This unhappy Youth would sometimes work, and sometimes play, and be amongst loose and disorderly Company, which has hurried him to his Ruin. He had put on the Man, for several Years, though so very a Youth. And, he said, that Sabbath-breaking, Drunkenness, and all kind of Debauchery;he had been too long acquainted with. As to thieving, he at first denied ever having been addicted to it, and strenuously denied the Fact for which he was convicted, and persisted in Denial almost to the End. Though as to Years, little more than a Child himself, he had got himself married at the Fleet about nine Months ago, and has left behind him a sorrowful Widow.

He was committed to Clerkenwell Bridewell for being concerned with one John Bryant< no role > in several Robberies. He denied for a good while the Charge, but at length was pleased to own he had done some such Things, but he looked upon all as Trifles, and said they, i.e. the People that carried on the Prosecution against him, could not have hanged him for any other than this, and at this he stole nothing. He owned at last that he had been concerned in several little Robberies, and that he went in Company to have a Share in this, for which he was convicted; but ignorantly persuaded himself, that because he did not go into the House, and take the Things within, the stealing of which he was charged with, he was not the Thief, nor did he expect to be found guilty, though the Robbery was proved.

After Conviction he behaved very well; and though he could not read, was glad of Instruction, and very attentive to the Duties of his deplorable Circumstances. He said to me one Day, that in his unlucky and wicked Tricks, he had often been told he would come to be hanged. And, says he, I can't say, but I sometimes thought so myself from my Company, I had got into, but did not think 'twould soon have proved true.

He says, it was his Acquaintance with John Bryant< no role > , the Evidence against him, and John Harris< no role > his Fellow - sufferer that first seduced him, and took him off from his Work to Idleness and Debauchery. As his Fate drew nearer, he grew more easy and resigned, and said, he had Hope in Christ, that his short Life here, might be made up to him with Life everlasting, and died in Charity with all Men.

3. John Harris< no role > says, he is about twenty Years of Age, and that he was born in Stepney Parish . His Parents, while he was a Child, removed to Shadwell , and there he was brought up, and put to School. But, being an unlucky Genius, he neglected the Advantages which they intended him, and left School, perhaps as ignorant, as he went there. After his Father died, his Mother sent him to Sea , he says, and he