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George R The Professions wch. you have lately made in your Letters, of your particular regard to me are so contradictory to all your Actions, that I cannot suffer myself to be imposed on by them. You know very well that you did not give ye. best intimation to me or ye. Queen that ye. Princess was with child or breeding until within upon a month of ye. Birth of Ye. Young Princess; You [[unclear]] remov'd ye. Princess twice in ye. Week immediately preceeding the day of her Delivery from ye. Palace of my Residence, in expectation, as you have voluntarily declared, of her Labour, and Both times upon your Return you [[deletion]] immediately [[/deletion]] [[addition]] industriously [[/addition]] conceal'd from ye. knowledge of me & ye. Queen, every circumstance relating to this important Affairs, And you at last without giving any Notice to me or ye. Queen precipitately removed ye. Princess from Hampton Court in a Condition not to be named. After having thus in execution of your determined measures exposed both ye. Princess & [[addition]] her [[/addition]] Child to ye. greatest Perils, you now plead surprize & your tenderness for ye. Princess, as ye. only motives that occasioned these repeated indignities to me & the Queen your mother. This Extravagant & Undutiful Behaviour in so Essentiale a point as ye. Birth of an Heir to my Crown, is such an Evidence of your premeditated Defiance of me, & such a Contempt of my Authority, & of ye. Naturale Right belonging to your Parents, as cannot be excused by the pretended Innocence of your Intentions, or palliated or disguised by Specious Words only, But ye whole tenour of your Conduct for a Considerable time has been so entirely void of all real Duty to me, that I have long had reason to be highly offended with you, and untill you withdraw your Regard