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NARRATIVE
AND-
MANIFEST,
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Set forth by
Sir Robert Walfli
KNIGHT and BaTT-
Which he is ready all manner of ways to juftify, as relating unto Plots,
Defigns,Troubles and Infurre£tions,whicb were intended to have been
let a Foot, towards the Subverlion of His Moft Excellent Majeftics
Laws and Government, not by a private Information, or other, but
before any Court of Juftice,Difcipline; Either in the Civil, Common,
or Marfhal Law, and to reply, or difanul the Printed Paper, in part
of Edmund Everard an Jrifh man, who was fo long Prifoner in the
Tower.
AND
To make out why he was fo detained, nothing relating to the Plot,"
but was for his intent, to have Poyfbncd the Duke of
Monmouth, as fhall more Amply be made out
in this Manifeft.
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AS truth Is truth, thofe whoperfift therein are
the Sons ot God, and fuch as tothe contrary
go, doubtlefly time will show the effeds,
what is due to God, ietuspay, and in what is our
Anointed Kings,let us obey. I amhisSubjed and
renounce hisGrace, ifdifloy aky can be laid to my
face-, Religion leads me unto this tenent, fo should
it Man-kind, the great Turk hath his Law,to keep
his Subjedsindue awe. Give Cafar his due that is
the thing,from which Loyalty doth fpring-,our Sa¬
cred King is juft,andabove all, may give the Law
to rife or fall,in the protection ot his true Subjeds,
a true Proteftant he is out ofall doiibt, any thinks
other is but a Lout. Her Gracious good M ajefty is
our Queen, our duty to her should befeen,and
own'dfo as no malignant tongue,may not lead us
along> but into what is j uft,in Religions many opi¬
nions there be,His Majefty drives tolet us fee, that
the Proteftant Religion he will uphold, if we in
duty do not grow cold, weowing Allegiance un¬
to our King,fo let us pay him and his, as in true
Religion we are bound unto, let criminals their
fate endure, and Innocents receive their cure* As
fo what is it we Subjeds can groan underlet us but
confider and look of our Neighboring Subjeds,
their Poverty Slavery aridMifery, then look up¬
on the now'Subjcds of His Sacred Majeftics, King
Charles the fccond, and upon thehappinefsof his
Reign, have we wanted either in trade or fplen-
didlubfiftance, when moft of the world,have been
in war and full of milery , and our Alarums in
breadingconfufions, O thedifatisfadion of man
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when not contented, never comprifing when he
is well, this I intend notto prevent or avoid pre¬
cautions j our Sacred King is mod certainly our
Head, arid where can lodge his intereft, furety or
fafety,buc in the uphold protection and preserva¬
tion of his Loy al and goodfubje&s, for as he is the
Head, the Body cannot (ubfift but in him, and by
him, would not the ion and true hei r of a Subjc£f,
think it a hard ufage and dealing, that he should tail
the effe&sof a crime, and hazard a convi&ion
therein, ere he where fummond to appear or an-
fwer, if this may be allowed, how much more
doth it regard the true intereft ofa Prince,(is unde¬
niable) why didTilatecondcmn Chri/l, but becaufe
he flayed notto hear the truth, Owhac can be faid
of the times, but ftrange his Royal Highnefs being
brought on the Stage,whofe Name,Fame, Glory,
Vallor,and Gallantry, hath elclatted through Eu~
rope.Hc from his Minority did never refrain from
thehazardof his moft Royal Perfon fairly to win
allapplaufe, nay his iubiiftancc m Foreign Coun¬
tries, whathathnothe done, for chefafety,honor
and Glorious prefervation both by Sea and Land,
ofhis Nation and His Sacred Majefties good Sub-
je&s.If there be any who knoweth not this, fure he
is a fleep, (but they are not,)who are Villains, and
Impudent Rafcals, that moft libelloufly let forth
in Pamphlets, to ecclipfe his due and rights, Fuch
who take that liberty what would they not be at,
to emote troubles and difturbances in His Maje¬
fties Kingdoms and Dominions. Were I fum¬
mond to appear before the face of Juftice, or Per-
fons


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fons inPowerJcould atteft &prove,that in the year
71.and 73- how fome of His Moft Excellent Maje¬
fties Subjeds, have been trampling,indeavoring
and abetting, to raife infurredions, tumultsand di-
fturbances.in His Molt Excellent Ma jellies King¬
doms and Dominions, to the intent of fubverting
His Majefties Fundamental Laws and Govern¬
ment,and I am ready toprove that his Royal High-
nefs, was fo much a ltranger and unknowing in the
laid intermedlingr, as noth ing could be more,forne
malignant fpirits.willfenfure what I hear fay to be
a Paradox, to the contrary I am ready to make ap¬
pear, nay more, that if thefaid infurredions had
proceeded or gone on,I will make out or forfeit my
head, If that his Royal Highnefs would not be the
firft, thatwouldhazardhisLife andperfonto op-
pofeandfupprefs the faid intendments, had I been
interrogated when Iwas in the Moneth of laft
79. fummond to appear,asihaveattheBarofthe
Honorable Houfe of Commons, as I was before
fummond, nay carried Prifoner to the Black Rod,
and appeared before their Moft Honorable Com¬
mittee of the Houicof Lords, I would nothave
ftuck to have made mention, ofwhat came within
my knowledge, as I am ready todo,andmaintain
what is lyre adjoynirig fct forth in mymanifeft,
may /butbeallowed the true liberty of a Subjed,
I come not in as an Informer but to pay my Loyal¬
ty, without pretence of Benefice or Promotion,
Ho nor enough I have, the mark of which I carry
at my Breaft.for which I have His Majefties ofBlef-
fedMemory's Commiflion to carry ,8c wear in any
colour^


T O
THE
READER,
THis manifefi of Sir Robert Walfh, doth declare that he came
out of France into England in the Tear 1675. not without order 5
as he can make it appear ( where his Loyalty and Duty did ob-
liege him ) and aljo to declare} what malignant defignes and infurr eel ions,
were ingendring in France, where he lived mofi of his time thefe Thir¬
ty and odd years, towards the fiubverfion of His Mofi Excellent Maje¬
fiies Government, and Fundamental Laws , and he hath here continued
the fie Four Tears and above, to make out what his manifefi, doth there¬
unto relating, fit forth5 Rcmonfirating nothing but what came within
his knowledge j and what he is ready to jufiifie, not only by Oath, but
by the Laws of any Courts of Jufiice, as cither in the Civil, Common
cr Marfhal Law, to the face of any Subjefl, any French, Dutch,
or Forreigner. And is ready to declare tf fummond thereunto. how
that in 72. 75. and 74, fime of his Majefiies Subjects have been in¬
ter me dling therein, pre fuming that they may be countenanced and up¬
heldy by a greater per fin then yet hath been quoted, or named, to have
fomented in the J,aid Troubles. sir Robert Walfh having taken his
difmifs and pafs from the French Kings firvice, being in no trufi of
his, Sir Robert by Flis Mofi Excellent Majefiies pcrmiffion, and orders
of fime of his chief Mini filers of State, did keep Intelligence out of
France, with Mr. Edward Progers one of his Majefiies grooms of the
Bed-chamber; . as fhall be made amply out, in this manifefi. As alfi
how this Everard and for what he was made Prifiner in the Tower,
which he chargeth the Lady Anne Gordon, Collonel Richard Talbot,
and his Brother, to have been the Contrivers of his Imprifinment, fome
particulars in his depoftions fhall be proved mofi falfi, and he hath no
way to Jufiifie himfelf Unlefi, that as he doth profefs him fidf to be
very dextrous in his Weapon; that by that he may fecond his Oath.
In all Kingdoms, fime Subjects are good, and fime not.
.
2. what Subject in this Age, hath proved more true, then the Duke of Or-
Hiond, him his due: fime are bad, and yet I hope there may be made a
true difference, in fome particulars it may be demonfirated, the marks of
their Loyalty conferred upon fime Irifb, as thus. There is the Lord
Coorfy, who by His Majefiies Authority, is ordered and permitted} to
wear his Hit in His Majefiies Prefence; certainly it w is for his Loy¬
alty, that that honor was conferred on him, of which this day the young
Lord Coorfy may be covered before His Majefiy, which is for the ac¬
ceptable firvice he hath rendred the King and Crown. Nor hath Sir
Robert Walfh the priviledge of wearing His Majefiies of Blefifed Me¬
mory His Effigies1, and that of his dear eft Son Prince Charles, of the
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one of his Royal Highnefsthe Duke of Orleans His Chief Gentleman*
who did introduce me unto his Royal Highnefs, unto whom I did
then reprelent that fome Ingins were fet a foot, to beget Tumults and
Difturbances in His Magefties of great Britain his Kingdoms 1672.
and that I did hope his Royal Highnefs, would fpeak unto his Christi¬
an Majefty not to give car, or countenance unto fuch His Majefties
Subjects, as may therein be made abettors, or incendiaries: Though
I was perfwaded, that they were therein countenanced, as I could
make Oath,his Royal Highnefs did promife me,he would fpeak unto his
Brother, and that he would cary a diligent and careful eye thereunto,
which with Juftice I may fay, that his Royal Highnefs would not this
day difown. Now in as much as that this Everard doth fet forth in
hisdepofitions, that Imoft unfaithfully did betray him unto the Tal-
bots, a thing Iliad no ground for, he not communicating unto me,
that he had any fuch 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 Chriftian I never did, nor was I but once all the
time theTalbots were in Paris converfant with them, nor have I had
any intimacy with Collonel Talbot or his Brother, but rather to the
contrary, as fame of my Kings beftSubje&s, I prelume may confirm.
Now in as much as that Everard in his depofitions maketh Oath,that
he was made Prifonerin the Tower by the means of the Talbots,and
the Lady Anne-Gordon. In that Alegation he contradidls himfelf, for
after his enlargement from the Tower, he meets me in St. James's
Park-, comes to m.e and cries, Sir Robert waljh you are the man who
put me into the Tower, and that made me a great fufferer there, I
then told him I was, and were it to do again I would 5 and that I did
wonder how fuch a Villain, that had fo 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 Talbotsto have been the
caufersof hislmprilonment, and fowe parted. Now to come to the
true grounds of his being made Prifoner in the Tower, which fliall be
juftifiedand made out: There was in the Year 1673. aGentlemanin
Paris one Mr. Dalonfon, a perfon born unto a good eftate, and now in
the pofleflion of it, he being in Paris, very much reduced unto ne-
ceflity, he came tome declaring who he was, naming fome friends
of his that I well knew, and for whom I had efteem, he demonftra-
ting the fad condition he was in, I did take him to an Ordinary or
eating-houfe, where I had credit a La reu de Colombie, and did give
hint credit for his Diet> and lodging in the faid oberge, where he re¬
lied two or three Months, and truly I did difeharge him, aslamfure
he will own.
III. About the fame tim^Everard and this Dalonfon, coming both at
a time to my lodging, they became acquainted, and fo great an inti¬
macy in a little time they grew into, as that theyjoyned to lodge in
a houfe, and in one Bed - and they two became as hand and glove.
Some time before this Everard having the French Tongue, was intro-
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fore the Committee of Secrecy, I did, and they looked on me, and T
upon them, they faid they had no orders concerning me, Co we par-,
ted. But had I been interrogated, lure fear nor lhame Ihould not keep
me, from declaring the names of the intermedlers.
VI. Itis in part wonderful that this Everard being ever bred a Papift,
and begotly one as to my knowledge, he never would as much as
read any Books ofcontroverly, often vowing that any Books that gave
corttradi&ion to the Roman Tenets, were Heretically, and fo not to
be read, and that this man without the concourfe with any Proteftant
Divine Ihould turn convert, muft: appear as a great blelfingof God,
or that it muft: be upon fome worldly intereft ; and whereas he fpeaks
of his reconciliation to cbalonton I doubt, it is that were he put to it,
that hecould not make out.
VII. I having not named the fonlentors of thele difturbances,being not
fummoned thereunto, may not be of the lame refolution in my fol¬
lowing defcriptions. Sir Robert jvalfo declares to the World, that he
ever did and doth renounce the left of Grace, or Favor from His Sa¬
cred Majefty, His moft Honorable Houfes of Parliamen or Laws, if
any difloyalty is or can belaid to his charge, yet is he and hath been
Murthered alive, through falfe fuggeftions and informations, which
none ever did or would appear tojuftifie againfthim, one was that in
the Year 1555. or 1656. that he wasimployed, by the then llfurper
Oliver Cromivel, and by then the Lord Brohll, now living Earl of Orery
into Flanders to Kill His Moft Sacred and Anointed King, and this fo¬
mented by Villains, Ralcals, and falfe Informers, who never did or
durft appear to lay any thing of that nature, or of any other crime
unto his charge before Juftice, though they were thereunto fum-
mohed, yetvVas Sir Robert made Prifoner, and his only Son in Bntvels
for 33. Months, ftarving with cold and hunger ; If fuch as fo afptr-
fed Sir Robert had appeared, he had cofts damage and intereft againft
them, which they did not < Though fummon'd thereunto, by Don John
D' Aujlrea and the Marquis of Carajfenas then Governors of Flanders,
Sir Roberts damage would be more, then they could pay, though nc:
as much as Dunkirk or Clarendon Houfe was Ibid for.
VIII. My Moft Sacred King,beingever juft in himfelf,was not willing
that Sir Robert Ihould fo fuller for want of Juftice; fohis Mdft Excel¬
lent Majefty upon the follicitations, of many Nobles, ftraogers and Sub-
jettsof His Majefty, was pleafedto refer the concern unto the Judge
Millitary of Flanders to determine, who certified unto His Moft Ex¬
cellent Majefty, and His Catholick Majefty, the in juft ice of Sir Roberts
imprifonment, whereupon His Catholick Majefty fenthis orders in
thele words, which isftill extant unto the Governors of Flanders, be¬
ing loth to find, that a Gentleman and a Perfon of Honor, Ihould fo
be Martyred under his Laws.
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^he words of the Order were5 to our Governors and Treafurers
in Flandersj fet Sir Robert tvalfi at liberty, and pay the colls and
charges of his Imprifonment out of our Trealury. He being made Pri-
foner at the inftigation of i'ome of His Majelly of Great Britains Mini-
llers, (fme culpa) this Order coming, Sir Robert would not accept of
his liberty, but by Order of his own King, lo he did obtain, froiti
that Moll Honorable Per (on the Earl of Cajtlehazenw ho is now here,
to carry the laid Order, unto His moll Excellent Majefty with an hum¬
ble delire, that if any thing was or could be laid unto Sir Roberts charge,
that it Ihauld be put in again!! him. Sir Robert humbly praying His
Majelly then being in Bruxels, that any of His Majellies Subjects En-
glijb, Irijh) or Scotch, may be made his Judges, he moll willingly
owning that His Moft Excellent Majellies Power and Laws, may be
of as full force and value againft him there ; unto which he was as
ready and willing to fubmit himlelf, as now he is unto His Moft Sove¬
reign Pleafure.
X. Sir Robert at the inftigation of Ererard, beihg fummoifd to the
Bar of the Honor able Houleof Commons, and having made his en¬
deavors to have difcharged his duty as aforefaid, yet did he petition
thehoule, and put his petition into the hands of an Honorable mem¬
ber of thefaid Houle, to be prefented unto Mr. Speaker, which was
fp done by Sir John Coriton 5 who tells Sir Robert that the Speaker read
every word thereof, as is hereunto Annexed, the Copy of the faid pe¬
tition, I Sir Robert would not be afraid nor afhamed, to have named
the Ingenders, arid Fomentors of the Troubles and difturbances, to
have been, fet on Foot towards His Majellies Dominions, had he been
lummon'd thereunto • and is not backward to fay that the Honora¬
ble Houfeof Commons, would not have been difplealed to lee, and
order that fome of the intermedlers may be detected and executed, no
tefs would any good Subject of England. Pardon Noble Reader, if
that I prelume to inmind that Criminals indifloyalty ought to re¬
ceive Jullice, fuch as to them may be due5 and I to be the firft
were 1 criminal therein, fo I wilh the fame towards all or any Sub¬
jects upon proofs, before their competent Adjudgers or Judges, that
thereby criminals may receive indign and publick Punifhment, and
that Innocency may be protected and upheld. This tends unto Sir
Robert ivaljh fuftefances, who forgot as unto one of Everards depofiti-
on to make anfwer, as this, in particular he makes mention of one
Mrs tvingfield, alias Hampton, and forlooth, that his man Dalifon, he
meaning Dalonfon, who never was his man or fervant 5 and that he
and Sir Robert tvalfh did well know the faid Woman. Upon ray Word
and Honor, I never did know the faid Woman, never fawher direCt-
jy, nor never heard of fuch a Woman, nor of her name until his now
naming of her in his depofitiorts: Pray Noble Readers, let no man
think that I villifie this Everards evidence,as for the King if he pretends
?r> give evidence ; no I do not, nor would I intermeddle therein, or
with any thing therein concerned, but what maydalh uponmyowri
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particular, which nature and the law of fnan cannot but allow to be
justifiable, foas this gap opened unto me by Eierard, putts me into
a way of Juftifying my felf to the world, being forced to declare my
fufferances. Under which I have fo long groned, procured me by Li¬
ars, fo as it may be faid, that Liars are the fon$ of the Devil, and
truth-tellers the Creatures of God.
The Copy of. Sir Robert Walih his Petition unto the Honorable Hottfe of
Commons^
Sheweth,
I^hat your Petitioner having lived mod of his time, for thefe Thir¬
ty Years paft in the French Kings Territories, and fince the Year
1669. particularly in Paris, until the Year 1675. M.r. Probers of his
Majefties Bed-Chamber, and heretofore a Member of this Honorable
Houfe, was by His Majeity's permiftion ordered to keep a corref-
pondence with your Petitioner, as unto what may relate unto his
Majefties Service, and the interefts of his good Subjeds, as may evi¬
dently be made to appear, unto any this Honorable Houfe may pleale
to appoint, to hear the tranladions and paflages of the faid correspon¬
dence 5 who as accordingly may make report unto this Honorable
Houfe, of the validity thereof. Your Petitioner alfo having given an
account, in his Reprelentments unto fome of His Majefties Minifters
of State, which had they timely given ear unto, undoubtly muft have
conduced unto His Majefties intereft, and that of his good Subjeds,
but the averfnefs of fome towards the giving of a juft hearing, unto
your Petitioners Reprefentments, hath Ecchpfed your Petitioner as al¬
fo his Reprefentments-, by your Petitioners care and endeavors, he did
fo prevail with aperfon, who hath been above Twenty years under
Secretary in France, to the Secretary of state, in the Tranfadionsof
the French concerns, yet he became difcontented and was unfatisfied,
and though he was.well in Money, yet much would ambition more,
fo as your Petitioner prevailed with him to come hither in 1675. and
the rather that in the furintendent Monfiere de Fouketts being great,
this perfon was known unto His Moft Excellent Majefty, and came
refolved hither to give His Majefty great Lights and intelligence, as
regarding the Tranladions of France. Here your Petitioner doth give
a. Brief which when provifed, as alfo Mr. Progers Letters probably
this Honorable Houfe may Judge, that this man's Reprefentments
and Intelligence, would have proved of ufe, but fome ill advifers,who
perhaps were here concerned, or that carried an animofity againft your
Petitioner, did fodeturn that his Reprefentments could not gain Cre¬
dit, elfe undoubtedly he would fo have furnifhed againft the French
King, which,would put water into his Wine, ami have dipt his
Wings, here annexed you read what your Petitioner could draw or
gather out of him, which he Reprefented, where his Allegiance and
duty did bind him to have done, and withal one of Mr. Progers his
Letters,


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Lord Hopton were in the Devifes, and Sir William Waller furrounded
them with his Horfe, Foot, and Cannon, having fummoned the
Trained-Bands of thofe parts to come and joyn w ith him, which they
then did ^ the Prince and Lords called then in the Devifes a Coun-
celof War, and concluded that their bell expedient w as todifpatch
an Officer, that would hazard to get to Oxford, to give His Majefty
advice how it flood with them in the Devifes, w hereupon did depend
very highly His Ma jellies interell : They pitched upon Sir Robert
walfh to go, and lent for him, he being with his Regiment upon
the Out-guards, and asked him if that lie would adventure; he made
anlvver that he 'would moll willingly and readily •, that he regarded
no hazard, or danger, lo as that he could but compals their Relief:
upon which he was immediately ordered to go, which he did, being
not ill Horled , and went all alone, carrying not a fervant or man
w ith him. He was in his way clofely purlued by the Enemies Scouts,
and part of their Out-guards • but it pleafed God he got lafe, and the
next morning got to His Majefty, who then was in Oxford. His
Majefty did then immediately Order ^hat Relief Ihould prefently be
lent, and calling upon the Lord wilmt, did order, without delay, t hat
he Ihould get ready the Horfe, and march unto the Relief of the De¬
vifes, which was as foon as poftibly obferved • foasthe Lord wilmot>
the Lord Biron, Colonel 7 homxs we (Ion now Earl of Newport, and di¬
vers of the beft Commanders did march, and hardly drew Bit in their
march to the Devifes, which was no eafie or ftiort march : And
when arrived at the Devifes, the Horfe were weary, and I may fay
by the fame $ and ftragling, that we miffed Five hundered Horfe of
our Number coming from Oxford. My Lord wilmvt from Malborough
did difpatch Sir Robert waljh, all alone towards the devices with Or¬
der to return alfoon as pollible, to bring him notice how matters went,
Sir Robert did go and return quickly to my Lord, whofe conducft and
Carriage was fo evidently made apparant to the world, as nothing
could be more: my Lords; (as thus) His Highnefs Prince Maurice^
and the Lord Hopton did march with the Horfe out of the devices,in¬
tending to have joyned to the Lord wilmot, and in part did, his High-
nels Horfe were not many, and when he came to joyn, they adviled
in Council, w hat was to be done, w>ller and his Army, Horfe,cannon
and Foot and Train-Bands very numerous, and our Horfe were weari¬
ed being not above Fifteen Hundred orTwo Thoufand, at the Council
the L i d wilmot gavehis opinion as thus $ that his Horfe were all weari¬
ed, and by conlequence an impoflibility that they could make any re¬
treat, from the Enemy without being utterly cut off. The Enemies
Army being not half a Mile from them, and therefore if the Prince
and the Lord Hopton pleafed to confent, that he would advance with
a Thoufand Horle, to the top of a Hill w hich lay betw ixt them and
the Enemy, prefuming that the Enemy would fo undervalue them,
as that they would march up the Hill to devour them. My Lord wil¬
mot adding, that if they fo would come as they did, perhaps it might
ruin them , which did, the Prince and Lord Hopton did conclude with


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the Lord wilmots fenfc, whereupon of the Horfe which were in ths
devices, my Lord wilmot of. the Weftern Horfe only takes Sir John
Digby, a moft Noble and .brave Officer, and Sir Robert wa/fh, with
their Troops to joyn with him, my Lord fends Lievtenant Collonel
Paul smithy who was unto his Lordihips Regiment with a Hundred
Horfe as a forlorn hope, and marches himfelfin the right Wing of a
party of his Horfe, and adjoyns Sir John Digby, and Sir Robert, tvaljh
with their Troops, to be at the head of his fecond Divifion of his left
Wing, and his Highnefs Prince Maurice marched with the Body of
the Horfe, it fell out fo as my Lord mlmot did Prognofticate. Sir Wil¬
liam Waller Orders Sir Arthur Hafelrick, to march up Inch a Hill to de¬
vour the Enemy, which he undertook in the Head of a Thoufand
Horle firft, which were Armed Cap a pe? and afterwards named Lob-
Jlers. Hafelrick fending his forlorn hope,which was encountred by ours,
he marched in the head of two divifions, and the reft of his Horfer
marching in Regiments up the Hill after one another, which were
between Four and Five Thoufand Horfe. The Lord wilmot firft re¬
ceived their charge, then charges them, beats Ha[clrick, and Hafelrick
difordersthe reft of his Horfe, the Prince and Lord Hopton advance,
fo as the Enemies Horfe was clean forced to run away. Then the
Prince and Lord wilmot confults to charge their Foot and Cannon,
which they put in Execution and did Rout theni, took all their Can¬
non, Foot and Colors, ere that our Foot in the devices could get out
to joyn with us, this was fo clear and fair a Victory, as that it gained
his Majefty the whole Weft of England, which then was of the laft
confequence 5 The Lord wilmot then calls Sir Robert wal(h, and lays
that as he went to His Majeftv to bring this relief, he fliould imme-
diatly poft to His Majefty and give him the account, which Sir Ro¬
bert did, His Majefty being not at Oxford, but gone to meet Her Ma¬
jefty then come out of Holland, which he met at Edge-Hill where
Sir Robert addreft, and //is Majefty and //er Majefty in the Coach, Sir
Robert gave His Majefty the account, which was moft mightily accep¬
table,and his Highnefs Prince Rupert and my Lord of St. Albans then by
when Sir Robert gave the account, fbme time after the Lord Hopton
retiring, his Brigade of Horfe was given Sir Robert wa/fh, who was al¬
io made CommifTary General in the Weft of Horfe and Foot, a charge
of great truft and Honor, as alfo of the Counties of Southampton,
Sujjex, surry and Kent, which then were aflociated Counties, diis
Commiffions are now extant, which were fo ample and fpatioufly
large, as that the General the Lord Goring was not over plealed, yet
ftgned the Commiffions. His Majefty of Blefted Memory, gives Sir Ro¬
bert walfl) Commiffion, to go for Ireland in the Year 1644. to raife
Horfe and Foot, and in His Majefties one hand, writes to my Lord of
Ormond then Lord Lievtenant of Ireland, to give Sir Robert all affi-
ftance and countenance, which that moft ever Loyal untainted and un¬
changeable Subjeft, did moft willingly countenance Sir Robert in, giv¬
ing all furtherance, fo as Sir Robert did bring upon his own coft and
charge, without having a Peny from His Majefty bring then out of
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pen him, it would infinitely redown to our lofs and fu Iterance, but
he would not be deturned, of bearing a fliare in that occafion, which,
was fo vifibly near of being put in Execution- in the purluance of
which, he then from the Enemy did receive that Noble fear of honor,
which to this day he beareth the mark of in his Face, which afibon
as sir Robert faw, he immediately did Order Collonel Garret Moor}
nowhere in Town tocondud: him off; and to have him to theChy-
rurgion to be drefled, which accordingly was dene.
X. sometime after the Army was given up in Cornwall, and Molt
Officers to fhift for themlelves, of which number sic Robert being one,
he betook himfelf for Ireland, and there treated with the French Kings
Envoy, by name Monfieur de la Monnerie, for sir Robert to carry a
Regiment of Foot into the French Kings fervice, who' capitulated with
Sir Robert in the Name of His Chriftian Majtfty: that sir Ro'ert upon
his Landing in France fhould receive Thirty Crowns, for each man,
and Ihould have a penfion of Two Thoufand Crowns yearly, befides
other great and large promifes in words, which never were perform¬
ed. sir Robert upon his one cofts and charge, hired Two great Hoi
land ships, into which he shipped Nine Hundred snd Fifty men,from
the County of Galway, and the City of Galway, and failing for France
was met by fome Parliament ships, who took one of sir Roberts ships.,
lodenwith men, which they fentinto the Iflands, but fortune fa¬
voring the ship that sir Robert was in, did efcape, and he got into
Haver de Grace with six Hundred men, he lerved the French King as
Collonel of the laid men, which Agent la Monnerie did not perform
his capitulation in a Tittle-, fo.as Sir Robert grew unfatisfied in His
Majefties Service, and Ioofing his Sons who were Captains in sir Ro¬
berts faid Regiment; then the Prince of Conde taking Arms againft his
King, sir Robert took his difmifsand paffe from the King, and gave
himfelf into the fervice of the Prince uf Conde. After fome time sir Ro¬
bert was taken Prifoner and put into the Bafiill, where he was forced
to lye for Three Years, notwithftanding that, the l rince of Conde did
ufeall indeavorsto have sir Robert exchanged, and did offer one Mon¬
fieur Bougy, for to Exchange sir Robert; who was Lievtenant General
in his Chriftian Majefties Army, which was denied, it being given
out , that Sir Robert did intend to kill Cardinal Mazarine, the
ordinary common pretext, that when envy or malice contrives againft
man; then ufually its babbled and given our, that he was to kill the
Prince or Minifter of State.
XI. If gratitude were in pradice, fure Cardinal Mazarine would not
have forgot his parts as hereunto-,for when theCardinaftr'e fie made his
efcape from Far is, was in very great apprehenfion and fear of his life
by the Duke of Orleansjhe Prince of Conde Monfieur de Beauford&i their
party. Sir Robert having not then quit the Kings Service nor the court
pirty, the Cardinal being in great apprehenfion of Ioofing his life,
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ry unfinished ■ he did remafsand gather a Hundred Gentlemen, every
one with his Sword and Piftol, and had them into the Inns and Ca-
baretts in the Ren de tones enfents and near the Pallas Royal, and the
Cardinal then being in hourly fear of being attacked in the Pallas.
Sir Robert writ unto his Eminence , that he lay with a hundred
Cavaliers, in Cafe that any attempt were made upon his Eminence :
That Sir Robert was ready to be in the head of the laid Gentlemen to
hazard his Life and theirs in the defence of his Eminence j who then
fent 'Monfieur de Na.va.ile, now Duke de Navaile, to fee if what Sir Robert
writ was fo5 Monfieur de Navaile did to the Cardinal return,and certified
him, that what Sir Robert writ to him was fo. Upon which the Car¬
dinal, the Alarum being part, Two or Three days after, Sir Robert
being in the Pallas Royal, the Cardinal took him in his Arms, faying
he was a true Perfon of Honor $ and that if ever it came in his way,
.that he never would forget Sir Roberts generofity and kindnefs. But
the Cardinal made it his profeflion, not to be a flave to his word;
yet did Sir Robert when he lay in theBaftile, put him in mind of his
promife, which proved one a la mode de France; But at long run,
Mr. waiter Montegne a Perfon of Credit and Renown with the French
Court, and Cardinal, was fo honourable as to imploy himfelf for
SirRolcrts liberty, which in fine he obtained-, but upon fuch Terms
as have rarely been impofed upon any Officer or Soldier of Fortune,
which was thus-, that Sir Robert ivaljh lhould put in Two Collonels
•of the Kings Ar my^and T wo good Burgelfes of Paris,who lhould become
bound in Fifty thouland Crowns. That Sir Robert waljb lhould not
ierve nor carry Arms againftHis Chriffian Majefty in Five years fol¬
lowing, which was given by Sir Robert and performed. The Lord
of Musbery , and Sir James Dillon were the Two Collonels who be¬
came bound, Monfieur de Couteure&nd Monfeur de la Cofle the Burgelfes,
and fo Sir Robert was let at liberty. Could it be thought that fo great a
King would fo farconlider afingle Officer, or Soldier of Fortune: I
cannot but Ipeak well of the Prince of Conde; for when he firft re¬
ceived me into his Proteftion, feeing my Difmifs and Pafs from His
.Chriffian Majefty, he did afford me his Favour and Countenance ?
and when firft I came to him, the Armies then lying about rillneufe
St. George a little above shallonton, the Kings Army lying of one fide
the River, Commanded by Mounfieur de Turene, and the Princes
Army of chalonton fide. The Prince bid me take Five hundred Horle
and beat about Rarity to find fome Booty which may put me into an
Equipage t, and that he would but moderately hear any Complaint
that lhould come againft me. I did take the laid Horfe which were
all Germans; and truly I did more ftudy to render the Prince fervice
than to plunder, if it came not in my way5 and fo I marched all
Night, and paft by the Rear of the Kings Army, and took fome Offi¬
cers and Prifoners; my intent being to go to Pontoife to beat up fome
the Kings Army who lay there-, and in my return the next Morn¬
ing I drew up to refrelh betw ixt St. Germans and St. Clow a top of a
Hill: While I was there, I law a Coach with fix Horfes going for
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iter General, fo parted, and I never faw him fince. As unto my Lord of
Or cry, I would take the Sacrament that he never ipoke one word or
iy liable unto me of my King in the whole courfe of our tranfa&ion,
but as heretofore I have mentioned, foon after I Landed in Flanders
and went to Gant, there was cafually his Grace of Ormond, unto whom
I prefently made my addrefs, but he being bufie with the Lord Cul¬
pepper, that time was not convenient^ the next day I waited on his
Grace, to give him the account of my Tranfabtions in England, re¬
presenting all I could gather, only that 1 would make it out, how fome
near His Majefty did betray his Secrets, unto the Ufurper and his Crea¬
tures, I offering upon pain of the lofs of my Head to give evident
proofs of the faid intelligence. My Lord faid, he would give his Ma¬
jefty who was then in Bruges an account of what I faid-, fome Two
days after the Earl of clancarthy, came to Gant from his Grace of Or-
mond, and brought me this meflage, that it was His Majefties Pleafure,
that I ftiould appear before His Majefty and Council to anfwer 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 Baat from Gant to
Bruges, in obedience as I conceived to His Majefties Pleafure, I re¬
ceived an other meffage from his Grace, that 1 ihould immediatly leave
the low Countries, by His Majefties pofitive Order vfo exprefted • or
that I ftiould run the hazard of what ftiould follow. 1 anfwered I
would in all things obey my Kings Command, though I well know
that this Order was procured, bythofe who knew them (elves guilty,
Low I would have accufed them of their keeping intelligence w ith
the Ufurper. Next day from Gant I took my journey towards Ger¬
many, to get unto his Highnefs Prince Rupert, and took the City of
Bruxels in my wly, which was not much out of it, the Lord D/gby
and Sir Edward Hyde were then hand and glove, the world hath feen
what they have been afterwards. Truly 1 was at a defiance w ith ei¬
ther, fo 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 difpatched, and imploycd after me to
Bruxels, it being well known that I had entrance fo w ith the Prince
of Conde, who was then in Bruxels, lo as to bring me to his Catho-
lick Majefties State Minifters, 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, fo contrived, that the
Governors Don John £ Aujlrea and Marquis de Caraffen<is, were inform¬
ed and poflefted, that I was then imployed by the Ufurper, and Earl
of Orery to Kill my King, fo the next Morning after my arrival in
Bruxels, my Son and Servant and I ready to take Horfe, the grand
Provo Cafieneda, comes with Forty at his heels, (hewing me no Order,
co'nveyes my Son and I to the Prifon called Urinte, and Orders that
none (hould come to fpeak unto us, which fo Continued for fix Months,
weftarving with hunger and cold, after w hich I found means to ad¬
drefs unty my Sacred King, who was fo indulgently juft, that he did
authorize the Judge Millitary of Flanders to examine the proceedings,
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5s alfo to determine who fo.did as heretofore is declared, which ccmpri-
fes his Catholick Majefties Orders, to pay the charges of myimpri-
fonment who had nothing to do with it, and to put me at liberty,
that was made Prifoner fine culpa: To give an allay unto my unjult
fufferances, this Order did not a little folace me.
XIII. One thing Noble Reader,! being admitted Pen and Ink,be plea-
fed to obferve 5 I did ever renounce my Kings Grace or Favour, ^
flioyld I be made guilty of Difloyalty 5 I would neither beg, delire,
or take my Kings Pardon, I never having finned againft him, his In-
terefts, or Service 5 nor would I my Gods pardon, had I no more
finned againft him, than I have againft my King. 1 then in my
time of lmprifonment, did reprefent unto my King that a time would
come that the Lord Digby, and Sir Edward Hyde w ould be Calhier'd,
and Eanilhed from his Court ^ and that I who was then Tyrannically
made Prifoner by their falfe Informations and Suggeftions, ftiould be
at liberty to ftand at His Majefties Elboe, to fee them both in difgrace,
and fo 1 have, and feen them; and feeing I could not then there
pclfefs the true liberty due to a Subject, I would I may here, w hich
hitherto I have not. I may implore, nay prefs for it, Confcientia
wille Tefies; I fear no man upon Earth, my Duty to my King not corn-
prifed, nor no Laws either: My King I am lure cannot in himfelf
err. So good I am fure he is, I cannot nor will I fay that Minifters
of State, who govern the confciences of Kings, and who are to an-
fwer may not err : This I intend unto the Minifters of Forraieu
Kings.
XIV. You muft know Noble Reader, that the City of Bruxels have it
by their Charter, that no ftranger made Prifoner there, is to be de¬
tained above Twenty four hours without he be Examined, his Charge
given in againft him, and the Caufeof his lmprifonment Examined *
and that befides, if any make a Prifoner upon Informations, that they
lhould lecure to make a party againft the Prifoner. who by their
Law in Bruxels are to allow the Prifoner a daily fubfiftence, according
to the Quality of the Prifoner, elle the Prifoner not to be detained.
Upon which it was ordered that I, and my Son, and fervant, by His
Moft Excellent Majefties then Councel, that Twenty pence a day
ftiould be given us. The World may judge whether that was a pro¬
portion fit, and I having lain Thirty three months Priloner. Sir
Steven Fox being ordered to pay that confiderable allowance ^ yet for
the time of Thirty three months I never received but Ten pound
or about the Value. I do not fay this to upbraid Sir Steven , for I
believe him an honeft Gentleman ; but that mony was then not over
plenty in hisTreafury. I being forced to addrefs unto the King of
spawy lie fet me at liberty, and payed my Cofts as here aforefaid, elle1
1 had there periftied.
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XXI.Now Noble Reader,pardon if I give you the trouble of read ing,
how the sieur Grimings was put to death, who was the Receiver Ge¬
neral of Flanders, a Perfon then moft High and Eminent, would make
Princes attend their having Audience, whiles he Rayed to lee his
Daughters dance the Tyicote• his Pallace in Bruxels, not much infe¬
rior to Dunkerk or Clarendon houfe: the reafon why I trouble you
your Reading his end, is that I was nominated in bringing him to it,
he then being a Prifoner, in the fame which I was in at Bruxels, in
the year 1658. that I was the Perfon, who next his demeanor of not
being tapable to account, for the vaft fumms he had received, of
his Catholick Majefties Subjects, that I was the perlon who hindered
his efcape, a thing I then did own and now do, which none living
can or will blame me for, when they here the truth, as now here
they may of thepaffages thereof, yet did Sir Edward Hide and his then
Creatures, falfely afperfe me, in giving out that I betrayed this Grim¬
ings^ the paffages were as thus, which is the Real truth of it : this
Grimings being a clofe Prifoner in a ground Chamber, feeing me walk
in the Yard,, had the opportunity of asking me why I was there a
Prifoner. I replied I did not know, and withal, that I renounced the
Grace or Favor of all Kings or Law, for anything that could belaid
to my charge, upon which he faid that the Kings grace was not to
be denied, and I replied not for them who had ule thereof 5 of which
number I did conclude he was one, and fo we parted •, his Lady was
then confined to his Pallace in Bruxels, and a Hundred Soldiers there
every Night in Guard, ihe hearing that I was a perfon of Honor and a
Prifoner, which lay in the Chamber above her Husband, Ihe difgui-
fes herfelf and comes to my Chamber, throws herfelf at my feet,which
very much did furprize me, I made her rife, which Ihe was unwilling
unto, Ihe declaring that I was the only perlon that could relieve and
lerveher, I faid that furelhe was miftaken, and that Ihe took me for
Lome other more confiderable Perfon, that might be a Prifoner, Ihe
cryedno, that it was I, and none other elfe that could ferve her, and
declares unto me how, which was as thus, my Husband lyeth here
under your Chamber, and I can no way contrive a Communication
with him, but by your means, help and afliftance. If that you may
pleafe fo far to be charitably oblieging towards me, as to contrive his
having a Billet from xne, for all his Wealth lyeth placed in convents
and particular places, that without my having an account from him,
how and where, I and my Children are ruined for ever. Unto which
I replied, that I lay Prifoner I knew not for what, and for to render
my felf to be guilty of Intermedling in a concern of that Nature,could
iliew 110 Judgment or wifdom in me, but Ihe fo did importune me
that Ihe prevailed, and I did contrive to convey her Billets to her
Husband, and his to her, by which means Ihe found where and how
all his Wealth lay, upon which Ihe got his Wealth, which were Mil¬
lions of Livers, and fo conveyed herfelf into Holland, out of the King
of Spains Dominions, without making me theleaft return, but by di¬
vers of her Letters which are yet extant, Grimings being put upon the
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Rack, confefied contrary to his Vows and promifes, that it was by
my.means that he correfponded with his Wife, upon which his Ca¬
tholick Majefty fent Comrnifttoners to examine me, who indeed v ere
very civil 5 I did not deny my guilt, faying why did his Catholick
Majefty detain mePrifoner, and upon what grounds: The Commit,
fionersfaid I had given great Treafures out of His Majefties Cophers,
foon after Grimings his Wife run away, I writ to Grimings^ that I
had ferved him in the truft his Wife impofed in me, and defired him
that he would give his Billet to his fon, forme to receive a Hundred
Piftols, I being in diftrels, which he would not do, then I w rit to him,
that he fhould never expeft any favor at my hand, but to the contra¬
ry as he found by the lofs of his Head. For lie being juft ready to
have made his efcape, I did difcover it to Don John d3 Aujlrea, and to
the Marquis de Carajfenas^being in no truft for Griming* jot he intended
to have got into the French quarters, and being a perlbn that was in fo
confiderable an Imployment and pofture as he was,he would have differ-
ved his Catholick Majefty to a greater value,then the vaft fumms of his
Majefties that he could not account for,which I prevented and made His
Catholick Majefty amends for what I formerly did for Grimings, who
as unto his being ungrateful, did meet the due return, by my means
in which he did not intruft me. I long fince made a Declaration of
this matter,the Year of His Majefties happy reftauration, who was gra-
cioufly plealed to write unto me to come into England^ all in his owrt
hand, which I did obey: I then declared that the Chancellor of Po¬
land, for his ill managing the Kings Conlcience, being chief Mini*
fter, was degraded. Soe was Monjieitr Fenquet in France , that was
Treafurer: Then how Grimings in Flanders loft his head, and I did fore-
fee that the next bordering Minifter fibould take example in being pre*
Cautioned, I addreftingthe fame to the Lord Clarendon, who had me
Prifoner under hisLalh in the Fleet, I then lhewed my Declaration
unto that Honorable Perfon the Lord of Anglifey, Lord Privy Seal not
to conceal the fight thereof from my Lord clarendon, which my Lord
of Anglifey did not, fo as in a little time after my Lord Clarendon, pro¬
ved not fo vehement in the Execution of his Power. Fxhx qnerf* facinnt
altena pericuU canturn,
XXII. This is to declare the Ingratitude of the faidGrimings, and
what his not Provoyance did bring him unto-} he having been put
on the Torture did confefs, that it was by my means, that Ins Wife
did beget a Correfpondence with him, to attain unto his wealth as
(lie hath * I being Examined therein by His Catholick Majefties Com-
miffaries, who (hewed me, how Grimings did own it was I who gave
the Expedient 5 and they carrying themfelves very civilly towards
me, I did own, that I was, if it was a Guilt. The helper of giving
the Accefs of her Billets to her Husband, and his unto her ; laying,
why did His Catholick Majefty keep me a Prifoner without producing
fny Charge. what had he to fay againft me, I renounced either Grace
or Favour from him, I demanded Juftice5 withal declaring that the
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and that all her all was mine, and in her Letters declaring, that
pretended not to have the honor of marrying a perfonof my quality,
only coveting my Company. The cruel ulage of hers as followeth,
may admit my thus expatiating, though a thing contrary, to my na¬
ture towards that venerable Sex: It's true, that in the time of our
converfe, I did tell her that there would be great difturbmces and
trouble^ ingendred in England, I foon after refraining giving her my
vifits, (lie grew paflionately defperate, run out one night out of her
Houfe into the ftreet, ftopt my Coach, Ihe half naked ; and fwore if
Icame not in and ftay all night, that Ihe would kill herfelf. I not
flaying as being unwilling thereunto, Ihe a little after went in her
patfion to my Lord Chief Juftice, and made a mod pernitious and
faWe affidavit, that I robbed her of a Hundred Pounds worth of Plate,
a,nd that I had pawnd it, unto Mr. John tvallis a Gold-fmith in Lom¬
bard ftxzzx., at thefignof the Angel, who canwitnefs thit I never did
pawn any Plate unto him, a Perfon in who'e handb, I intruded mo-
iiyof mine to be kept, above Two Hundred Pounds, and that if any
was pawnd that ihe pawnd it herfelf, and afterwards Ihe came to Mr.
Walli*, and fain would have retrieved her Plate,faying that (he only lent
it him to be Vamifhed, this Mr. tvallis a man of fame and credit will
aver; but as unto her MkAffidavid, (he procured the Lord Chief Ju¬
ftice his Warrant, and in comes the TipftafF one Otway, with Twenty
or Thirty at his heels, and I lcarce out of my bed, they hurried me
half naked through the ftreet, and carried me to New prifon, where
Hay Two or Three hours, lent for Bail, who entred into rcognifance
of TwoThoufand Pounds, for my appearance at Hick's-Ha/l, which I
did, and the Gentlemen fitting there cancelled my recognifance,and
took Two ordinary men bound in Twenty Pounds a peace, and 1
in Forty to appear at Gutld-hall the following Seflions, to anfwerto
the Indiftment againft me for the King, put in by this Widow E. J.
now O. B. unto which I did appear at Guild-Hall, before the Lorn
Chief Juftice and that Honorable Bench, a Jury being Impanneld, (he
appearing there and telling her Story, the Lord Chief Juftice and the
Bench, found it fo nonfenfical as my Lord told the Jury, that there
was no Subje&for them to be troubled with, fo difmiffed them and
me from the indiftment, though (lie pretended to have comprifed me
in the Number of fuch as were concerned in the Plot. This Widow£./.
now o. b. did abfolutely give unto Sir Robert ivalffi a Dubble guilt Tan¬
kard, which is under her own hand, and attefted by John chappel
Clear he unto Sir James Butler, Sarah sing and Frances Duval, the (aid
Tankard Sir Robert made a prefent of, unto a Perfon of quality, yet
thefaid Widow moft impudently did make her addrefs unto the laid
Perfonof quality, and did perfwadehim that Sir Robert rob'd her of
her Tankard, and thefaid Perfonof 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 afar diftanceone from the o-
ther, I had at Guild-Hall under her own hand Forty of her Letters, to
produce what (he was, which are ftill extant. In one (lie writes,that
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