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

29th June 1737

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28th May 1737


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE, His ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.

AT the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-Delivery of Newgate, held (before the Right Hon. Sir John Thompson< no role > , Knt . Lord-Mayor of the City of London , the Hon. Mr. Justice Denton, the Hon. Mr. Baron Fortescue, the Worshipful Mr. Serjeant Urlin, Deputy Recorder of the City of London; and others his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the City of London, and Justices of Goal-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice Hall in the Old-Bailey , on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 20th , 21st , 22d , and 23d of April, 1737 , in the Eleventh Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Five Men, viz. Jonathan Adey< no role > , Henry Boswarway< no role > , Samuel Moreton< no role > , Richard Harper< no role > , and James Kelly< no role > ; and three Women, viz. Dorothy Felton< no role > , Ann Mudd< no role > , and Mary Brown< no role > , were by the Jury convicted of capital Crimes, and received Sentence of Death.

N. B. Mary Brown< no role > , in June Sessions, 1736, was indicted by the Name of Mary White< no role > , and convicted for Transportation. And this April Sessions being capitally convicted, she pleaded her Belly, and a Jury of Matrons being impannel'd, they found her with quick Child.

And at the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery of Newgate, held before the Right Hon. Sir John Thompson< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London ; the Hon. Mr. Justice Probyn, the Hon. Mr. Baron Thompson, the Worshipful Mr. Serjeant Urlin; and other his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the City of London, and Justices of Goal Delivery of Newgate for the County of Middlesex, held at Justice-Hall in the Old Bailey , on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 26th , 27th , and 28th of May 1737 , An the eleventh Year of his Majesty's Reign.




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