Sanderson We the under-named Subscribers London-derry Officers in the above List mentioned do hereby declare That we never saw a Pamphlet Entituled A Narrative of the Siege of London-derry c. or any part of it published by Mr. John Mackenzy until after it was Printed and having perused it since do not approve of it as Witness our Hands this Nineth Day of April 1690. Edward Curling Robert Rogers Michael Reed John Brush Oliver Aplen Richard Skamon Richard Aplen Robert Lowther Thomas Baker James Linsy Stephen Godfrey Hugh Hamill Alexander Watson William Ruxton Michael Boyer Archib Macullocb But good Mr. Mackenzy or whosoever else was so courteous to Write that elaborate Preface did you really find it necessary to expose Dr. Walker at such a rate by taking notice of the Articles against him Did you find it requisite so bluntly to scorn and ridicule him to represent him as a Jack-a-lent a Sancho Pancha or a fabulous Hero This is rudeness in the abstract this is a Language that deserves a more severe reprehension than the lash of a Pen. As for this latter Part wherein you so Magisterially degrade him from his Station of Governour and so spitefully detract from his Fame and Reputation I shall presently confront you with the concurrent Testimonies of many of the Officers of the Garrison acknowledging and owning him to be Governour from the very beginning of the Siege as well as attesting his singular Prudence and Circumspection in the management of the Provisions and Stores For the other part of the Libel which impeacheth him of Treachery and asperseth him with a Train of Articles which never were exhibited but in Mr. Mackenzy's defamatory Narrative it is a matter of too great Importance to be answered only with a bare denyal it toucheth to the quick and it will concern Dr. Walker to labour in the Justification of himself and I am fully perswaded that Mr. Mackenzy and his Accomplices will find to their cost that tho' Dr. Walker do not arrogate to himself the Title of a Hero yet he will not be found so tame and insensible an Animal to suffer himself to lie under such intollerable Calumnies but will use all legal means to obtain a Reparation and a competent Recompence for the exorbitant damages he sustains by a scandal so highly injurious I say that tho' Dr. Walker do not arrogate to himself the Title of an Hero yet I can tell who they are that would have made him one when they advised him to enter the City of London publickly that so he might be Huzza'd into Town like a Champion indeed which he modestly declined ordering the Coach-man to drive him to his Lodgings by all the private ways he could which accordingly he did by going out of the usual Road and so disappointed the expectation of many for the Truth of which I appeal to that worthy Gentleman Sir Robert Cotton Knight of the Shire of Chester in whose Coach he was conveyed into Town I can tell further who that Noble Lord was for I was present who next Morning after the Dr's coming to London would have made him a Hero indeed and of his own party by advising him to wait on His MAJESTY in a Souldiers Habit and as became the Governour of London-derry but the Dr. begg'd his Pardon and quickly crept into the Black-Coat which disappointment has occasioned all this cry and ever since that party have proclaimed open Hostility against him and are not to be reconciled upon any other Terms than a compliance with their extravagant Humours and verifying what they writ from Scotland to their Brethren in England upon the Dr's first Arrival there from Derry that Governour Walker had laid aside both his Gown and his Principles of the Church of England this was inserted as well in publick as private Letters I must retreat again to the Preface for there the Venom lies In the body of the Narrative I find no positive assertion that Dr. Walker was not Governour of London-derry he seems to be past over in silence and we are to believe him not to have been so from the negative Authority of the Narrator for so page 30 th speaking of the Council met for Electing of a Governor he tells us what Persons were Nominated and Major Baker had the Majority of Votes and was chosen their Governour and this according to his Journal was on the 19 th of April besides a brief insinuation page 62. that he was not Governour tho' he was wont to crowd in his Name Now I shall produce a Certificate under the Hands of Seventeen Officers actually in service in London-derry during the whole Siege and now in London who in all reason may be presumed to know who was the Governour of that Garrison wherein they so Frankly Adventured their Lives as well as he who fosters the Narrative or as he who penn'd the Preface and it is thus These are to Certify That Dr. George Walker during the whole time of the Siege of the City of London-derry and until Major General Kirke came into the said City Executed the Place Office of Governour of the same joynt with Collonel Henry Baker until the said Bakers sickness whereof he died and after with Col. John Michelbourn who was in a General Meeting of the Field and other Officers of the said Garison Elected to Act as Governour in the said Col. Bakers Place during his sickness as well in all things relating to the Military Affairs of the said City as in seeing the Provisions gathered and distributed the management of the Provisions being a great means by which the said City held out so long Witness our Hands this Nineth of April Anno Domini 1690. Edward Curling Robert Rogers Michael Reed John Brush Oliver Aplen Richard Skamon Richard Aplen Robert Lowther Thomas Baker James Linsy Stephen Godfry Alex. Watson Hugh Hamill Alex. Sanderson William Ruxton Michael Boyer Archib Maculloch In the next place I will shew you a Certificate from Captain Joseph Bennet who commands a Company in his Majesties Army whose Declaration ought to be regarded as much at least as Mr. Mackenzy's These are to Certify That I being in the Garrison of London-derry in the beginning of the Siege laid before that Town by the Late King James and his Forces when Col. Robert Lundy absconded the Forces in the said Garison chose Dr. George Walker and Col. Henry Baker their Governours who were in pursuance of such Election sworn Governours of the said Garison to Defend and Hold out the same for Their present Majesties KING William and QUEEN Mary and the Protestant Religion that after the said Governours were sworn I saw Dr. Walker and Col. Baker Sign several Writings as Joynt-Governours some of which writings were sent out of the Town to Col. Richard Hamilton then Lieutenant-General of the late King James his Forces in that Province in answer to some Letters of his directed to the said Governours for the Releasment of Capt. Darcy Mr. Blacker
truth THese are to certifie that whereas in a late Pamphlet written by Mr. J. Makenzy intituled a Narrative of the Siege of London-Derry It is mentioned amongst other things That Dr. Walker late Governour of the said City did fell and embezle the Stores of the said Garrison and that the said Dr. was so inconsiderable there that his note was not accepted by the Store-Keepers of Provisions for delivery of any out unless the same was first signed by the Governor and Major Adams thereby insinuating that the said Dr. was not Governour of the said City I do hereby declare that the said Dr. neither did or could fell or embezle any of the Stores the same being in the Custody of the Store Keepers and never delivered out to any but for the necessary use of the Garrison by Order from the Governours and I do further declare that I was made Store Keeper of the Provisions at the beginning of the Siege and continued so to the end And did from time to time deliver out Provisions upon the said Dr. Walkers Order as Governour in which Station he continued in great esteem among us until the said City was relieved by Major General Kirk and I never knew his Orders disputed as in the said Pamphlet is expressed during the whole time of the Siege and I do look upon the said Pamphlet as to what relates to the said Dr. to be not only false but Scandalous and Malicious And lastly I do declare that some persons concerned in putting out this Pamphlet as I presume since I came to London did come to me and would have drawn me by great promises to have bespattered and abused the Reputation of the said Dr. Witness my Hand the 25 th day of April 1690. Edw. Curling And now do not your ears tingle are not your faces covered with a blush who have Plotted Caballed and contrived such a Scandalous Libel and a more calumniating Preface and now to hear that some of you have been tampering to pervert truth and to add Subornation to bearing false Witness To use the words of the Narrative for once I shou'd not take notice of so trivial a thing as Mr. Walkers Signing first but that it is improved into an Argument of his forward Temper to croud in his Name And this is instanced in the Case of Robert Lowther pag. 62. I cannot tell whether he crowded in his Name above Mitchelbourn or whether Mitchelbourn in Modesty left room for him to write over his Name But this I know that Robert Louther is one of those who have attested Dr. Walkers being Governour and since Collonel Baker dyed in June I cannot in my small reason apprehend what should move Dr. Walker to expunge the mention of Baker being Governour in November following I have said enough to satisfie all manner of persons but such as are resolved never to be satisfyed that Dr. Walker was from first to last one of the Governours of London-Derry and principal Overseer of the Stores and Magazines by the before mentioned Certificate and Letters it evidently appears that he was not a Nominal or Titular Governour but an Active and Successful manager of his Trust and therefore it can never be enough wondred at that Men who profess the Protestant Religion who pretend Meekness and Moderation who pass as Teachers of Flocks as the Writer of the Preface and the owner of the Narrative shou'd with so much Bitterness Malice and Scorn not only taunt and satyrize at random and by Conjectures upon a Protestant a Clergy-man and a Gentleman of a good Family in York-Shire who cannot be denyed to have been an Actor and Sufferer in that memorable Siege but by loose and uncertain Suggestions by false Asseverations and down-right untruths degrade him from his Station eclipse his Reputation and unchristianly grudge him common Right and Justice And now if any Man desire to be farther satisfyed in the Reality and Truth of the Certificates Testimonials and Letters before mentioned and Transcribed he may be pleased to repair to Joseph Wilkinson Clerk at his Lodging at the Sign of the Harp in St. Pauls-Church-yard where he may view the respective Originals which will sufficiently vouch for the truth of what has bin said What I have said was purely designed to undeceive ordinary persons and credulous people who are often imposed on by incoherent Cant Antick gestures a whining tone and Distorted face As for men of better Judgments and of the best Quality in the Kingdom I am very well assured they never believed Dr. Walker to be an Impostor Can any one of Sense imagine that the King and Queens Majesties are such easie persons as to give Dr. Walker thanks for his good Service and reward him so highly as they have done if he were a Cheat Nay would the King have again imployed him as now he has done within these few weeks in sending him to Ireland by his positive Orders to Negotiate publick Affairs at which happy Juncture very Couragiously appears on the Stage Mr. Mackenzy's new Farce when the Gentleman was not in Town to answer for himself No No never believe it the King did not send him he is run away and absconds for shame or for fear of a Halter or the Pillory which he or some body else deserves But what think you of the Lords of the Privy Council who gave him Solemn thanks for his excellent Management of Affairs as Governour of London-Derry were they likewise imposed on I never yet heard that they were called or reputed weak Men. But Oh! This Villain Walker he trickt the Honourable House of Commons who in a full Assembly returned him thanks by their Speaker as Governour will not after Ages say There was not one Wise Man among them to detect the Fraud But how came the City of London to be caught in the Noose how came they to be thus bubled Lord-Mayor Sheriffs Society of the Plantation in the County of London-Derry all Congratulate his Arrival and Treat him afterwards as Governour of Derry The English Rogue Spanish Gusman and crafty Clansy are all Fools to this Walker Sileat miracula Memphis Scotland had once the Name of a Sagacious People but now to their everlasting Infamy they must be reputed no better then Ideots for Walker has cajol'd them at Edinburgh he was received as Governour of London-Derry Created and made free of that City as you may perceive by what follows and which is more some part of that Instrument written in Letters of Gold Edinburgh the fourteen day of August One thousand sex hundred eighty nine Years THe which day in presence of the Right Honourable Sir John Hall of Dunglas Knight and Barronet Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh Charles Chartery James Maclurge Andrew Bruce and John Robertsone Bailiffs Thomas Crauford Dean of Gilde and Guilde Council Collonel George Walker Governour of Derry Compeer and is made Burgess and Gild Brother of this City in the most Ample Form extract it furth
of the new Lockit Gild-Book of the City of Edinburgh be me Aeneas Maclod Conjunct Clerk thereof Witnessing hereunto my Sign Mannual like as the common Seal of the said City is hereunto appended Ae. Maclod For Collonel George Walker Governour of Derry Burgess and Gild Brother of Edinburgh Nay and Glasgow is in no better Circumstances Apud decimo tertio die Mensis Augusti Millesimo sexentesimo octogesimo nono THe which day in presence of the Honourable the Magistrates of the City of Glasgow William Nappier Dean of Gilde thereof and the said Dean of Gild his Councel Collonel George Walker Governour of the City of London-Derry within the Kingdom of Ireland is admitted and received Burgess and Gild-Brother of the foresaid City of Glasgow and the hail Liberties Priviledges and Immunities belonging to and Burgess and Gild-Brother thereof are granted to him in most Ample Form who has given his Oath of Fidelity as use is Extracted furth of the Gild-Books of the said City be me George Andersone Town-Clerk thereof Witnissing hereunto my Sign and Subscription Manual G. Andersone But pray how came the Universities of England to be so gull'd 't is unaccountable that they should unanimously conferr on him the honourable Degree of Doctor in Divinity Cambridge begins and presents him with his Degree though absent it was done when the King was there last Summer at the Commencement Oxford makes him a a solemn Invitation to give them a Visit and on the 26 th of February 1689. he is created Doctor in Divinity and since his going to Ireland the University has sent him a Diploma wherein are these Words REverendus Vir Georgius Walker strenuus ipse ac invictus Civitatis Derensis propugnator atque eodem facto totius Hibermiae uti speramus conservator atque vindex Dat. Martii 2o. 1689. What a grand Cheat is this Walker and what a great number of inconsiderable Things are here King and Queen Privy Council and House of Commons Edinburgh Glasgow London Cambridge and Oxford so easily imposed on I could dwell much longer on this Subject but to those who have a Will to understand the truth this is sufficient to those who have not 't is too much APPENDIX AFter the conveighing of these Papers to the Press the following Certificate relating to that worthy Gentleman Captain James Hamilton came to my Hands a Person who thrô the sole series of his Life has manifested his Zeal to the Protestant Interest and to whose excellent Management of Affairs that importaut place of London-derry owes its preservation in a great Measure Mr. Mackenzy's Sincerity and impartial way of handling the Subject he treats of is very obvious by his setting forth every particular Passage in its true and native light and as he relates nothing but Matters of Fact so what he says of them he proves by as plain Demonstration as that is capable of and better cannot reasonably be expected Thus far Mr. Mackenzy speaks for himself in his Preface and after his having so substantially barricado'd the Credit of his Book it seems not to be attacqu'd with any reasonable Prospect of Success yet this boldly asserted impregnable Fortress hath an unguardable Breach and to which he himself is a Guide in his Index I mean the Papers referr'd to in his Narrative It is true most Readers that peruse such Pamphlets as his will not trouble themselves with running over so long and little diverting a Postscript as those Papers make but will be contented with the Abstract he gives of them in the series of his Relation not thinking it possible a man who professes himself the Champion of injur'd Truth can have the Confidence to defie the World to Answer what he Writes and at the same time to refer the Reader to Papers at the end of his Book that detect his Malice and confute him of wresting even to Forgery some authentick Testimonies to palliate or rather to support his slanderous Insinuations yet after this indirect manner he hath bespatter'd Capt. James Hamilton a Gentleman who in the critical Juncture of the late Happy Revolution manifested his Zeal to the Protestant Interest by his early and indefatigable Solicitations to have Relief sent to the Protestants then in Arms in the North of Ireland And by his working through the many Obstructions and Difficulties he met with from several who in the then Infancy of the present Government slighted the Orders he obtained for his Dispatch as to that supply of Arms Ammunition and Money his Majesty entrusted him with to that effect according to the Purport of the Instructions given him the said James Hamilton a Copy whereof is inserted in the 54 th Page of Mr. Mackenzy's Narrative and how little the said Instructions agree in the very essential Point with what he says they were in his 19 th Page is evident to whosoever will take the trouble of comparing them The Instructions which Capt. Hamilton had Page the 19 th he tells you were to summon the Mayor and all other Officers Civil and Military on Board him and there before them all to give the Oaths of Fidelity to Coll. Lundy before he should give him any Arms c. But Page 54. you will really find that Capt. Hamilton was only impower'd to summon the Mayor or chief Civil Magistrate to be a Witness to his Administring the said Oaths to Coll. Lundy without so much as mentioning all Officers Civil and Military This howsoever may seem but a trivial Variation if the Consequences are not considered which are deducted from thence with an Innuendo but Mr. Mackenzy did not Prevaricate here to no purpose for he proceeds Page the 19 th in these words But instead thereof that is of Swearing Coll. Lundy before all Officers Military and Civil most of the Gentlemen on Board were desired to withdraw on pretence of private Business so that if Lundy was Sworn it was very privately Now if Capt. Hamilton's Instructions had been to Swear Coll. Lundy before them all and he had notwithstanding on pretence of private Business desired them to withdraw he had certainly deserved to be called to an Account and severely Punished for so doing but it is apparent his Instructions were not such And though it is purposely left as dubious who desired the Company to withdraw yet it is notorious Capt. Hamilton whom the King was pleased to Intrust must have been a Mad-man if after his having so publickly devoted himself to King William's Service he should have been so whimsically scrupulous as to be fond of Swearing Coll. Lundy in private if at all as is insinuated but that Capt. Hamilton did Administer the said Oaths of Fidelity to Coll. Lundy is Testified by the following Certificate which is Attested by two Gentlemen of Good Estates in the North of Ireland and of unquestionable Reputation and they are the only Persons now in London that were present when Coll. Lundy was Sworn The CERTIFICATE WE whose Names are underwritten do hereby