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A67448	A true narrative and manifest set forth by Sir Robert Walsh knight and Batt. which he is ready all manner of ways to justify as relating unto Plots, designs, troubles and insurrections, which were intended to have been set a foot, towards the subversion of His Most Excellent Majesties laws and government, not by a private information, or other, but before any court of Justice, discipline ; either in the civil, common, or marshal law and to reply or disanul the printed paper, in part of Edmund Everard and Irish man, who was so long prisoner in the tower : and to make out why he was so detained, nothing relating to the plot but was for his intent to have poysoned the Duke of Monmouth as shall more amply be made out in this manifest.	Walsh, Robert, Sir.	1679 (1679)	Wing W644; ESTC R6905	38,783	40

would have proved of use but some ill advisers who perhaps were here concerned or that carried an animosity against your Petitioner did so deturn that his Representments could not gain Credit else undoubtedly he would so have furnished against the French King which would put water into his Wine and have clipt his Wings here annexed you read what your Petitioner could draw or gather out of him which he Represented where his Allegiance and duty did bind him to have done and withal one of Mr. Progers his Letters your Petitioner in order thereunto comes into England being of the first if not the first who gave Lights and Intelligence of ill designs and of a subversion intended towards the Government and Laws of this Kingdom so as your Petitioner could have no sinister intention Though this Edmund Everard did most pernitiously and falsly say before this Honorable House that your Petitioner in Paris did precaution the Talbots from trusting this Everard so as the malice of this Everard might have scandalously abused your Petitioner who is ready and willing to answer before this Honorable House disclaiming in any grace or favor if any disloyalty could or can be laid to his charge your Petitioner could look for no other but revenge from this Everard for your Petitioner being the Person that procured Everards Imprisonment in the Tower an action this Honorable House would have allowed of did they but know upon what occasion and grounds and how I was and am ready to maintain my acting therein the Anixels some Years past were shewed unto some of the members of the Honorable House to the Lord Cavendish Sir John Coryton Sir Francis Winnington and Sir John Earnly many others your Petitioner humbly prayeth that any of the members of this Honorable House may be ordered to see what your Petitioner can show as to hear what he hath to say for the good and interests of His Majesty and that of his good Subjects and that in as much as that your Petitioner came into England of purpose for the service and interest as afore-said that according to the Report made by those Commissions your Petitioner may find the effects of your Justice and he shall Pray c. I. My Representments were given the Ministers of State in the Year 1675. 1676. These are what Representments attended my Petition that Sir John Coriton put into the hands of Master Speaker Sir Robert in the Year 1675. brought with him out of France the person mentioned in his Petition first he would have made Evident that there was then of His Majesties Subjects a Caball in France who were very active and busie being thereunto much incouraged by a great Person to ingender great tumults and disturbances in His Most Excellent Majesties Kingdoms who would have put into His Majesties Hands some Letters from their Correspondence writ from hence unto the said Cabal in Paris and some of theirs from Paris into their associates here and would have declared how they were introduced unto the French King and his reception of them II. He would have discovered that some persons in England were gained by the French King and his Ministers to be of Intelligence with them so as that thereby the French might have given the better conduct unto their transactions with the English and that he would nominate some of those of His Majesties Subjects who were so gained by the French King and Ministers III. He would have made it apparent that the great Preparations that the French King made for War did bend to bring the States of Holland to His Majesties Bent which if he did not by force of Arms compass he was sure to do when he pleased to afford them plauseable Terms which-depended on His Majesty to do when ever he pleased and that once getting in the states of Holland the Confederates would soon come to tearms and that once coming so the French King taking Breath would soon imploy His Army Elsewhere as this man would more particularly and probably into His Majesties Kingdoms declare here had our Ministers of state given him a hearing but he being not heard went very unsatisfied for Holland where certainly he was listened unto and gave great lights to the states as unto the conduct of their Treaty and accommodation with France This man was not wanting in money I may say he was very well to the contrary but disatisfied in France and being very knowing in the French concerns he would thereby increase his Fortune IV. I could examplifie much upon what this man could have done but as the times go it 's more convenient not when I could not be countenanced in gaining credit for this-mans representments I made them no Jewels I communicating them unto many and so were they by others to the French King and his Ministers from hence so as if I went now for France my reception would be but cold I having I may with Justice say that I was the first that first gave notice of these intended revolutions and disturbances though I never hitherto did name the persons who were first set on work to contribute unto the raising these Tumults however I am not unsatisfied to have contributed by my endeavors towards the payment of my duty unto my Loyalty and though the returns I meet with are leading to deturn in the future such as may not resolve to continue in the Principals of Loyalty which I do and ever shall which time may give an undeniable demonstration of Two things I may aver the first is that I have no fear second that I am not by any means discouraged in persisting to do my Kings service as willingly as ever V. I have been an eye-witness and active in the War of 1639. until 1646. Therefore I may give now I am in some accounts in the said War when the said War began as my Fare hath rendered me subject unto Imprisonments I was then so and for the sins and debts of my youth Prisoner in the King Bench. His Glorious Majesty of Blessed Memory and her Majesty then quitted London which I wish they never had I was then Her Majesties Sworn Servant and but in extraordinary I petitioned to the House of Lords that I might be set at liberty as a priviledge that did belong unto Her Majesties Servants unto which the Lords consented and an Order was made for my Liberty which still stands upon record in the House of Lords and I then set at Liberty It was no mean thought or concern that invited Edward Earl of Dorset the Lord Chamberlain to Her Majesty who was a Lord in deed to uphold the priviledges belonging to Her Majesty he was my Advocate nay Solliciter in my behalf and stuck to me not by saying I will do you all the Service that lyes in my power but in the performance to act what he said or promised I was by the Order of the House of Lords discharged from Prison yet in the year 61 returning into England was

ungreatful Person as unto the kind civility I did conferr upon him and that he then came of purpose unto me to discover unto me a very great concern by which I may obliege a very great Person Truly I am not of their humor who would not hear It resting in me after having heard to give or take so I asked Mr. Dalonson what he would say who tells me of Everards resolution towards the Duke of Monmouth and that he was with him when he bought the Poyson and that Everard was immediately resolved to go for England to put his malignant Resolution in Execution telling me that Everard intended that an other Duke should pass the same path which I do not now here name at which I was not a little startled and considering upon the matter I thanked Mr. Dalonson for his good will but told him that the discovery of that concern was much fitter to have been communicated unto my Lord Locker who was the Kings Embassador and then in Paris Mr. Dalonson replies that he had a desire to own his gratitude to me besides paying of his duty towards the Duke of Monmouths safety and adds that if so I did not give ear to him and that any mischief should afterwards insure that I may repent Upon this I asked Mr. Dalonson if he would go before good witness attest the putting of this information into my hands he said he would and more then that I presently hereupon sent for witness and amongst others for young Mr. Lane my Lord Lansborow his Son a fine civil understanding Gentleman who is now here in Town and since married unto my Lord of Northamptons Neece Indeed Mr. Lane was very loth to meddle in the business I telling him in Mr. Dalonsons presence what it was and how it was which Mr. Lane at this day I dare say will say was thus Mr. Dalonson then said that he would not only give it under his hand and seal but would as well go in person into England to maintain what he said and to confront Everard Mr. Dalonson did sign and seal before witness and so I sent it for England to those it did concern and in particular the Duke of Monmouth and Dalonson also told where Everard would or was to lodge in London and doubted not that if he were taken as he would describe where but that the said Poyson would be found with him so Everard was seized upon and put into the Tower Dalanson did come into England and confronted Everard before some Lords of the Council Dalonson was not ill looked upon for his information but had his pass and a Viaticum to boot So as visibly its more probable that this put Everard into the Tower rather then what he saith in his depositions after Everards being confronted by Dalonson Everard was returned to the Tower and Dalonson left at his liberty After Everards being in some close restriction then he fain would intimate unto Sir John Robinson some informations as tending to Plots as Prisoners in such straights seldom fail to foment hoping thereby to procure themselves some ease yet would Everard have dashed upon Sir John for not representing or giving his ear but out of doubt Sir John hath done the duty of his place Everard in his depositions gives out that this Dalonson was his man a most palpable untruth I have known Everard a long time but never in a condition to keep a man but he still was to be kept IV. My name being by Everards means introduc'd and traduc'd it gives me scope to follow with a larger declaration in my sufferance my credit being thus trampled upon by Fobbs Rascals and Villains that never dar'st appear to lay any thing to my charge face to face or before Justice but still like a Parator falsly informing behind my back I am not the only thus served O what a pitty it is that the noble Law which was allowed of to the Lord Rea and David Ramsy should not again be permitted which was to fight Lespee a la main on a publick stage to maintain the Truth which would give an Allaye unto impostory and false accusations Is it not strange as thus that this Everard should be so impudent as to have me summoned to the House of Commons Bar to make me appear as I did there in May last 1679. and to referr unto what I should witness and such as he names which can witness as now I do V. Master speaker did ask me if that in Paris 1673. that this Everard did not tell me that Troubles Plots Designs and Disturbances were ingendring towards the prejudice of England I answered in part he did but that as unto particulars he did not nor have I pressed to know I having notice from other manner of hands then his that great engines were at work to prejudice His Most Excellent Majestie towards the subversion of his Laws and Government and fomented to be upheld by greater persons then yet where named or spoken off The speaker asked me why I had not declared them I replied it seemed he knew not whether I had or not I adding that if I had not done what my duty and Loyalty oblieged me unto that I would disclaim in the least Grace or Favor from the King his most Honorable Parliaments or Laws of the Land so as I was ordered to withdraw not doubting but that I should be summond to declare what I knew in those concerns yet I was not but in a day or two after was summon'd to appear before the Committee of Secrecy I did and they looked on me and I upon them they said they had no orders concerning me so we parted But had I been interrogated sure fear nor shame should not keep me from declaring the names of the intermedlers VI. It is in part wonderful that this Everard being ever bred a Papist and begotly one as to my knowledge he never would as much as read any Books of controversy often vowing that any Books that gave contradiction to the Roman Tenets were Heretically and so not to be read and that this man without the concourse with any Protestant Divine should turn convert must appear as a great blessing of God or that it must be upon some worldly interest and whereas he speaks of his reconciliation to chalonton I doubt it is that were he put to it that he could not make out VII I having not named the fomentors of these disturbances being not summoned thereunto may not be of the same resolution in my following descriptions Sir Robert Walsh declares to the World that he ever did and doth renounce the lest of Grace or Favor from His Sacred Majesty His most Honorable Houses of Parliamen or Laws if any disloyalty is or can be laid to his charge yet is he and hath been Murthered alive through false suggestions and informations which none ever did or would appear to justifie against him one was that in the Year 1655. or 1656. that he was

replied that I first would address unto the Duke of Ormond to see if I could make my peace and be admitted to Court which my Lord Brohill gave me some time to do And then I writ to the same tenure unto his Grace of Ormond and an other Letter in private unto his Grace of what past and was to pass and upon what termes I was to obtain my liberty I showing the return to the Lord Brohil he procured me my liberty Fifty or Sixty pound upon my word I know not which upon the Faith of a Christian this was all that past betwixt my Lord of Orery and me or from any other of the Usurpers Creatures I never having spoke to the Usurper only once he Landing at White-Hall-staires out of a Pair of Oares coming from Lambert and I entring into a Pair of Oars he asked who I was and called me to him asked me whether the Island near Waterford was not mine I said of right it was but that his Highness did take it from me and gave it Collonel Vernon who had been his quarter Master General so parted and I never saw him since As unto my Lord of Orery I would take the Sacrament that he never spoke one word or syllable unto me of my King in the whole course of our transaction but as heretofore I have mentioned soon after I Landed in Flanders and went to Gant there was casually his Grace of Ormond unto whom I presently made my address but he being busie with the Lord Culpepper that time was not convenient the next day I waited on his Grace to give him the account of my Transactions in England representing all I could gather only that I would make it out how some near His Majesty did betray his Secrets unto the Usurper and his Creatures I offering upon pain of the loss of my Head to give evident proofs of the said intelligence My Lord said he would give his Majesty who was then in Bruges an account of what I said some Two days after the Earl of Clancarthy came to Gant from his Grace of Ormond and brought me this message that it was His Majesties Pleasure that I should appear before His Majesty and Council to answer what was to be laid to my charge unto which I replied that I was ready to appear and the next day I being going into the Boat from Gant to Bruges in obedience as I conceived to His Majesties Pleasure I received an other message from his Grace that I should immediatly leave the low Countries by His Majesties positive Order so expressed or that I should run the hazard of what should follow I answered I would in all things obey my Kings Command though I well know that this Order was procured by those who knew themselves guilty how I would have accused them of their keeping intelligence with the Usurper Next day from Gant I took my journey towards Germany to get unto his Highness Prince Rupert and took the City of Bruxels in my way which was not much out of it the Lord Digby and Sir Edward Hyde were then hand and glove the world hath seen what they have been afterwards Truly I was at a defiance with either so as the true liberty of the Subject had been allowed me for I neither would creep or cringe to either the Lord Digby was then immediatly by Sir Edward Hyde dispatched and Imployed after me to Bruxels it being well known that I had entrance so with the Prince of Conde who was then in Bruxels so as to bring me to his Catholick Majesties State Ministers and Governors there where I would have declared of the Treacheries done to my King but the Lord Digby and Sir Edward Hydes joyning their heads so contrived that the Governors Don John d' Austrea and Marquis de Carassenas were informed and possessed that I was then imployed by the Usurper and Earl of Orery to Kill my King so the next Morning after my arrival in Bruxels my Son and Servant and I ready to take Horse the grand Provo Casteneda comes with Forty at his heels shewing me no Order conveyes my Son and I to the Prison called Urinate and Orders that none should come to speak unto us which so continued for six Months we starving with hunger and cold after which I found means to address unty my Sacred King who was so indulgently just that he did authorize the Judge Millitary of Flanders to examine the proceedings as also to determine who so did as heretofore is declared which comprises his Catholick Majesties Orders to pay the charges of my imprisonment who had nothing to do with it and to put me at liberty that was made Prisoner sine culpa To give an allay unto my unjust sufferances this Order did not a little solace me XIII One thing Noble Reader I being admitted Pen and Ink be pleased to observe I did ever renounce my Kings Grace or Favour should I be made guilty of Disloyalty I would neither beg desire or take my Kings Pardon I never having sinned against him his Interests or Service nor would I my Gods pardon had I no more sinned against him than I have against my King I then in my time of Imprisonment did represent unto my King that a time would come that the Lord Digby and Sir Edward Hyde would be Cashier'd and Banished from his Court and that I who was then Tyrannically made Prisoner by their false Informations and Suggestions should be at liberty to stand at His Majesties Elboe to see them both in disgrace and so I have and seen them and seeing I could not then there possess the true liberty due to a Subject I would I may here which hitherto I have not I may implore nay press for it Conscientia mille Testes I fear no man upon Earth my Duty to my King not comprised nor no Laws either My King I am sure cannot in himself err So good I am sure he is I cannot nor will I say that Ministers of State who govern the consciences of Kings and who are to answer may not err This I intend unto the Ministers of Forraign Kings XIV You must know Noble Reader that the City of Bruxels have it by their Charter that no stranger made Prisoner there is to be detained above Twenty four hours without he be Examined his Charge given in against him and the Cause of his Imprisonment Examined and that besides if any make a Prisoner upon Informations that they should secure to make a party against the Prisoner who by their Law in Bruxels are to allow the Prisoner a daily subsistence according to the Quality of the Prisoner else the Prisoner not to be detained Upon which it was ordered that I and my Son and servant by His Most Excellent Majesties then Councel that Twenty pence a day should be given us The World may judge whether that was a proportion fit and I having lain Thirty three months Prisoner Sir Steven Fox being ordered

he is ready to satisfie any that may pretend to the contrary leaving those who read this to judge the hardness of the measure he hath met with wishing he may be the sole or only in this Age who may find the Effects of the like Injustice as he hath TO THE READER THis manifest of Sir Robert Walsh doth declare that he cant out of France into England in the Year 1675. not without order as he can make it appear where his Loyalty and Duty did obliege him and also to declare what malignant designes and insurrections were Ingendring in France where he lived most of his time these Thirty and odd years towards the subversion of His Most Excellent Majesties Government and Fundamental Laws and he hath here continued these Four Years and above to make out what his manifest doth thereunto relating set forth Remonstrating nothing but what came within his knowledge and what he is ready to justifie not only by Oath but by the Laws of any Courts of Justice as either in the Civil Common or Marshal Law to the face of any Subject any French Dutch or Forreigner And is ready to declare if summond thereunto how that in 72. 73. and 74 some of his Majesties Subjects have been intermedling therein presuming that they may be countenanced and upheld by a greater person then yet hath been quoted or named to have fomented in the said Troubles Sir Robert Walsh having taken his dismiss and pass from the French Kings service being in no trust of his Sir Robert by His Most Excellent Majesties permission and orders of some of his chief Ministers of State did keep Intelligence out of France with Mr. Edward Progers one of his Majesties grooms of the Bed-chamber as shall be made amply out in this manifest As also how this Everard and for what he was made Prisoner in the Tower which he chargeth the Lady Anne Gordon Collonel Richard Talbot and his Brother to have been the Contrivers of his Imprisonment some particulars in his depositions shall be proved most false and he hath no way to Justifie himself Unless that as he doth profess himself to be very dextrous in his weapon that by that he may second his Oath In all Kingdoms some Subjects are good and some not 2. What Subject in this Age hath proved more true then the Duke of Ormond give him his due some are bad and yet I hope there may be made a true difference in some particulars it may be demonstrated the marks of their Loyalty conferred upon some Irish as thus There is the Lord Coorsy who by His Majesties Authority is ordered and permitted to wear his Hat in His Majesties Presence certainly it was for his Loyalty that that honor was conferred on him of which this day the young Lord Coorsy may be covered before His Majesty which is for the acceptable service he hath rendred the King and Crown Nor hath Sir Robert Walsh the priviledge of wearing His Majesties of Blessed Memory His Effigies and that of his dearest Son Prince Charles of the one side of his Golden Medal and the form of His Majesties Royal Bannor of the Reverse but for the Acceptable Service he hath rendered at the Battle of Edge-Hill in the year 43. as his Commission for wearing the same from His Majesty of Blessed Memory now Exstant can witness he having received the Dignity and Honor of Knight-hood upon the Top of Edge-Hill Sir Robert being Born in Ireland I hope may not pass for a Crime though some of the Follies of his Youth may be thrown in his Dish as the sin of the Flesh and Gaming yet never was any crime of Dis-Loyalty The first of his Name that went from England into Ireland for His Majesties Service in King Edwards Time was Sir Patrick Walsh who to Attack the City of Lymberick caused a Hundred Horse and Men to swim over the River of Shannon and so Surprized and Took Limberick as the Chronicle of England and Ireland more largely Expatiates upon But Sir Patrick a Horse-Back swimming over the River Bows and Arrows then being in Vse he shot a Swan Flying through the Breast so as ever since the flying Swan hath been his Crest with the Arrow through the Swans Crest and his Armes three Arrows Heads which hath so continued to his line and Name as now they do in me which I give with an addition of the flowers De-luce which I give by the right of having Married an Heiress and I being in France then in command having a Regiment in His Christian Majesties Service and His Most Excellent Majesty then being in Paris and in the Louure some Theses being dedicated at the Colledge of Cerbone unto the Noblest and best of His Most Excellent Majesties Subjects There was one Dedicated to me by one of the Doctors in Theology of the said Colledge and my Arms being set forth and displayed carrying the Flowers De-luce and my name being Valois and so was when in the Conquest the name came out of France into England which here is turned to Walsh by time the Duke De Anguleme being De Valois which name have been Kings of France some being curious sent to the Louure to know if I was not de La Maison de Valois as some Noble-men now here may please to remember then heard the question propounded so as some who grumbled that I should be named Valois may here be satisfied upon what ground I went by the said name and not as un nom de guere some who may read this will understand why I thus Expatiate Another thing Summons me to this Manifest some whom I cannot call better than Lyars Cowards and Villains who if any of them be living and read this they will swallow my Expression Those I mean who have villainously and most falsly invented that I was hired by Cromwel and the Lord of Brohill now Earl of Orery to Kill my Sacred and Anointed King as I at large set out in my Manifest I having been Murderously detained Prisoner in Bruxels Thirty Three Months upon that false pretention I renouncing the least Grace or Fav●r from His Sacred Majesty then as now I do if any Dis-Loyalty could or can be laid to my Charge 3. If I herein be prolix pray Noble Reader pardon it and consider if that my unjust and non-parell sufferances in those days may not plead my excuse and withal that in this my following Manifest or Remonstrance doth not carry in it a word of untruth nor other then what I am ready to justifie with my life and fortune unto my new or late representments I may add some old which may not be unremarkable as one at the Battle of Edge-Hill in the Year 43. It lay fully in my power to have ended then that unhappy war of England and for the supream advantage of my King you will say why I did not do it and I say when you read what followeth you will own me not condemnable As