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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.
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BY Virtue of the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail-Delivery of Newgate, held before the Rt. Hon.
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ROBERT ALSOP
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Lord Mayor
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of the
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City of London
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Recorder
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, and other his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer and Jail-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex, on
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Thursday the 14th
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Friday the 15th
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Saturday the 16th
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Monday the 18th
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Tuesday the 19th
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Wednesday the 20th of September
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, in the twenty-sixth Year of his Majesty's Reign,
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Matthew Lee
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, were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.
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Their Behaviour since has been quiet, and without Disturbance, unless of their own Minds; they constantly attended at Chapel, and seemed to have Regard to the Service done there, and decently joined in it, as far as their illiterate and narrow Understandings would give them Leave.
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On
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Thursday the fifth Instant
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the Report of three Malefactors was made by Mr. Recorder to the Lords of the Regency, when they were pleased to order them all three to be executed on Wednesday the eleventh Instant.
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, was indicted, for that he on the King's-Highway on
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Elizabeth Holt
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, did make an Assault, putting her in corporal Fear and Danger of her Life, and stealing from her Person one gold Watch, val. 5 l. one thread Purse, val. 3 d. two Silver Medals, one Half Crown, and 6 s. in Money numbered,
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Matthew Lee
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, was indicted, for that he together with another Person not
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