SOME Time after they took into their Company one Thomas Inkle< no role > , a Boy, when being five in Number, they divided, and went some one Way, and some another; but not meeting with that Success as formerly, (Tom Inkle< no role > not being a good Hand, and besides the Gentlemen using to fasten their Handkerchiefs, they left it off, and betook themselves to a new Course.

THIS was, for Tom Inkle< no role > , who was very small, to get of an Evening behind Hackney-Coaches, and draw out the Nails with an old Knife, whilst the others followed after, and if he was detected, by any one's telling the Coachman of it, they would say, he was only riding behind to ease his Legs a little, and hold the Man in Talk till the Boy made his Escape. After this Manner they used to get 3 or 4 Pounds of a Night, which they sold to a Founder in Shoe-Lane, till at last the Man having some Suspicion of them, they would not venture to sell him any more, for Fear he should down with them.

FINDING this would not do, as they reaped but small Advantage from thence, they bethought themselves of stealing the Lamps from Gentlemen's Doors, of which they used to get frequently about a Dozen and a half of a Night, mostly by Bloomsbury and Red-Lion-Squares , or thereabouts, and some from Coleman-street ; and when they had broke them, for the Sake of the Glass, they generally used to sell three of them for a Shilling; wherefore they thought these of so little Value, they were not worth running the Risque of Transportation.

THE next Trade then, to which Gascoign, Neal, and Walters resolved to betake themselves, was to go a Street-Robbing, and as Tom Inkle< no role > was too little for this, they turned him off; after which, setting out upon that Lay, one Evening about a Year and a half ago, and meeting a Woman by the new Pond between Islington and Black-Mary's-Hole, they knocked her down with a Bludgeon, and then searching her, took her Pocket, but found therein no more than one Shilling. From thence they proceed to Mount-Pleasant, where meeting with another Woman, they knocked her down likewise, without saying a Word to her, and took from her a Gloucestershire Cheese; after which being closely pursued, Walters intermingling with the Mob, and crying out, Stop Thief! as loud as the rest, fortunately got off, tho' he had the Cheese at the same Time under his Coat.

ABOUT an Hour after the Commission of this Robbery, one Burroughs said, he heard some People tell the Woman, they knew the Man that knock'd her down, it was young Walters: Whereupon Gascoign and he entered themselves on board the Chester Man of War, a Fifty Gun Ship, then lying at Deptford ; However, as neither of them loved Work, or cared to be confined, Walters staid aboard but four Days, before he ran away, and was followed by his Comrade Gascoign in about two Days after.

GASCOIGN

There being so many Facts and Particulars given by these Eighteen unhappy Convicts, as render it impracticable to bring the sa within the usual Compass, and yet are so necessary to be known, we are obliged to refer our Readers to the Second Part of this Account, which will be published on Monday next; wherein the Readers will find a full Relation of all the Robberies committed by those vile abandon'd Wretches belonging to the Black-Boy-Alley Gang. Likewise a particular Account of three Mrders that were committed, two by them, and the other by Anne Duck< no role > This name instance is in set 3827. , who was Executed in November last, and one Elizabeth Nash< no role > , now a Prisoner in Clerkenwell-Bridewell : with several other remarkable Accounts; particularly four Letters of Surplice Du Clot< no role > , the Valet ; to a Lady, and the other three to Gentlemen of Distinction, faithfully translated from the Original French.