the Heretics, I would not be here understood as if I thought the King of England were unwilling to prosecute and promote our orders and directions for the good of our holy mother the Church: and you must always keep him perfectly possessed of that: for I know well that he of himself is Zealous enof, for that Excellent Example in Ireland that was done by his father [that is the murdering 200000 Protestant's] is still so deeply printed in his soul that he had rather do it to day then wait till to morrow, if he saw an advantagions opportunity, and I mention this story of Ireland that you may press it upon him and by that encourage him how easy a thing it is to do.  
The reason why I am so long in relateing this matter: is to let you know how we had at first laid our design and also what obstructions there came in the way: yet at last we arrived at the thing we desired, so you must not be disheartened when you meet with opposition but prosecute the thing, do your duty and leave the success to time and fate.  
Our King is at present very sickly and we can have no account what he ails, for some times the Doctors say he hath an Ague, a while after they say 'tis the Gout and then Melancholy or some such thing, now whither the slow progress of the great design in the Hague to get the Prince of Orange into his Interest; or to murder him; doth so weaken and impair him, I know not. But this I can assure you of: that he began to be sick when he received the news of that provokeing answer that the Pensionaris Fagel gave to his Ambasador D'Avaux: and was after published in very Scornful terms; and therefore there was but little hope left to accomplish the first: and Indeed less to perform the second, seeing the Prince hath smelled out our King's design, and for all those that have intermeddled in the affairs of our Ambasador concerning what he hath done for his master; let them look to themselves, possibly he may fear that their Majesties of great Britain may alter their opinions about the young prince that we have been so long contriveing for, and at last disowne him, and so destroy the design, and from thence may his sickness proceed, for he is considerable better since he hath heard of its good success and the probability of its good conclusion. And this is the more possible because his Majesty takes all his Measures from the Constitution of the affairs in England, & undertakes nothing of any great importance till he considers how it stands with that King, [and you well know that we in the late troubles forbore to persecute the Hugnoets till we heard of his Majesties conquest and the defeat and death of Monmouth, and then we began again very smartly] so hath he now likewise done, as soon as he heard this news gave present orders that all those Heretics who were not converted to the Catholic Religion by such a day should be offered up as a Sacrifice to the young Prince.  
And I would Entreat you against you write to me again to Inquire and let me know of what Lady, Nun, or other Holy Virgin the young Prince was born: that I may remember her in my prayers who hath brought this hopeful babe into the world that is like to be the pillar of our Religion, and also send me word how old he was when he was brought to the Queen or as the Common cant is when he was born: for there is a Father of our Society that is very skilful in Astrology and would Calculate his Nativity.  
I have Received a Letter out of the Hague by which I am told that in Holland they use very unreverend Expressions of the young Prince: one says that among all the Children you got for this design there was not one found fit to be used, either they were sickly, deformed or born with some other ill accident: so that they say this is a Miller's Son: others say it was a Carpenttrs Son in Holborn thereby intimateing a sacred miracle parallel to the holy Joseph who was of the same trade, others say the young Prince was a month old when he was born, and that he could presently eat pap with a spoon, and there are others who say he had six teeth in his mouth and immediately began to bite like a young Devil, which was the only cause why they would not let him suck, but some others say that he sucked long enof before he was born, and should they now let him suck again he would go ne'er to prove a whoremonger; yet there are some that are more Rude and uncivil and report him to be the son of a Ploughman, and say it is no wonder that he is so fat, big boned, and strong made; being designed by nature for the flail and not for the Throne. Nay there be some here in France that tell us they have heard in the Taverns and Coffe-houses nay and a long the streets also in London as bad language as there and therefore you must as much as possible, endeavour to suppress these things, by giving orders to the Marq: d'Albeville your King's Envoy at the Hague to complain of some particular men, and in London you must apprehend them, bring them to Justice and hang up one or two for an Example that dare talk thus.  
I am also informed that few or none of all the Heretic Bishops and ministers in the three Kingdoms will pray for the young Prince in their Churches, which if true is of ill consequence, and therefore you must endeavour to have it done: and all those Rebellious Heretics that will not obey his Majesties absolute power in this and other cases must be turned out, and dealt with as I have in this Letter before showed.  
I would write to you of many other things but that I fear what is here already done doth detain you to long, and I also well know that you have a weighty affair on your shoulders: and therefore your time is precious, so that you stand in need of the Grace of God and the prayers of all good men to assist you in it; wherefore I will conclude, and for you and all good Catholics show my will to the best of my power praying for you to God, to Mary the H. Mother of God; to all the Angels and to the Holy and blessed souls, that they may help you in your Necessity, from Paris July the 10. 1688.  
Postscript: as I was about to conclude this Letter there came an Express from Cardinal Furstenburg to our King to let him know: that the Chapter had showed themselves very much Inclined to Choose Prince Clement of Bavaria to be Elector of Collen, his Holiness having first qualified and then represented him for that purpose, whereupon the King was much discomposed and I fear he will [by this News coming to him] have his Ague again, and indeed I am myself not a little concerned at this News; for Prince William of Furstenburg would immediately have entered into a league with our King to subdue Holland, and then should we have had a brave opportunity to carry on our designs in England and to make his Majesty of great Britain absolute over his subjects, but I must here conclude.  
P. la. Chaise.  
Here Courteous Reader thou hast word by word the Letter of la Chaise to Father Peter's: being the two principal Traitors in this part of the world, and the most unsatisfied suckers of Christian blood, here thou seest a proof of their unheard of Cheating and Cruelty, and if what you have already read in this Letter is not sufficient to convince you of that abominable cheat in the court of England, to bring in and impose a Popish Bastard upon the people for the King's Son: Prince of Wales and heir to the Crown I will presently better inform you and if you please but to make use of your Judgement and reason you will not have the least ground to doubt it.  
That the King of England hath had a distemper in all his Limoes and members for more than twenty years which hath rendered him unfit to beget vital Children Especially in the last fourteen or Sixteen years; for it happened some years after he came to England as he was lying at Anchor in Rotterdam bay near Ninnyport in Bog-land by an accident let slip his cable and so fell foul of a Scotch sire ship, and in the heat of the broil before they could get their tackling clear, they both unhappyly took fire and yet were miraculously preserved to the great comfort of the whole nation: however by the misfortune of this adventure his lower. Tier was so damnified that he remains more fit for show then service; but to lay by all dubious and dark Expressions take the story in plane terms which was thus.  
There was a Scotch noble man whose name was Carnegie but his title South E●k who died the 19 day of February last, with this Gentleman's lady the King (who was then Duke of York) had an Indecent conversation, the Earl parceiveing it was very much discontented and said to his Father who was then alive, that he would challenge the Duke of York to give him satisfaction, but his father knowing on the one side It was against the law to Challenge a Prince of the blood, and on the other that his son was more a Gentleman them to put up such a wrong, gave his son advice to pox his wise, and by so doing he would pox the Duke also. The Earl his son approved of the Council and so went to a Bawdy house and desired the old Matron to help him to the pockyest whore that was to be found, which she immediately provided; and having well warmed his codpiece he went home and bestowed it on his wife. Now so soon as he saw the work was done he retired and put himself under the hands of a Doctor who restored him in a short time to his pristine health, the King [then Duke] perceiveing the Earl was from home made the best improvement he could of the opportunity, and away he went with all haste to his pickled Mistress to cool his Reins not dreaming of a snake in the Grass. A while after this was done the Duke began to besick; so was his duchess and the Countéss of South Esk and no body knew what was the matter with them, not one of the three having the least suspicion of the pox. The Countess was the first that was discovered to have that disease, which the Duke hearing began to believe himself and Duchess peppered with the same spice, which then grew public, and sent for the most shillfull pocky Doctors to advise with about it, how they were cured you may guests: and it is sufficiently known [and the King can to his sorrow if he pleaseth testify it] that ever since he hath carried a half pik, and to this very day he Carries so much of it about him that he is perfectly unable to get a sound Child, and it appears plainly since the year 1669 or 1670 [when he was almost dead with it] all his Children have died of that diseass in a miserable Condition, and it is Judged by all knowing men that it is Impossible for him to get a Child that shall live long after 'tis born Ergo.  
2. It is a thing unheard of among Physicians that a woman should be let blood with in a few days of her delivery as the Queen was and what is more that a woman should flood to Excess but a month before her delivery and yet bring a lusty Child Into the world as they say she did Ergo.  
3. That it is an Impossible thing for a new born Child to have an Issue as they say the young Prince hath; and yet supposed to be but two days old, such a piece of non sense that any fool may discover the cheat of it, for before we can believe this: they must make us believe that popish King's successors are of another kind of substance than other new born Children are: for the body of a Child of four: six or eight days old is not fit for a Chirurgeons Instrument, neither is there yet blood or other matter to flow from thence as is in that case Expected though the body were full of Issues: Ergo.  
4. That it is a thing unpracticable in England to have the Queen delivered without the Chiefest of the Nobility, the Bishop of Canterbury, the Lord Mayor of London, English Gentlemen of note, and the foreign Ministers being there by, as it was now, which is sufficient to make all people mistrust 'tis a piece of Roguery; and hath given Just cause to any Ingenious man to Judge the contrivers of this project to be fools in folio if there was no cheat in it, and that this small Creature was Son of the King and Queen and lawful Heir to the Crown of England, nay what is more, from the very first hour that they reported the Queen to be with Child, the English and Scotch Nations and almost the whole world besides that heard of it: Concluded it was a cheat. Now what way was there to convince them of the truth of it, and to stop the Months of Gain sayers, but to take care to have it done Regular and public according, to the ancient, Custom in that case, that all man kind might be satisfied it was true and Just, but Alas here was the pope's finger in it and the French Kings to: Ergo.  
5. The subtlety they have used to have the Queen delivered in the eight month, and that with so much suddenness as if she had not time to call any or give notice to those who ought to have been there, they Judging that the world will think from hence that she was catched at unawares. But alas this is so far from takeing off the suspicion that it doth much Increase it, for from thence all men must Judge that they made Choice of this opportunity to do it in a private corner in the Dark: it being not fit for the light, for such works and workers hate that, and you need not doubt but they were afraid that some persons of quality, Bishops, and) others would have come [had they known of it] that they could not have hindered; and though it was the custom yet they did not desire their Company on that occasion. Secondly, we must necessaryly, conclude it is a cheat; because all men know that a Child born in the eighth month can not be so perfect lusty and vigorous as one of nine months is; and all that have seen this Child say it is biger and lustyer then even this Queen had any when she went full nine months, and indeed biger than any new born Child usually is. Thirdly; we have great reason to conclude it is a cheat, because all Physicians and Philosophers do affirm that it is impossible for a Child born in the eighth month to live, but we need not go to those, for Common Experience tells us it is true. Therefore the Jesuits who have undertaken to cheat the whole world, should have laid this design better and have let the Queen been delivered in the seventh month, because a Child of the seventh month may and often times doth live, so that this would have been far more probable to have hid the villainy seeing it lay in their power to let her be brought to bed when they pleased, but they did not think upon it, for their wisdom zeal and power hath cheated them, and the mighty providence of god hath awakened the world to see the 〈◊〉 of the Cheat: a Cheat Contrived and managed for no other on● but to give the Inheritance of the Crook to a stranger, to Cheat the heir, and preserve the papists from the hand of justice, to which they and their accomplices have forfeited their Necks for their endeavouring to alter the Religion, their breaking the laws, and for bringing in a Bastard to accomplish the work.   

A Letter from Will. Penn to Father la Chaise.  
Father and fellow Labourer in the Lord.  
IT is not the least part of my trouble that I cannot enjoy the happiness of they sweet conversation viva voce in these so pernicious days, whose Council and advice in things as well sacred as secular I value far above all the direction of Scripture and those who pretend to it; and thanks be to the Father of lights we walk by a more entering spirit thou those who dote upon that dead Letter, and make a noise about that man that was crucified at Jerusalem, I need not tell thee how useless the dead Letter is especially where there is the light within and miracles without; nor how foolish it is to believe three persons in the trinity; not how ignorant them people are that depend on him they call Christ for their salvation, thou knowest these thing well and therefore they are to thee the less useful and indeed since I have so much to say to thee about other more weighty affairs I must omit these.  
Notwithstanding our various disappoinments which we daily meet with on every side, we keep as close to the Rule and method prescribed as any men in this great affair can do that must engage with such opposition; the great point at present is that of our young Prince: which me thought would have done far better them of doth, for the Noblem●● that are Heretics, laugh at it, the Gentry do not believe it, and the Common sort speak such scandalous words of him that I am ashamed to name them. By our last Letters from Holland we have, Received account that on July the 9th the M. d'Albeville our Envoy at the Hague made a great Entertainment there [for Joy of the young Prince's birth] but it unluckily proved but a small one; for he made provision for about three hundred persons and there did not appear above twenty: and by the account I have I question whither there had been any there [Except the French and Portugal Ambassadors] had not some very honest Loyal Gentlemen been then in the Hague who were Intending for England. Among these three hundred he Expected one hundred of them to be women; but the number fell short and unhappily proved to be but seven or eight; of which four of them were very honest women of their bodies having only a whisk with their talls. As for the people of quality at that court there was none of them present at this Entertainment: And should I but tell thee how Contemptibly they looked upon the whole matter, and the Ambasador also for doing it, thou woulds Conclude that they had but a very Indifferent opinion of the young Prince, and what is more, the young Prince's health was not drunk at the public table; which shows either a great weakness in our Envoy or Else the guests were more in love with the wine, than the cause and occasion of their Meeting: and besides I hear he is forbid to be prayed for there in the number of the Royal family which makes me think they do mistrust or have heard something of the matter; and therefore by the next I desive a word or two ofthy opinion and what is best to be done in the affair.  
But that which is more considerable and abusive to the Child was at Amsterdam the thursday following being July the 12th. O. S. where there was an honest fellow a Creature of ours that made an Entertainment with a supper wine, and fire works: which drew a great concourse of people to the place besides the Guests invited? the people were grumbling all the Evening and said [what must us have all this stir sor a Bastard, and such Expressions; but after supper they within the house offered some affront to the people, [the Mob, or Jan Hagel as they there callem] upon which the Mutiny began and the first attach was made by stones in at the windows, swearing they would pull the house down for Joy the bastard was born: this put the Guests upon shifting for their lives, some crept into the Empty bottles, others got to the next houses and being night were taken for thiefs, the good Catholics pulled out their beads the three Kings of collen etc. and began to pray: the women went through holes with their feet foremost and so slipped their skins as a snake doth at Midsummer to the great astonishment of the beholders, and many of them were so ingenious that they crept through places where a cat could not go through: but that which is most pleasant of all: B. our old Consul who I am Informed began the Riot crept into a four Gallon Cask to save his life, thus you see what reputation our young Prince hath in other Countries bot the best on't is they are all Heretics.  
And for England, people of all sorts shear are most scandalously abusive by undecent Expressions: some say he is a miller's son: some, a Gardiner's son, and others a Carpenter's son, but all conclude he is a son of a whore, they also say that as the Queen was going to Mass news was brought to her that the Child was come and therefore she most he brought to bed presently, others tell it for a positive truth that there was a Coachman swearing in St. James' court a bout nine of the Clock in the morning and being asked what was the matter with him: he swore damn him he had brought two old Bards with a Bastard in a basket and they were gone and had given him but a shilling and he had almost killed his horses to make haste. And they also talk of the Queens Applying plasters and takeing medecines to stop— but you know en of of that already, These and abundance more of such reports is the Common talk and belief both of City and Country, and the longer the worse, and yet Brother Job, Brother Alsop, Brother Cox and many of our friends the Anabaptists take a great deal of Pains in their pulpits to pray for him, and preach up the great blessing that god in him hath bestowed upon the nation; and yet poor Gentlemen they are by the people counted Rogues for their pains which is very hard.  
It is the advice and Council of most of our Catholic peers and other well wishers to the cause not to make to much haste, but Father Peter says it must be hastened for we do not know how little time we have to work and when the King dies [which we fear] the work is at an End: Therefore it is Resolved to Cite the Bishops before the Eclesiastical Commissioners again and to proceed against them with all the force possible, and also to turn out the greatest part of the Clergy for disobedience and in their Roms to put in Non Conformist, and if they do not answer our Ends, or as soon as we see occasion we will turn out them and put in Roman Catholic priests, it was debated whither we should follow the advice or not: to cut them all of at once, but upon Examining our Army and fleet, we do not think ourselves strong enof nor the work yet fit for that Issue. And therefore we will 〈◊〉 talk of a Parliament in November, to which End we have our Trumpeters in all parts of the town and some of them pardoned Rebels: these are to propound ways to the people for an Equivalent to their Test: and as one of them very well says take away the palisado and build a brick wall; which notion takes with many, but if things should not do to have a Parliament in November we shall by that time perhaps be able to come to the great work, and to that purpose in the mean time we will Entertain all the popish officers and soldiers we can get.  
We also resolve to get in to the work such as have been pretended Enemies to the King formerly and these will do our work to our hearts content, for we have picked out a select number of them that Gape after honour and profit, and this they shall not want so long as we have need of their service: these are to take their degrees in preferment and rise as they deserve: the boldest follow riseth first, and he that can with sword, pen, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 law and liberty is the bravest man: such are Steward, Williams and some new ones as faithful as they, whose names shall be published with their actions: it being to early to mention them yet, lest they do as one of them hath done before, Run away for fear.  
It is likewise resolved that in case this design with the Non cons doth not take effect to get a Parliament for our purpose at the time appointed, to lay by all thoughts of smooth means and get in a good number of french privately and and so fall down right to dragooning: for it is not thought convenient to dally any longer and in the mean time to take up all those we can have proof against, that speak treason against the Prince of Wales and whip hang or imprison them as we see Convenient for if we suffer the people to talk as we do: they will do the same when the Queen shall be brought to b●… again [should we see it needful to let t●… for you know they must be all boys.  
'tis further more resolved that toward the End of the year the King shall go again to St. winifred's well and there pray and wash, and against his return the Queen shall prepare her vessel to try a second time how god will bless their Endeavours, and we doubt not but it will succeed well.  
'tis also resolved that in case the King can not get the Test and penal laws abbrogated to save his friends harmless after his death, that there shall he always [under pretence of necessity for the nations good] vessels of small burden ready to carry them away and save them from hanging: for we do Expect it if he dies on a sudden.  
I will not detain thee longer lest it may be troublesome to thee: and indeed my time will not permit me to stay longer for I am Just at the finishing of this to go and meet Brother Alsop: Cox: Jones, Nokokes, Job, the King and some others where we go to Consider of some 〈◊〉 affairs relateing to the King's bussines.  
I am thine WILL. PENN. Whitehall the 16 day of the fifth month in the year Commonly called 1688.