Spoons; 1 Fork ditto; 4 Tea Spoons, one Gilt, 6 plain Gold Rings, and a Stone ditto; 4 Suits of Wearing Apparel; Linnen to a considerable value.

The Confession he made whilst under Sentence of this Fact, was, that he had committed it, and that his Master to whom he was an Apprentice was the Prime Cause of it; (as he said, the Truth of it, we know not) by obliging him to forsake his Service; and not suffering him to reside in any Place long: He thought it best to go off with a Sum; and as he knew there was Money and Effects of value in the House; and no difficulty to come at them, he attmptted and succeeded by taking the Things aforesaid, and going off clear with them; but he was sorry (as he said) that he had not taken a greater Sum, which he understood since lay in the next Drawer. When it was ask'd him, if he had Sold or Pawn'd any Part, or all of his Booty, he reply'd, they were sold, and nothing to be recover'd; and being ask'd how he could use poor People so; he reply'd, I wish that you and I were as Rich; thereby making it no Crime in him to steal from those in better Circumstances than himself. N. B. By this you may be admonish'd to Guard your selves against such Pests of Mankind.

The Night before the Execution of these unfortunate Men, they compell'd themselves to Watch and Pray incessantly, abstaining from all Indulgence of Nature, in order to the preparing themselves for the Receiving of the Holy Sacrament. The Sight of Friends, who had promis'd (but not sincerely) wholly to reliquish them the preceding Day, was far from renerding them more compos'd, and more ready to acquiesce in the Loss of Life: But they were persnaded to resign themselves up to the Will of Providence, and patiently to bear it, since God thought fit to separate them from their nearest and dearest Friends, to force them from the Light of the Sun and innocent Enjoyments of Life, in the Prime of their Days.

Before they receiv'd the Sacrament, Anthony Upton< no role > desired to be inform'd, if it would prove any Offence to the Great God, that he had drank that Morning; as for eating, he had abstain'd from it. Afterwards, he seems as it were to throw off his Indisposition; he appeared the more chearful the nearer