The declaration and confession of Robert Watt

Robᵗ: Watt
By Authority.
WRITTEN, SUBSCRIBED, & DELIVERED BY HIMSELF, THE EVENING BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, FOR HIGH TREASON , AT EDINBURGH, October 15. 1794.
ATTESTED BY The Reverend Dr BAIRD, PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH;
AND
The Reverend T. S. JONES, ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF LADY GLENORCHIE’S CHAPEL.
EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR BELL & BRADFUTE, PARLIAMENT CLOSE.
1794.
The following Declaration, was put up under a sealed cover, addressed on the outside to James Clerk, Esq; Sheriff Depute, Geo. Square.— In the inside of the cover was written the following Letter by Robert Watt to him :
Sir,
The inclosed papers, with another parcel, containing sundry miscellaneous letters and papers, I commit to you; requesting they may be transmitted to Principal Baird, and the Rev. Mr Jones, to do with them as they may find proper. The little emoluments which may arise from them, I am persuaded they will give to Binning who attended me.
My watch and my clothes, and any little effects I may leave behind me, I request them to be given to Mr James Stalker, at Mr Wilson’s, baker in Cross-causeway, to whom I owe money per bill; and to whom I gave a disposition to these, and other effects, before my condemnation. I have the honour to be,