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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

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

thus at the said Battle as those who were there do know as the most Honorable Valiant Lord Gerart Edward Earl of Barkshier and Collonel Edward Villers Sir Edward Brett Sir Thomas Daniel and others and the Lord Warton can also witness that our left wing of Horse then Commanded by the most Loyal and Royal Earl of Brandford Henry the Lord Wilmot and Commissary General of the Horse did clearly beat and put to flight the right wing of the Enemies pursuing them through the Village of Kinton which lay in the rear of the Enemies Army being a long Village consisting of thatched Houses between which then lay the Enemies Ammunition some Cannon and their Waggons we pursuing the Enemy further our foot in body and the Enemies then hotly ingaged order came to our Horse not to pursue the Enemy further but to return to our Army Our reserve of Horse unpremeditatedly coming with us in the pursuit In our return through Kington Village it came into my head that the burning of that Village and their Ammunition would have rendered us that days victory Whereupon I ordered my Horse men a foot and to fire the Village and their Ammunition and just as they begun to set fire the Honorable and Worthy Brave Lord Carnarvan and that Worthy Commander Sir Charles Lucas being my Superior Officers commanded me from putting my resolution in Execution Saying that the day was ours as also that Ammunition and Village Vnto which I made answer that the Armies being then in fight fortuna de la guere may be Subject to change the face and State of Affairs and that the Burning of their Ammunition could not but assuredly render his Majesty Supream Victory yet notwithstanding I was forced to give obedience so as by the said Ammunition and Cannon we were forced to retreat and quit the Field However I then brought from Kington Two Pieces of their Cannon into the Kings Army and the Waggon of my Lord of Essex which was so compleat and made Coffin way that in our next two days march our Army called it Essex his Coffin but I would it had been the next Waggon which was to it covered with Spits and Frying-pans for there lay all the Armies money and pay as one Pudcy who was Chamber-man unto Essex who writ to me for his Lords necessaries some days after did assure me 4. Though many more deservedly then I might in the day of Battle have attained to the Dignity of the Mark of Honor I carry at my Breast I am confident that there is not many who can show as ample a Commission of his Majesties of Blessed Memory for the like as I have now Extant which in this particular it hath profited me in Where all Noblemen and Knights are liable to pay pole mony I having sent my badge Title and Commission unto those worthy Commissioners who were intrusted in the assessment of the Pole-money they then sitting at Hicks ' s Hall in May 1678. They were civily pleased to discharge me from the payment for my Dignity and that I should pay only a Shilling for my Pole signed by two of the Commissioners and sealed whom I yet never to my knowledge did see Sir Ed. Abney and William Beversham Commissioners the 29. May 1678. So in paying a Shilling I was quit READER pray be so justly favorable I being forced in Honor and Loyalty to make this publication who am no Orator to judge but with an indifferent eye according to the proofs I offer which I will maintain stand unto and will justifie by Common Civil or Marshal Law unto all Persons and in all respects and in particular against this Everard as in any thing wherein he doth bring in my name he is a person that I have known of a long time as also his condition not by the qualification he assumes to himself in the title Esquire in his prints as so he hath subscribed his name which I cannot imagine on what account and I must conclude that he hath as much right so to name himself as unto the contrary he hath to have brought my name in question as to suppress the discovery of the Plots in such as he hath mentioned me in If he will but take example in following my Rule as now I find it not unnecessary to explain my quality and Title and that he may truly so demonstrate his whereby the world may censure or give applause which as unto their judgments may seem fit This Everard doth set forth in his said depositions that in the Year 1673. being in Paris that he did discover unto me some designs and disturbances which were intended towards the prejudice of his Most Excellent Majestie 's Kingdom which as he saith he came to the knowledge of from the Lady Anne Gourdon a Lady that to my remembrance I never spoke unto but heard of her as of a Lady of great Judgment Birth and quality whose Family hath always been adorned with the endowments and Characters of Loyalty of which some of late have given dmonstration and Testimony of as that Noble Person my Lord Donbarton and his Brother so as if this Lady should so fall off as to intermeddle in the like unseemly intermedlings certainly she hath degenerated and rendered her self to be much sensurable and to have done it unto such a Person as this Everard it could render her no less than ridiculous But malice and invention hath so powerful an influence in this Age. Quod nihil plus I speak not as to take this Ladies part nor to excuse her weakness as I believe not should she be guilty But when I consider that man reduced to poverty Extremity want and misery as sometimes this Everard subject to search after all manner of resorse for his relief I will not take on me to Judge of the sequel Now as unto what he hints as having in the Year 1673. discovered unto one Sir Robert Walsh I knowing no other may presume he darts at me Though he mentions not my stile or quality pardon Noble Reader If for reasons I think it not incongruous but rather inducing to consequence that it might be allowed my precations grounded upon Honor may not be involved in other then in duty and Loyalty unto my Anointed King in whose service I have had the Honor to have born very considerable charges and imployments since the Year 1639. in the first Northern service under the Command of the now Lord Stafford having ever since served my Kings Honorably and Faithfully which no body can deny and particularly in the Battle of Edge-Hill in the Year 1643. Where fate was no less favorable unto me then fortunate in inabling me to render my King acceptable service so as that he was then graciously pleased in the Field to honor me with the dignity of Knight-hood then giving his Royal Commands that when he should arrive in Oxford that a Medal of Gold should be made for me with his own Effigies and that of His Dearest

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

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