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

18th October 1749

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14th September 1749


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.

BY Virtue of the King's Commission of the Peace, OYER, and TERMINER, and Goal-Delivery of Newgate, held before the Right honourable Sir WILLIAM CALVERT< no role > , Knight , Lord-Mayor of the City of London ; the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice WILLES, the Hon. Mr. Baron LEGGE, RICHARD ADAMS< no role > , Esq ; Recorder , and others of his Majesty's Justices of OYER, and TERMINER, and Goal-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City of London, and County of Middlesex, at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey , on Wednesday the 6th , Thursday the 7th , Friday the 8th , Saturday the 9th , Monday the 11th , Tuesday the 12th , Wednesday the 13th , and Thursday the 14th of September , in the 23d Year of his Majesty's Reign; JOHN COLLISON< no role > , GEORGE ALDRIDGE< no role > , JOHN WILSON< no role > , BOSOVERN PENLEZ< no role > This name instance is in set 3560. , JOHN MOONEY< no role > , JAMES ARNOLD< no role > , DAVID BOYD< no role > , CORNELIUS DANOVER< no role > , THO
MAS ROBINSON
< no role > , JOHN CROSS< no role > , PHILIP LACEY< no role > , JOHN ALFORD< no role > , JOHN GRAHAM< no role > , WILLIAM CAVENAGH< no role > , THOMAS HASSEATE< no role > , or HAZARD< no role > , THOMAS MYNOTT< no role > , JAMES MCGENNIS< no role > , MARY DYMAR< no role > , and THOMAS CRAWFORD< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death acordingly.

Since they were convicted, they have behaved for the Generality with such Decency as became their unhappy Case; and tho' HASSEATE< no role > and ALFORD< no role > were thought to have laid Schemes for an Escape; yet upon being found out, and chained down in their Cells, they were very quiet, and no Disturbance did ensue. The rest constantly attended at divine Service, and appeared devout and penitent. CAVENAGH, MCGENNIS, and CROSS, being Papists , had a proper Gentleman to attend them.




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