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

4th September 1724

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23rd October 1723


his Suffering approached. It may be thought, that his severe Sicknesses, his dismal Abode, together with the Upbradings of certain of his Acquaintance, made him weary of the sad Condition he lay in; so that the Thoughts of Freedom and caelestial Liberty must necessarily revive his Mind. But the sad Distress of his aged Mother (when she again appeared) revived again his earthly Thoughts, and Tears, and all the signs of Sorrow evinced how hardly the most afflicted Wretch can part with a wretched Life.

The Behaviour and Confession of these Malefactors at the Place of Execution.

THEIR Behaviour, such as it was whilst under Sentence, in the Prison; tho' the one more unconcern'd seemingly than the other with Respect to his Departure out of this Life. They were ask'd if they had any Load to Unburthen themselves of, before their Exit; to which they reply'd, they had nothing to Offer to the World but what they had said in the Prison.

But being admoinshed, That it was Necessary for them, and useful to their Spectators, to leave their departing Words to the World; they desir'd that I would Admonish the People to avoid their Misfortunes by the View of their Sufferings: And so they quitted the Stage of the World like Penitents.

N. B. The Ordinary of this Place having been indispos'd, has appointed me his Substitute in his Absence.

JAMES WAGSTAFF< no role > .

ADVERTISEMENT.

AT the first House on the Right Hand in Crane-Court, near Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-street, a Golden Heart and square Lamp at the Door, you may advise with a regular Surgeon, of very great Experience, who has practised many Years in Spain and Africa, as well as in England, and having devoted most of his Time to the study of Physick and Surgery, has obtain'd so perfect and easy a Method of curing the Venereal Distemper, whether fresh contracted, or of long Continuance, as none else can boast of: He is no Pretender to what he does not understand, being regularly bred a Surgeon in London, and afterwards, by travelling into many Foreign Parts, and acquainting himself with the different Methods of Practice in those Countries, has acquired a never failing Remedy: His Preparations are very gentle, and agreeable to any Constitution; violent Medicines being more pernicious then profitable, (which is the real Cause so many miscarry in Cure) Let none be discouraged by the base and ignorant. Treatment they have met with from unskilful Pretenders, for he Promises a Cure in a little Time without Hindrance of Business, Confinement, Suspicion, or Salivation, even in the most desperate Degree of that loathsome Disease, else desires no Money. Several Persons of Figure have been lately cured by him, after they were given over, as incurable, by Physicians and Surgeons of the greatest Eminency, and been, by them, miserably tortured with Salivations, and other painful Operations. He cures Cancers of few Years standing; likewise any rotten Ulcers, the King's-Evil, or Fistulas, without manual Operation: The Itch he cures in four Days, and the Yellow Jaundice, in Old or Young, in twenty four Hours; as also the Leprosy and Rheumatism, with all other curable Distempers. His Hours are all the Morning till Twelve a-Clock, and from Three till Ten at Night. N. B. Crane-Court turns in betwixt the Sign of the Leg, a Hosier's, and the Ship, a Watch-Makers, near Fetter-Lane, Fleet-street.

LONDON : Printed by JOHN APPLEBEE< no role > , a little below Bridewell-Bridege in Black-Fryers .




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