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A67448	A true narrative and manifest set forth by Sir Robert Walsh knight and Batt. which he is ready all manner of ways to justify as relating unto Plots, designs, troubles and insurrections, which were intended to have been set a foot, towards the subversion of His Most Excellent Majesties laws and government, not by a private information, or other, but before any court of Justice, discipline ; either in the civil, common, or marshal law and to reply or disanul the printed paper, in part of Edmund Everard and Irish man, who was so long prisoner in the tower : and to make out why he was so detained, nothing relating to the plot but was for his intent to have poysoned the Duke of Monmouth as shall more amply be made out in this manifest.	Walsh, Robert, Sir.	1679 (1679)	Wing W644; ESTC R6905	38,783	40

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

he is ready to satisfie any that may pretend to the contrary leaving those who read this to judge the hardness of the measure he hath met with wishing he may be the sole or only in this Age who may find the Effects of the like Injustice as he hath TO THE READER THis manifest of Sir Robert Walsh doth declare that he cant out of France into England in the Year 1675. not without order as he can make it appear where his Loyalty and Duty did obliege him and also to declare what malignant designes and insurrections were Ingendring in France where he lived most of his time these Thirty and odd years towards the subversion of His Most Excellent Majesties Government and Fundamental Laws and he hath here continued these Four Years and above to make out what his manifest doth thereunto relating set forth Remonstrating nothing but what came within his knowledge and what he is ready to justifie not only by Oath but by the Laws of any Courts of Justice as either in the Civil Common or Marshal Law to the face of any Subject any French Dutch or Forreigner And is ready to declare if summond thereunto how that in 72. 73. and 74 some of his Majesties Subjects have been intermedling therein presuming that they may be countenanced and upheld by a greater person then yet hath been quoted or named to have fomented in the said Troubles Sir Robert Walsh having taken his dismiss and pass from the French Kings service being in no trust of his Sir Robert by His Most Excellent Majesties permission and orders of some of his chief Ministers of State did keep Intelligence out of France with Mr. Edward Progers one of his Majesties grooms of the Bed-chamber as shall be made amply out in this manifest As also how this Everard and for what he was made Prisoner in the Tower which he chargeth the Lady Anne Gordon Collonel Richard Talbot and his Brother to have been the Contrivers of his Imprisonment some particulars in his depositions shall be proved most false and he hath no way to Justifie himself Unless that as he doth profess himself to be very dextrous in his weapon that by that he may second his Oath In all Kingdoms some Subjects are good and some not 2. What Subject in this Age hath proved more true then the Duke of Ormond give him his due some are bad and yet I hope there may be made a true difference in some particulars it may be demonstrated the marks of their Loyalty conferred upon some Irish as thus There is the Lord Coorsy who by His Majesties Authority is ordered and permitted to wear his Hat in His Majesties Presence certainly it was for his Loyalty that that honor was conferred on him of which this day the young Lord Coorsy may be covered before His Majesty which is for the acceptable service he hath rendred the King and Crown Nor hath Sir Robert Walsh the priviledge of wearing His Majesties of Blessed Memory His Effigies and that of his dearest Son Prince Charles of the one side of his Golden Medal and the form of His Majesties Royal Bannor of the Reverse but for the Acceptable Service he hath rendered at the Battle of Edge-Hill in the year 43. as his Commission for wearing the same from His Majesty of Blessed Memory now Exstant can witness he having received the Dignity and Honor of Knight-hood upon the Top of Edge-Hill Sir Robert being Born in Ireland I hope may not pass for a Crime though some of the Follies of his Youth may be thrown in his Dish as the sin of the Flesh and Gaming yet never was any crime of Dis-Loyalty The first of his Name that went from England into Ireland for His Majesties Service in King Edwards Time was Sir Patrick Walsh who to Attack the City of Lymberick caused a Hundred Horse and Men to swim over the River of Shannon and so Surprized and Took Limberick as the Chronicle of England and Ireland more largely Expatiates upon But Sir Patrick a Horse-Back swimming over the River Bows and Arrows then being in Vse he shot a Swan Flying through the Breast so as ever since the flying Swan hath been his Crest with the Arrow through the Swans Crest and his Armes three Arrows Heads which hath so continued to his line and Name as now they do in me which I give with an addition of the flowers De-luce which I give by the right of having Married an Heiress and I being in France then in command having a Regiment in His Christian Majesties Service and His Most Excellent Majesty then being in Paris and in the Louure some Theses being dedicated at the Colledge of Cerbone unto the Noblest and best of His Most Excellent Majesties Subjects There was one Dedicated to me by one of the Doctors in Theology of the said Colledge and my Arms being set forth and displayed carrying the Flowers De-luce and my name being Valois and so was when in the Conquest the name came out of France into England which here is turned to Walsh by time the Duke De Anguleme being De Valois which name have been Kings of France some being curious sent to the Louure to know if I was not de La Maison de Valois as some Noble-men now here may please to remember then heard the question propounded so as some who grumbled that I should be named Valois may here be satisfied upon what ground I went by the said name and not as un nom de guere some who may read this will understand why I thus Expatiate Another thing Summons me to this Manifest some whom I cannot call better than Lyars Cowards and Villains who if any of them be living and read this they will swallow my Expression Those I mean who have villainously and most falsly invented that I was hired by Cromwel and the Lord of Brohill now Earl of Orery to Kill my Sacred and Anointed King as I at large set out in my Manifest I having been Murderously detained Prisoner in Bruxels Thirty Three Months upon that false pretention I renouncing the least Grace or Fav●r from His Sacred Majesty then as now I do if any Dis-Loyalty could or can be laid to my Charge 3. If I herein be prolix pray Noble Reader pardon it and consider if that my unjust and non-parell sufferances in those days may not plead my excuse and withal that in this my following Manifest or Remonstrance doth not carry in it a word of untruth nor other then what I am ready to justifie with my life and fortune unto my new or late representments I may add some old which may not be unremarkable as one at the Battle of Edge-Hill in the Year 43. It lay fully in my power to have ended then that unhappy war of England and for the supream advantage of my King you will say why I did not do it and I say when you read what followeth you will own me not condemnable As

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