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NARRATIVE
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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.
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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^
Colour B!ue> Green or Black, in the later /donof,
having never been guilty of any adion of the co¬
lour, for the fins of my Youth 1 have, for which /
ask God only pardon. As unto the honor of my
Knight-hood,fome when they want difcourfe and
to derogate from me, will fay that it was Sir fohn
Smith who was Knighted the day of Battle at Edge-
bill,fo he was,who well deferved it;that Royal
Prince of the Blood, his Highnefs Prince Rupert, 1
am confident will pleafe to remember, as unto this
what / fay in my manifeft, his Highnefs being the
Perfon, that introduced me unto his Majefty up¬
on thetopof£*/ge-foy/, where his Majefty did then
honor me with the title of Knight-hood.
Thoufands of Prints are cryed up and down, bur rhey will not as I do Tub-
fcribe their names to their Prints, to juftifie in Justification of their malignity,
as 1 do of my Loyalty.
In this my Manifeft may be read, part of Sir Kobtrt Wall his life, carriage,
attions and fufferances. Enemies envioufly and ungroundedly he hath had, who
now are disbanded into the other world, yet it any particular man carry any
animofities againft him, he knowing noc of anv ground or Subjed he hath
given, he is ready to fatisfie any that may pretend to the contrary, leaving thole
who read this, to judge the hardnefs of the mcafure he hath met vvith, wifh-
ing he may be the fole, or only in this Age, who may find the Eftcds of the
like Injufticc as he hath.
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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.
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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 fide of his Golden Medal; and the form of His Majesties Royal
Bannor cf the Rezerfe, but for the Acceptable Service he hath rendered
at the Battle of Edge-Hill, in the year 43. as his Commiffion for wear¬
ing the fame from His Majejly of Bleffed Memory now Exjlant, can tvit-
nefs, 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 pafs for a Crime, though fome of the Dollies of his Youth may be
thrown in his Difh, as the fin of the Tiefh, and Gaming, yet never w is
any crime ofDis-Loyalty. The fir (I of his Name that went from England
into Ireland, for His Majefties Service in King Edwards Time, w.ts
Sir Patrick Walfli, who to Attack the City of Lymberick, eaufed k
Hundred Horfe and Men, to fwim over the River of Shannon , and f
Surprized and Took Limberick; as the chronicle of England and Ifela nd
more largely Expatiates upon. But Sir Patrick a Horje-Back, [wintming
over the River , Bows and Arrows tb'n being in life, he fjj t a Swan
Flying, through the Breafl, fo as ever fince the flying Swan hath bee ft
his Crefl, with the Arrow through the Swafts Crejl, and his Armes three
Arrows Heads ■ which hath fo 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 Ifeirefs, and I being
in France then in command, having a Regiment in His Chrijlian Ma¬
jefties Service, and His Aloft Excellent Majejly then being in Paris
and in the Louure • fome Thefes being dedicated at the Colledge of
Cerbone, unto the Noblefl and befl of His Moft Excellent Majefties
SubjeBs. There was one Dedicated to me, by one of the DoBors in
Theology of the faid Colledge, and my Arms being fet forth and difplay¬
ed, carrying the Flowers De-luce , and my name being Valois, and fo
was when in the Conquejl the name came out of France into England,
which here is turned to Walfli • by time, the Duke De Angulcme being
De Valois, which name have been Kings of France, fome being curi¬
ous, fent to the Louure, to know, if 1 was not de La Maifon de Va*
Ipis, as fome Noble-men now here may pleafe to remember, then heard
the queft ion propounded, fo as fome who grumbled that I fijould be named
Valois, may here be fat is fed upon what ground 1 went by the faid name,
and not as un nom de guere, fome who may read this, will under/land
why 1 thus Expatiate. Another thing Summons me to this Manifejl,
fome whom I cannot call better than Lyars, Cowards, and Villains, who
if any of them be living and read this, they will fwallow my Expre/fi-
on: Thofe l mean, who have villainoufly, and moft falfly invented, thai
J was hired by Cromwel, and the Lord of Brohill, now Earl of Orery,
to Kill my Sacred and Anointed King, as 1 at large fet out in my Ma-
nifefl. I having been Murderoufly detained Prifoncr in Bruxels Thirty
Three Months upon" that falfe pretention, I renouncing the leafl Grace
or Favor from His Sacred Majejly, then as now I do, if any Dis Loy¬
alty could or can be laid to my Charge.
3. if 1 herein be prolix, pray Noble Reader pardon it, and conftder,' if
that my ttnjufl and non-pareil fufferanccs in thofe days , may not plead
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my excufe, and withal that in this my following Manifefi, cr Remon-
firance, /Mf /» it a word of tint ruth, wr then what 1
nnt ready to Juflifie with my life and fortune. Unto my new, or late
reprefntments, I may add feme old, which may not le unremarkable,
as one at the Battle of Edge-Hill, in the Tear 43. /f lay fully in my
power to haze ended then that unhappy War of England, and for the
Jupream advantage of my King • ycu will jay why 1 did not do it, and
1 Jay when you read what followeth, ycu will own me not condcmnable.
As thus, at the faid Battle, as th'ofe who were there do know , as the mojl
Honorable Valiant Lord Gerart, and Collonel Edward Villefs, Sir
Edward Brett, Sir Thomas Daniel, and others , and the Lord Warton
can alfo witnefs, that our left wing of Horfe then Commanded, by the
tno(l Loyal and Royal Earl of Brandfoi'd, Henry the Lord wilmct, and
Commijjary General of the Horfe, did clearly beat, and put to flight the
right wing of the Enemies, purfning them through the Village of Kin-
ton, which lay in the rear of the Enemies Army, being a long Village
ccn fifling of thatched Houfes • between which, then lay the Enemies Am¬
munition, fome Cannon, and their waggons • we purfuing the Enemy fur¬
ther our foot in body, and the Enemies then hotly ingaged, order came
to our Horfe, not to purfue the Enemy further, but to return to our Ar¬
my. Our referve of ILrfe unpremeditatedly coming with us in the.pur-
fuit: In our return through Kington Village , it came into my head,
that the burning of that Village and their Ammunition, would have
rendered us that days victory: whereupon I ordered my Horfe-men a.
foot, and to fire the Village and their Ammunition, and jufl 4s they be¬
gun to Jet fire, the Honorable and Worthy Brave Lord Carnarvan, and
that Worthy Commander Sir Charles Lucas, being my Superior Officers,
commanded me from putting my refolution in Execution, Saying, that
the day was curs, as alfo that Ammunition and Village. Unto which I
made anjwer, that the Armies being then in fight, fortuna de la guere
may le Su'ject to change the face and State of Affairs, and that the
Burning of their Ammunition , could not but affuredly render his Ma-
jefly Supream Victory yet notwithflanding / was forced to give obedience,
Jo as by the faid Ammunition, and Cannon, we were forced to retreat
and quit the Field. However 1 then brought from Kington Two Pie¬
ces of their Cannon into the Kings Army • and the Waggon of my Lord
of ElTex, which was fo compleat and made Coffin way- that in our next
two days march, cur Army called it Eflex his Coffin, but I would it had
been the next waggon which was to it, covered with Spits and Frying-
pans, for there lay all the Armies money and pay; as one Pudcy who
was Chamber-man unto Eflex, who writ to me for his Lords neceffaries,
fome days after did affure mc0
4. Though many more defervedly then I, might in the day of Battle
have attained to the Dignity of the Mark of Honor, I carry at my Bre aft;
/ am confident that there is not many, who can (bow as ample a Com-
miffion of his Majeflies of Bleffed Atemory for the like, ds I have now
Extant which in this particular it hath profited me in : where all No-
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h'le,men and Knights are liable to fay fole mony, 1 having fent my badge]
Titlej and Commiffon unto thoje worthy Commiffioners, who were in¬
truded in the ajfeffment of the Pole-money 5 they then fitting at Hicks'*
Hall in May 1678. They were civily pleafed to discharge me from
the payment for my Dignity; and that I fhould pay only a shilling for
my Pole, figned by two of the Commiffioners5 and fealed^ whom J yet ne¬
ver to my knowledge did fee.
Sir Ed. Abney, and William Bererfham, Commiflioners die
$9. May 1678. So in paying a Shilling I was quit.
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E A D E R, pray be fo juftly favorable , I being
forced in Honor and Loyalty to make this pub¬
lication, who am no Orator to judge, but with
an indifferent eye, according to the proofs I of¬
fer, which I will maintain, Hand unto, and will
juftifie, by Common, Civil, or Marlhal Law ; un¬
to all Perfons and in all refpeds, and in particu¬
lar againit this Bverard • as in any thing, wherein he doth bring
in my name, he is a perfon that I have known of a long time ;
as alio his condition, not by the qualification he affumes to him-
felf in the title Efquire • in his prints, as fo he hath fubfcribed his
name, which I cannot imagine on what account; and I muftcon-
elude, that he hath as much right fo to name himfelfr as unto the
contrary he hath to have brought my name in queftion, as to fup-
prefs the difcovery of the Plots, in fuch as he hath mentioned me
in. If he will but take example in following my Rule, as now I
find it not unneceffary to explain my quality, and Title ♦, and that
he may truly fo demonftrate his, whereby the world may cenfure,
or give applaufe, which as unto their judgments may feem fit. This
Everard doth fet forth in his faid depofitions, that in the Year 1673.
being in Paris, that he did difcover unto me fome defigns, and di-
fturbances, which were intended towards the prejudice of his MoT
Excellent Majeftie's Kingdom, which as he faith, he came to the
knowledge of from the Lady Anne Gourdon •, a Lady that to my re¬
membrance I never fpoke unto, but heard of her as of a Lady of
great Judgment, Birth, and quality ; whole Family hath always
been adorned with the endowments and Chara&ers of Loyalty, of
which fome of late have given dmonftration and Teftimony of, as
that Noble Perfon my Lord Donbarton and his Brother 5 fo as if this
Lady fhould fo fall off, as to intermeddle in the like unfeemly inter-
medlings 5 certainly flie hath degenerated and rendered her felf to be
much ienfurabl?, and to have done it unto fuch a Perfon as this Eve¬
rard • it could render her no lefsthan ridiculous. But malice and in¬
vention hath fo powerful an influence in this Age. Quod nihil
■plus, I fpeak not as to take this Ladies part , nor to excufe her
weaknefs Js I believe not, fhould fhe be guilty. But when I con-
flder that man reduced to poverty, Extremity, want, and mifery,
as, fametirrjes this Everard, fubjelfl to fearch after all manner of
reforfe for his relief, I will not take on me to Judge of the fequel.
Now as unto what he hints, as having in the Year 1673. difcover-
ed unto one Sir Robert jvaljh, I knowing no other, may prefiime he
darts at me. Though he mentions not my ftile or quality 5 pardon
Noble Reader, If for reafons I think it not incongruous 5 but rather
inducing to confequence, that it might be allowed, my precations
• grounded upon Honor, may not be involved in other then in duty,
and Loyalty, unto my Anointed King $ in whole fervice, I have had
the Honor to have born very confiderable charges, and imployments,
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fince the Year i5jp. in the firft Northern fervice, under the Com¬
mand of the now Lord Stafford, having ever fince ferved my Kings
Honorably, and Faithfully (which no body can deny ) and particu¬
larly in the Battle of Edge-Hill, in the Year 1643. Where fate was no
jefs favorable unto me, then fortunate in inabling me to render my
King acceptable lcrvice ^ fo as that he was then gracioufly pleafed in
the Field, to honor me with the dignity of Knight-hood ; then giv¬
ing his Royal Commands, that when he fhould arrive in Oxford, that
a Medal of Gold ihould be made for me, with his own E ffigies, and
that of His Deareft Son Prince Charles of the one fide: and toinlcribe
thereon, Caroltts Rex, Magna Britannia, & Carolns frinceps, And of
the other fide to infculp the form of his Royal Baanor, ufed at the
laid Battle, and fo infcribe about it, f ar regale mandatum Car h Regis
hoc affgnatur Roberto WaKh5 which his Royal Majeftieof Blelfed Me¬
mory gave me accordingly, out of his own hand, and his Royal Com-
mifiion forme to wear the fame, exprefting in it, that it was for the
moft: acceptable fervice that I rendred at the Battle of Edge Hi!!, which
accordingly I have ever fince w rn • this was not gain'd by love or
favor, fed ex officiogladii, w hich no Herald can *denv, but may carry
the title of right Honor, and now to be upbraided by Everard or any
fuch, Noble Reader, do but Judge, if it may well by me, be dige-
fted, were I guilty of theleaft dilloyalty, I would condemn my felf,
more then any accufer could make me.
II. Now as to this Everard,he did about the Year 1673 .in Paris, come
often unto my lodging, I then ulually miking tile of him, totran-
flate forme Engirff into French, as I have divers of his transitions in
writing now by m.-, and extant, and then famedmes gave him half a
Crown-, he co; :g from one end of Paris, the Re* de St. Antoine to
the Sanbour e of St. Jermins often unto me, the Half-Crown did in¬
vite him, not as it feem'd his love to me, and one night he did fay,
and at random, that great defigns Mere intended to breed great di-
fturbances, in His Moft Excellent Majefties Kingdoms, without fpeci-
fying upon what particular grounds or making mention in the leaft
degree that he had any intend n to difcover them, but much to the
contrary, vowing that he wasrefolved to live and die, as he ever was
bred in the Roman Religion ; I then did reprelent unto him, that as
he was a Subject of His Moft Excellent Majefties, and a Vaflal born
in the County Palatine of Tipperary, under his Grace the Duke of
Ormond, that he would do but his duty, if he knew any fuch immo-
tions intended, to give me notice whereby to advertife his Grace-
which he then promifed he would, but never after did he ever come
at me or near me. Some time before, I had from a very confidera-
ble hand, that there were then ingendring in Paris, to breed diftur-
bances in his Majefties Kingdoms, towards the fubverfion of His Moft
Excellent /Majefties Laws and Government, in which fome of his
Subjects were very ofEcioully in termed ling. I then did immediately
addrefs my felf unto the marquis de Molac, w ho was ray friend, and
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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-
C ' duced
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duced to his Grace the Duke of Monmouth. and in a little time, his
Grace took him into his Service, to be his Sollicitoror under Secre
tary • he having before been an under Clark to the Lievtenant Crime-
nel, or Lievtenant Civel of Paris 1 well know not which, how he did
demeanor mifdeniean himfelf under his Grace, I know not, butcaft
or caihiered from the Dukes Service he was, and Mr. Sareheveltaken
in his place. Everard hereupon grew enraged againft his Grace, and
took a moft Helliili refolution, which was to Poylon the Duke of Mon¬
mouth, in refolution fo to do, as in apparances he came into England.
Mr. Dalonfon being Everards intimate, he communicates unto Mr.
Dalonfon his refolution, to Poylon , and did carry Mr. Dalonfon with
him to buy the Poylon for thefaid purpofe, and lb did buy it. After
that Dalonfon had fully penetrated into Everards malignity; Mr. Da-
Unfon giving me avilit, he tells me, that he was lo happy as to meet
an opportunity and occalion, which may demonftrate unto me, that
I had not oblieged an ungrateful Perfon, as unto the kind civility I
did conferr upon him, and that he then came of purpofe unto me -
todifcover unto me a very great concern, by which I may obliege
a very great Perfon. Truly lam not of their humor who would not
hear; It refting in me after having heard, to give or take, fo I asked
Mr. Dalonfon what he would fay, who tells me of Everards refolution
towards the Duke of Monmouth, and that he was with him when he
bought the Poyfon, and that Everard was immediately refolved to
go for Englandto put his malignant Refolution in Execution, telling
me that Everard intended that an other Duke Ihould pafs the fame
path, which I do not now here name; at which I was not a little
itartled, and conlidering upon the matter, I thanked Mr. Dalonfon
for his good will, but told him that the difcovery of that concern,
was much fitter to have been communicated unto my Lord Locker,
who was the Kings Embalfador, and then in Paris Mr. Dalonfon re¬
plies that he had a delire to own his gratitude to me, befides paying
of his duty towards the Duke of Monmoutbs fafety ^ and adds, that
if fo I did not give ear to him, and that any milchief Ihould afterwards
infue, that I may repent. Upon this I asked Mr.Dalonfon, if he would
go before good witnefs, atteft the putting of this information into
my hands, he faid he would and more then that; I prefently hereup¬
on fent for witnels, and amongft others for young Mr. Lane my Lord
Lansborovo his Son, a fine civil underftanding Gentleman, who is now
here in Town, and fince married unto my Lord of Northampton s Neece.
Indeed Mr. Lane was very loth to meddle in the bulinefs, I telling
him in Mr. Dalonfons prefence, what it was and how it was, which
Mr. Lane at this day I dare fay will fay was thus, Mr. Dalonfon then
faid that he would not only give it under his hand, and leal, but
would as well go in perfon into England to maintain what he faid,
and to confront Everard. Mr. Dalonfon did fign and feal before wit¬
nefs, andfo I lent it for England to thofe it did concern, and in par¬
ticular the Duke of Monmouth, and Dalonfon alfo told where Everard
would or was to lodge in London, and doubted not that if he were
taken
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taken as lie would defcribe where, but that the faid Poyfon would be
found with him fo Everard was feized upon and put into the Tower:
Dalanfon did come into England, and confronted Everard before fome
Lords of the Council, Dalonfon was not ill looked upon for his infor¬
mation, but had his pafs and a Viaticum to boot. So as vilibly its
more probable that this put Everard into the Tower, rather then what
he faith in his depofitions, after Everards being confronted by Dalon-
[ony Everard-was returned to the Tower, and Dalonfon left at his li¬
berty. After Everards being in fome clofe reftri&ion, then he fain
would intimate unto Sir John Robinfon, fome informations as tending
to Plots as Prifoners in fuch ftraights feldom fail to foment 5 hoping
thereby to procure themfelves lomeeale, yet would Everard have
dallied upon Sit John for not reprelenting or giving his ear • but out
of doubt Sir John hath done the duty of his place Everard in his de¬
pofitions gives out that this Dalonfon was his man, a moft palpable un¬
truth I have known Everard a long time, but never in a condition
to keep a man, but he hill was to be kept.
I V.My name being by Everards means introduc'd and traduc'd,it gives
me fcope to follow with a larger declaration in my fufferance, my cre¬
dit being thus trampled upon, by Fobbs, Rafcals, and Villains, that
never dar'ft, appear to lay any thing to my charge, face to face or be¬
fore Juftice, but dill like aParator falfly informing behind my back,
I am not the only thus lerved, O what a pitty it is, that the noble
Law which was allowed of to the Lord Rea, and David Ramfy Ihould
cot again be permitted; which was to fight Lefpee a la main on a
publick ftage, to maintain the Truth, which would give an Allaye un¬
to impoftory and falfe acculations. Is it not ftrange as thus, that this
Everard Ihould be fo impudent as to have me lummoned to the Houle
of Commons Bar, to make me appear, as I did there in May laft 1679.
and to referr unto what I Ihould witnefs, and fuch as he names which
can witnefs as now I do?
V. Matter fpeaker did ask me, if that in Paris 1673. ^iat Eve¬
rard did not tell me that Troubles, Plots, Defigns, and Difturbancesj
were ingendring towards the prejsdice of England, I anfwered in part
he did, but that as unto particulars he did not, nor have Iprefledto
know, I having notice from other manner of hands then his, that great
engines were at work to prejudice His Moft Excellent Majeftie to¬
wards- the fubverfion of his Laws and Government, and fomented to
be upheld by greater perfons, then yet where named or fpoken off,
The fpeaker asked me why I had not declared them, I replied itTeem¬
ed he knew not whether I had or not; I adding that if I had not done,
what my duty and Loyalty oblieged me unto; that I would difclaim
in the leaft Grace or Favor from the King, his moft Honorable Parlia¬
ments or Laws of the Land, lo as I was ordered to withdraw,not doubt¬
ing but that I Ihould be fummond to declare what I knew in thofe con¬
cerns,yet I wasnot,but in a day or twoafter,wasfummon'd to appear be-
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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.
The
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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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Letters, your Petitioner in order thereunto comes into England, being
of the firft, if not the firft, who gave Lights and Intelligence of ill
defigns, and of a fubverlion intended, towards the Government and
Laws of this Kingdom, lo as your Petitioner could have no linifter in¬
tention.
Though this Edmund Evcrard did mod: perriitioufly and falfly fay,
before this Honorable Houfe, that your Petitioner in Paris, did pre¬
caution the Talbotsfroni trufting this loas the malice of this
Everard might have fcandaloufly abufedyour Petitioner, who is rea¬
dy and willing to anlwer before this Honorable Houfe, declaiming
in any grace or favor, if any difloyalty 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 Perfon that procured Evcrards
Imprifonment in the Tower , an adion this Honorable Houfe
would have allowed of, did they but know upon what occafion and
grounds, and how I was and am ready to maintain my ading therein,
the Anixels fome Years paft were (hewed unto fome of the members of
the Honorable Houfe, to the Lord Cavendijb, Sir John Coryton, Sir
Francis winnington, and Sir John Earnly, many others, your Petitioner
humbly prayeth that any of the members of this Honorable Houfe,
may be ordered to fee what your Petitioner can (how, as to hear what
he hath to fay for the good and interefts of His Majefty, and that of
his good Subjeds, and that in as much as that your Petitioner came
into England of purpofe, for the fervice and intereft as afore-faid, that
according to the Report made by thofe Commisfions, your Petitioner
may find theeffeds of yourjuftice, and he (hall Prayed.
I. My Reprefentments were given the Minifters of State in the Year
i675. 1676. Thelbare what Reprefentments attended my Petition,
that Sir John Coriton put into the hands of Mafter Speaker, Sir Robert
in the Year 1675. brought with him out of France, the perfon men¬
tioned in his Petition, firft he would have made Evident, that there
was then of His Majefties Subj£ds a Caball in France, who were very
adive and bufie, being thereunto much incouraged by a great Perfon,
to ingender great tumults and difturbances in His Moft Excellent Ma¬
jefties Kingdoms, who would have put into His Majefties Hands, fome
Letters from their Correfpohdcnce, writ from hence unto the faid
Cabal in Paris, and fome of theirs from Paris into their affociates here,
and would have declared how they were introduced unto the French
King, and his reception of them.
II. He would have difcovered, that fome perfons in England were
gained by the French King, and his Minifters to be of Intelligence with
them, fo as that thereby the French might have given the better con-
dud, unto their tranfadions with the Englifo, and that he would no¬
minate fome of thofe of His Majefties Subjeds, who were fo gained
by the French King and Minifters.
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III. He would have made it apparent,that the gfe.it Preparations thit
the French King made for War, did bend to bring the States of Ho.-
land to His Majefties Bent, which if he did not by force of Arms com-
'pals, he was fure to do when lje pleafed to afford them plaufeable
Terms, \\ hich* depended on HisMajefty to do whenever he pleafed,
and that once getting in the ftatesof Holland, the Confederates would
fbon come totearms, and that once coming fo, the French King tail¬
ing Breath would foon imploy His Army Elfewhere, as this man
would more particularly and probably into His Majefties Kingdoms,
declare here, had our Minifters of ftate given him a hearing, but he
being not' heard went very unfatisfied for //TAW, where certainly he
wasliftened unto, and gave great lights to the hates as unto the Gon¬
dii# of their Treaty, and accommodation with France. This man
was not wanting in monCy, I may fay he was very w ell to the coo>
trary, but difatisfied in France, and being very knowing in the Frtnch
concerns, he would thereby increafe his Fortune.
IV. I could examplifie much upon what this man could have done,Bull
as the times go it's more convenient not, when I could not be coun¬
tenanced in gaining credit for. this mans repreientments, I made then!
no Jewels, 1 communicating them unto many, and fo werethdy by
others to the French King, and his Minifters from hence, lo as it I went
now for France, my reception would be but cold, I having I may
with Juftice fay, that I was the firft, that firft gave notice of thefe in¬
tended revolutions and difturbances, though I never hitherto did name
the perfons who were firft fet on work to contribute unto the rai¬
ling thefe Tumults, however I am not unfatisfied, to have contribu¬
ted by my endeavors towards the payment of my duty, unto my Loy¬
alty, and though the returns I meet with, are leading to deturn in
the future, fuch as may not refolve to continue in the Principals of
Loyalty which I do and ever fhall, which time may give an undeni¬
able demonftration of. Two things I may aver ; the firft is, that I have
ho fear; fecond, that I am not by any means difcouraged, in perfifting
to do my Kings fervice, as willingly as ever.
V. I have been an eye-witnefs, and a#ive in the War of 1639. until
1646. Therefore I may give now I am in, fome accounts in the faid
War, when the faid War began, as my Fate hath rendered me fiibje#
unto Imprifonments, I was then fo, and for the fins and debts of mv
youth Prifoner in the King Bench. His Glorious Majefty of Bleffed
Memory, and her Majefty then quitted London, which I w ilh they ne¬
ver had, I was then Her Majefties Sworn Servant, and but in extra-
ordiniry, I petitioned to the Houfe of Lords, that I might be fet at'
liberty, as a priviledge that did belong unto Her Majefties Servants ;
unto which the Lords confented, and an Order was made for my Li¬
berty, which ftill ftands upon record in the Houfe of Lords, and I
then fet at Liberty. It was no mean thought or concern, that invited
Edward.
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Edward Earl of Dorfet, the Lord Chamberlain to Her Majefty, who was a
Lord in deed, to uphold the priviledges belonging to Her Majefly, he
j was my Advocate, nay Sollicker in my behalf and ftuck to me • riot by
faying, I will do you all the Service that lyes in my power, but iri the
performance to ad what he laid or promifed : I was by the Order of the
Houfe of Lords di (charged from Prifon,yet in the year 61 returning into
England was again taken for the old Debt, and made Prifoner ; but my
Lord wa?dead, that Noble Dorfet, elle alfuredly there had been payed as
much duty unto her Majefties Priviledges as before, Ihe then being here
pre lent as was in her abfence, as in my concern, but the times are chan¬
ged,and we too much a La mode, fome promifes much,and in efltaff per¬
form little, this is no romance and lefs is, what will follow: The wars
beginning then 5 truly I was offerd by the Houfes of Parliament a confi-
derablelmployment, 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 killing his hand, applyed my felf unto the Lord Henry wilmot
late Earl of Rochefier deceafed, who left this Young Lord,I hope to inhe¬
rit the Fathers Worth and Gallantry. The Lord wilmot was then railing
a Regiment ofHorfe for His Majefty, and alfoon as I came to him, he did
embrace me, bidding me welcome 5 not Alamode but in effeft, telling
me.Ilhould command his own Troop, then a raifing, fo I did, and in it
a Hundred Valiant brave men, molt Gentlemen of Eft ate and Quality,
who not long after did fo approve themfelves •, who could notchoofe
but fo to do, having fuch a General in the head of them as was his Lord-
Ihip, what hath not he done to leave his Name Renowned.
VI. I being made Prifoner laft Parliament 1678. all my Papers and
Writings feizedupon, and I carried Prifoner to the Black Rod by Sir
Edivard Cartred, who was very civil towards me, and carried before
the Moll: Honorable Committee of Lords, and yet the Noble Lord
that moved againft me in Parliament, appeared no more to have made
party againft me, believing not as I prelumewhat was told him.
VII. Now give me leave Noble Readers, to give a relation of the
firft War betwixt King and Parliament, which truly is uncontradidf-
able, for it lhall carry nothing in it but a real Character of truth. At
the Battle of Edge-hill, His Highnefs Prince Rupert that ever Renown¬
ed Perfon, Commanded the right Wing of our Horfe, who put the
Enemies into afi abfolute rout, and the Earl of Erandford the left, unto
whofelhare it came to charge the Enemies right Wing, His Highnefs
putting into aderout their left Wing, the Battle begun upon a Sunday
Morning, and the Lord Digby commanded our referve of Horfe, who
gave more Teftimony of his Courage then of condudt, but that never
to be buried in oblivion the deceafed Earl of Rocbejler, this Lord being
then CommilTary General of the Horfe, and in the head of our left
Wing of Horfe, and in the head of his one Troop, Commanded by
Sir Robert waljh^nd his Lordlhips Troop conlifting of at leaft a Hundred
Brave and Noble Gentlemen, as Sir John Dongan, Sir Brien O Neale,
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Sir Henry Talbot, sir waiter Dcngan,fon to sir John, br ave iriffj Gentle¬
men, whofemoft Valiant deportment gave great Teftimony of their
Loyalty, as I may fay did the whole Troop and his Regiment, as may
witneis that firft fervice they were in, his Royal Majeity ol BleiTed
Memory, and His now sacred Majefty, and bis Royal Highnefs, were
not only there as witnefs of their Loyal Subjefts, but alio hazardly
and dangeroufly ingaged in the laid Battle, to their great and ever
Renowned Everlafting Glory. The Lord wilmot having chfrged the
right Wing of the Enemy, did beat them and put them fo in difor-
der, as that they run confufedly into Kington, which was in the Rear
of their Army, the relerveof ourHorfe unpremeditatedly follow the
purfuit of the Enemy, which gave the advantage unto the referve
of the Enemies Horfe, as alio unto their main Body, that they fell
upon that Renowned Moft Honorable Earl of Lin&y our General, and
fo furioufly, as that His Majefties own Regiment was difordered, and
divers of their ftandards taken at the lame time, where the Noble Lord
Gerard Commanding Three Regiments of Foot made a moft manly
ftand, ourHorfe being for the moft part mingled in the Enemies, and
his Highnefs Prince Ruperts Horfe purluing, fortune proved fo favor¬
able unto sir Robert waljh, as to keep the Lord w:l,;:ots Troop in a
Body unfcaitered, fo as he encou.ntred fome of theHor.e 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 charg¬
ed them and recovered the ftandards, which they took from the Kings
Regiment, and alio took fome of the Enemies, and sir Robert being
then in the rear of the Enemies Army in the Town of Kington, did
lieze upon Two Pieces of Cannon and a Waggon, brought them into
the rear of His Majefties Army. His Glorious Majefty having lain that
night upon the top of Edge-Hill, his Army not then drawn from the
Enemies, sir Robert towar s Morning brought the T wo Pieces of Can¬
non and Waggon to the bottom of Edge-hill, and brought the ftan-
dard of His Majefties, and fome of the Enemies unto His Highnefs
Prince Rupert, who immediately did prefentthem, and sir Robett un¬
to His Majefty, who was gracioufly pleafed, there to Knight sir Robert
for the acceptable fervice he then did render.
VIII. Sometime after, his then Royal Highnefs the Princ?, going to
command in the Weft of England. Sir Robert was by His Majefty
Ordered into the Weft , to ferve under his Royal Highnefs Bannor,
which he did, as Lieutenant Collonel of Sir George Fanghms Regi¬
ment of Horfe ^ who was a brave Worthy Noble Gentleman, and
then Sheriff of wiltfljire • leaving all to Sir Roberts CondaA: But he
ftill came when any fight was. 'The Devifes being then furrounded
by Sir William waller, and all our Army in the Devifes, which were
fo fhort of Ammunition and Match, that they were forced to make
ufe of all the Bed-cords which were in the town for Match. His
Royal Highnefs Prince Maurice, that Renowned Prince, the Famous
and Honourable the Lord Marquefs of Iiarfcrd, and the Honourable
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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
Ireland
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Ireland a Hundred Horfe, which he recruted his Regiment with,and
His Glorious Majefty being then in Cornerval to oppole Ejfex, who then
was General. Li iedel Caftle was lurrountjed by Ejfex his forces, Effex
Lying of Liftedell fide, and His Majefties Army of the other fide of a
fmali River. Sir James smith that Worthy Noble brave Gentleman,
being fent with his Regiment of Horfe For the Guard of the faid Caftle,
did there raoft Worthy fervice arid received cruel Wounds : Sir Ro-
lurt Waljh and his Brigade of Horfe were then commanded unto Sir
James his relief, whofe fate was fo profperous, in the beating of Ejfex
his Foot from the Hedges about the faid Caftle, and in view of His
Majefty and Army, that His Majefty after Sir Roberts coming off, fent
fjor him, and took him by the hand, his Royal Highnels then next
fiis Majefty, faying, he hoped to live to gratifie Sir Robert, not only
for the fervice he then faw him render, but as well for his Loyalty
and former fervices. .
fX. Some time after the Lord wilmotl Imprifonment and confine¬
ment into Exeter, by the falfe reports of lome, Sir Robert having
Ipeen a Creature of the Lord wilm ts and his Officer, who moft per-
l^tftly well knew his Loyalty, faithfulnefs and Gallantry, and particu¬
larly in His Majefties fervice, feeing the Lord wilmots unjuft di "grace,
being fiezcd upon in the head of the Army by Mr. Thomas Elliot-, up-
0^ which Sir Robert was furrendring and giving up his Imployment
and charge •, His Majefty taking notice of which,! he Army then march¬
ing, His Majefty ftopt, and fo did the Army, and called upon Sir /?<?-
faying, he heard that he was upon quitting his fervice, Sir Robert
humbly replied, that he hoped that His Majefty would permit him
jb.to do, feeing that the Lord Wslmot, whofe Loyalty and fervice he
£vey was a witnefs of, was fo ufed, and truly Sir Robert did plainly
fo, declare his unwillingnefs to ferve any longer; His Majefty was
pfeafed to give Sir Robert great encouragement to continue, and in an
Extraordinary manner, and told him that he fhould not quit, and that
he commanded him not to quit, unto which there refted no anfwer,
(but obedience) the world ignores not with what ungrounded falfe-
\\oof\ the Lord wilmot was then made Prifoner, and how he came oft
with honor. Then His Majefty came into wi/tfhiere, and came to
Andwer w here Sir William wallers Army lay near, Waller fent a con-
fulcra ble patty of Horfe to obferve His Majefties Army, whereupon
^ip,e Lord George Goring, that Worthy Commander then General of
Royal Highnefs's Army, immediatly did order to draw out a con¬
querable party of Horfe, and did Order Sir Robert walfb to command
faid Party, with order topurf'ue Sir William waller, which readi¬
ly was putin Execution, where many Voluritiers readily went along,
particularly then Mr. Henry Bennet now Earl of Arlington, with
jc^npichof goodwill and refolution as none could demonftrate more.
iiy Robert then defiring him not to go, he being a perfon who was
j^ypin the Pen charge and Imployment, and fo readily kind and care¬
ful to ferve and obliege us Officers, fo as that if any thing (hould hap-
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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,
though he lodged in the Pallas Royal, though Sir Robert was then vc
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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
Paris
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Paris, I lent a Party of my cermaws to bring mc that Coach, think¬
ing to make a prize thereof; but who (hould be in it but the bcft df
men • fo t he Germains were greedy, and would underftand no French
or Englijh •, 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 ask¬
ed me who commanded the party; I anlwered, he was riot far off-,
then he tells me who was in the Coach> and made Prifoncr. Upon
which I immediately drew7 my Party towards the C oach, and waited
on it to Far is. 1 am glad it was no other than his Subject that com¬
manded the Party. The Prince of C«nde then being not very affe¬
ctionate; the Duke of Lcrrain being flacken'd and I w ell faiisHed irt
all occafions, w hich may demonftrate the paying of my duty and Loy-
altVj yet I was not a little fatishfcd, it was I that Commanded that
Party, which prevented further trouble to the faid Coach. The Prince
of Conde not being ignorant how the Duke of Lorrain w as gained*
to have proved flew in the Prince of Ccnde's then pretenftciis, with¬
out which the French King might have run the hazard &c\
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XII. Fortune was to me fo favorable, that at the Battle of Si. Antoine*
I gained fo much the heart of the Citizens of Paris; as that ever af¬
ter, they hardly w ould ftir out of theGate^ of Paris, w ithout hav¬
ing me in the head of them, as I was at St. Dennis, when Monfietif
de semegrine Commanding the Queens Guards; charged the Par/pens
and w^s tepulfed, thefe troubles of Paris being appealed by the Prince
of Condcs quitting Paris, wherein he quit his chiefeft lipid: 1 betook
my fell for Flandersand made ihy audrefs unto his Grace the Duke
of Ormcnd, who mod kindly not degenerating from hisevcr wonted
greatnefs and goodnefs, did afford me his Countenance-, fo as ! by
His Majefties Order and Confent, did venture for England , in hopes
to prove ufeful for His Majefties Rights and Interefts. Upon which
his Grace the Duke of Ormond w rit unto me all in his own hand 3
that I (hould come for England • and to advance my Intereft and en¬
deavours as in all I could for His Majefties -fervicc • alluring me 3
that if I could attain to be permitted by the Ufurper to be in Lon¬
don * if fol (hould fornetimes tranfgrefs in my expreflions* towards
His Majefty, that it (hould not in the future prejudice my Loyalty;
Upon this I came for London^ and did u(e all my endeavours to Come
in Thurloe s favour, then Secretary to the Ufurper- I did fo obtairt
from Thurloe, that he gave me his word, I (hould have the liberty
of the Town. I giving him my word that I would not a<ft any
thing againft the State, during my being under their GovertimCftb.
So for a Months time I had accefs unto Thurloe • but footi after$
though I had Thurloe's word /or my liberty, tlut word w as not per¬
formed., but 1 was furprized, I lodging at one Elkings Houfe, whp
was a Packer and an Ana'raptijl, then dwelling in Mark.lane, ahd t
prefume lives their ftill. I was by Four Files of Musketeers fur-
prized in my Bed, Captain William Bower then lying with me, and
hurried Away into the Tower, where I lay Four Momhs clofe Prifo-
nerj
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her, none being admitted to me but my Keeper; Toon after was that
moil: Noble and ever Renowned Earl of Orery, the Earl of Tennet,
the Earl of Norwich the Earl of Clanricarde, and many Perfons of qua¬
lity brought in Prifoners, and as I take it the only then made dole
Prisoners, was that Famous never to be buried in Oblivion, the Duke
of Albemarle and I clole Prifoner, lome who then attended His Sa¬
cred Majefty did affuredly give the Ufurper^otice, that I was '^Eng¬
land as imployed by my King, fome time after, the liberty of the Tow¬
er being granted me, upon the iritercelRon of Baxters Wife to her
Husband. The Lord Brohil now Earl of Orery, who is aPerfon of
that Honor, as will own what I here fay, through the Interceftion of
his Honorable Sifter, then in London the Countefs of Barimore, his Lord¬
lhip did inrerpofe for my liberty : Whereupon his Lordlhip came to the
Tower* and gave me a vilit, his words as near as I can remember
werethefe: Sir Robert had you ferved the State, and his Highnefs the
Prote&or as you did the King, what poft or pofture do you imagine
you might now be in, I feemingly did aver what his Lordlhip faid, why
then faid my Lord can you now refolve to ferve his Highnefs, if you
can I will tell you how, and you Ihall have your Liberty and Money
to boot, unto which I did feem to liften, then faid my Lord, you fee
what a deal of Noble-men and Gentlemen lye here Prifoners, and I
will tell you upon what account. It isuport an intelligence we ha,ve
received, that his Highnefs Perlon is to be attempted, and we fain
would fink into a difcovery therein, and here be Two Perfons of Qua¬
lity now Prifoners, who make offer of thdr attempt, as unto what I
intend to propofe unto you, each of them now offering, that they
will find out to make the difcovery, but as lam inclined to get you
your liberty, I have propounded to his Highnefs that you may be the
Perfon imployed, and he hath confented thereunto: If fo 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 imployyour en¬
deavors to make the difcoVery, how his Highnefs Perfon was defign-
ed to be attempted, and you fball have your liberty, and fome Money
for your Voyage. I replied that I firft would addrefs unto the Duke
of Ormondy to fee if I could make my peace, and be admitted to-Court,
which my Lord Brohill gave me fome time to do. And then I writ
to the fame tenure unto his Grace of Ormond, and an other Letter in
private, unto his Grace of whatpaft and was to pafs, and upon w hat
termes I was to obtain my liberty, I fhowing the return to the Lord
Brohilyhe procured me rfiy liberty,&Fifty or Sixty pound,upon my word
I know not which-, upon the Faith of aChriftian this was all, that
paft betwixt my Lord of Orery. and me, or from any other of theU-
furpers C reatures; 1 never having fpoke to the Ufurper, only once
he Landing at White-Hall-ftaires, 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 Ifland near waterford was
not mine, I faid of right it was, but that his Highnefs did take it
from me and gave it Collonel remon, who had been his quarter Ma¬
ty fte*
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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,
as
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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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XV. I appeal unto my Moft Gracious King for Juftice,who never did
deny it unto any of his Subjeds, and I thall ever, as now I do fubmic
unto his will and pleafure. I having ever ferved under his Royal
Banner, and never had a hapd in the War of Ireland; T had many
of my Kings Letters and Orders, to have my Eftate not to be made
liable unto new Quit Rents, and years Value, which never had or
took the leaft effeds : I have payed ever fince His Majcfties happy
Reftauration for yearly Quit Rents, at Two pence Farthing an Acre
out of my Eftate, 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 1. and the years full
Value for one year of my Eftate, befides Morgages upon my Eftate
of above aThoufand pound-, which I engaged for to bring Horie
and Foot for His Majefties Service out of Ireland. I rauft attribute
it to my fate, or the want of meeting with Juftice, whereas I am put
in Ballance with fuch as were in Actual Arms, and Service againft
their Majefty. Nay, a great many of fuch have h id their Eftates
ftruck out of charge, and their Quit rents taken off, yet mine ftill
ftand charged. His Majefties Orders and Letters, as to my particu¬
lar meeting with no obedience: If loorers may fpeak, furenone can
blame me for this my Declaration, having never had the leaft com-
penfation, gift or grant, nor other ufage than what herein is fpeci-
fiedi only One hundered pound from the Privy Purfe. To this my
Vindication of Declaration I fet my hand, and am ready to juftifie
it; by either Common, Civil, or Military Law, or place of Juftice
againft any man, that dare to my face contradid what I here have
faid; let him be Subject, French, Dutch, or any Forreigner. If any
be here, he may find the lie given him, and he will fwallow it, or
give his appearance to charge me.
XVI. Sir Robert tvaljh hath been detained Three years Prifoner to the
French King in the Bajlit, and never any thing laid to his Charge v
but for being of the Prince of Conde's party. Then he came for
England^ and was made Prifoner in the Tower by theUfurper, ne¬
ver any thing laid to his Charge. Then was made Prifoner in Bru-
xels by his Kings Minifters, and never any thing laid to his Charge
before Juftice. Thefe Imprifonmenrs were all, you I hope will fay
hard here lately made Prifoner 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 Juftice add, I being in Paris about
the year 72. or 73. or thereabouts I had by the means of Monfieur di '
Mumbas my ancient Acquaintance, who was Brother in Law unto «?/-
niere de Grote, alias Grotius then Embafiador for the States of Holland,
an entrance unto this Embalfador, fo as that I did difcover 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 agree¬
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rnent or Joyniug, His Grace the Duke of Buckingham, then having
His Majefty's Ear, I imrnediatly writ to him, that it would be of ve¬
ry great confequcnce to prevent the laid junction, by an agreement
with the States; which as I take did very foonilfue, France and HoU
land, having until of late continued in a War, my Letter unto his
Grace I addreft to Sir John Hanmer, who did tell me fince my Com¬
ing into England, that luclt a Letter he did receive from me, and that
he believe it did ftill lye by him, 1 writ at the fame time to Mr. Trig¬
gers to the lame purpofe, who I am fure did lhow or produce it un¬
to His Majefty, unto whom I fent Minicre Grotitis his Letter to me
in Mr. Montegue his Packet, as may be judged by the efledis of the ac¬
commodation then we made with the States ♦, and Mr. Edward Progers
his Letter was to have me come in Perfon into England,
XlX.The Year of His Majefties happy reftauration,the Marquis de gu-
dance was commiflioned by the French King to come unto His Moft Ex¬
cellent Majefty to London, upon fome pretext from the French King,
punkerk then in the Lord Lockerts timeof Government there,and newly
rendered unto His Moft Excellent Majefty : the Marquis de Gndtnce,
made it his work to gain lome Officers of the Garifon of Punkerk,to fitr-
prife the Garifon for the French King, and had contracted a Treaty with
them for that purpofe, Sir Robert tvaljh then living at Berge St. renox a
League from Punkerk, this Marquis came to Berge often, lie and Sir Ro¬
bert came acquainted-, fo as the Marquis did communicate his deftgn up¬
on Punkerk to Sir Robert,founding him that knew the humor of the Eh-
glijh, how he might fo confide in the English,and to prevent and be pre-
cautioned that he may not be trapanned, he offering Sir Robert an affu-
rance ofFive Thoufand Piftols, If he would contribute by his advice and
conduCf. Which Sir Robert did confent to yield unto,referving to him-
felf to do his duty to his King - imrnediatly hereupon, he humbly ad-
drefled a Letter to His Majefty, whereupon His SaCred Majefty imrne¬
diatly writ to Sir Robert in his own hand, imrnediatly to repair un¬
to him with all fpeed and privacy. Unto which Sir Robert quit his
Houie, dwelling and intereft in Berge St. Venox, and imrnediatly came
to His Majefty. The now Earl of Arlington being then Secretary of
State, His Majefty did Order Sir Robert 'to make his addrefs unto him,
and to communicate all particulars unto him, which Sir Robert fo do¬
ing, my Lord gave thereunto a hearing anfwerable, and did receive
Sir Robert with expreftions very kind, of the fenfe he had of Sir Ro¬
berts fervice in that particular, and that he would in Order there¬
unto give His Majefty an account; unfortunately foon after Sir Robert
was arretted for a Flundred Pound, and committed Piifonerto the
Fleet, under Chancellor Hide his Verge, who made fuch ufe of his
power; carrying an animofity againft Sir Robert, that notwithftand-
ing Sir Robert had put in good fecurity, he could not obtain a day
writ, Sir Jeremy svitchcot being fo much the Chancellors Creature, un¬
til the Lord Arlington who was not fo, writ to the Wardenof the
Fleet Sir Jeremy witchot, that it was His Majefties pleafure, Sir Robert
H fhould
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jfhould have a day writ, which Letter Sir Robert this day hath, and
upon which his day writ was had 5 and His Majeltya little time af¬
ter did order Sir Robert a Hundred Pound, which was brought him
to the Fleet, and the Lord Arlington did alfo make Sir Robert a prefent
of Twenty Ginneys: unto my Lord Arlington, the Lord Chancellor (a
thing not unknown ) was then no great friend • yet the Lord Arling¬
ton Loyalty, Fidelity, and duty to his King, hath fo prelerved him
as to be now what he hath delerved, and is, and lo may all tafte as
they deferve, if not in this world, in the next they muft and will,
but a s unto Dnnkerk fuch order was then given, as that the French
Kings defign took not, until it was fold him, which I w ifhhad never
been : Six Robert could lay more but hates to trample upon the dead.
This was after sir Roberts being kept Priloner in Brussels, by the in-
{ligation of Chancellor Hyde, and the inftrument he made ufe of to
have Svc Robert then made Prifoner, was one that ingratiated himfelf
w ith Don John £>' Aujlrea, who was then Governor of Flanders, which
was thus, he was an Engliflj man and a degree above a Knight, he
being feme years fervafit unto an Englifb t)ame, who had had Three or
Four Children, he had her received by Don John {ox a Maid, and fo
paft her for unto him, and fome Five or sixHundred Piftols was gained
that way, this was not ill inis-trip, as fome that read this well may re¬
member the paflage herein, fuch qualified perfons, not conftant in Re¬
ligion, Protectant or Papift, were the inftruments of sir Robert ivaljh
his Murderous Impfilonment, for Three and Thirty Months in Brit-
seels, but they never would come as witnelfes in this age do, where¬
by to maintain their accufations either by right or wrong, thofewho
Treacheroufly under hand to gain them a little favor, were ac-
fcufors of Svc Robert tvaljh, he could name six of them (ince gone un¬
to a worfe World then this, and few or none now living.
XX. Now Noble Reader,this Everard dafting at me,that I foonld be
a fubduer of Difcoveries, Animofities, Plots, or Defigns, intended
towards the fubverfion of His Majefties Laws and Government, to
prove how far from truth that is, I appeal to what my King know-
eth, as coming from me in 1675. 16. 77. 78. And what I did com¬
municate unto the now Honorable Lord Chancellor, the Lord Arling¬
ton and other Minifters in or about the laid years, whofe names I now
mention not, as unwilling to add calamity unto calamity. I doubt
fome whom I would have named in 1675. were I thereunto fum-
mon'd, are no fmall Incendiaries or Promotors in Difturbances. Un¬
to which had I been heard in time, prevention might have been gi¬
ven, the World cannot but Judge, and fo (hall, that my intereft is
foly in my Sovereigns, and that of his good Subjects, I having Raid
here thefe Four years, in expectance that my Reprelentments fliould
be verified and fo allowed as now they are ; and to my great coft I
have my Labor for my pains, fed Temptes edax rerttm.
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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
Rack,
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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
Tyranny
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Tyranny of my fo being kept Prifoner, might have given me fcoptf,
to have fervedall Prifoners, as fuppofing that they might be as guilt-
kfs as I was. This Grimings after his being put to the Torture, de-
figns to endeavour making his efcape , and begets an undedhnding
with one that was then there Prifoner, to help him unto Files, to file
the Iron Barrs of his Grate , which he did , I having differved His
Catholick Majefty and willing to repair the fame, I lodging above
Grimings, in the Night I eould hear him file the Iron Barrs, and
taking notice thereof, I did walking in the Yard difcover the Bar of
Iron he worked upon, and was very near effefting hisdefign, I lying
under His CatholictaMajefties difpleafure, i did calculate,that if I made
aDifcovery of his intent to have efcaped, it might have allayed the
former dilobligement I had layed on His Catholick Majeftv, and I
being not fatisfied with the ingratitude of Grimings and his Wife • fo
as I writ unto Don John d' Jujtrea, how Griwngs was to have made
his efcape. Whereupon he fent to find the Utiles, and to fearch every
corner of his Chamber, but found no vifibility of what I had repre-
fented, his having fent Commilfaries and a Glafier to found the Bars,
but they could difcover no appearance ; fo Don John fent to me, that I
represented what was not true. I returned 16 Don John, that thole he
fent were Fools •, and gave them direction how to difcover the truth
of what I reprelentcd, and fo they did. You mud know, that when
they came w ith a Key to found the Iron Bars, the Bars did found all
found, which in a cut Bar is not ordinary. But Grimings, as foon as
he filed, did fill the Oraphis with wax and Tobacco-powder, and un¬
til I gave the Key of this difcovery, they could not find it out; but
having found it he was foon Executed, and all the favour he could
obtain, who was once the Great Grimings, was to have his head chopt
off in the faid Prifon, and was not carried to the Common Place of
Execution,
. XXIII. I muft a little here difplay in part, what return or reward
I met with, for my coming out of France y with my Reprefentments
of the diflurbances, which were intended towards the deturnment
of His Sacred Majefties Laws and Government. I having been for ma¬
ny Years out of England, upon my arrival here in London, I was in¬
troduced to the Widow of a Hamborow Merchant, by Name E. I.
now O. B. flie was reprefented for a very Rich Widow; we falling
into acquaintance, fhe very much did importune me to lodge at her
Houfe, which I did for a week, not without reprefenting unto her,
that it would bring her name under a fenfure, feeing that there was
no concern as unto any thing of Marriage in the point, for inftead of
every Thoufand Pounds, faid fhe had, that proved but Four or Five
great Sons, and a Daughter, which I finding, asalfo difcovering her
Gclfopingand Frolicking qualities, I withdrew in my vifits and fre¬
quency with her, whereupon (lie grew moft outragioufly inveterate a-
gainft me, and whereas herLetrersof which I have a Bulhel, de¬
clare that my fheets fhouldbe well aired, and Ilhould be kept warm,
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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
(he
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Ihe was fo much in the favor of Sir J. E. as that Ihe was
fure if his Wife, whowasfickly Ihould dye, that lie would marry her,
and that iffo, 1 Ihould be her Gallant, and I Ihould not want for mo¬
ney, this Letter and all hers are this day extant.
XXIV. In the Year 1655. or 1656, I being here intruded asis
let forth in my manifeft, to deal away then from the Ufurpers claws,
I was neceflitated, to take up Forty Pounds worth in filk Stockings,
to carry me into Flanders, I being here in 1677. I was arretted upon
my Bond of Forty Pounds, and forced to pay Sixty five Pounds, as Mr.
'John waIIU Gold-fmith, and Sargent Dike in whofe Prifon / was can
witnefs, yet / importuned not His Majefty to my relief as in that. 1
lying Priloner upon the ftocking adion, comes an adion of Four Hun¬
dred Pound againft me, upon Bond in the Year 1641. where / then
became bpund for the Lord Henry v/ilmot, late Earl of Rochefier,which
was to carry him then after His Majedyof Blelfed Memory to Fork:
Thisadion being laid upon me, / did petition and implore, His Ma-
jedy to look upon the hardnefs of my paying that debt, which the
Duke of Orrnond and the Earl of Bathe, did reprelent unto His Maje¬
fty, who was companionate, but I was forced to fatisfie the debt,which
/ could not then have done, but that a great Lord and a great Subjed,
did fo take me into his confideration, as that he did relieve me, he is
not now in this Kingdom, but is in one of His Majefties, / dare not
mention his Name, knowing he is not Covetous, that his charitable
goodnefs, in fuch kind Ihould efclat. Thefeare the rewards / meet
with, in return of my coming of purpofe out of France in the Year
1675. To have difcovered the infurredions and difturbanees, which
were intended againft His Majefties Kingdoms and good Subjeds, hav¬
ing no other for my labor, charges, and lofs of time here thefe Four
Years paft, then have been thefe misfortunes.
The Conclusion of my Manifefi.
I Beg the favor from you Noble Readers, not to cerifure as that I
vaunt of my fervices, having done but my duty, or that / com¬
plain of the Murderous imprifonment, / have for Three and Thir¬
ty Months, with/may fay injufticegroaned under, which/impute
unto the moft ungrounded ill condudoffome then Minifters of State,
who gave ear unto fomefalfe Rafcally and moft Villanous intelligen¬
cers : Some of which may live this day, and read herein the Chara-
der / give them, whofe courage affords them not to take notice, the
beftof men doth know who they where or be, / do not, / would/
did •, they foon Ihould here from me, who am His Majefties Loyal
Subjed, and unto you my friends an humble Servant.
Robert walfh Knight and Ba"*
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