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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63172	The tryal of Capt. Thomas Wallcot for high-treason in conspiring to compass the death of His Majesty, and to subvert the government who was tryed this 12th of July at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bayley, and there found guilty of the said high-treason : being an impartial relation of the most materials during the said tryal : as likewise what occured in relation to James Duke of Monmouth, Ford Lord Grey, and others.	Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.; England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex).	1683 (1683)	Wing T2180; ESTC R25661	2,615	2

THE TRYAL OF Capt. Thomas Wallcot FOR High-TREASON In Conspiring to compass the Death of His Majesty and to Subvert the Government Who was Tryed this 12 th of July at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayley and there found Guilty of the said High-Treason Being an Impartial Relation of the most Materials during the said Tryal As likewise what occured in Relation to James Duke of Monmouth Ford Lord Grey And others THis day the Session of Oyer and Terminer began in the Old-Baily where after some Proceedings against Felons c. the Grand Jury for London found the Bills of High-Treason against James Duke of Monmouth Ford Lord Gray Captain Thomas Walcot John Rouse William Blake William Hone and divers others whereupon the four last viz. Walcot Rouse Hone and Blake were brought to the Bar and there severally Arraigned for High-Treason in Conspiring the death of the King c. after which Captain Thomas Walcot was alone brought to his Tryal and having put himself upon God and his Country was ordered to look to his Challenges as the Jurors came to the Book to be Sworn of which he excepted against about Ten or Eleven and the Kings Counsel against one The Court having thus far proceeded the Indictment was Read the substance of which was That he Thomas Walcot the Prisoner at the Bar had on the second of March last past and at divers other times Conspired with many Traytors whose Names were therein recited in the Parish of St. Nicholas Bashaw and in sundry other places to Depose the King from his Right and Title to the Kingdom of England c. And not onely so but Him to Assassinate and to final destruction and to Subvert the Government to raise Rebellion through the Land and a miserable Slaughter to make amongst his Subjects throughout the Kingdom and that in order thereunto he had provided Arms as Blunderbusses Muskets Pistols c. After this Mr. North one of the Kings Counsel opened the nature of the Fact also what particulars the Evidence were to give and declared the Haniousness of the Fact being seconded by Mr. Attorney General who at large declared the Conspiracy as it was laid in all or most of its Circumstances how according as the Evidence had Deposed in Counsel it was Contrived Mannaged and carryed on And after him Mr. Serjeant Jefferies laid down such Material Points as the other had Omitted aggravating the Haniousness of the Crime declaring and laying open at large the Damnable Treason and Conspiracy desiring the Jury well to consider the waight of the Cause they were to determine and adding that if the several particulars were proved against the Prisoner by the Witnesses for the King who had been for the most part privy to the whole Design they would like good English-men and Christians find the Traytor Guilty The Kings Council having layed open the Indictment the Evidence were called the first was Colonel Rumsey who deposed That for a considerable time past there had been a Design carryed on by divers disaffected Conspirators against the Life of His Sacred Majesty and that in order thereto divers Consults had been held and sundry Devices proposed to bereave His Majesty of His Life and Crown and that at most of those Consults Captain Walcot had been present and consenting to the Models layed and designed to effect the horrid Treason to raise a Rebellion throughout the Nation to root out the Legal Line and repose the power in the people Nay so far had they proceeded as to settle a Form of Government amongst themselves and appoint Rulers and Officers to manage the Affairs relating to Government and computed what numbers might be raised in such places where the Conspirators had most Intrest 1000. at least being to be raised in Wapping But whilst this Device was in hand another was thought of which was to Assassinate the King in his return from New-Market the last time he was there The Conspiracy and Plot to bring it to pass being thus layed several persons were to use their Interest to raise Men for that purpose who were with Carbines Musquets Pistols c. to be Armed and lye in Ambuscade in Rumbold the Malster's House near H●dsdone and to send several persons in Country Habits to over-through a Cart to stop the Passage of a Lane the King's Coach was to pass upon which designed stop about fifty Men well appointed were to have Sallyed out Rumbold being appointed to kill the King and the Duke of York others to Kill the Horses Coach-man and Postilion and the Prisoner with a Commanded party ro fight the Guard himself as he declared to the Evidence thinking it the braver part of the Action as thinking it beneath him to Assasinate a Naked Man but this Plot miscarrying by reason of the Fire divers other Projects were laid to take away the Life of His Majesty the Conspirators meeting frequently to Consult how to bring about their pernicious Design all which by the Discovery were frustrated The next Evidence that deposed was Mr. Keeling who declared That he had been privy for some Months past to the Conspiracy and had been at divers Consults Wherein the Destruction of the King was proposed and agreed on as the only expedient to further their purpose and that by Goodenough and others he had been solicited to raise Men for the New-Market Expedition which he at first boggl'd at and that at sundry times the Prisoner had been at the said Consults and approved of the proceeding Himself being to have a principal Command and to be aiding in the Assassinating the King and being by the Court demanded what induced him to discover he declared it was the secret impulse of his Tormented Conscience which would not suffer him to rest till so great a wickedness was made known This being the substance of his Depositions Mr. Bourn was Sworn who gave Evidence in effect to what the former had deposed Then Mr. West stood up and declared the manner of the Contrivance of the Plot together with the several Declarations that were to have been disporsed it the Design had taken effect also the many other Wicked designs to take away the Life of the King as at the Play-House Bull-Feast and upon his comming from Windsor in his Barge declaring that he had bought Arms for that purpose with many other Circumstances charging the Prisoner in particular There were likewise Two Letters under his Hand proved in Court one to Sir Lyonel Jekins to implore the Pardon of His Majesty in lieu whereof he promised to discover the whole Design layed in England Ireland and Holland which as he said none could do better than himself Another was intercepted by Captain Richardson directed to a Friend of his to perswade Collonel Rumsey and Mr. West to be Tender of him in their Evidence To these possitive Evidences his Answers were for the most part but feeble he alledging himself indisposed of the Gout at the time it was alledged he went to see how fit Rumbold's House was for the purpose and the impossibility of his bringing such things to pass as were Sworn against him yet Confessing that he had often associated himself with the Conspirators but hoped though he had some knowledge of the Design that it would amount to no more than misprision of Treason but being confuted of his Error by the Court after the Evidence was Summed up and the Charge given the Jury after a short Debate found him Guilty of the Treason as in the Indictment layed Printed for Langely Curtis at the Sign of Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey's Head near Fleet-Bridge