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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66502	The speeches of Captain Walcot, Jo. Rouse and Will. Hone, on Friday the twentieth of July, 1683	Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.; Hone, William, d. 1683.; Rouse, John, d. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing W284; ESTC R5766	20,736	14

THE SPEECHES Of Captain Walcot Jo. Rouse and Will. Hone On Friday the Twentieth of July 1683. CAptain Thomas Walcot being drawn to Tyburn in one Hurdle John Rouse and William Hone in another and there put into a Cart the Reverend Dr. Thomas Cartwright Dean of Rippon and one of His Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary with Mr. Smith the Ordinary of Newgate began to acquaint Captain Walcot That this was the last time he had to spend in the world and therefore desired him to make a good use of it telling him That at death leaves him so Judgment will find him and earnestly exhorted him to make an ingenious Discovery and Confession of what he knew touching the Conspiracy and Treasons of which he had been found guilty and received Sentence to die To this Captain Walcot replyed That he had some Papers in his Pocket of what he had prepared to say in Writing because his memory was bad therefore he desired they might be pulled out and he would read them Then Dr. Cartwright and the Ordinary spake to Hone and Rouse to the effect before-mentioned earnestly desiring them to confess the whole of what they knew instancing some places of Scripture to them as Joshuab's advice to Achan c. My Son confess and give glory to God whom you have dishonoured c. telling them they would have imbrued their hands in the Blood of a merciful and good Prince who had often pardoned and gave many Acts of Oblivion and Indemnity to his Subjects and whose Reign hath preserved the purity of the Protestant Religion amongst us That we cannot enjoy more than we do enjoy with other good admonitions for them to make cleer Discoveries of the truth of what they knew Captain Walent in the mean while was prepared to read his Speech Dr. Cartwright askt him if he could discover any more than he had done already Walcot I 've not in the general I told the King the thing was laid very deep There was a Gentleman with me last night I told him what I told the King and that was all I told him I thought an Act of Indulgence would be very necessary because he had a great many men to take Judgment of I know not the particulars of the Design but the King hath the Lord Howard Mr. West and others that know more than I. I was never in Councel with them nor never with them above four five or half a dozen times Then looking upon his Paper he began his Speech as follows THis great Concourse of people do not only come here to see me dye but also to hear what I shall say and because I would not be reproached and thought to be an Atheist when I am gone I have two or three words to speak for my Religion I do believe in Three persons and one God and I expect and hope to be saved by the Merits and Righteousness of his Son Christ Jesus without the hope of an advantage by any Merits or Righteousness of my own And I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the word of God that they were not written according to the will of Man but holy men of God writ them as they were inspired by the holy Ghost I believe that these Scriptures ought to be the Rule of our Faith and the method of our Worshipping of God I believe that as Christ is the head of his Church so he is then Law giver That it is not in the power of any Council or Conclave of Cardinals or power upon earth whatsoever to set up the Precepts and Traditions of men and to make them of equal validity with the word of God I believe it was not because the Jews rejected and Crucified Christ that he rejected them but because they rejected his Word which appears by the Three thousand that God by one Sermon of Peters Converted they being prickt in their hearts 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 believe had not Adam sinned he and we his posterity had not dyed Death is said to be the King of Terrours but it is only so to those that are terrifyed 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 dye 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 faith 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

people Lord favour us with thy mercy assure us of thy love stand by us in the difficult hour take us into thine own Care cause thy Angels to attend us to convey our Souls as soon as they are divided from our Bodies into Abraham's Bosom into the Paradice of our God And Lord we beg that thou wilt be with us with thy extraordinary Presence helping us to trust in thee doing for us beyond what our narrow Hearts are able to ask or think All which we beg for the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ in whom O Lord this little time do thou give us Hearts to give thee all Glory Honour and Praise now and for evermore Amen Sweet Jesus Amen HONE's Prayer GLorious Lord our God thou art the God of the whole Creation and the God that created the Heavens and the Earth in six days by thy power we stand here before thee Lord help us to be looking up unto Jesus Christ who is exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to give Repentance to Israel and Remission of sins Now Lord for thy mercies sake we would be helped to say That Power that raised up Christ from the dead that is able to raise up our poor Souls before thee from Death to Life O Lord for thy mercies sake wash all our Souls in the Bloud of Jesus Christ which speaketh better things than that of Abel and Lord for thy mercies sake pardon all our sins from our first our Original sins and our sins of Sabbath-breaking and our sins of Transgression and the sin for which we are condemn'd O Lord pardon it and let us not go out of the World with one sin hid in our Souls For thy mercies sake pardon all our sins and Lord do thou preserve this Nation and put it into the heart of the King to be merciful and to rule in Truth and Righteousness And for thy mercies sake rule the Affairs of this Nation and help to rule and govern all things for the government of our Souls and our Spirits for thy mercies sake and help us that with joy we may be received into Glory into the eternal Habitations for Christ is sent into the World to that purpose to save sinners of whom we are chief And Lord for thy mercies sake let me have a true belief in Jesus Christ aright to be looking up unto him for Life and for Salvation Oh that we might perish if we perish and be found doing thy will to the utmost of our power Lord accept of us and help us and be with us this little time we shall be in this world All which we beg for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ to whom be Glory with the Kingdom both now and for evermore Mr. ROVS's Prayer O Lord our God who art nearer to each and every one of us than we are to our selves It is not all the Confessions to men in the world were it confessed by the Tongues of Angels those glorious Spirits above that can avail any thing with the great God against whom we have sinned or that can procure pardon for the least transgression which deserves eternal wrath And therefore for the Sins that we have been guilty of either against the first or the second Table either against God as our Creator Christ as our Redeemer or the Holy and Blessed Spirit as our Sanctifier the sins that we have committed against thy holy Church and that Faith that I hope we die in the belief of the sins that we have been guilty of against our Neighbours upon one account and another the sins that we have been guilty of against our Governours and Rulers to whom thou hast obliged us under manifold obligations both as Men and Christians the sins that we have been guilty of in our several places Relations and Capacities whatsoever whatever have been their Circumstances and their Aggravations the least whereof deserves everlasting death without the Merits of Jesus for all those greater or lesser sins whether that original sin we brought into the world with us that source and fountain and foundation of all other sins those actual sins and transgressions against any of those that thou hast set over us or those that have been equal with us those relation-sins as Husband and Wife as Master and Servant in every relation and capacity Lord forgive them and wash them away in the blood of the Lamb of God that stands at the right hand of the Majesty on high And because we have no worthiness of our own to recommend us to thee therefore we beg thee for thy Sons sake to fetch arguments from thy self Our righteousness is as filthy rags and the best of us are as a menstruous cloath Fetch Arguments from the riches of thy grace from the goodness of thy nature from the multitude of thy mercies from the blood of thy Son from that blessed eternal intercession that we hope he is making for us and for all that belong to the election of Grace and shall be brought to glory Remember thy Churches hasten the fulfilling of thy promises the accomplishing of thy prophesies through the world the downfal of the man of sin and the destruction of all thy true Churches implacable enemies Lord hasten the day of the calling the Jews and the fulness of the Gentiles put an end to Wars and rumours of Wars let the desire of all Nations come Dwell in these Three Nations be a wall of fire round about them prevent any kind of Insurrection at home all manner of Invasion from abroad let those that tarry behind enjoy peace and truth and righteousness Dwell in and reign in the heart of the King Lord bless and prosper him in his Person give him a long a prosperous and an happy Reign Good Father we pray thee let him live here with a flourishing Crown upon his head till thou in thy due time shalt receive him to an eternal Crown hereafter Bless him in his Royal Family and Relations in his Royal Brother Bless him in his Royal Consort make the King a Nursing Father and the Queen a Nursing Mother Confound all hatred malice and envy all evil speaking every thing that is contrary to sound Doctrine and give thy people that live under him to shew that dutifulness and respect as becomes Christians and ●s becomes Loyal Subjects Bless the Clergy by whatsoever Names or Titles distinguished make them sound in their Doctrine and make them useful and unblameable in their Lives and Conversations Help them to mind the Souls committed to their charge and help them to do their duty that they may be able to say behold here are we and the Children whom thou hast given us Now Lord bless all the Nation from the highest to the lowest from the Prince to the Peasant of all sorts ranks and degrees Give Loyalty towards our dread Sovereign who is a merciful and gracious Prince whom thou hast set as thy Vicegerent to Reign over us who can do nothing but what is just and equal before thee to whom he must give an account of all his Transactions even to thee the King of Kings And Lord grant peace and love and unity one among another and the practical observation of thy holy day and those duties that relate to God and Man Grant that those that follow after us may take particular Example by us We must needs acknowledge and smite upon our thighs that we in Justice are brought hither that we have nothing to do but to condemn our selves and justifie the Justice of the Land and to pray God to bless his Majesty to Reign in these Nations and those that shall succeed him upon the Throne All which we beg upon the account of our Lord Jesus Christ who was dead and behold he lives to whom with thy self and eternal Spirit we desire to ascribe as is due all honour praise and glory everlasting Amen There was these Lines more in the Paper delivered by Captain Walcot than what you have before seen AS to Ireland I am very inclinable to believe could I have charged any body there with being ingaged in the matter for which I suffer I might have had my Life but by the blessing of God I will charge no man wrongfully no not to save my Life and these being some of the last words I am to speak I do aver I knew not an Englishman or Protestant in Ireland any way ingaged in it Besides I was told they that were mostly concerned did not value Ireland and said it must of course follow England Something I heard of one Gentleman in the North and whether it be true or false I will not determine FINIS