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A66511	The speeches of Cap. Walcot, Jo. Rouse, and Will. Hone. One Friday the 20th of July 1683	Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.; Hone, William, d. 1683.; Rouse, John, d. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing W284A; ESTC R219902	20,963	13

THE SPEECHES 〈◊〉 Cap. Walcot Jo. Rouse and Will. Hone. one Friday the 20 th of July 1683. ●Aptain Thomas Walcot being drawn to Tiburn in one Hurdle John Rouse and William Hone in another and there put into a Cart the Reverend Dr. Thomas Cartwright Dean 〈◊〉 ●…pon and one of His Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary with Mr. Smith the Ordinary 〈◊〉 ●…gate began to acquaint Captain Walcot That this was the last time he had to spend 〈…〉 World and therefore desired him to make a good use of it telling him that as death 〈◊〉 him Judgment will find him and earnestly exhorted him to make an ingenious Disco●…●nd Confession of what he knew touching the Conspiracy and Treasons of which he 〈…〉 found guilty and received sentence to die 〈◊〉 this Capt. Walcot replyed That he had some Papers in his Pocket of what he had ●…ed to say in writing because his memory was bad therefore he desired they might 〈◊〉 ●…ed out and he would read them 〈◊〉 Dr. Cartwright and the Ordinary spake to Hone and Rouse to the effect before ●…ioned earnestly desiring them to confess the whole of what they knew instancing 〈◊〉 places of Scripture to them as Joshuah's advice to Achan c. my Son confess and give 〈◊〉 to God whom you have dishonoured c. telling them they would have imbrewed 〈◊〉 ●ands in the blood of a merciful and good Prince who had often pardoned and gave 〈◊〉 Acts of Oblivion and indemnity to his Subjects and whose Reign hath preserved the ●…ty of the Protestant Religion amongst us That we cannot enjoy more than we do en●…●…th other good admonitions for them to make cleer discoveries of the truth of what 〈◊〉 knew Captain Walcot in the mean while was prepared to read his Speech 〈◊〉 Cartwright askt him if be could discover any more than he had done already 〈◊〉 I 've not in the general I told the King the thing was laid very deep There was a ●…eman with me last night I told him what I told the King and that was all I told 〈◊〉 I thought an Act of indulgence would be very necessary because he had a great many 〈◊〉 to take Judgment of I know not the particulars of the Design but the King hath the 〈◊〉 Howard Mr. west and others that know more than I. I was never in Councel 〈◊〉 them nor never with them above four five or half a dozen times ●…en looking upon his Paper he began his Speech as follows ●…is great concourse of people do not only come here to see me dye but also to hear 〈◊〉 I shall say and because I would not be reproached and thought to be an Atheist 〈◊〉 I am gone I have two or three words to speak for my Religion I do believe in ●…e persons and one God and I expect and hope to be saved by the Merites and Righ●…ness of his Son Christ Jesus without the hope of an advantage by any Merits or ●…teousness of my own and I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament 〈◊〉 the word of God that they were not written according to the will of Man but holy men of 〈◊〉 writ them as they were inspired by the holy Ghost ● beleive that these Scriptures ought to be the Rule of our Faith and the methode of our ●…hipping of God I beleive that as Christ is the head of his Church so he is their Law●… That it is not in the power of any Council or Conclave of Cardinals or power upon 〈◊〉 whatsoever to set up the Precepts and Traditions of men and to make them of equal ●…ty with the word of God I beleive it was not because the Jews rejected and Cru●…d Christ that he rejected them but because they rejected his Word which appears by 〈◊〉 Three thousand that God by one Sermon of Peters Converted they being pricked in their 〈◊〉 and touched in their Consciences cryed out Men and Brethren what shall we do and they were that day added to the Church It was certainly because the Jews rejected the Word and Gospel of Christ that the things were hid from their eyes which belonged to their peace It is a dreadful thing to reject the Word of God and it is a dreadful thing to live in a sinful course of life till God withdraws his Spirit from us For it is said it shall not always strive with man Death is the wages of sin I beleive had not Adam sinned he and we his posterity had not dyed Death is said to be the King of Terrors but it is only so to those that are terified with a terrifying Conscience that have the arrows of the Almighty sticking in them from convictions of great guilt and see no hopes of mercy have no assurance of Pardon but those that are Christs he takes away the terror and horror and sting of Death he enables them to say with Paul To me to live is Christ and to die is gain he enables not only to get unto Christ but into Christ and so they have Communion and Fellowship with the Father and the Son It is no hard matter to get the notions of the promises of the Gospel into our heads but unless the Lord is pleased to apply them to our hearts we cannot believe except We be in Christ as branches in the Vine we are not Christians indeed It was the case of poor Francis Spira he was certainly a knowing man but notwithstanding he had not ●aith to apply the promises Christ hath said that he that believes in him though he were dead yet shall he live and he that lives and believes in him shall never dye So if we be able to apply the promises by the Spirit of God we may have comfort through Faith but then Faith is the gift of God and Faith comes by hearing the Word of God and receiving it in the love of God I shall not be tedious Mr. Sheriff I shall be very short Mr. Sheriff take your own time Walcot As to the present occasion of my death I do neither blame the Judges nor the Jury nor the Kings Councel I only blame some men that in reality and in truth were deeper concerned and more engaged than I that came in as Witnesses against me who swore me out of my life to save their own and who for fear they should not do it effectually contrived that That I will appeal to you all whether there be a probability in it or not for they said that I made it a scruple of Conscience to have a hand in killing the King or to embrue my hands in his blood but was so generous as to undertake the Charging his Guards whilst others did it and to the end another might do it Truly I will appeal to all that know me whether they believe me so much an idiot that I should not understand it was the same thing to engage the Kings Guards whilst another killed him as to Kill him with my own hands But however by

their swearing against me they have secured their own Lives and Estates and made my blood the price of theirs I confess I was so unfortunate and unhappy as to be invited by Colonel Rumsey one of the witnesses against me to some meetings where some things were discoursed of in order to the asserting our Liberties and properties which we looked upon to be violated and invaded But it was he and Mr West and some gentlemen that are fled who were the great promoters of those Meetings I was near a quarter of a year ill of the Gout and during that time Mr West often visited me and still his discourse would be concerning Lopping the Two Sparks That was the word he used meaning the King and the Duke and proposed it might be done at a Play This was his frequent discourse for he said Then they would dye in their calling it was his very Expression He bought Arms to do it with without any direction of mine I never saw the Armes nor I never saw the men that were to do it though they said they had fifty imployed to that end I told several of them That the Killing the King would carry such a blemish and stain with it as would descend to posterity that I had Eight Children that I was loath should be blemished with it and withall I was confident the Duke of Monmouth would revenge his Fathers Blood if it were but to vindicate himself from having any hand in it Mr. West presently told me that the Duke of Monmouth did not refuse to give an Engagement that he would not punish those that should kill the King And now I desire to forgive all the World from the very bottom of my heart and I pray God of his mercy from my heart to forgive them even Mr. Shepherd who delivered me up who promised to carry me into Holland but instead of that he brought me into the condition wherein I now am I do desire with all my heart to forgive the Witnesses and withal do earnestly beg that they may be observed that some remarks may be set upon them whether their End be Peace and that they die the common death of all men Certainly though it be the Law of the Land I ought to die and the King may justly and reasonably put me to death for being in those meetings where a War was debated yet I think these men are guilty of my Blood that were as deep in as I and have betrayed me and taken it away Then in the next place I beg leave Mr. Sheriff to speak one short word of Advice to my Friends that hath been often given to me though I was not so fortunate and so happy as to take it and that is That they would neither hear any man speak nor speak themselves that which they would not have repeated for there is no such thing as Faith in man to man whatever there is in man to God either the Tears of a Wife or a Family of little helpless Children something or other will tempt and provoke men to betray one another When God hath a work to do he will not want Instruments for he can make them nor will he want a way to do it for he can contrive it and bring it to pass And I do most heartily desire and my earnest Prayer to the Almighty is That this may be the last Blood spilt upon this account I know Acts of Indulgence and Mercy in the King would make him much easier in his Government and would make his people sit much easier under it and that the Lord may encline his heart to mercy ought to be the Prayer of every good man What hath happened and what hath been the present occasion of our Calamity I suppose every man knows what provocations have been on the one hand fears and necessities jealousies and sufferings of the other I will not intermeddle with resolving to use my utmost endeavour to make that Peace and Reconciliation with my God which is impossible for me to make with man and to make it my hearty Prayer to the Great God before whom I am in little time to appear That he would stench this issue of Blood and find out some other way to preserve these Kingdoms in Unity and Peace to the Honour and Glory of his Great Name and the eternal comfort of his people One word Mr. Sheriff I desire leave to speak as to Ireland because the King prest it hard upon me and several people have been with me about Ireland how far Ireland was concerned in this matter I do averr here as in the presence of God before whom I am now going to appear That I do not know an English-man nor Protestant in Ireland engaged in it What I did know was only of one Scotish Gentleman in the North and the King knows it but he says he does not believe it For they that were concerned I was never in any of their Councils I never saw any of those Lords but the Duke of Monmouth and that was I believe above six months ago I never saw nor spoke with one Lord only my Lord Howard I heard my Lord Howard say that they did not value Ireland for it must follow England I have not more to say Mr. Sheriff But truly you will do an act of a great deal of Charity if you will prevail with the King for an Act of Indulgence and Liberty to his people I think so and so the Lord have mercy upon me Dr. Cartwright You blame them for that which is their Vertue and not their Crime that they have been Witnesses for the King Walcot I was not for contriving the death of the King if you 'll believe me Dr. Cartwright You blame them for betraying of you in contriving the War upon which the Death of the King must have followed if your Treason had gone forward for else you could not have defended your self from that Justice to which he hath brought you and therefore for you to lay that as a Crime upon your Witnesses is indeed very strange Walcot Sir I think it was but reasonable that I should suffer that is due from Justice and reasonable by the Law but these men they did not come in against me till they did it to save themselves Dr. Cartwright Better late than never a man had better save his soul and body too than die as now you do for Crimes that ought to make every good mans heart relent and therefore for your blaming them it was for that which was their duty to do they have not committed a Crime in that but a very meritorious act Walcot They have revealed it with that aggravating circumstance which I think no rational man will be guilty of Dr. Cartwright That circumstance which you call aggravating is no aggravation at all That is rather a mitigation of your Crime to make them believe that you were tenderer of the Kings person than to shoot him when he was not armed

But you confess you were consulting this Crime Walcot I was not to have a hand in the Kings Death Dr. Cartwright But it was proposed when you were there Walcot It was so Dr. Cartwright And it was agreed to be done Walcot Truly I do not know how far it was agreed I was there many meetings Dr. Cartwaight These very meetings you could not but be sensible of Walcot There were several meetings wherein the business of the Kings life was never spoke of Dr Cartwright That was agreed in those meetings but you had a tenderer Conscience Walcot I say they were for asserting our Liberties and Properties Dr. Cartwright I would fain have you explain that Walcot Truly Sir since you do press me to speak we were under general apprehensions and so were those Lords that are likely to suffer as I have heard they were under general apprehensions of Popery and Slaveries coming in Dr. Cartwright What sign was there of it you had no persecution at all you were allowed by the Law to meet five in a house besides th●…e of the Family It is true the Conventicles have been disturbed of late and I would 〈◊〉 you look upon it as a Judgment of God to bring you to this for forsaking the Chur●… of England You have forsaken Communion with that Church in that way you were instructed from your youth Walcot I do not come here to dispute of Religion but I come here to die religiously if it p●ease God to enable me Dr. Cartwright I pray God enable you But I would not have you charge that as a Crime upon the Witnesses which was their duty Walcot I can't tell how to excuse my Witnesses for aggravating things against me and making them worse than really they were Dr. Cartwright going to reply Walcot Pray Sir give me leave for a man to invite a man to a meeting to importune him to this meeting to be perpetually solliciting him and then to deliver him up to be hanged as they have done me Dr. Cartwright It was a Crime to sollicit you to those meetings but when you were in it was a duty in you and in them to reveal it if God had given you the grace to reveal them the turn had been theirs which now is yours And whereas you say you cannot excuse them that is uncharitable Walcot I do forgive them and I desire with all my heart God would forgive them Dr. Cartwright You confess you were guilty enough to take away your life Walcot I was so The same measure we mete to another that measure God will mete to us Then Sir I do leave it to God Dr. Cartwright Then you pray this may be the last Blood spilt upon this account Walcot I do so Cartwright Would not you have Traytors brought to their end You talk of spilling Blood as if it were innocent Blood now spilt when you do confess and own the guilt But I shall give you no further disturbance but my Prayers to Almighty God for you that God would give you mercy And then turning to Hone. Dr. C. Mr. Hone give glory to God and unburthen your Conscience for you have but a short time to stay here Hone. I have nothing further to say but that I have been guilty of the Crime Dr. C. You are so Hone. Yes I am guilty of this Crime according to the Law of the Land Dr. C. I and according to the Law of God Hone. Yes Dr. C. You say according to the Law of the Land a man may be sworn out of his life by false Witnesses but you were guilty of conspiring the Death or the King and raising an Insurrection Hone. Truly I must say as the Captain well minded I was drawn in Thou sawest a Thief and thou consentedst with him So I say that I was drawn in I saw the Thief and consented I have looked upon my self since to be the more guilty of Blood and my circumstance was to be drawn in and insnared for I never was at any of their Meetings none of their Cabals but in a pub●ick Coffee-house or Tavern where they discoursed the matter of Fact and I was to meet the K. and the D. of York but I did not know at that time when or where nor what was my business Dr. C. But you were to assist Hone. Yes I promised that to assist Dr. C. Do you beg God and the Kings forgiveness for it from the bottom of your heart that you have been guilty of this For if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch as well he that leads as he that is led although he that leads may fa●… dee●er There are circumstances make one mans Crime greater than anothers The greatness of theirs does not lessen yours Hone. I believed that then I was very near another snare I was resolved to go down into the Countrey and not meddle in the thing at all and had been in the Countrey but meeting with Keeling I freely forgive him for whatsoever is done he called me and discoursing with him I did say I ●as for killing the King and saving the Duke of York Dr. C. Why was you for ●…ng the Duke of York Hone I do not know wh●… to say as to that there was no reason Dr C. What was your own private reason for killing the King and saving the Duke of York Hone. As to that I think this that the Duke of York did openly profess himself to be a Roman Catholick and I did say I had rather dispose of the K than the D. Dr. C. Had you rather a Papist should Reign over us as you take him to be than the King Hone. I do not know what to say to that D. C. That does deserve a reason Mr. Hone you ought to give some reason of that you cannot but have some reason if you had had a design to kill the Duke and save the King then it might be to prevent Popery but you say the quite contrary God in Heaven forgive you for your murderous design Hone. I know as little of this as any poor silly man in the World I was fain to gather it I had it not so down right I was drawn into it however I am now to die as for the Witnesses I desire the Lord to forgive them Dr. C. They have not wronged you they have done their duty Dr. C. Rouse What say you Rouse As a man and a Christian in the first place as God hath made me a Christian through his Grace that the World may understand that I do not dye as Captain Walcot says an Atheist I do here declare in the presence of God and this vast number of people what Faith I die in In that very Faith which was once delivered and in the Belief of that Doctrine which the Church of England makes profession of and is agreeable to the Word of God being founded upon the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles whereof Jesus Christ is the Corner Stone There