This unhappy Man being at the Execution in November last, was one, amongst a many, who came there in order to take care of a Body or two of the Persons executed. They came unprovided with any Vehicle for that Purpose, and when the Bodies were cut down the Friends scarce had thought of the Matter how to convey them away. The poor Fellow murdered had brought his Cart and Horses there, as the Custom is, to get a few Pence by letting People stand up in it to see the Execution. After it was over, Mac Gennis, and his Party, seeing the Cart near the Gallows, took it from the Driver by Force, and puttingthe Bodies into it, drove to Bays-Water . There they staid drinking some Time, till they thought the Mob was a little dispersed, and they might pass the more freely, the Owner being gone, as was supposed.

By-and-by they return'd towards Tyburn in Triumph, resolved against giving Way to any Opposition, and this unfortunate Man being as forward as any, has dearly paid for it. The Man was waiting, and upon their Return, for seizing hold of his Horse's Head, was treated very ill by several present; but being determined, if possible, to recover his own Cart and Horses from them, would not let the Horse's Head go, tho' much threatned. This he persisted in, and upon that Account received a Blow with a Hanger, which did his Business. Who did it we have no Authority yet to say, unless that of the Court and Jury, who convicted Mac Gennis, upon full Evidence, unimpeached; and as the Scheme set up to prove the contrary did not succeed, we can scarce believe, but that he was justly convicted, and suffered accordingly.

He has been very ill most Part of the Time since his Conviction, but for some Days before Execution he became more hearty, and was in good Health when he suffered, being as tight a little Man as might swing on Tyburn Tree: The Lord have Mercy on him. He died a Roman Catholick .

10.Thomas Gale< no role > , aged 69, was born within three Miles of Portsmouth in Hampshire , of a good Family, who gave him a good Education, which he too has unhappily made a bad Use of. He says he was designed for one of the three Professions, but that in his youthful Days being too much addicted to Gaiety, could stick to no particular Study; but while he could have Indulgence from Home he lived very gay. After some Time he was bound Apprentice to a Goldsmith in Gutter-Lane , but did not serve out his Time. Afterwards he purchased the Place of being Middlesex Officer , from which Place he was obliged to retire , for having done what he ought not. At last he kept the Three Nuns in Whitechapple , where he broke his Credit , as well as the Thread of his Declaration how he had spent his Life. For after this he did not choose to give any Account of himself, but did acknowledge in the general, that he had been a very bad Man, and hoped God would forgive him.

Various are the Scenes of Life this old Man has gone thro', sometimes appearing in the utmost Splendor, at other times as mean. He too has been long known to be a common Evidence and Bail upon any Emergency, in all iniquitous Cafes; but at length it is come Home to him; and it seemed much to grieve him, that having so long escaped, he should at last be hanged in his old Age.

Scarce ever three Men suffered more deservedly, nor scarce ever were three Men hanged with a more general Consent of all that knew them, and had heard of their Practices.

Agnew and Fox having turned Roman Catholicks, were in the Scheme with Hayes and Broughton. Agnew's Post was to keep the main Door of the Cells, to prevent its being shut, and to keep out Opposers; but somehow, upon an Alarum, he deserted his Post, and suffered the Door to be shut. Fox was in the Secret, but too sick and weak to be of any Use. They would fain have had Gale to turn, as they did; but he refused, saying, as he was educated in the Protestant Religion , he would die so; or else he might have been in the Secret too.

11. Mary Gillfoy< no role > , aged 49, was born in the Kingdom of Ireland , and bred an Irish Roman Catholick . Of course I could have but little Knowledge from her Mouth; nay, when I asked her only the Civil Question, whether she was bred a Protestant or Roman Catholick, she would scarce give me any Answer, till some of her Friends, who were then with her, said to her, Why don't you tell the Gentleman? Upon which she answered me as I have reported above, or in Words to that Effect. She seemed a Woman