Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
26th May 1684
A TRUE RELATION Of the EXECUTION of JOHN SMITH< no role >
, alias ASHBURNHAM< no role >
. (For Murder) At Stamford-hill
, near Tottenham
, where he was also Hang?d in Chains, on Monday the 26th.of May,1684
. AND OF Edward Jackson< no role >
, Executed the same Day at Tyburne
, for HIGH-TREASON. WITH A Copy of a Paper of his own Writing deliver?d in Newgate: As likewise a true Account of their Behaviour, and last Confessions, at the said Places of Execution.
WHEREAS at the late Sessions of Gaol-Delivery held in the Old-Baily on Thursday and Friday, the 15th
. and 16th.days of May,1684
. Five Men received Sentence of Death, (viz.) Edward Hubbard< no role >
, John Gower< no role > This name instance is in set 1113.
, Francis Robinson< no role >
, John Smith< no role >
, alias Ashburnham< no role >
, and Edward Jackson< no role >
; of which Persons, Edward Hubbard< no role >
was Reprieved from Execution.
And whereas a Warrant was directed for Execution of the rest on Friday the 23d.of the said month
, the morning of the said Friday, Reprieves came for Edward Jacson< no role >
, and John Smith< no role >
, &c. until the Monday following, Gower and Robinson only being that day Executed, (from whence some believed a Pardon might have Fucceeded;) which time of Reprieve being expired, they were likewise Executed on Monday the 26th. day of May
before mentioned; viz.
First, John Smith< no role >
, alias Ashburnham, a Notorious Highway man, whose Name hath been in a Proclamation, and several Gazetts, in order to his being Apprehended, was Indicted, Tryed, and found Guilty, for the Murder of Andrew Page< no role >
, a Head-