Years of Age, as I learnt from Hazard, who has known him off and on, all that Time, and was at first led into these wicked Practices by him. He said to Hazard, he had followed it from his Youth up, and was resolved to follow it as long as he lived; there was good Money, &c. to be got by it, he lived better by that Trade than by any other, and at last, when caught, it was but a scragging, and there was End on't.

He has been concerned in every Robbery that Hazard and Mynott were, besides many others with other People, and by himself. Some have met their Fate before him, some with him, and others of his training, will no doubt after him. As to the Fact for which he suffered, he was very active and resolute in it; had not his Pistol providentially missed Fire, he must have committed Murder upon the Person who was the chief Instrument in taking him. Whom when he laid hold of Mynott, he threatned with his Life, if he did not let him go, and accordingly snapt his Pistol at him, as he did at another Person, who actually laid hold of him, and took him. And to shew how Wickedness had Possession of him, as he was going to Newgate in a Coach, he told one Man, he wish'd the Ball had gone thro' his Body, saying, his Pistol never fail'd him in his Life before. Another Person having a Cutlass in the Coach, he observed it, and said, had he had that Cutlass, he would have sweated them all, e'er he would have been taken.

14. JAMES MCGENNIS< no role > , aged 27, was born at Dublin , of poor but honest Parents, who gave him what little Education their slender Circumstances could afford, and would have brought him up in their own Business, but he being rather of a roving Disposition, chose the Sea , which he followed for many Years, till he became acquainted with a Parcel of profligate Wretches, and loose Women, with whom he spent all that Money he had so hardly laboured for at Sea, and was at length reduced even to want the common Necessaries of Life, and no particular Birth offering for him at that Time, and the Devil throwing into his Way Wretches as vile as he could wish, he was easily prevailed upon to turn out, as they called it; and in Company with several of them he committed many Robberies, in and about the Skirts of the Town, and the Money got in this unlawful Manner was squandred away pretty fast; so that James was obliged to turn out again for a fresh Supply, and notwithstanding his being a Man of pretty good Courage, he hardly ever ventured by himself, but in general, what Robberies he has committed, he has been in Company. The Night he robb'd Mr. Gotobed (the Prosecutor who convicted him) was in Company with two others, viz. Benjamin< no role > and Edward Loveley< no role > , who made their Escapes from the Poultry Compter , the Night the Fire happened; he was of the Romish Perswasion , and seemed rather morose and sullen in his Temper, than open and generous; and was so far from confessing the many Crimes he had committed, that he would hardly own the Fact for which he suffered;