Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

23rd December 1713

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26th November 1713


had made a Bargain, having within a short time after the Number of his Chair taken off, could ply no longer himself, and so could not teach him, nor would return his Money; which occasion'd his great Poverty, and this Poverty his committing the Fact for which he readily own'd he was justly condemned, and begg'd Pardon of God and Man.

8. James Camelion< no role > , or Crimellen< no role > , condemn'd for Felony and Burglary in Breaking open the House of Mr. Joseph Slade< no role > , and taking thence a Camlet-Coat and several other Goods, on the 10th of November last . He said, he was 22 years of age, born in the Parish of St. Paul Covent-garden ; had served on Board several of Her Majesty's Men of War , for the space of 9 years, and never was guilty of any such Fact before; but of this he was, and of many other Sins besides, which he had committed against Almighty God, through the Course of his Life, for which he was heartily sorry, and begg'd Pardon.

9. Anthony Martin< no role > , condemn'd for the same Felony and Burglary, which he own'd himself guilty of, but said, it was his first Fact. He was 25 years of age, born in St. Ann's Parish Westminster , was a Sailor , and had served for some years on Board several Men of War at diverse times. I found him all along very tractable and very penitent.

10. James Urwin< no role > , condemn'd for Breaking open the House of Mr. William Pierpoint< no role > , and taking and carrying away from thence two Cheeses, a Box of Knives and Forks, and other Things, on the 21st of October last , in the Night-time. He said, he was about 23 years of age, born in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields , and served out his Time (an Apprentice) with a Surgeon in that Parish: That his keeping of Bad Company, and Profaning the Lord's Day, was the Original Cause of his Ruin; and that though this Fact, for which he is condemned, was the first he committed that deserved such a Death, yet he had been otherways a great Sinner.

11. Richard Latin< no role > , or Layton< no role > , condemn'd for Breaking open the Shop of Mr. John Fowler< no role > , and stealing from thence 18 dozen Pair of Gloves, and other Goods, to the value of 20 l. on the 12th of December 1712 . He said, he was 20 years of age, born in the Parish of St. Giles Cripplegate , London : That he was both a Wool-Comber and a Webster by his Trade, and work'd at it for a little time with some of his Friends of the same Occupation in Essex : That Bad Company had corrupted him, and brought him to this untimely End; wishing he had been so wise as to avoid such Persons as made it their Practice to entice Men to Sin, and then bring them to Shame.

12. Sarah Bugden< no role > , alias Small< no role > , alias Jones< no role > , alias Burgis< no role > , alias Evans< no role > , condemn'd for privately stealing 4 yards and a half of Black Cloth, to the value of 3 l. out of the Shop of Mr. Robert Davenport< no role > , the 26th of November last . She said, She was 25 years of age, born in the Parish of St. Dunstan Stepney : That before she committed this Fact (which she pretended meer Poverty drove her to) she lived unblamably, and got (though a poor, yet) an honest Livelihood, being a Basket-Woman , chiefly plying in Leaden-hall , Newgate, and other Markets . She was a poor ignorant Person; yet not so ignorant neither, as not to know her Sins would sink her down to Hell, if she did not truly repent of them.

13. Mary Baker< no role > , alias Jane Cook< no role > , alias Lobby< no role > , alias Hanun< no role > , or Harnale< no role > , &c. She said, she was about 35 years of age, born of honest and wealthy Parents in the City of Salisbury , whom I will not expose by publishing here her Maiden-Name: She confess'd, That she did betimes take a vicious Life, and disobliged her Friends so, that none of them would look upon her: And this she told me, (though she would sometimes vary in her Confession) That being once a Lady's Woman , she was debauch'd by the Steward of the House, then but a young Man, whom she thought to have marry'd: But their Intrigues coming to her Lord and Lady's Ear, both the Steward and She were turn'd out of their Service; and then her Lover proved false to her, and would not marry her: That after this she marry'd two Husbands, one after another, about 2 years ago, and since that two more; all the four being now alive. As she was suspected to have more Husbands still, I asked her the Question; but she said she had no more; and that having so many as she had, was occasion'd by her several Husbands abusing her and leaving her, as soon as she was marry'd to them. Here I endeavour'd to make her sensible that she was highly guilty of the Sin of Adultery, besides other Sins she had committed before God; of all which, if she did not throughly repent, she would eternally perish. Upon this she seem'd to entertain some serious Thoughts, but withal discover'd a great deal of Uneasiness in her Mind, which visibly encreas'd after the Dead Warrant was come, and she found she was in it.

This Day they were all carry'd from Newgate (in several Carts) to the respective Places of their Execution, viz. Richard Keele< no role > and William Lowther< no role > , to Clerkenwell-Green , where they were hang'd on a Gallows erected there for that purpose; and Arabella Thomas< no role > , with the rest, to Tyburn . At both these Places I attended them successively; and discharged my Ministerial Office to their poor Souls for the last time; giving them Ghostly Admonitions and Exhortations, praying and singing some Penitential Psalms with them, and making them rehearse the Apostles Creed, as is usual on such melancholy Occasions; and finally recommending them to God's boundless Mercy and all-sufficient Grace, I withdrew from them.

As Keele and Lowther were going to speak to the People in their own Vindication I stopt 'em, telling them, 'Twas more proper for them to apply themselves to GOD, for the Pardon of their Sins, and Salvation of their Souls. And this Advice they comply'd with, earnestly praying God to shew them Mercy.




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