THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and dying Words of the Malefactors who were Executed at Tyburn, on Wednesday the 27th of this Instant March, 1728 .

***N. B. Whereas in the last Dying Speech of the Malefactors, who were executed on Monday the 12th of February last , several literal Mistakes and other gross Errors, which perverted the Sense, escap'd Correction, through the Hast of the Press: The Readers are hereby desir'd to excuse the same, and may be assur'd that effectual Care shall be taken to prevent the like for the future, by printing the Dying Speeches correctly.

AT the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery of Newgate, held (before the Right Honourable Sir EDWARD BECHER< no role > , Lord Mayor of the City of London ; the Honourable Mr. Baron Comyns; the Hon. Mr. Justice Probyn; the Hon. Mr. Baron Thompson, Recorder of the City of London; and John Raby< no role > , Esq ; Serjeant at Law ; and others his Majesty's Justices of Jail Delivery, and Oyer and Terminer aforesaid: Together with several of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City of London and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall, in the Old-Baily , on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, being the 28th and 29th of February , and the 1st , 2d , 4th , and 5th of March, 1728 . in the first Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Six Men, viz Benjamin Branch< no role > , Martin Bellamy< no role > This name instance is in set 3092. , William Shann< no role > , John Potter< no role > , James Stagles< no role > , alias Howard< no role > , and Richard Kelme< no role > ; and two Women, viz. Margaret Wallis< no role > , alias Staineus< no role > , and Margaret Murphy< no role > , were found guilty of capital Offences by the Jury, and received Sentence of Death.

While under Sentence, they having been for the most part young People of lewd and dissolute Lives, and consequently ignorant of Religion, both in Speculation and Practice, were instructed in those Principles, which are necessary to be known by us, both as Men and Christians. I shew'd them, that Nature itself teacheth us, that unto God the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, Worship, Reverence, and Homage is due from all his Creatures, and that Man who (as the Heathens, who were only led by the light of Nature, acknowledged) was form'd after the divine Image, and substituted Lord of this inferior Orb, was in a more especial Manner bound, in Token of his dependance, to give all due Obedience, by dedicating himself to the Service of God, his Creator and special Benefactor. But if they fell short in complying with the first Principles of natural Religion, which is insufficient for Salvation; how much greater must their Guilt be, who being descended of Christian Parents, and living in the midst of so great Light, had despised those glorious Revelations, which were intended to elevate and perfect our depraved Nature? That Theft and Robbery were destructive of all human Society, and reduc'd Man, who is made after the Image of God, who is the God of Order, into the State of savage Animals and Birds of Prey. Besides, that the Commission of the Sin of Theft and Robbery was attended with innumerable other, the worst of Sins; such as a tendency to Murder, and commonly a continued Practice of Lying, Drinking, Whoring, and many such like Vices; and it is evident, that those who give themselves up to this wicked Course of Life, are the vilest Wretches, and abandon'd to every thing which is good. I instructed them in the Nature of the Christian Sacraments, both of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, how they are Seals of the Gospel-Covenant, and Pledges of all those Blessings procur'd to us by the Sufferings and Death of our Lord Jesus; and that the Lord's Supper was a proper Provision to strengthen our Faith, in order to prepare us for a new State of Life, and that never-ending Eternity, upon which they were to enter.

While these and the like Exhortations were us'd, John Potter< no role > , James Stagles< no role > , Richard Kelme< no role > , Margaret Murphy< no role > , and Margaret Wallis< no role > , alias Staineus< no role > , were apparently devout and serious; Benjamin Branch< no role > , and Martin Bellamy< no role > comply'd with the Worship, by making regular Responses, but were seldom attentive to the Exhortations, and were otherways guilty of carrying themselves most undecently at Prayers and other Times, especially for Men in their miserable and dangerous Circumstances; for which I reprov'd them sharply and frequently; but they were the most obstinate and obdurate Criminals I ever saw. William Shann< no role > never came to Chapel but once, having been afflicted with sickness, and afterwards with swelling in his Legs and Feet, so that he could not walk; but as I frequently visited him in the Cell, he still