of the new Lockit Gild-Book of the City of Edinburgh be me Aeneas Maclod Conjunct Clerk thereof Witnessing hereunto my Sign Mannual like as the common Seal of the said City is hereunto appended Ae. Maclod For Collonel George Walker Governour of Derry Burgess and Gild Brother of Edinburgh Nay and Glasgow is in no better Circumstances Apud decimo tertio die Mensis Augusti Millesimo sexentesimo octogesimo nono THe which day in presence of the Honourable the Magistrates of the City of Glasgow William Nappier Dean of Gilde thereof and the said Dean of Gild his Councel Collonel George Walker Governour of the City of London-Derry within the Kingdom of Ireland is admitted and received Burgess and Gild-Brother of the foresaid City of Glasgow and the hail Liberties Priviledges and Immunities belonging to and Burgess and Gild-Brother thereof are granted to him in most Ample Form who has given his Oath of Fidelity as use is Extracted furth of the Gild-Books of the said City be me George Andersone Town-Clerk thereof Witnissing hereunto my Sign and Subscription Manual G. Andersone But pray how came the Universities of England to be so gull'd 't is unaccountable that they should unanimously conferr on him the honourable Degree of Doctor in Divinity Cambridge begins and presents him with his Degree though absent it was done when the King was there last Summer at the Commencement Oxford makes him a a solemn Invitation to give them a Visit and on the 26 th of February 1689. he is created Doctor in Divinity and since his going to Ireland the University has sent him a Diploma wherein are these Words REverendus Vir Georgius Walker strenuus ipse ac invictus Civitatis Derensis propugnator atque eodem facto totius Hibermiae uti speramus conservator atque vindex Dat. Martii 2o. 1689. What a grand Cheat is this Walker and what a great number of inconsiderable Things are here King and Queen Privy Council and House of Commons Edinburgh Glasgow London Cambridge and Oxford so easily imposed on I could dwell much longer on this Subject but to those who have a Will to understand the truth this is sufficient to those who have not 't is too much APPENDIX AFter the conveighing of these Papers to the Press the following Certificate relating to that worthy Gentleman Captain James Hamilton came to my Hands a Person who thrô the sole series of his Life has manifested his Zeal to the Protestant Interest and to whose excellent Management of Affairs that importaut place of London-derry owes its preservation in a great Measure Mr. Mackenzy's Sincerity and impartial way of handling the Subject he treats of is very obvious by his setting forth every particular Passage in its true and native light and as he relates nothing but Matters of Fact so what he says of them he proves by as plain Demonstration as that is capable of and better cannot reasonably be expected Thus far Mr. Mackenzy speaks for himself in his Preface and after his having so substantially barricado'd the Credit of his Book it seems not to be attacqu'd with any reasonable Prospect of Success yet this boldly asserted impregnable Fortress hath an unguardable Breach and to which he himself is a Guide in his Index I mean the Papers referr'd to in his Narrative It is true most Readers that peruse such Pamphlets as his will not trouble themselves with running over so long and little diverting a Postscript as those Papers make but will be contented with the Abstract he gives of them in the series of his Relation not thinking it possible a man who professes himself the Champion of injur'd Truth can have the Confidence to defie the World to Answer what he Writes and at the same time to refer the Reader to Papers at the end of his Book that detect his Malice and confute him of wresting even to Forgery some authentick Testimonies to palliate or rather to support his slanderous Insinuations yet after this indirect manner he hath bespatter'd Capt. James Hamilton a Gentleman who in the critical Juncture of the late Happy Revolution manifested his Zeal to the Protestant Interest by his early and indefatigable Solicitations to have Relief sent to the Protestants then in Arms in the North of Ireland And by his working through the many Obstructions and Difficulties he met with from several who in the then Infancy of the present Government slighted the Orders he obtained for his Dispatch as to that supply of Arms Ammunition and Money his Majesty entrusted him with to that effect according to the Purport of the Instructions given him the said James Hamilton a Copy whereof is inserted in the 54 th Page of Mr. Mackenzy's Narrative and how little the said Instructions agree in the very essential Point with what he says they were in his 19 th Page is evident to whosoever will take the trouble of comparing them The Instructions which Capt. Hamilton had Page the 19 th he tells you were to summon the Mayor and all other Officers Civil and Military on Board him and there before them all to give the Oaths of Fidelity to Coll. Lundy before he should give him any Arms c. But Page 54. you will really find that Capt. Hamilton was only impower'd to summon the Mayor or chief Civil Magistrate to be a Witness to his Administring the said Oaths to Coll. Lundy without so much as mentioning all Officers Civil and Military This howsoever may seem but a trivial Variation if the Consequences are not considered which are deducted from thence with an Innuendo but Mr. Mackenzy did not Prevaricate here to no purpose for he proceeds Page the 19 th in these words But instead thereof that is of Swearing Coll. Lundy before all Officers Military and Civil most of the Gentlemen on Board were desired to withdraw on pretence of private Business so that if Lundy was Sworn it was very privately Now if Capt. Hamilton's Instructions had been to Swear Coll. Lundy before them all and he had notwithstanding on pretence of private Business desired them to withdraw he had certainly deserved to be called to an Account and severely Punished for so doing but it is apparent his Instructions were not such And though it is purposely left as dubious who desired the Company to withdraw yet it is notorious Capt. Hamilton whom the King was pleased to Intrust must have been a Mad-man if after his having so publickly devoted himself to King William's Service he should have been so whimsically scrupulous as to be fond of Swearing Coll. Lundy in private if at all as is insinuated but that Capt. Hamilton did Administer the said Oaths of Fidelity to Coll. Lundy is Testified by the following Certificate which is Attested by two Gentlemen of Good Estates in the North of Ireland and of unquestionable Reputation and they are the only Persons now in London that were present when Coll. Lundy was Sworn The CERTIFICATE WE whose Names are underwritten do hereby
Mr. John Mackenzyes NARRATIVE OF THE Siege of London-Derry A False LIBEL IN DEFENCE OF Dr. George Walker Written by his FRIEND in his Absence LONDON Printed for R. Simpson at the Harp in St. Pauls Church-yard 1690. Mr. John Mackenzyes Narrative OF THE Siege of London-Derry A False Libel c. AND indeed is it come out at last Have the zealous Hammer-men at length beaten it into some shape Is this the accurate Journal of the Siege which by the unanimous Verdict of the Club was Voted to be Published in the Mock-Apology for the Failures in Mr. Walkers Narrative Or is it a Comment on Mr. Boys's Vindication of Mr. Osborn In which he pretending Moderation and a Calmness of Spirit with sly Insinuations detracts from the Credit of Dr. Walker and lessens his Reputation while he commends his Care and Fidelity in over-seeing the Stores and distributing the Provisions of Derry and being a notable Marks Man at one shot he knocks down the ambitious Governour and the credulous Gentleman who writ the Observations on the Narrative Just so when Dr. King and Peter Mamby were picqueering he took up a Flaile and thresht them both and while the Dr. was engaged in a Duel with a pernicious Apostate from the Protestant Religion he came behind his back and stab'd him only because he incidentally reflected on that Perswasion of which Mr. Boys is ambitious to be thought the celebrated Champion with the same dexterity he manageth the Vindication of Mr. Osborn that by the Priviledge of that Opportunity he may with ingenious Sarcasms disparage Dr. Walker and vilify his Friend but if he has no better luck at his Lectures than he has at writing of Prefaces for I am perswaded there was no other part assign'd to him in Mr. Mackenzyes Farce but to speak the Prologue he will have just Reason to wish he had been better inform'd and not suffered his Zeal to transport him beyond the Limits of Truth As for the malicious and satyrical Pamphlet which passeth under the Name of Mr. John Mackenzy but at best can be but a Translation since he is not capable of writing so many Leaves in true and proper English though it pretend to be a true and exact Diary of the Siege it is really intended for an Invective against Dr. Walker It would fain be accounted an impartial Narrative of the particular Actions of those Gallant Men who defended the Place but it insensibly degenerates into a palpable partiality and an ungenerous design to magnify a Party and exclude the rest it is a long-winded Paraphrase upon a short Text and the whole Substance of the Book may be resolved into two Lines viz. All the brave and glorions Actions in that Siege were performed by the Dissenters and Collonel Murray at the Head of them all inglorions Actions and treacherous Attempts are to be imputed to the other part of the Garrison and principally to Dr. Walker I do not intend to set out an Anti-Narrative or to trouble my self with a Confutation of many passages in that scurrilous Account wherein the Chaplain takes upon him the place of a Field Officer and recites the particular Proceedings of particular Men in the Management of their Sallies directly contrary to what has been related by those very persons who were ingaged in them I shall only apply my self to demonstrate to the World what a dangerous Spirit of Lying is in the Mouth of this small Prophet and how this Chaplain in Quirpo does piously obtrude upon us such things as are evidently and inexcusably false in point of Fact I shall according to due Method begin with the Preface and take the Liberty under the Protection of Innocence and Truth positively to contradict the most material Points in it howsoever it be ushered in under a bold Asseveration with a brassy Impudence The Penner of the Preface personating Mr. Mackenzy will have the poor Man to say I have offered this Part of the Narrative to be reviewed by such of the Officers of Derry as are now in Town several of whom as Collonel Crofton Collonel Murray Lieutenant Collonel Blair Captain Alexander Sanderson c. having heard it read c. freely professed their Assent to it I admire that men who pretend to Integrity and strictness of Life can presume thus grosly to prevaricate The Word Such is commonly used by way of Exception but in this place it must be meant by way of Comprehension Such of the Officers as are now in Town i. e. the Officers now in Town I have spoke with them all but five at most and am fully satisfied that that part of the Preface is a studyed and deliberate Lye for as to the four Persons who are particularly named two of them did solemnly aver in my hearing and in the hearing of many Credible Persons that they did not hear that part of the Narrative wholly read and what was read they did not approve of and a third hath ingenuously certified under his hand as follows and one of the three has descended to Particulars We the under-subscribers Officers of London-derry in the following List mentioned do hereby declare That Mr. John Mackenzy or any for him never read all that part of his Pamphlet Intituled A Narrative of the Siege of London-derry c. to them that related to London-derry before the same was Printed as in the Preface to the said Pamphlet is set forth nor did the said Subscribers assent to what they heard read but on the contrary objected against several things they heard read and having seen the said Pamphlet since it was Printed do not assent to or approve of it As Witness our Hands this 9th day of April 1690. Richard Crofton I the under-written did not assent to two particulars in Mr. Mackenzy's Book viz. the Articles against Dr. Walker and the discouraging Sermon not knowing any thing of them Alex. Sanderson And if by his c. he means such of the Officers of Derry as are now in Town I shall for the satisfaction of the Reader and the everlasting shame of the Preface Monger present first a List of the London-Derry Officers now in London who are in Number Twenty Four and then a Certificate under the Hands of Seventeen of them in perfect contradiction to that Paragraph in the Preface A List of the London-Derry Officers that are in London Col. Hamills's Regiment Col. Hugh Hamil Capt. Rich. Aplen Capt. Rob. Rogers Ensi Oliver Aplen Serje James Linsy Col. Bakers Regiment Capt. William Ruxton Capt. Archib Maculloch Lieut. Michael Reed Lieut. Robert Lowther Lieut. Thomas Keise Col. Crofton's Regiment Col. Rich. Crofton Lieut. Mich. Boyer Ensign John Brush Col. Murray's Regiment Col. Ad. Murray Capt. Sa. Murray Q. M. W. Anderson Q. M. Alex. Heron Capt. Alexander Watson Captain of the Gunners and Chief Engineer Richard Skamon Gunner Col. Lance's Regiment L. C. Tho. Blayer Cap. Steph. Godfry Lieu. Mat. Clarck Edward Carling Store-keeper of Provision Col. Walker's Regiment Capt. Alex.
truth THese are to certifie that whereas in a late Pamphlet written by Mr. J. Makenzy intituled a Narrative of the Siege of London-Derry It is mentioned amongst other things That Dr. Walker late Governour of the said City did fell and embezle the Stores of the said Garrison and that the said Dr. was so inconsiderable there that his note was not accepted by the Store-Keepers of Provisions for delivery of any out unless the same was first signed by the Governor and Major Adams thereby insinuating that the said Dr. was not Governour of the said City I do hereby declare that the said Dr. neither did or could fell or embezle any of the Stores the same being in the Custody of the Store Keepers and never delivered out to any but for the necessary use of the Garrison by Order from the Governours and I do further declare that I was made Store Keeper of the Provisions at the beginning of the Siege and continued so to the end And did from time to time deliver out Provisions upon the said Dr. Walkers Order as Governour in which Station he continued in great esteem among us until the said City was relieved by Major General Kirk and I never knew his Orders disputed as in the said Pamphlet is expressed during the whole time of the Siege and I do look upon the said Pamphlet as to what relates to the said Dr. to be not only false but Scandalous and Malicious And lastly I do declare that some persons concerned in putting out this Pamphlet as I presume since I came to London did come to me and would have drawn me by great promises to have bespattered and abused the Reputation of the said Dr. Witness my Hand the 25 th day of April 1690. Edw. Curling And now do not your ears tingle are not your faces covered with a blush who have Plotted Caballed and contrived such a Scandalous Libel and a more calumniating Preface and now to hear that some of you have been tampering to pervert truth and to add Subornation to bearing false Witness To use the words of the Narrative for once I shou'd not take notice of so trivial a thing as Mr. Walkers Signing first but that it is improved into an Argument of his forward Temper to croud in his Name And this is instanced in the Case of Robert Lowther pag. 62. I cannot tell whether he crowded in his Name above Mitchelbourn or whether Mitchelbourn in Modesty left room for him to write over his Name But this I know that Robert Louther is one of those who have attested Dr. Walkers being Governour and since Collonel Baker dyed in June I cannot in my small reason apprehend what should move Dr. Walker to expunge the mention of Baker being Governour in November following I have said enough to satisfie all manner of persons but such as are resolved never to be satisfyed that Dr. Walker was from first to last one of the Governours of London-Derry and principal Overseer of the Stores and Magazines by the before mentioned Certificate and Letters it evidently appears that he was not a Nominal or Titular Governour but an Active and Successful manager of his Trust and therefore it can never be enough wondred at that Men who profess the Protestant Religion who pretend Meekness and Moderation who pass as Teachers of Flocks as the Writer of the Preface and the owner of the Narrative shou'd with so much Bitterness Malice and Scorn not only taunt and satyrize at random and by Conjectures upon a Protestant a Clergy-man and a Gentleman of a good Family in York-Shire who cannot be denyed to have been an Actor and Sufferer in that memorable Siege but by loose and uncertain Suggestions by false Asseverations and down-right untruths degrade him from his Station eclipse his Reputation and unchristianly grudge him common Right and Justice And now if any Man desire to be farther satisfyed in the Reality and Truth of the Certificates Testimonials and Letters before mentioned and Transcribed he may be pleased to repair to Joseph Wilkinson Clerk at his Lodging at the Sign of the Harp in St. Pauls-Church-yard where he may view the respective Originals which will sufficiently vouch for the truth of what has bin said What I have said was purely designed to undeceive ordinary persons and credulous people who are often imposed on by incoherent Cant Antick gestures a whining tone and Distorted face As for men of better Judgments and of the best Quality in the Kingdom I am very well assured they never believed Dr. Walker to be an Impostor Can any one of Sense imagine that the King and Queens Majesties are such easie persons as to give Dr. Walker thanks for his good Service and reward him so highly as they have done if he were a Cheat Nay would the King have again imployed him as now he has done within these few weeks in sending him to Ireland by his positive Orders to Negotiate publick Affairs at which happy Juncture very Couragiously appears on the Stage Mr. Mackenzy's new Farce when the Gentleman was not in Town to answer for himself No No never believe it the King did not send him he is run away and absconds for shame or for fear of a Halter or the Pillory which he or some body else deserves But what think you of the Lords of the Privy Council who gave him Solemn thanks for his excellent Management of Affairs as Governour of London-Derry were they likewise imposed on I never yet heard that they were called or reputed weak Men. But Oh! This Villain Walker he trickt the Honourable House of Commons who in a full Assembly returned him thanks by their Speaker as Governour will not after Ages say There was not one Wise Man among them to detect the Fraud But how came the City of London to be caught in the Noose how came they to be thus bubled Lord-Mayor Sheriffs Society of the Plantation in the County of London-Derry all Congratulate his Arrival and Treat him afterwards as Governour of Derry The English Rogue Spanish Gusman and crafty Clansy are all Fools to this Walker Sileat miracula Memphis Scotland had once the Name of a Sagacious People but now to their everlasting Infamy they must be reputed no better then Ideots for Walker has cajol'd them at Edinburgh he was received as Governour of London-Derry Created and made free of that City as you may perceive by what follows and which is more some part of that Instrument written in Letters of Gold Edinburgh the fourteen day of August One thousand sex hundred eighty nine Years THe which day in presence of the Right Honourable Sir John Hall of Dunglas Knight and Barronet Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh Charles Chartery James Maclurge Andrew Bruce and John Robertsone Bailiffs Thomas Crauford Dean of Gilde and Guilde Council Collonel George Walker Governour of Derry Compeer and is made Burgess and Gild Brother of this City in the most Ample Form extract it furth