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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

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 Swo 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 Arms 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 withal 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 Bloud 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 Bloud 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 Bloud 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 aver 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 onely 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 onely 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