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Folios 160-178. A 40-page printed tract, dated at the Council Chambers, Whitehall,...

Catalogue reference: SP 31/4/89

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This record is about the Folios 160-178. A 40-page printed tract, dated at the Council Chambers, Whitehall,... dating from 1688 Oct 22 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, James II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 31/4/89
Date
1688 Oct 22
Description

Folios 160-178. A 40-page printed tract, dated at the Council Chambers, Whitehall, [Westminster, Middlesex], concerning the birth of Prince of Wales [James Francis Edward Stuart] in an effort to confound rumours [that he was a changeling brought to the birthing chamber on a warming pan, and in the face of an imminent Dutch invasion]. The depositions of: the Privy Council; King [James II]; the Dowager Queen Catherina [Catherine de Braganza]; Marchioness of Powis; Countess of Aran; Countess of Peterborow [Peterborough]; Countess of Sunderland; Countess of Roscomon [Rosscommon]; Countess of Fingall; Lady Sophia Bulkeley; Lady Susanna Bellasyse; Lady Henrietta Waldegrave; Mrs Mary Crane; Dame Isabella Wentworth; Dame Catherine Sayer; Dame Isabella Waldegrave; Mrs Margaret Dawson; Mrs Elizabeth Bromley; Mrs Pelegrina Turini; Mrs Anna Cary; Mrs Mary Anne Delabadie; Mrs Judith Wilks; Mrs Elizabeth Pearse; Duchess of Richmond and Lenox; Countess of Lichfeild [Lichfield]; Anne Countess of Marischall; Lord Chancellor George Jeffreys; Lord president the Earl of Sunderland; Lord Privy Seal Lord Arundell of Wardour; Earl of Mulgrave; Earl of Craven; Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Feversham [Louis de Duras]; Earl of Morray; Secretary of State Earl of Middleton; Earl of Melfort Lord Chamberlain to the Queen Lord Godolphin; Sir Stephen Fox; Lieutenant Colonel Edward Griffin; first physician to the King Sir Charles Scarburgh [Scarborough]; second physician to the King Sir Thomas Witherly; her Majesty's first physician Sir William Waldegrave; physician in ordinary Dr Robert Brady; his Majesty's apothecary James St Armand; and the Earl of Huntingdon and the Earl of Peterborough. The Prince Anne of Denmark [the subsequent Queen Anne] is mentioned as indisposed. Printed in London by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Nexcomb, printers to the King.

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English
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