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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

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

whose hands I intrusted many of mine to be kept above Two Hundred Pounds and that if any was pawnd that she pawnd it herself and afterwards she came to Mr. Wallis and fain would have retrieved her Plate saying that she only sent it him to be Varnished this Mr. wallis a man of fame and credit will aver but as unto her false Affidavid she procured the Lord Chief Justice his Warrant and in comes the Tipstaff one Otway with Twenty or Thirty at his heels and I scarce out of my bed they hurried me half naked through the street and carried me to New prison where I lay Two or Three hours sent for Bail who entred into rcognisance of Two Thousand Pounds for my appearance as Hick's-Hall which I did and the Gentlemen sitting there cancelled my recognisance and took Two ordinary men bound in Twenty Pounds a peace and I in Forty to appear at Guild-hall the following Sessions to answer to the Indictment against me for the King put in by this Widow E. J. now O. B. unto which I did appear at Guild-Hall before the Lord Chief Justice and that Honorable Bench a Jury being Impanneld she appearing there and telling her Story the Lord Chief Justice and the Bench found it so nonsensical as my Lord told the Jury that there was no Subject for them to be troubled with so dismissed them and me from the indictment though she pretended to have comprised me in the Number of such as were concerned in the Plot. This. Widow E. I. now O. B. did absolutely give unto Sir Robert walsh a Dubble guilt Tankard which is under her own hand and arrested by John Chappel Clearke unto Sir James Butler Sarah Sing and Frances Duval the said Tankard Sir Robert made a present of unto a Person of quality yet the said Widow most impudently did make her address unto the said Person of quality and did perswade him that Sir Robert rob'd her of her Tankard and the said Person of quality could not be rid of her importunity until he gave her the Tankard without having asked Sir Robert of the matter they being at a far distance one from the other I had at Guild-Hall under her own hand Forty of her Letter to produce what she was which are still extant In one she writes that she was so much in the favor of Sir J. E. as that she was sure if his Wife who was sickly should dye that he would marry her and that if so I should be her Gallant and I should not want for money this Letter and all hers are this day extant XXIV In the Year 1655. or 1656 I being here intrusted as is set forth in my manifest to steal away then from the Usurpers claws I was necessitated to take up Forty Pounds worth in silk Stockings to carry me into Flanders I being here in 1677. I was arrested upon my Bond of Forty Pounds and forced to pay Sixty five Pounds as Mr. John Wallis Gold-smith and Sargent Dike in whose Prison I was can witness yet I importuned not His Majesty to my relief as in that I lying Prisoner upon the stocking action comes an action of Four Hundred Pound against me upon Bond in the Year 1641. where I then became bound for the Lord Henry wilmot late Earl of Rochester which was to carry him then after His Majesty of Blessed Memory to York This action being laid upon me I did petition and implore His Majesty to look upon the hardness of my paying that debt which the Duke of Ormond and the Earl of Bathe did represent unto His Majesty who was compassionate but I was forced to satisfie the debt which I could not then have done but that a great Lord and a great Subject did so take me into his consideration as that he did relieve me he is not now in this Kingdom but is in one of His Majesties I dare not mention his Name knowing he is not Covetous that his charitable goodness in such kind should esclat These are the rewards I meet with in return of my coming of purpose out of France in the Year 1675. To have discovered the insurrections and disturbances which were intended against His Majesties Kingdoms and good Subjects having no other for my labor charges and loss of time here these Four Years past then have been these misfortunes The Conclusion of my Manifest I Beg the favor from you Noble Readers not to censure as that I vaunt of my services having done but my duty or that I complain of the Murderous imprisonment I have for Three and Thirty Months with I may say injustice groaned under which I impute unto the most ungrounded ill conduct of some then Ministers of State who gave ear unto some false Rascally and most Villanous intelligencers Some of which may live this day and read herein the Character I give them whose courage affords them not to take notice the best of men doth know who they where or be I do not I would I did they soon should here from me who am His Majesties Loyal Subject and unto you my friends an humble Servant July 3. 1679. Robert Walsh Knight and Ba tt FINIS

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

part of their Out-guards but it pleased God he got safe and the next morning got to His Majesty who their was in Oxford His Majesty did then immediately Order that Relief should presently be sent and calling upon the Lord wilmot did order without delay that he should get ready the Horse and march unto the Relief of the Devises which was as soon as possibly observed so as the Lord wilmot the Lord Biron Colonel Thomas weston now Earl of Newport and divers of the best Commanders did march and hardly drew Bit in their march to the Devises which was no easie or short march And when arrived at the Devises the Horse were weary and I may say by she same and stragling that we missed Five hundered Horse of our Number coming from Oxford My Lord wilmot from Malborough did dispatch Sir Robert walsh all alone towards the devices with Order to return assoon as possible to bring him notice how matters went Sir Robert did go and return quickly to my Lord whose conduct and Carriage was so evidently made apparant to the world as nothing could be more my Lords as thus His Highness Prince Maurite and she Lord Hopton did march with the Horse out of the devices intending to have joyned to the Lord wilmot and in part did his Highness Horse were not many and when he came to joyn they advised in Council what was to be done waller and his Army Horse cannon and Foot and Train-Bands very numerous and our Horse were wearied being not above Fifteen Hundred or Two Thousand at the Council the Lord wilmot gave his opinion as thus that his Horse were all wearied and by consequence an impossibility that they could make any retreat from the Enemy without being utterly cut off The Enemies Army being not half a Mile from them and therefore if the Prince and the Lord Hopton pleased to consent that he would advance with a Thousand Horse to the top of a Hill which lay betwixt them and the Enemy presuming that the Enemy would so undervalue them as that they would march up the Hill to devour them My Lord wilmot adding that if they so would come as they did perhaps it might ruin them which did the Princes and Lord Hopton did conclude with the Lord wilmots sense whereupon of the Horse which were in the devices my Lord wilmot of the Western Horse only takes Sir John Digby a most Noble and brave Officer and Sir Robert Walsh with their Troops to joyn with him my Lord sends Lievtenant Collonel Paul Smith who was unto his Lordships Regiment with a Hundred Horse as a forlorn hope and marches himself in the right Wing of a party of his Horse and adjoyns Sir John Digby and Sir Robert Walsh with their Troops to be at the head of his second Division of his left Wing and his Highness Prince Maurice marched with the Body of the Horse it fell out so as my Lord Wilmet did Prognosticate Sir William Waller Orders Sir Arthur Haselrick to march up such a Hill to devour the Enemy which he undertook in the Head of a Thousand Horse first which were Armed Cap a pe and afterwards named Lobsters Haselrick sending his forlorn hope which was encountred by ours he marched in the head of two divisions and the rest of his Horse marching in Regiments up the Hill after one another which were between Four and Five Thousand Horse The Lord Wilmot first received their charge then charges them beats Haselrick and Haselrick disorders the rest of his Horse the Prince and Lord Hopton advance so as the Enemies Horse was clean forced to run away Then the Prince and Lord Wilmot consults to charge their Foot and Cannon which they put in Execution and did Rout them took all their Cannon Foot and Colors e're that our Foot in the devices could get out to joyn with us this was so clear and fair a Victory as that it gained his Majesty the whole West of England which then was of the last consequence The Lord Wilmot then calls Sir Robert Walsh and says that as he went to His Majesty to bring this relief he should immediatly post to His Majesty and give him the account which Sir Robert did His Majesty being not at Oxford but gone to meet Her Majesty then come out of Holland which he met at Edge-Hill where Sir Robert addrest and His Majesty and Her Majesty in the Coach Sir Robert gave His Majesty the account which was most mightily acceptable and his Highness Prince Rupert and my Lord of St. Albans then by when Sir Robert gave the ccount some time after the Lord Hopton retiring his Brigade of Horse was given Sir Robert Walsh who was also made Commissary General in the West of Horse and Foot a charge of great trust and Honor as also of the Counties of Southampton Sussex Surry and Kent which then were associated Counties his Commissions are now extant which were so ample and spatiously large as that the General the Lord Goring was not over pleased yet signed the Commissions His Majesty of Blessed Memory gives Sir Robert Walsh Commission to go for Ireland in the Year 1644. to raise Horse and Foot and in His Majesties one hand writes to my Lord of Ormond then Lord Lievtenant of Ireland to give Sir Robert all assistance and countenance which that most ever Loyal untainted and unchangeable Subject did most willingly countenance Sir Robert in giving all furtherance so as Sir Robert did bring upon his own cost and charge without having a Peny from His Majesty bring then out of Ireland a Hundred Horse which he recruted his Regiment with and His Glorious Majesty being then in Cornewal to oppose Essex who then was General Listedel Castle was surrounded by Essex his forces Essex Lying of Listedell side and His Majesties Army of the other side of a small River Sir James Smith that Worthy Noble brave Gentleman being sent with his Regiment of Horse For the Guard of the said Castle did there most Worthy service and received cruel Wounds Sir Robert Walsh and his Brigade of Horse were then commanded unto Sir James his relief whose fate was so prosperous in the beating of Essex his Foot from the Hedges about the said Castle and in view of His Majesty and Army that His Majesty after Sir Roberts coming off sent for him and took him by the hand his Royal Highness then next His Majesty saying he hoped to live to gratifie Sir Robert not only for the service he then saw him render but as well for his Loyalty and former services IX Some time after the Lord Wilmots Imprisonment and confinement into Exeter by the false reports of some Sir Robert having been a Creature of the Lord Wilmots and his Officer who most perfectly well knew his Loyalty faithfulness and Gallantry and particularly in His Majesties service seeing the Lord Wilmots unjust disgrace being siezed upon in the head of the Army by Mr. Thomas Elliot upon which Sir

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