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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, &c.
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BY virtue of the King's commission of the peace, oyer and terminer, and goal-delivery of Newgate, holden for the city of London and county of Middlesex, at
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; the Right Honourable William Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's court of King's-Bench;
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, and others of his Majesty's Justices of oyer and terminer of the city of London, and Justices of goal-delivery of Newgate, &c. holden for the said city and county of Middlesex, on
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, in the third year of his Majesty's reign, seven persons were capitally convicted and received sentence of death, for the several crimes in their indictments laid, namely,
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, convicted in February sessions preceeding, being made to his Majesty, four of the said malefactors were respited, to wit,
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