the diary of elizabeth pepys elisabeth pepys

And here we talked, and were pleasant, only my wife in a chagrin humour, she not being pleased with my kindnesse to either of them, and by and by she fell into some silly discourse wherein I checked her, which made her mighty pettish, and discoursed mighty offensively to Mrs. Pierce and his wife, the first time she also hath been here since her lying-in, both having been brought to bed of boys, and both of them dead. Monday, Aug– Elizabeth Pepys and Betty Pearse have words, and the bad feelings linger for several months, to Pepys’ displeasure. coning van Groot Britanje, en secretaris van Staat: Nevens andere getuygen tegens malkanderen, in hunne gegeven attestatien, over de geboorte van den genaamden prince van Wales: Geconfronteert en ongegrond bevonden.' ✹ 'De onwettelyke getuygen, George Jeffreys cancelier en Robert grave van Sunderland, president van de geheyme raad van Jacobus de II.

The pamphlet goes on to argue that all of this was secondary evidence and could easily have been falsely constructed to switch a stillborn baby with a healthy changeling.

That her majesty at that time had had milk in her breasts, as shown by the shirts. That from looking at the bedlinnen handed to her from time to time she could see that her majesty had been in the same circumstances as women are apt to be.Īnd 6. That she with her servant carried away the soiled bed linnen while it was still warmĥ. That the midwife held up the afterbirthĤ. That this went on until the (so called) Prince of Wales was handed to mrs Labadieģ. That she had heard the Queen crying loudly.Ģ. 'This servant to the Queen, that used to receive a yearly sum of 2500 guilder, tells us the following:ġ. But not in the 'official' list of witnesses that James, 'the old Pretender' published years later to prove that he had NOT been switched at birth, but in a protestant pamphlet that tried to show that he had.

An Elisabet Pearse, 'washer woman to the Queen' was recorded as a witness at the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart, 1688.

The diary of elizabeth pepys elisabeth pepys