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

28th October 1748

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24th June 1748


6. WILLIAM GARNER< no role > , of the Parish of St. Andrew, Holborn , was indicted for that he, not having the Fear of God before his Eyes, &c. on the 6th Day of July, in the 21st Year of His Majesty's Reign , in and upon Hepzibah Dover< no role > , Spinster , did make an Assault, and her the said Hepzibah did feloniously ravish, and carnally know and abuse, against the Form of the Statute in that Case made and provided .

7. THOMAS THOMPSON< no role > , was indicted for stealing a brown Mare, of the Price of 5 l. the Property of William Palmer< no role > , July 26 .

8. FRANCIS ANDREWS< no role > , was indicted upon a Suggestion, for not surrendering himself according to the Direction of an Act of Parliament of the 19th Year of His Majesty's Reign, and according to the Order of Council, within forty Days after the first Publication of the said Order, in the London Gazette .

9. SAMUEL CHAPMAN< no role > , otherwise BULLY CHAPMAN, was indicted for being concerned with divers other Persons armed with Fire-Arms, in order to be aiding and assisting in the running, landing, and carrying away unaccustomed Goods, and for not surrendering himself within forty Days, from the first Publication in the London Gazette, dated June 24, 1748 .

10. SARAH KENIGEM< no role > , of St. Paul's Shadwell , was indicted for stealing twenty-seven Guineas, the Property of Richard Mawhood< no role > , in the Dwelling-house of William Bedell< no role > , September 22 .

I. John Lancaster< no role > This name instance is in set 3830. , aged 22, was born in Black Lion Yard , in St. Mary Whitechappel Parish, was bound Apprentice to a Velvet Weaver , and served his Time all but six Months; was Journeyman to several Masters afterward, but last to Mr. Powel. He says, for these six Months last past, he has led a debauched, dissolute Life, and some Time ago was committed, and took his Trial at the Old Bailey, being charged with a Felony; but there not being Evidence sufficient to prove it against him, he was for that Time acquitted.




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