Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
9th September 1789
John
Robinson
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. No, I will go to my former sentence.
Court. It is not necessary to repeat the observations I have made before; I have told you the situation in which you stand; you will have no further opportunity of accepting mercy; and if you now treat this with contempt, I shall order you for immediate execution.
Prisoner. I find I am in the hands of men.
Court. Do you accept of his majesty's mercy, on that condition mentioned? - No.
Court. Take him to the condemned cells immediately.