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both the Princess and her child, to the greatest perils, you now plead surprise, and tenderness for the Princess, as the only motives that occasioned these repeated indignities offered to me and to the Queen your Mother. This extravagant and undutiful behaviour, in so essential a point as the birth of an heir to my Crown, is such an evidence of your premeditated defiance of me, and such a contempt of my authority, and of the natural right belonging to your parents, as cannot be excused by the pretended innocence of your intentions, nor palliated or disguised by specious words only. But the 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 until you withdraw your regard and confidence from those by whose instigation and advice you are directed & encouraged in your unwarrantable behaviour to me and to the Queen, and until your return to your duty, you shall not reside in my palace, which I will not suffer to be made the resent of them, who under the appearance of an attachment to you, ferment the division which
