The book: or the investigation of the conduct of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales / being the evidence given under a Commission from the King; with Her Royal Highness's defence and other important documents.

  • Caroline of Brunswick
Date:
1813
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The book: or the investigation of the conduct of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales / being the evidence given under a Commission from the King; with Her Royal Highness's defence and other important documents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the book 1 kept. I do not know what she was bled for; it was at lier own desire; it was not by any medical advice. 1 was unwilling to do it, but she wished it. If I recollect, she complained of a pain in the chest, but 1 do not remember that she had any illneis. I did not use to bleed her twice a year. -1 certainly saw her Royal Highness in November,1802; I saw her on the 16th of November, but I had not any idea of her being with child. 1 did not attend her on the 16th of November, but I saw her then. I was visiting a child ; a male child, from Deptford. I have no recollection of having seen the Princes in October 1802. The child must have been from three to live months old, when I first saw it. I have no recollection of the Princess having been ill about the end of October, 1802. I have visited the child very often since, and I have always understood it to be the same child. The Princess used sometimes to send for leeches, and had them from me. I do not think that [attended the Princess, or saw her often in the Summer and Autumn of 1802. I had not the sole care of the Princess’s health during the time I have spoken of; Sir Francis Millman attended her occasionally. (Signed) THOMAS EDMEADS. Sworn at Lord Grenville’s house, in Dovvn- ing-street, June 25, 1806, before us, (Signed) ERSKINE, GRENVILLE, SPENCER, ELLEN BOROUGH. THE DEPOSITION* OF SAMUEL GFI.LAM MILLS, OF GREENWICH, SURGEON. I am a surgeon at Greenwich, have been in part- nership with Mr. Edmeads since 1800; before he was my partner I attended the Princess of AVales’s family from the lime of her coming to Blackheath from Charlton; L was appointed by the Princess her Surgeon in April, 1801, by a written appointment, to lake it under her patrpnage; the child could just
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