I hope the Lord will have Mercy on my Soul.

There was a Circumstance started a Day or two before Execution, which carried a bad Face with it, and which no doubt, was a great Means of preventing Mercy's being extended towards him; which is, that when he was taken, there was a Bundle of Linen found upon him, tyed up in a Handkerchief. When this came to Light, 'twas thought necessary to ask him particularly as to this Fact. To this, his Reply to me and others was, that it was true, he had such a Bundle, but how he came by it, he did not remember, nor could he recollect, whether himself tied it up, or any Body else; but that he has been told since by some of his Friends, that a Woman there present, was seen to have it in her Hand. But, she thought proper to drop it, and then he took it up, not knowing what was contained in the Handkerchief, nor yet whose Property it might be.

At the PLACE of EXECUTION.

ON Wednesday, the 18th Instant , between Nine and Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, William Cavenagh< no role > , James McGennis< no role > , and John Cross< no role > , in one Cart; Mary Dymer< no role > , John Collison< no role > , and George Aldridge< no role > , in another; Bosavern Penlez< no role > , John Alford< no role > , and James Arnold< no role > , in a Third; Thomas Hazard< no role > , and John Graham< no role > , in a Fourth; David Boyd< no role > , and Philip Lacy< no role > , in a Fifth; Thomas Robinson< no role > , and Thomas Mynott< no role > , in a Sixth, went to the Place of Execution. They came there about Eleven, with a very great Multitude of People; and having prayed some Time with them, and recommended their Souls to God, they were turned off from two Carts, calling on the Lord to have Mercy on them.

Cavenagh, M'Gennis, and Cross, died Papists , and the rest Protestants.

Alford, at the Place of Execution, twice repeated to the People that stood round him, what I have before given in Account of him, viz that he never saw the Prosecutor Lillwall, till he came and fix'd the Robbery upon him; and as to Jones, he never knew nor saw him, unless he might meet him passing the Streets, as he might do any Body else; and this was always his Story. Hazard, just before the Cart drew from under them, declar'd Graham to be innocent of the Crime for which he suffer'd; and added, that himself, and Cavenagh, were the Men that committed it.

This is all the Account given by me,

JOHN TAYLOR< no role >

Ordinary of Newgate .