Ansvver to a late paper, intituled, A true copy of a paper written by Capt. Tho. Walcot in Newgate after his condemnation, and delivered to his son immediately before his execution

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ANSWER
T O A L A T E
P A P E R,
I N T I T U L E D,
A True Copy of a Taper Written
By Capt. TH O. w A L C O T
In V^fewgate after his C o n d e m n at i o n, and Delivered
to his Son immediately before his Exec u t i o n ^- being
alfo his Laft Speech at the Place of Execution.
By TOT E%T WES T.
■S I will always be tender of any mans Life,
fol would be of his Fame after his Death j
but the Duty I owe to my felf, and to
truth,' obliges me to give an Anfwer to
part of this Pamphlet. Though through God’s and
the King’s Mercy I am not at the apparent point of
t)eath, yet I Will declare the truth as fincerely as if I
were fo: for I hope I am much more convinced of the
Horridnefs of my . Crime, and have more truly Repented
of it than Capr. ?£Wco; feems by this Paper to have
done} for notwithttanding his large Profeffion Of his
Faith there, He has not ftuck t© infert as many falfe-1
hoods in this laft Paper} as any man that fuffered in
the Popifb Plot is charged to have done in his Lafl:
Speech. '
In 0Stoker laft Capt. ISOalcot acquainted me that there
tyas a Defign to Aftaffinate the King and Duke in their
return that Month from Newmarket j and that if* that1
were not effetted, an Infurre&iqn was intended pn the
Nineteenth of Nov. following, which was the hrft
knowledge I had of any Real Plot whatfoeyer carrying1
oh againft the Kjng. ' He told me indeed' though' he,'
thought an Afifaftmation Lawful, he look’d upon it as
an ungenerous thing, and therefore would not engage
Perfonally in it; but he told me he would be con?-,
cern’d in the Infurreftion, and expefted to be a Co#, of
Borfe, and would have had me taken a Command upder
Him, which I refufed; and he defired me to buy Him a
Tuck and lend him myfilk Armour,which I agreed to d^
To this he gave no Anfwer at his Tryal, nor gives, any
in this Paper: fo that he tacitely Confeftes it true,
which I thihk is a dear Evidence that he firft drew me
into Plots, and I did not draw him into any. 1 /i;:
The ^flaffination not taking effedl in OEtober, and
the intended Infurre^lion being diverted, I had feyeral
difcourfes with Fcrgufon, who as Capt. 'ISOalcot told me,
had the chief management of it, concerning an in¬
tended Affaflination after the feVeral manners I menti¬
oned iti my Evidence at Capt. ISOzlvots Tryal; at fome
of which I think Capt. ISDalcot was prefent, and l am
fure he was made privy to them all by me ( he coming
often to my Chamber ) and* by with whom’he
was very‘intimate. He always approved of "iti but,
to do him right here as I did at his Tryal, hefHlFre-
fus’d to engage Peffonally in it for the fame feafdn of
it’s being difhondurable. - About the Nineteenth or
Twentieth of Nov. he and Fergufori went with thedate
E. of Shaftsbury into HoZfcniy and return’d to London
about fJAJk-wednefday laft. In'their abfence fome
difcourfes were had conoerning an Aftaftination and an
Infurreftiorf; but no refolutions were taken by us till
their return. Then Sergufon undertook the manage¬
ment of ari Aflalfination, and to procure money to carry
it on, and at one meeting told - us he had engag’d
Capt. ISbakot to Ad: in it, and that the Capt. would
meet us for the Future, which he did feveral times as
oft as his^Gout'iwould let him; particularly he met
usytwice or thrice about a fortnight before the^V«g/
laft return from Newmarket, and then declared he
would be one to, fight; the Guard*/., but would not fee
?igF upon