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

Sir Robert was set at liberty Could it be thought that so great a King would so far consider a single Officer or Soldier of Fortune I cannot but speak well of the Prince of Conde for when he first received me into his Protection seeing my Dismiss and Pass from His Christian Majesty he did afford me his Favour and Countenance and when first I came to him the Armies then lying about Villneufe St. George a little above Shallonton the Kings Army lying of one side the River Commanded by Mounsieur de Turene and the Princes Army of Chalonton side The Prince bid me take Five hundred Horse and beat about Paris to find some Booty which may put me into an Equipage and that he would but moderately hear any Complaint that should come against me I did take the said Horse which were all Germans and truly I did more study to render the Prince service than to plunder if it came not in my way and so I marched all Night and past by the Rear of the Kings Army and took some Officers and Prisoners my intent being to go to Pontoise to beat up some of the Kings Army who lay there and in my return the next Morning I drew up to refresh betwixt St. Germans and St. Clow a top of a Hill While I was there I saw a Coach with six Horses going for Paris I sent a Party of my Germains to bring me that Coach thinking to make a prize thereof but who should be in it but the best of men so the Germains were greedy and would understand no French or English but one of his Lords that noble Lord Garret as I take it comes up to the party and found me in the head of them he asked me who commanded the party I answered he was not far off then he tells me who was in the Coach and made Prisoner Upon which I immediately drew my Party towards the Coach and waited on it to Paris I am glad it was no other than his Subject that commanded the Party The Prince of Conde then being not very affectionate the Duke of Lorrain being slacken'd and I well satisfied in all occasions which may demonstrate the paying of my duty and Loyalty yet I was not a little satisfied it was I that Commanded that Party which prevented further trouble to the said Coach The Prince of Conde not being ignorant how the Duke of Lorrain was gained to have proved slow in the Prince of Conde's then pretensions without which the French King might have run the hazard c. XII Fortune was to me so favourable that at the Battle of St. Antoine I gained so much the heart of the Citizens of Paris as that ever after they hardly would stir out of the Gates of Paris without having me in the head of them as I was at St. Dennis when Monsieur de Semegrine Commanding the Queens Guards charged the Parisiens and was repulsed these troubles of Paris being appeased by the Prince of Condes quitting Paris wherein he quit his chiefest hold I betook my self for Flanders and made my address unto his Grace the Duke of Ormond who most kindly not degenerating from his ever wonted greatness and goodness did afford me his Countenance so as I by His Majesties Order and Consent did venture for England in hopes to prove useful for His Majesties Rights and Interests Upon which his Grace the Duke of Ormond writ unto me all in his own hand that I should come for England and to advance my Interest and endeavours as in all I could for His Majesties service assuring me that if I could attain to be permitted by the Usurper to be in London if so I should sometimes transgress in my expressions towards His Majesty that it should not in the future prejudice my Loyalty Upon this I came for London and did use all my endeavours to come in Thurloes favour then Secretary to the Usurper I did so obtain from Thurloe that he gave me his word I should have the liberty of the Town I giving him my word that I would not act any thing against the State during my being under their Government So for a Months time I had access unto Thurloe but soon after though I had Thurloe's word for my liberty that word was not performed but I was surprized I lodging at one Elkings House who was a Packer and an Anabaptist then dwelling in Mark-lune and I presume lives their still I was by Four Files of Musketeers surprized in my Bed Captain William Bower then lying with me and hurried away into the Tower where I lay Four Months close Prisoner none being admitted to me but my Keeper soon after was that most Noble and ever Renowned Earl of Orery the Earl of Tennet the Earl of Norwich the Earl of Clanricarde and many Persons of quality brought in Prisoners and as I take it the only then made close Prisoners was that Famous never to be buried in Oblivion the Duke of Albemarle and I close Prisoner some who then attended His Sacred Majesty did assuredly give the Usurper notice that I was in England as imployed by my King some time after the liberty of the Tower being granted me upon the intercession of Baxters Wife to her Husband The Lord Brohil now Earl of Orery who is a Person of that Honor as will own what I here say through the Intercession of his Honorable Sister then in London the Countess of Barimore his Lordship did interpose for my liberty Whereupon his Lordship came to the Tower and gave me a visit his words as near as I can remember were these Sir Robert had you served the State and his Highness the Protector as you did the King what post or posture do you imagine you might now be in I seemingly did aver what his Lordship said why then said my Lord can you now resolve to serve his Highness if you can I will tell you how and you shall have your Liberty and Money to boot unto which I did seem to listen then said my Lord you see what a deal of Noble-men and Gentlemen lye here Prisoners and I will tell you upon what account It is upon an intelligence we have received that his Highness Person is to be attempted and we fain would sink into a discovery therein and here be Two Persons of Quality now Prisoners who make offer of their attempt as unto what I intend to propose unto you each of them now offering that they will find out to make the discovery but as I am inclined to get you your liberty I have propounded to his Highness that you may be the Person imployed and he hath consented thereunto If so you can make it appear that you may be received at Bridges and that upon your word and honor unto me that you will really imploy your endeavors to make the discovery how his Highness Person was designed to be attempted and you shall have your liberty and some Money for your Voyage I

Son Prince Charles of the one side and to inscribe thereon Carolus Rex Magnae Britanniae Carolus Princeps And of the other side to insculp the form of his Royal Bannor used at the said Battle and to inscribe about it par regale mandatum Careli Regis hoc assignatur Roberto Walsh which his Royal Majestie of Blessed Memory gave me accordingly out of his own hand and his Royal Commission for me to wear the same expressing in it that it was for the most acceptable service that I rendred at the Battle of Edge Hill which accordingly I have ever since worn this was not gain'd by love or favor sedex officio gladii which no Herald can deny but may carry the title of right Honor and now to be upbraided by Everard or any such Noble Reader do but Judge if it may well by me be digested were I guilty of the least disloyalty I would condemn my self more then any accuser could make me Now as to this Everard he did about the Year 1673. in Paris come often my lodging I then usually making use of him to translate for me English into French as I have divers of his translations in writing now by me and extant and then sometimes gave him half a Crown he coming from one end of Paris the Reu de St. Antoine to the Saubourge of St. Jermins often unto me the Half-Crown did invite him not as it seem'd his love to me and one night he did say and at random that great designs were intended to breed great disturbances in His Most Excellent Majesties Kingdoms without specifying upon what particular grounds or making mention in the least degree that he had any intention to discover them but much to the contrary vowing that he was resolved to live and die as he ever was bred in the Roman Religion I then did represent unto him that as he was a Subject of His Most Excellent Majesties and a Vassal born in the Country Palatine of Tipperary under his Grace the Duke of Ormond that he would do but his duty if he knew any such immotious intended to give me notice whereby to advertise his Grace which he then promised he would but never after did he ever come at me or near me Some time before I had from a very considerable hand that there were then ingendring in Paris to breed disturbances in his Majesties Kingdoms towards the subversion of His Most Excellent Majesties Laws and Government in which some of his Subjects were very officiously intermedling I then did immediately address my self unto the marquis de Molac who was my friend and one of his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans his Chief Gentleman who did introduce me unto his Royal Highness unto whom I did then represent that some Ingins were set a foot to beget Tumults and Disturbances in His Magesties of great Britain his Kingdoms 1672. and that I did hope his Royal Highness would speak unto his Christian Majesty not to give ear or countenance unto such His Majesties Subjects as may therein be made abettors or incendiaries Though I was perswaded that they were therein countenanced as I could make Oath his Royal Highness did promise me he would speak unto his Brother and that he would cary a diligent and careful eye thereunto which with Justice I may say that his Royal Highness would not this day disown Now in as much as that this Everard doth set forth in his depositions that I most unfaithfully did betray him unto the Talbots a thing I had no ground for he not communicating unto me that he had any such intention but much to the contrary he and they being much together and upon the word of a man of Honor and the Faith of a Christian I never did nor was I but once all the time the Talbots were in Paris conversant with them nor have I had any intimacy with Collonel Talbot or his Brother but rather to the contrary as some of my Kings best Subjects I presume may confirm Now in as much as that Everard in his depositions maketh Oath that he was made Prisoner in the Tower by the means of the Talbots and the Lady Anne-Gordon In that Alegation he contradicts himself for after his enlargement from the Tower he meets me in St. James's Park comes to me and cries Sir Robert Walsh you are the man who put me into the Tower and that made me a great sufferer there I then told him I was and were it to do again I would and that I did wonder how such a Villain that had so malignant intentions towards the Duke of Monmouth could obtain his liberty I did not then know that he had charged the Lady Anne or the Talbots to have been the causers of his Imprisonment and so we parted Now to come to the true grounds of his being made Prisoner in the Tower which shall be justified and made out There was in the Year 1673. a Gentleman in Paris one Mr. Dalonson a person born unto a good estate and now in the possession of it he being in Paris very much reduced unto necessity he came to me declaring who he was naming some friends of his that I well knew and for whom I had esteem he demonstrating the sad condition he was in I did take him to an Ordinary or eating-house where I had credit a La ren de Colombie and did give him credit for his Diet and lodging in the said oberge where he rested two or three Months and truly I did discharge him as I am sure he will own III. About the same time Everard and this Dalonson coming both at a time to my lodging they became acquainted and so great an intimacy in a little time they grew into as that they joyned to lodge in a house and in one Bed and they two became as hand and glove Some time before this Everard having the French Tongue was introduced to his Grace the Duke of Monmouth and in a little time his Grace took him into his Service to be his Sollicitor or under Secretary he having before been an under Clark to the Lievtenant Crimenel or Lievtenant Civel of Paris I well know not which how he did demean or misdemean himself under his Grace I know not but cast or cashiered from the Dukes Service he was and Mr. Sarchevel taken in his place Everard hereupon grew enraged against his Grace and took a most Hellish resolution which was to Poyson the Duke of Monmouth in resolution so to do as in apparances he came into England Mr. Dalonson being Everards intimate he communicates unto Mr. Dalonson his resolution to Poyson and did carry Mr. Dalonson with him to buy the Poyson for the said purpose and so did buy it After that Dalonson had fully penetrated into Everards mallgnity Mr. Dalonson giving me a visit he tells me that he was so happy as to meet an opportunity and occasion which may demonstrate unto me that I had not oblieged an

ungreatful Person as unto the kind civility I did conferr upon him and that he then came of purpose unto me to discover unto me a very great concern by which I may obliege a very great Person Truly I am not of their humor who would not hear It resting in me after having heard to give or take so I asked Mr. Dalonson what he would say who tells me of Everards resolution towards the Duke of Monmouth and that he was with him when he bought the Poyson and that Everard was immediately resolved to go for England to put his malignant Resolution in Execution telling me that Everard intended that an other Duke should pass the same path which I do not now here name at which I was not a little startled and considering upon the matter I thanked Mr. Dalonson for his good will but told him that the discovery of that concern was much fitter to have been communicated unto my Lord Locker who was the Kings Embassador and then in Paris Mr. Dalonson replies that he had a desire to own his gratitude to me besides paying of his duty towards the Duke of Monmouths safety and adds that if so I did not give ear to him and that any mischief should afterwards insure that I may repent Upon this I asked Mr. Dalonson if he would go before good witness attest the putting of this information into my hands he said he would and more then that I presently hereupon sent for witness and amongst others for young Mr. Lane my Lord Lansborow his Son a fine civil understanding Gentleman who is now here in Town and since married unto my Lord of Northamptons Neece Indeed Mr. Lane was very loth to meddle in the business I telling him in Mr. Dalonsons presence what it was and how it was which Mr. Lane at this day I dare say will say was thus Mr. Dalonson then said that he would not only give it under his hand and seal but would as well go in person into England to maintain what he said and to confront Everard Mr. Dalonson did sign and seal before witness and so I sent it for England to those it did concern and in particular the Duke of Monmouth and Dalonson also told where Everard would or was to lodge in London and doubted not that if he were taken as he would describe where but that the said Poyson would be found with him so Everard was seized upon and put into the Tower Dalanson did come into England and confronted Everard before some Lords of the Council Dalonson was not ill looked upon for his information but had his pass and a Viaticum to boot So as visibly its more probable that this put Everard into the Tower rather then what he saith in his depositions after Everards being confronted by Dalonson Everard was returned to the Tower and Dalonson left at his liberty After Everards being in some close restriction then he fain would intimate unto Sir John Robinson some informations as tending to Plots as Prisoners in such straights seldom fail to foment hoping thereby to procure themselves some ease yet would Everard have dashed upon Sir John for not representing or giving his ear but out of doubt Sir John hath done the duty of his place Everard in his depositions gives out that this Dalonson was his man a most palpable untruth I have known Everard a long time but never in a condition to keep a man but he still was to be kept IV. My name being by Everards means introduc'd and traduc'd it gives me scope to follow with a larger declaration in my sufferance my credit being thus trampled upon by Fobbs Rascals and Villains that never dar'st appear to lay any thing to my charge face to face or before Justice but still like a Parator falsly informing behind my back I am not the only thus served O what a pitty it is that the noble Law which was allowed of to the Lord Rea and David Ramsy should not again be permitted which was to fight Lespee a la main on a publick stage to maintain the Truth which would give an Allaye unto impostory and false accusations Is it not strange as thus that this Everard should be so impudent as to have me summoned to the House of Commons Bar to make me appear as I did there in May last 1679. and to referr unto what I should witness and such as he names which can witness as now I do V. Master speaker did ask me if that in Paris 1673. that this Everard did not tell me that Troubles Plots Designs and Disturbances were ingendring towards the prejudice of England I answered in part he did but that as unto particulars he did not nor have I pressed to know I having notice from other manner of hands then his that great engines were at work to prejudice His Most Excellent Majestie towards the subversion of his Laws and Government and fomented to be upheld by greater persons then yet where named or spoken off The speaker asked me why I had not declared them I replied it seemed 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 disclaim in the least Grace or Favor from the King his most Honorable Parliaments or Laws of the Land so as I was ordered to withdraw not doubting but that I should be summond to declare what I knew in those concerns yet I was not but in a day or two after was summon'd to appear before the Committee of Secrecy I did and they looked on me and I upon them they said they had no orders concerning me so we parted But had I been interrogated sure fear nor shame should not keep me from declaring the names of the intermedlers VI. It is in part wonderful that this Everard being ever bred a Papist and begotly one as to my knowledge he never would as much as read any Books of controversy often vowing that any Books that gave contradiction to the Roman Tenets were Heretically and so not to be read and that this man without the concourse with any Protestant Divine should turn convert must appear as a great blessing of God or that it must be upon some worldly interest and whereas he speaks of his reconciliation to chalonton I doubt it is that were he put to it that he could not make out VII I having not named the fomentors of these disturbances being not summoned thereunto may not be of the same resolution in my following descriptions Sir Robert Walsh declares to the World that he ever did and doth renounce the lest of Grace or Favor from His Sacred Majesty His most Honorable Houses of Parliamen or Laws if any disloyalty is or can be laid to his charge yet is he and hath been Murthered alive through false suggestions and informations which none ever did or would appear to justifie against him one was that in the Year 1655. or 1656. that he was