After these depositions were taken, His Majesty was pleased to acquaint the Lords, That the Princess Anne of Denmark would have been present; but that she being with Child, and having not lately stirred abroad, could not come so far without hazard. Adding further.
Edinburgh, the ninth day of November, one thousand six hundred eighty eighth years present in Council, the Earl of Perth, Lord High Chancellor, the Lord Arch-bishop of St. Andrews ... the following depositions concerning the birth of His royal Highness James, Prince of Scotland and Wales, being transmitted to His Majesties Privy Council ...
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ANd now, my Lords, although I did not question but every Person here present was satisfied before in this matter; Yet by what you have heard, you will be better able to satisfie others. Besides, If I and the Queen could be thought so wicked as to endeavour to impose a Child upon the Nation, you see how impossible it would have been; Neither could I my Self be imposed up∣on, having constantly been with the Queen during her being with Child, and the whole time of her Labour. And there is none of you but will easily be∣lieve Me, who have suffered so much for Conscience sake, uncapable of so great a Villany, to the prejudice of my own Children. And I thank God, that those that know me, know well that it is my Principle to do as I would be done by, for that is the Law and the Prophets: And I would rather dy a thousand deaths, than do the least wrong to any of my Children.
His Majesty further said,
IF any of My Lords think it necessary the Queen should be sent for, it shall be done. But their Lordships not thinking it necessary, Her Majesty was not sent for.