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

14th March 1739

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22nd February 1739


A Copy of a Paper left by Thomas Easter< no role > This name instance is in set 3520. .

Good People,

I AM now brought to this Place to suffer a shameful and ignominious Death, and of all such unhappy Persons, 'tis expected by the World they should either say something at their Death, or leave some Account behind them; and having that which more nearly concerns me, viz. the Care of my immortal Soul, I chose rather to leave these Lines behind me, than to waste my few precious Moments in talking to the Multitude. First, I declare I die a Member, tho' a very unworthy one of the Church of England as by Law establish'd, the Principles of which, my Parents took an early Care to instruct me in.

My Life being justly forfeited for my Offences, it becomes me to do all that is in the Power of such an unhappy Wretch as I am, to render my Punishment serviceable to my Country, by exhortting those who have already set their Feet in these Paths, to turn back in Time, before the Judgment of the Law hath overtaken them, and to inform such young Creatures as may be misled into a Belief, that there is something pleasant and engaging in a Life of Plunder, because those who once engage in such Ways, are seldom, if ever reclaim'd.

Such licentious Delights as Men who abandon themselves to robbing and stealing continually wallow in, are of all Things the farthest from giving any Satisfaction; judge then what Miseries are felt by those who are wretch'd, awake and restless in their Sleep who are constantly in Terror, and affrighted at the shaking of a Leaf. O! how miserable a Road is that which leadeth to Destruction; what Agonies do the Wicked feel in their Journey thro' the Paths of Death. May all shun them who read this Paper.

Those whom in the Course of a very wicked Life I have wrong'd, will I hope accept of that Punishment the Law hath justly adjug'd me to, and which I shall have suffer'd before this comes to their Hands, and not load my Memory with Reproach, or transfer them to any who survive me, and who ought not to suffer in their Character for my Crimes, as well as in their Fortune from my Extravagance and Folly. Their Charity in forgiving me will redound to themselves, and as to all who have injur'd me in my Life-time, I sincerely and unfeignedly o give them. The Mercy of God thro' Christ light on my departing Soul, and cleanse it from all Spos of Sin before I appear in the Presence of my Creator. Amen.

ADVERTISEMENT.

WHEREAS I James Riley< no role > , Watch-Maker , next the Three Tuns in Woods-Close -Clerkenwell have been afflicted for ten Years and upwards, with a Vertigo, Giddiess, and swimming in the Head; violent Headach, Mists before the Eyes at Times, Faintings and Lowness of Spiri pitations and Trembling of the Heart, which last affected the Nerves, and brought a paralitick Trembling and Weakness of the whole Body, with Convulsive Twitchings of the Arms, Legs and other Parts, and the Use of my Speech much impair'd in this Condition I applied to the Hospital and was there for several Years and all to no Purpose, and at last I was deem'd Incurable, and though a young Man, had given over I open of a Cure till hear of the great Cures performed by Dr. Henry in Fatten-Garden, next Holborn, in nervous Cases I applied to him, and He, with his nervous Medicines instantly cured of my terrible Distemper, and I am now as well as ever I was my Life of my Head, and likewise of the paralitick Trembling and Weakness of my Nerves. This I thought might be of Service to the Publick in general, to make more fully known to such whose Misfortune is to be afflicted as I was, and where they may find a speedy and safe Cure, and I am ready and willing to justify the Truth of wh is here inserted.

And whereas many afflicted with Distempers, and live at a Distance whereby arrived of the successful Use of this nervous cine, it is so ordered, as to be sent to any Distance, seven Shillings the Bottle, with Directions, which Operates all upon the Blood, Spirits and Nerves, the principle Seat or these Disorders, which at first taking, the Patient is presently relieved, by strengthning the weak and feeble Nerves, enriches the Blood, and is a Cordial to the Stomach; so as the Patient sends their dition, and how long they have been afflicted, in a ter to the Doctor, Post paid.

Note, The Doctor cures the Pa, caused Cold or Moisture, which chills and over moistens the Head and Nerves, or with a too heavy nervous Juice; and many Times when the Speech hath been taken away for some Months: and likewise the Use of one Side, Arm or Leg, and the Decay of Age, when the Solids grow Crisp and dry, and subject the Limbs and other Parts of the Body to Tremblings and Weakness for the Method I take, wonderfully ickens the Sense and Motion of the Fibres in Constitutions, overflowed with Cold, , and Defluction.

N. B. The Doctor is to be spoke with every Forenoon 'till One o'Clock.

FINIS.




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