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 Favâ—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
Sir Robert was set at liberty Could it be thought that so great a King would so far consider a single Officer or Soldier of Fortune I cannot but speak well of the Prince of Conde for when he first received me into his Protection seeing my Dismiss and Pass from His Christian Majesty he did afford me his Favour and Countenance and when first I came to him the Armies then lying about Villneufe St. George a little above Shallonton the Kings Army lying of one side the River Commanded by Mounsieur de Turene and the Princes Army of Chalonton side The Prince bid me take Five hundred Horse and beat about Paris to find some Booty which may put me into an Equipage and that he would but moderately hear any Complaint that should come against me I did take the said Horse which were all Germans and truly I did more study to render the Prince service than to plunder if it came not in my way and so I marched all Night and past by the Rear of the Kings Army and took some Officers and Prisoners my intent being to go to Pontoise to beat up some of the Kings Army who lay there and in my return the next Morning I drew up to refresh betwixt St. Germans and St. Clow a top of a Hill While I was there I saw a Coach with six Horses going for Paris I sent a Party of my Germains to bring me that Coach thinking to make a prize thereof but who should be in it but the best of men so the Germains were greedy and would understand no French or English but one of his Lords that noble Lord Garret as I take it comes up to the party and found me in the head of them he asked me who commanded the party I answered he was not far off then he tells me who was in the Coach and made Prisoner Upon which I immediately drew my Party towards the Coach and waited on it to Paris I am glad it was no other than his Subject that commanded the Party The Prince of Conde then being not very affectionate the Duke of Lorrain being slacken'd and I well satisfied in all occasions which may demonstrate the paying of my duty and Loyalty yet I was not a little satisfied it was I that Commanded that Party which prevented further trouble to the said Coach The Prince of Conde not being ignorant how the Duke of Lorrain was gained to have proved slow in the Prince of Conde's then pretensions without which the French King might have run the hazard c. XII Fortune was to me so favourable that at the Battle of St. Antoine I gained so much the heart of the Citizens of Paris as that ever after they hardly would stir out of the Gates of Paris without having me in the head of them as I was at St. Dennis when Monsieur de Semegrine Commanding the Queens Guards charged the Parisiens and was repulsed these troubles of Paris being appeased by the Prince of Condes quitting Paris wherein he quit his chiefest hold I betook my self for Flanders and made my address unto his Grace the Duke of Ormond who most kindly not degenerating from his ever wonted greatness and goodness did afford me his Countenance so as I by His Majesties Order and Consent did venture for England in hopes to prove useful for His Majesties Rights and Interests Upon which his Grace the Duke of Ormond writ unto me all in his own hand that I should come for England and to advance my Interest and endeavours as in all I could for His Majesties service assuring me that if I could attain to be permitted by the Usurper to be in London if so I should sometimes transgress in my expressions towards His Majesty that it should not in the future prejudice my Loyalty Upon this I came for London and did use all my endeavours to come in Thurloes favour then Secretary to the Usurper I did so obtain from Thurloe that he gave me his word I should have the liberty of the Town I giving him my word that I would not act any thing against the State during my being under their Government So for a Months time I had access unto Thurloe but soon after though I had Thurloe's word for my liberty that word was not performed but I was surprized I lodging at one Elkings House who was a Packer and an Anabaptist then dwelling in Mark-lune and I presume lives their still I was by Four Files of Musketeers surprized in my Bed Captain William Bower then lying with me and hurried away into the Tower where I lay Four Months close Prisoner none being admitted to me but my Keeper soon after was that most Noble and ever Renowned Earl of Orery the Earl of Tennet the Earl of Norwich the Earl of Clanricarde and many Persons of quality brought in Prisoners and as I take it the only then made close Prisoners was that Famous never to be buried in Oblivion the Duke of Albemarle and I close Prisoner some who then attended His Sacred Majesty did assuredly give the Usurper notice that I was in England as imployed by my King some time after the liberty of the Tower being granted me upon the intercession of Baxters Wife to her Husband The Lord Brohil now Earl of Orery who is a Person of that Honor as will own what I here say through the Intercession of his Honorable Sister then in London the Countess of Barimore his Lordship did interpose for my liberty Whereupon his Lordship came to the Tower and gave me a visit his words as near as I can remember were these Sir Robert had you served the State and his Highness the Protector as you did the King what post or posture do you imagine you might now be in I seemingly did aver what his Lordship said why then said my Lord can you now resolve to serve his Highness if you can I will tell you how and you shall have your Liberty and Money to boot unto which I did seem to listen then said my Lord you see what a deal of Noble-men and Gentlemen lye here Prisoners and I will tell you upon what account It is upon an intelligence we have received that his Highness Person is to be attempted and we fain would sink into a discovery therein and here be Two Persons of Quality now Prisoners who make offer of their attempt as unto what I intend to propose unto you each of them now offering that they will find out to make the discovery but as I am inclined to get you your liberty I have propounded to his Highness that you may be the Person imployed and he hath consented thereunto If so you can make it appear that you may be received at Bridges and that upon your word and honor unto me that you will really imploy your endeavors to make the discovery how his Highness Person was designed to be attempted and you shall have your liberty and some Money for your Voyage I
in distress which he would not do then I writ to him that he should never expect any favor at my hand but to the contrary as he found by the loss of his Head For he being just ready to have made his escape I did discover it to Don John d' Austrea and to the Marquis de Carassenas being in no trust for Grimings for he intended to have got into the French quarters and being a person that was in so considerable an Imployment and posture as he was he would have disserved his Catholick Majesty to a greater value then the vast summs of his Majesties that he could not account for which I prevented and made His Catholick Majesty amends for what I formerly did for Grimings who as unto his being ungrateful did meet the due return by my means in which he did not intrust me I long since made a Declaration of this matter the Year of His Majesties happy restauration who was graciously pleased to write unto me to come into England all in his own hand which I did obey I then declared that the Chancellor of Poland for his ill managing the Kings Conscience being chief Minister was degraded Soe was Monsieur Fouquet in France that was Treasurer Then how Grimings in Flanders lost his head and I did foresee that the next bordering Minister should take example in being precautioned I addressing the same to the Lord Clarendon who had me Prisoner under his Lash in the Fleet I then shewed my Declaration unto that Honorable Person the Lord of Anglisey Lord Privy Seal not to conceal the sight thereof from my Lord Clarendon which my Lord of Anglisey did not so as in a little time after my Lord Clarendon proved not so vehement in the Execution of his Power Falix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum XXII This is to declare the Ingratitude of the said Grimings and what his not Provoyance did bring him unto he having been put on the Torture did confess that it was by my means that his Wife did beget a Correspondence with him to attain unto his wealth as she hath I being Examined therein by His Catholick Majesties Commissaries who shewed me how Grimings did own it was I who gave the Expedient and they carrying themselves very civilly towards me I did own that I was if it was a Guilt The helper of giving the Access of her Billets to her Husband and his unto her saying why did His Catholick Majesty keep me a Prisoner without producing my Charge what had he to say against me I renounced either Grace or Favour from him I demanded Justice withal declaring that the Tyranny of my so being kept Prisoner might have given me scope to have served all Prisoners as supposing that they might be as guiltless as I was This Grimings after his being put to the Torture designs to endeavour making his escape and begets an understanding with one that was then there Prisoner to help him unto Files to file the Iron Barrs of his Grate which he did I having disserved His Catholick Majesty and willing to repair the same I lodging above Grimings in the Night I could hear him file the Iron Barrs and taking notice thereof I did walking in the Yard discover the Bar of Iron he worked upon and was very near effecting his design I lying under His Catholick Majesties displeasure I did calculate that if I made a Discovery of his intent to have escaped it might have allayed the former disobligement I had layed on His Catholick Majesty and I being not satisfied with the ingratitude of Grimings and his Wife so as I writ unto Don John d' Austrea how Grimings was to have made his escape Whereupon he sent to find the Utiles and to search every corner of his Chamber but found no visibility of what I had represented his having sent Commissaries and a Glasier to sound the Bars but they could discover no appearance so Don John sent to me that I represented what was not true I returned to Don John that those he sent were Fools and gave them direction how to discover the truth of what I represented and so they did You must know that when they came with a Key to sound the Iron Bars the Bars did sound all sound which in a cut Bar is not ordinary But Grimings as soon as he filed did fill the Oraphis with wax and Tobacco-powder and until I gave the Key of this discovery they could not find it out but having found it he was soon Executed and all the favour he could obtain who was once the Great Grimings was to have his head chopt off in the said Prison and was not carried to the Common Place of Execution XXIII I must a little here display in part what return or reward I met with for my coming out of France with my Representments of the disturbances which were intended towards the deturnment of His Sacred Majesties Laws and Government I having been for many Years out of England upon my arrival here in London I was introduced to the Widow of a Hamborow Merchant by Name E. I. now O. B. she was represented for a very Rich Widow we falling into acquaintance she very much did importune me to lodge at her House which I did for a week not without representing unto her that it would bring her name under a sensure seeing that there was no concern as unto any thing of Marriage in the point for instead of every Thousand Pounds said she had that proved but Four or Five great Sons and a Daughter which I finding as also discovering her Gossoping and Frolicking qualities I withdrew in my visits and frequency with her whereupon she grew most outragiously inveterate against me and whereas her Letr ers of which I have a Bushel declare that my sheets should be well aired and I should be kept warm and that all her all was mine and in her Letters declaring that she pretended not to have the honor of marrying a person of my quality only coveting my Company The cruel usage of hers as followeth may admit my thus expatiating though a thing contrary to my nature towards that venerable Sex It 's true that in the time of our converse I did tell her that there would be great disturbances and troubles ingendred in England I soon after refraining giving her my visits she grew passionately desperate run out one night out of her House into the street stopt my Coach she half naked and swore if I came not in and stay all night that she would kill herself I not staying as being unwilling thereunto she a little after went in her passion to my Lord Chief Justice and made a most pernitious and false affidavit that I robbed her of a Hundred Pounds worth of Plate and that I had pawnd it unto Mr. John wallis a Gold-smith in Lombard street at the sign of the Angel who can witness that I never did pawn any Plate unto him a Person in
Son Prince Charles of the one side and to inscribe thereon Carolus Rex Magnae Britanniae Carolus Princeps And of the other side to insculp the form of his Royal Bannor used at the said Battle and to inscribe about it par regale mandatum Careli Regis hoc assignatur Roberto Walsh which his Royal Majestie of Blessed Memory gave me accordingly out of his own hand and his Royal Commission for me to wear the same expressing in it that it was for the most acceptable service that I rendred at the Battle of Edge Hill which accordingly I have ever since worn this was not gain'd by love or favor sedex officio gladii which no Herald can deny but may carry the title of right Honor and now to be upbraided by Everard or any such Noble Reader do but Judge if it may well by me be digested were I guilty of the least disloyalty I would condemn my self more then any accuser could make me Now as to this Everard he did about the Year 1673. in Paris come often my lodging I then usually making use of him to translate for me English into French as I have divers of his translations in writing now by me and extant and then sometimes gave him half a Crown he coming from one end of Paris the Reu de St. Antoine to the Saubourge of St. Jermins often unto me the Half-Crown did invite him not as it seem'd his love to me and one night he did say and at random that great designs were intended to breed great disturbances in His Most Excellent Majesties Kingdoms without specifying upon what particular grounds or making mention in the least degree that he had any intention to discover them but much to the contrary vowing that he was resolved to live and die as he ever was bred in the Roman Religion I then did represent unto him that as he was a Subject of His Most Excellent Majesties and a Vassal born in the Country Palatine of Tipperary under his Grace the Duke of Ormond that he would do but his duty if he knew any such immotious intended to give me notice whereby to advertise his Grace which he then promised he would but never after did he ever come at me or near me Some time before I had from a very considerable hand that there were then ingendring in Paris to breed disturbances in his Majesties Kingdoms towards the subversion of His Most Excellent Majesties Laws and Government in which some of his Subjects were very officiously intermedling I then did immediately address my self unto the marquis de Molac who was my friend and one of his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans his Chief Gentleman who did introduce me unto his Royal Highness unto whom I did then represent that some Ingins were set a foot to beget Tumults and Disturbances in His Magesties of great Britain his Kingdoms 1672. and that I did hope his Royal Highness would speak unto his Christian Majesty not to give ear or countenance unto such His Majesties Subjects as may therein be made abettors or incendiaries Though I was perswaded that they were therein countenanced as I could make Oath his Royal Highness did promise me he would speak unto his Brother and that he would cary a diligent and careful eye thereunto which with Justice I may say that his Royal Highness would not this day disown Now in as much as that this Everard doth set forth in his depositions that I most unfaithfully did betray him unto the Talbots a thing I had no ground for he not communicating unto me that he had any such intention but much to the contrary he and they being much together and upon the word of a man of Honor and the Faith of a Christian I never did nor was I but once all the time the Talbots were in Paris conversant with them nor have I had any intimacy with Collonel Talbot or his Brother but rather to the contrary as some of my Kings best Subjects I presume may confirm Now in as much as that Everard in his depositions maketh Oath that he was made Prisoner in the Tower by the means of the Talbots and the Lady Anne-Gordon In that Alegation he contradicts himself for after his enlargement from the Tower he meets me in St. James's Park comes to me and cries Sir Robert Walsh you are the man who put me into the Tower and that made me a great sufferer there I then told him I was and were it to do again I would and that I did wonder how such a Villain that had so malignant intentions towards the Duke of Monmouth could obtain his liberty I did not then know that he had charged the Lady Anne or the Talbots to have been the causers of his Imprisonment and so we parted Now to come to the true grounds of his being made Prisoner in the Tower which shall be justified and made out There was in the Year 1673. a Gentleman in Paris one Mr. Dalonson a person born unto a good estate and now in the possession of it he being in Paris very much reduced unto necessity he came to me declaring who he was naming some friends of his that I well knew and for whom I had esteem he demonstrating the sad condition he was in I did take him to an Ordinary or eating-house where I had credit a La ren de Colombie and did give him credit for his Diet and lodging in the said oberge where he rested two or three Months and truly I did discharge him as I am sure he will own III. About the same time Everard and this Dalonson coming both at a time to my lodging they became acquainted and so great an intimacy in a little time they grew into as that they joyned to lodge in a house and in one Bed and they two became as hand and glove Some time before this Everard having the French Tongue was introduced to his Grace the Duke of Monmouth and in a little time his Grace took him into his Service to be his Sollicitor or under Secretary he having before been an under Clark to the Lievtenant Crimenel or Lievtenant Civel of Paris I well know not which how he did demean or misdemean himself under his Grace I know not but cast or cashiered from the Dukes Service he was and Mr. Sarchevel taken in his place Everard hereupon grew enraged against his Grace and took a most Hellish resolution which was to Poyson the Duke of Monmouth in resolution so to do as in apparances he came into England Mr. Dalonson being Everards intimate he communicates unto Mr. Dalonson his resolution to Poyson and did carry Mr. Dalonson with him to buy the Poyson for the said purpose and so did buy it After that Dalonson had fully penetrated into Everards mallgnity Mr. Dalonson giving me a visit he tells me that he was so happy as to meet an opportunity and occasion which may demonstrate unto me that I had not oblieged an
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
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
to pay that considerable allowance yet for the time of Thirty three months I never received but Ten pound or about the Value I do not say this to upbraid Sir Steven for I believe him an honest Gentleman but that mony was then not over plenty in his Treasury I being forced to address unto the King of Spain he set me at liberty and payed my Costs as here aforesaid else I had there perished XV. I appeal unto my Most Gracious King for Justice who never did deny it unto any of his Subjects and I shall ever as now I do submit unto his will and pleasure I having ever served under his Royal Banner and never had a hand in the War of Ireland I had many of my Kings Letters and Orders to have my Estate not to be made liable unto new Quit Rents and years Value which never had or took the least effects I have payed ever since His Majesties happy Restauration for yearly Quit Rents at Two pence Farthing an Acre out of my Estate an Hundred and Three pound odd mony yearly as is certified under the Auditor Generals hand out of Ireland which amounts not far in the time from being 1900 l. and the years full Value for one year of my Estate besides Morgages upon my Estate of above a Thousand pound which I engaged for to bring Horse and Foot for His Majesties Service out of Ireland I must attribute it to my fate or the want of meeting with Justice whereas I am put in Ballance with such as were in Actual Arms and Service against their Majesty Nay a great many of such have had their Estates struck out of charge and their Quit rents taken off yet mine still stand charged His Majesties Orders and Letters as to my particular meeting with no obedience If loosers may speak sure none can blame me for this my Declaration having never had the least compensation gift or grant nor other usage than what herein is specified only One hundered pound from the Privy Purse To this my Vindication or Declaration I set my hand and am ready to justifie it by either Common Civil or Military Law or place of Justice against any man that dare to my face contradict what I here have said let him be Subject French Dutch or any Forreigner If any be here he may find the lie given him and he will swallow it or give his appearance to charge me XVI Sir Robert Walsh hath been detained Three years Prisoner to the French King in the Bastil and never any thing laid to his Charge but for being of the Prince of Conde's party Then he came for England and was made Prisoner in the Tower by the Usurper never any thing laid to his Charge Then was made Prisoner in Bruxels by his Kings Ministers and never any thing laid to his Charge before Justice These Imprisonments were all you I hope will say hard here lately made Prisoner to the Black Rod and nothing laid to his Charge in 79. Is this the liberty of the Subject XVII One thing more I may with Justice add I being in Paris about the year 72. or 73. or thereabouts I had by the means of Monsieur de Mumbas my ancient Acquaintance who was Brother in Law unto miniere de Grote alias Grotius then Embassador for the States of Holland an entrance unto this Embassador so as that I did discover that the French King and the States of Holland were then upon the point and but very little difference between them of coming unto an agreement or Joyning His Grace the Duke of Buckingham then having His Majesty's Ear I immediatly writ to him that it would be of very great consequence to prevent the said junction by an agreement with the States which as I take did very soon issue France and Holland having until of late continued in a War my Letter unto his Grace I addrest to Sir John Hanmer who did tell me since my coming into England that such a Letter he did receive from me and that he believe it did still lye by him I writ at the same time to Mr. Progers to the same purpose who I am sure did show or produce it unto His Majesty unto whom I sent Miniere Grotius his Letter to me in Mr. Montegue his Packet as may be judged by the effects of the accommodation then we made with the States and Mr. Edward Progers his Letter was to have me come in Person into England XIX The Year of His Majesties happy restauration the Marquis de Gudance was commissioned by the French King to come unto His Most Excellent Majesty to London upon some pretext from the French King Dunkerk then in the Lord Lockerts time of Government there and newly rendered unto His Most Excellent Majesty the Marquis de Gudance made it his work to gain some Officers of the Garison of Dunkerk to surprise the Garison for the French King and had contracted a Treaty with them for that purpose Sir Robert Walsh then living at Berge St. Venox a League from Dunkerk this Marquis came to Berge often he and Sir Robert came acquainted so as the Marquis did communicate his design upon Dunkerk to Sir Robert sounding him that knew the humor of the English how he might so confide in the English and to prevent and be precautioned that he may not be trapanned he offering Sir Robert an assurance of Five Thousand Pistols If he would contribute by his advice and conduct Which Sir Robert did consent to yield unto reserving to himself to do his duty to his King immediatly hereupon he humbly addressed a Letter to His Majesty whereupon His Sacred Majesty immediatly writ to Sir Robert in his own hand immediatly to repair unto him with all speed and privacy Unto which Sir Robert quit his House dwelling and interest in Berge St. Venox and immediatly came to His Majesty The now Earl of Arlington being then Secretary of State His Majesty did Order Sir Robert to make his address unto him and to communicate all particulars unto him which Sir Robert so doing my Lord gave thereunto a hearing answerable and did receive Sir Robert with expressions very kind of the sense he had of Sir Roberts service in that particular and that he would in Order thereunto give His Majesty an account unfortunately soon after Sir Robert was arrested for a Hundred Pound and committed Prisoner to the Fleet under Chancellor Hide his Verge who made such use of his power carrying an animosity against Sir Robert that notwithstanding Sir Robert had put in good security he could not obtain a day writ Sir Jeremy Witchcot being so much the Chancellors Creature until the Lord Arlington who was not so writ to the Warden of the Fleet Sir Jeremy Witchcot that it was His Majesties pleasure Sir Robert should have a day writ which Letter Sir Robert this day hath and upon which his day writ was had and His Majesty a little time after did order Sir Robert