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
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
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
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
again taken for the old Debt and made Prisoner but my Lord was dead that Noble Dorset else assuredly there had been payed as much duty unto her Majesties Priviledges as before she then being here present as was in her absence as in my concern but the times are changed and we too much a La mode some promises much and in effect perform little this is no romance and less is what will follow The wars beginning then truly I was offerd by the Houses of Parliament a considerable Imployment my Tenent not leading me that way I quietly got away and went for York where my King was and I in no ill equipage and after kissing his hand applyed my self unto the Lord Henry Wilmot late Earl of Rochester deceased who left this Young Lord I hope to inherit the Fathers Worth and Gallantry The Lord Wilmot was then raising a Regiment of Horse for His Majesty and assoon as I came to him he did embrace me bidding me welcome not Alamode but in effect telling me I should command his own Troop then a raising so I did and in it a Hundred Valiant brave men most Gentlemen of Estate and Quality who not long after did so approve themselves who could not choose but so to do having such a General in the head of them as was his Lordship what hath not he done to leave his Name Renowned VI. I being made Prisoner last Parliament 1678. all my Papers and Writings seized upon and I carried Prisoner to the Black Rod by Sir Edward Cartred who was very civil towards me and carried before the Most Honorable Committee of Lords and yet the Noble Lord that moved against me in Parliament appeared no more to have made party against me believing not as I presume what was told him VII Now give me leave Noble Readers to give a relation of the first War betwixt King and Parliament which truly is uncontradictable for it shall carry nothing in it but a real Character of truth At the Battle of Edge-hill His Highness Prince Rupert that ever Renowned Person Commanded the right Wing of our Horse who put the Enemies into an absolute rout and the Earl of Brandford the left unto whose share it came to charge the Enemies right Wing His Highness putting into a derout their left Wing the Battle begun upon a Sunday Morning and the Lord Digby commanded our reserve of Horse who gave more Testimony of his Courage then of conduct but that never to be buried in oblivion the deceased Earl of Rochester this Lord being then Commissary General of the Horse and in the head of our left Wing of Horse and in the head of his one Troop Commanded by Sir Robert Walsh and his Lordships Troop consisting of at least a Hundred Brave and Noble Gentlemen as Sir John Dongan Sir Brien O Neale Sir Henry Talbot sir walter Dongan son to sir John brave Irish Gentlemen whose most Valiant deportment gave great Testimony of their Loyalty as I may say did the whole Troop and his Regiment as may witness that first service they were in his Royal Majesty of Blessed Memory and His now sacred Majesty and his Royal Highness were not only there as witness of their Loyal subjects but also hazardly and dangerously ingaged in the said Battle to their great and ever Renowned Everlasting Glory The Lord wilmos having charged the right Wing of the Enemy did beat them and put them so in disorder as that they run confusedly into Kington which was in the Rear of their Army the reserve of our Horse unpremeditatedly follow the pursuit of the Enemy which gave the advantage unto the reserve of the Enemies Horse as also unto their main Body that they fell upon that Renowned Most Honorable Earl of Linzy our General and so furiously as that His Majesties own Regiment was disordered and divers of their standards taken at the same time where the Noble Lord Gerard Commanding Three Regiments of Foot made a most manly stand our Horse being for the most part mingled in the Enemies and his Highness Prince Ruperts Horse pursuing fortune proved so favorable unto sir Robert walsh as to keep the Lord Wilmots Troop in a Body unscattered so as he encountred some of the Horse that charged the Earl of Linzy in their return this being in the rear of the Enemies Army towards the Town of Kington sir Robert with his Troop charged them and recovered the standards which they took from the Kings Regiment and also took some of the Enemies and sir Robert being then in the rear of the Enemies Army in the Town of Kington did sieze upon Two Pieces of Cannon and a Waggon brought them into the rear of His Majesties Army His Glorious Majesty having lain that night upon the top of Edge-Hill his Army not then drawn from the Enemies sir Robert towards Morning brought the Two Pieces of Cannon and Waggon to the bottom of Edge-hill and brought the standard of His Majesties and some of the Enemies unto His Highness Prince Rupert who immediately did present them and sir Robert unto His Majesty who was graciously pleased there to Knight sir Robert for the acceptable service he then did render VIII Some time after his then Royal Highness the Prince going to command in the West of England Sir Robert was by His Majesty Ordered into the West to serve under his Royal Highness Bannor which he did as Lieutenant Collonel of Sir George Vaughans Regiment of Horse who was a brave Worthy Noble Gentleman and then Sheriff of wiltshire leaving all to Sir Robert Conduct But he still came when any fight was The Devises being then surrounded by Sir william waller and all our Army in the Devises which were so short of Ammunition and Match that they were forced to make use of all the Bed-cords which were in the Town for Match His Royal Highness Prince Maurica that Renowned Prince the Famous and Honourable the Lord Marquess of Herford and the Honourable Lord Hopson were in the Devises and Sir william waller surrounded them with his Horse Foot and Cannon having summoned the Trained-Bands of those parts to come and joyn with him which they then did the Prince and Lords called then in the Devises a Councel of War and concluded that their best expedient was to dispatch an Officer that would hazard to get to Oxford to give His Majesty advice how it stood with them in the Devises whereupon did depend very highly His Majesties Interest They pitched upon Sir Robert walsh to go and sent for him he being with his Regiment upon the Out-guards and asked him if that he would adventure he made answer that he would most willingly and readily that he regarded no hazard or danger so as that he could but compass their Relief upon which he was immediately ordered to go which he did being not ill Horsed and went all alone carrying not a servant or mart with him He was in his way closely pursued by the Enemies Scouts and
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