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
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
he is ready to satisfie any that may pretend to the contrary leaving those who read this to judge the hardness of the measure he hath met with wishing he may be the sole or only in this Age who may find the Effects of the like Injustice as he hath TO THE READER THis manifest of Sir Robert Walsh doth declare that he cant out of France into England in the Year 1675. not without order as he can make it appear where his Loyalty and Duty did obliege him and also to declare what malignant designes and insurrections were Ingendring in France where he lived most of his time these Thirty and odd years towards the subversion of His Most Excellent Majesties Government and Fundamental Laws and he hath here continued these Four Years and above to make out what his manifest doth thereunto relating set forth Remonstrating nothing but what came within his knowledge and what he is ready to justifie not only by Oath but by the Laws of any Courts of Justice as either in the Civil Common or Marshal Law to the face of any Subject any French Dutch or Forreigner And is ready to declare if summond thereunto how that in 72. 73. and 74 some of his Majesties Subjects have been intermedling therein presuming that they may be countenanced and upheld by a greater person then yet hath been quoted or named to have fomented in the said Troubles Sir Robert Walsh having taken his dismiss and pass from the French Kings service being in no trust of his Sir Robert by His Most Excellent Majesties permission and orders of some of his chief Ministers of State did keep Intelligence out of France with Mr. Edward Progers one of his Majesties grooms of the Bed-chamber as shall be made amply out in this manifest As also how this Everard and for what he was made Prisoner in the Tower which he chargeth the Lady Anne Gordon Collonel Richard Talbot and his Brother to have been the Contrivers of his Imprisonment some particulars in his depositions shall be proved most false and he hath no way to Justifie himself Unless that as he doth profess himself to be very dextrous in his weapon that by that he may second his Oath In all Kingdoms some Subjects are good and some not 2. What Subject in this Age hath proved more true then the Duke of Ormond give him his due some are bad and yet I hope there may be made a true difference in some particulars it may be demonstrated the marks of their Loyalty conferred upon some Irish as thus There is the Lord Coorsy who by His Majesties Authority is ordered and permitted to wear his Hat in His Majesties Presence certainly it was for his Loyalty that that honor was conferred on him of which this day the young Lord Coorsy may be covered before His Majesty which is for the acceptable service he hath rendred the King and Crown Nor hath Sir Robert Walsh the priviledge of wearing His Majesties of Blessed Memory His Effigies and that of his dearest Son Prince Charles of the one side of his Golden Medal and the form of His Majesties Royal Bannor of the Reverse but for the Acceptable Service he hath rendered at the Battle of Edge-Hill in the year 43. as his Commission for wearing the same from His Majesty of Blessed Memory now Exstant can witness he having received the Dignity and Honor of Knight-hood upon the Top of Edge-Hill Sir Robert being Born in Ireland I hope may not pass for a Crime though some of the Follies of his Youth may be thrown in his Dish as the sin of the Flesh and Gaming yet never was any crime of Dis-Loyalty The first of his Name that went from England into Ireland for His Majesties Service in King Edwards Time was Sir Patrick Walsh who to Attack the City of Lymberick caused a Hundred Horse and Men to swim over the River of Shannon and so Surprized and Took Limberick as the Chronicle of England and Ireland more largely Expatiates upon But Sir Patrick a Horse-Back swimming over the River Bows and Arrows then being in Vse he shot a Swan Flying through the Breast so as ever since the flying Swan hath been his Crest with the Arrow through the Swans Crest and his Armes three Arrows Heads which hath so continued to his line and Name as now they do in me which I give with an addition of the flowers De-luce which I give by the right of having Married an Heiress and I being in France then in command having a Regiment in His Christian Majesties Service and His Most Excellent Majesty then being in Paris and in the Louure some Theses being dedicated at the Colledge of Cerbone unto the Noblest and best of His Most Excellent Majesties Subjects There was one Dedicated to me by one of the Doctors in Theology of the said Colledge and my Arms being set forth and displayed carrying the Flowers De-luce and my name being Valois and so was when in the Conquest the name came out of France into England which here is turned to Walsh by time the Duke De Anguleme being De Valois which name have been Kings of France some being curious sent to the Louure to know if I was not de La Maison de Valois as some Noble-men now here may please to remember then heard the question propounded so as some who grumbled that I should be named Valois may here be satisfied upon what ground I went by the said name and not as un nom de guere some who may read this will understand why I thus Expatiate Another thing Summons me to this Manifest some whom I cannot call better than Lyars Cowards and Villains who if any of them be living and read this they will swallow my Expression Those I mean who have villainously and most falsly invented that I was hired by Cromwel and the Lord of Brohill now Earl of Orery to Kill my Sacred and Anointed King as I at large set out in my Manifest I having been Murderously detained Prisoner in Bruxels Thirty Three Months upon that false pretention I renouncing the least Grace or Favâ—r from His Sacred Majesty then as now I do if any Dis-Loyalty could or can be laid to my Charge 3. If I herein be prolix pray Noble Reader pardon it and consider if that my unjust and non-parell sufferances in those days may not plead my excuse and withal that in this my following Manifest or Remonstrance doth not carry in it a word of untruth nor other then what I am ready to justifie with my life and fortune unto my new or late representments I may add some old which may not be unremarkable as one at the Battle of Edge-Hill in the Year 43. It lay fully in my power to have ended then that unhappy war of England and for the supream advantage of my King you will say why I did not do it and I say when you read what followeth you will own me not condemnable As
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
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
imployed by the then Usurper Oliver Cronwel and by then the Lord Brohill now living Earl of Orery into Flanders to Kill His Most Sacred and Anointed King and this fomented by Villains Rascals and false Informers who never did or durst appear to lay any thing of that nature or of any other crime unto his charge before Justice though they were thereunto summoned yet was Sir Robert made Prisoner and his only Son in Brucels for 33. Months starving with cold and hunger If such as so aspersed Sir Robert had appeared he had costs damage and interest against them which they did not Though summon'd thereunto by Don John D' Austrea and the Marquis of Carassenas then Governors of Flanders Sir Roberts damage would be more then they could pay though not as much as Dunkirk or Clarendon House was sold for VIII My Most Sacred King being ever just in himself was not willing that Sir Robert should so suffer for want of Justice so his Most Excellent Majesty upon the sollicitations of many Nobles strangers and Subjects of His Majesty was pleased to refer the concern unto the Judge Millitary of Flanders to determine who certified unto His Most Excellent Majesty and His Catholick Majesty the injustice of Sir Roberts imprisonment whereupon His Catholick Majesty sent his orders in these words which is still extant unto the Governors of Flanders being loth to find that a Gentleman and a Person of Honor should so be Martyred under his Laws The words of the Order were to our Governors and Treasurers in Flanders set Sir Robert Walsh at liberty and pay the costs and charges of his Imprisonment out of our Treasury He being made Prisoner at the instigation of some of His Majesty of Great Britains Ministers fine culpa this Order coming Sir Robert would not accept of his liberty but by Order of his own King so he did obtain from that Most Honorable Person the Earl of Castlehaven who is now here to carry the said Order unto His most Excellent Majesty with an humble desire that if any thing was or could be laid unto Sir Roberts charge that it should be put in against him Sir Robert humbly praying His Majesty then being in Bruxels that any of His Majesties Subjects English Irish or Scotch may be made his Judges he most willingly owning that His Most Excellent Majesties Power and Laws may be of as full sorce and value against him there unto which he was as ready and willing to submit himself as now he is unto His Most Sovereign Pleasure X. Sir Robert at the instigation of Everard being summon'd to the Bar of the Honorable House of Commons and having made his endeavors to have discharged his duty as aforesaid yet did he petition the house and put his petition into the hands of an Honorable member of the said House to be presented unto Mr. Speaker which was so done by Sir John Coriton who tells Sir Robert that the Speaker read every word thereof as is hereunto Annexed the Copy of the said petition I Sir Robert would not be afraid nor ashamed to have named the Ingenders and Fomentors of the Troubles and disturbances to have been set on Foot towards His Majesties Dominions had he been sammon'd thereunto and is not backward to say that the Honorable House of Commons would not have been displeased to see and order that some of the intermedlers may be detected and executed no less would any good Subject of England Pardon Noble Reader if that I presume to inmind that Criminals indisloyalty ought to receive Justice such as to them may be due and I to be the first were I criminal therein so I wish the same towards all or any Subjects upon proofs before their competent Adjudgers or Judges that thereby criminals may receive indign and publick Punishment and that Innocency may be protected and upheld This tends unto Sir Robert Walsh sufferances who forgot as unto one of Everards deposition to make answer as this in particular he makes mention of one Mrs wingfield alias Hampton and forsooth that his man Dalison he meaning Dalonson who never was his man or servant and that he and Sir Robert Walsh did well know the said Woman Upon my Word and Honor I never did know the said Woman never saw her directly nor nover heard of such a Woman nor of her name until his now naming of her in his depositions Pray Noble Readers let no man think that I villifie this Everards evidence as for the King if he pretends to give evidence no I do not nor would I intermeddle therein or with any thing therein concerned but what may dash upon my own particular which nature and the law of man cannot but allow to be justifiable so as this gap opened unto me by Everard putts me into a way of Justifying my self to the world being forced to declare my sufferances Under which I have so long groned procured me by Liars so as it may be said that Liars are the sons of the Devil and truth-tellers the Creatures of God The Copy of Sir Robert Walsh his Petition unto the Honorable House of Conpnons Sheweth That your Petitioner having lived most of his â—ime for these Thirty Years past in the French Kings Territories and since the Year 1669. particularly in Paris until the Year 1675. Mr. Progers of his Majesties Bed-Chamber and heretofore a Member of this Honorable House was by His Majesty's permission ordered to keep a correspondence with your Petitioner as unto what may relate unto his Majesties Service and the interests of his good Subjects as may evidently be made to appear unto any this Honorable House may please to appoint to hear the transactions and passages of the said correspondence who as accordingly may make report unto this Honorable House of the validity thereof Your Petitioner also having given an account in his Representments unto some of His Majesties Ministers of State which had they timely given ear unto undoubtly must have conduced unto His Majesties interest and that of his good Subjects but the aversness of some towards the giving of a just hearing unto your Petitioners Representments hath Ecclipsed your Petitioner as also his Representments by your Petitioners care and endeavors he did so prevail with a person who hath been above Twenty years under secretary in France to the secretary of state in the Transactions of the French concerns yet he became discontented and was unsatisfied and though he was well in Money yet much would ambition more so as your Petitioner prevailed with him to come hither in 1675. and the rather that in the surintendent Monsiere de Fouketts being great this person was known unto His Most Excellent Majesty and came resolved hither to give His Majesty great Lights and intelligence as regarding the Transactions of France Here your Petitioner doth give a Brief which when provised as also Mr. Progers Letters probably this Honorable House may Judge that this man's Representments and Intelligence
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