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justice_n	john_n	robert_n	sir_n	10,839	5	7.1967	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97079	The narratives of Sir Robert Walsh, Kt. and Btt. being by the false instigations of Edmond Everard, an Irish-man, seized upon This small one is to shew to the world what Sir Robert subscribes in relation to his narrative, desiring all loyal subjects to admit of a just censure therein, he being ready to affirm what he hath writ, not by any private information; but to maintain the same before any court of justice, either in the civil, common or marshal law; or unto any particular man's face who shall contradict it.	Walsh, Robert, Sir.	1680 (1680)	Wing W643G; ESTC R215511	4,425	5

THE NARRATIVES OF Sir Robert Walsh Kt. and B tt Being by the false Instigations of Edmond Everard An Irish-man Seized upon This small one is to shew to the WORLD what Sir ROBERT Subscribes in relation to his NARRATIVE Desiring all Loyal Subjects to admit of a just Censure therein He being ready to affirm what he hath writ not by any private Information but to maintain the same before any Court of JUSTICE either in the Civil Common or Marshal Law or unto any particular Man's face who shall contradict it IN the Month of July 1679. I published a Narrative relating to the late Troubles as well in my own Vindication as for publick Satisfaction In which nothing was contain'd but what I always offer'd to make good and justifie before any Magistrate or in any Court of Justice whatsoever Nevertheless so it fell out that one Edmond Everard who was so long kept Prisoner in the Tower for his intent to have Poison'd his Grace the Duke of Monmouth as is at large set forth in the said Narrative finding no other way to obtain his Liberty pretended to become an Evidence for the King in discovering great Plots and Conspiracies of many years standing And by this Pretence as also giving his Bond for 50 l. of which he never paid a Penny though the Work was done to Mrs. Betty Mackrel for prevailing with some near the Duke of Monmouth to take off his former Displeasure against him at last he obtain'd his Liberty entitling himself one of His Majesties Evidences Now this Everard understanding that my Narrative confuted several passages of his Depositions and fully discover'd the true cause of his Imprisonment in the Tower He apply'd himself to Sir John Frederick and Sir Robert Hanson Justices of the Peace in the City of London falsly suggesting that my said Narrative was a Libel and thereupon obtain'd their Warrant to seize my Books in the Binders House about 2000 in number which to this day continue in the Constables hands one Grey of St. Martins London And though the said Justices declar'd to the Constable that he should return them to me and the Constable often promising me the Delivery of them Yet by the said Everard's means he still detains them contrary to all Law and Equity and as I am credibly inform'd hath sold several of them for 3 s. apiece without my privity consent or order But I am glad that my Books are not of that Seditious Disloyal strain as those most Malignant and Invective False and Traiterous Libels lately produced by this Everard for which he now absconds if not already taken Warrants being thereupon issued out against him In my Narrative I declar'd that being in France from the year 1669 till 1675. I came to understand of a Plot design'd to be put in Execution by some of my Kings Subjects towards the subversion of his Majesties Fundamental Laws and Government now established they presuming to be upheld and born out by Foreign assistance as it is more amply set forth in my Narrative These Plotters and Abettors I was always willing fully to discover were I interrogated thereupon For no pretence of Religion Protestant Papist or other shall ever blind me so far as to conceal any Treacherous Design against my Sovereign No on the Word of a Christian I hold Honesty and Loyalty the best Religion upon Earth As for his Royal Highness I declare and am ready to prove that he was altogether a stranger to these practices nay I am sure he would be the first in his Royal Person that would hazard his life to quell and oppose such Traiterous Attempts What Dangers has he ever declined to give a Testimony of his Zeal and Care for His Majesties Service and the Preservation of his Laws and Loyal Subjects Some will Censure his Belief though they know not their own much less another mans Religion Can any groundedly say him to be otherwise than a true Catholick of the Church of England Sure I am he is of that temper That he loves all honest and peaceable Christians let them be of what Religion they will and hates nothing more than such as have too much Religion in their Mouths but none in their Hearts making a Cloak thereof to carry on their own evil designs against Church and State Let none think I write this to curry Favour with his Royal Highness no I do but my Duty and what I owe to the Posterity of his late Majesty of most blessed Memory whose goodness is so deeply imprinted in my heart that although his Royal Highness has been pleased to have an ill Opinion of me nay to disgrace me in publick yet this shall never alienate or lessen my Loyalty to my King or my Duty to his Royal Highness And were it not wholly against my Inclinations to prove disloyal I am sure I have met with as much provocation as ever Subject did and all this proceeding from the Malice of Fabulous Tale-tellers and Lying Informers And though it came out of his Royal Highness mouth The Calumniating me with the Title of Informer it was he who inculcated the same into his Highnesses head who durst not to my Face say or lay any thing to my Charge disadvantagious This I say and will maintain in any ground in Christendom that whoever he was that buzz'd that ill Character of me into his Royal Highness ear he could be no other than a most Villanous Lying Rascal in that particular This he perhaps may read and will swallow If he durst have owned to my face what he said I would bid him kiss or make him my I will no longer exspatiat upon my unjust sufferances which my Narratives gives a full Account and in what is perfectly true Now I will beg your Patience in giving you a relation of what Barbarous usage I received but this year last past In the month of October 1679 intending to avoid the Darts of Malice I obtained his Majesties Gracious Protection and Pass in this and in all Kingdoms in Amity with his Majesty whereupon having sent my Equipage to be Embark'd at Graves-end I went my self to take Boat at Strand-bridge and follow it but passing by the New-Exchange my Coach was stopt and I seiz'd upon by half a dozen I askt at whose Suit I was so seized upon they answered at the Kings I replyed I was ready and willing to obey yet was I pull'd and hall'd out of my Coach I ask'd where I was to be carry'd they answered before Sir William Waller and Mr. Everard I ask'd where were they they answered at the Half-Moon Tavern Thither was I hall'd and hundreds of People about me There sate in State Sir William Waller and this Edmund Everard on his left hand I asked Sir William why I was so pull'd and halled out of my Coach He answered That I had got a Narrative Printed which I could not justifie and was then Arrested for it I asked what did my Narrative contain contrary to