Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

29th October 1753

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29th October 1753


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.

BY Virtue of the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail-delivery of Newgate, held before the Right Honourable Sir Crisp Gascoyne< no role > , Knt . Lord-Mayor of the City of London , Lord Chief Justice Willes, Mr. Baron Legge, William Moreton< no role > , Esq ; Recorder , and others of His Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer of the City of London, and Justices of Jail delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex, held at Justice-hall in the Old Bailey , on Wednesday the 24th , Thursday the 25th , Friday the 26th , Saturday the 27th , Monday the 29th , and Tuesday the 30th of October , in the 27th Year of His Majesty's Reign, James Hayler< no role > , James Gallaker< no role > , James Fair
brother
< no role > , Job Horniblow< no role > , Mark Shields< no role > , George Hailey< no role > , Isaac Clarke< no role > , James Jackson< no role > , George French< no role > , William Edgill< no role > , otherwise Elford< no role > , and Martin Sullivan< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

The Behaviour of these unhappy Convicts has been quiet and peaceable, and their Attendance at Chapel constant, unless hindered by Sickness, where they behaved as became People in their sad Circumstances, praying fervently.

Sullivan, Shields, and Hailey, being Roman Catholicks , were attended as usual.

Hayler< no role > and Gallaker< no role > were executed pursuant to their Sentence, on Monday the 29th of October last ; their Bodies being afterward carried to Surgeon's




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