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

26th March 1750

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21st March 1750


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 SAMUEL PENNANT< no role > , Knight , Lord-Mayor of the City of London ; Sir THOMAS DENNISON< no role > , Knt . Sir MARTIN WRIGHT< no role > , Knt . Sir THOMAS BYRCH< no role > , Knt . 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 28th Day of February , Thursday the 1st , Friday the 2d , Saturday the 3d , Monday the 5th , Tuesday the 6th , and Wednesday the 7th of March , in the 23d Year of his Majesty's Reign; the 15 following Persons were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly. viz. JAMES YOUNG< no role > , PATRICK RONEY< no role > , JOHN BASTOW< no role > , WILLIAM FRY< no role > , THOMAS JONES< no role > This name instance is in set 3574. , otherwise HARPER< no role > , JOHN DUCKETT< no role > , JOHN CARBOLD< no role > , JAMES SUNDILAND< no role > , CHARLES GAVEN< no role > , JOHN DOE< no role > , JOHN STANTON< no role > , WILLIAM RUSSEL< no role > , EDWARD BUSBY< no role > , PETER OLDFIELD< no role > , add JOHN THORP< no role > .

Their Behaviour in the general since Conviction has been decent, while at divine Service, Young, Fry and Busby being ill could not give constant Attendance, and I was forced to visit them in the Cells; Roney and Harper being Roman Catholick s, were visited as usual.

On Wednesday the 21st Instant , the Report of 16 Malefactors was made by Mr. Recorder to his Majesty, when he was pleased to order the 12 following for Execution, viz. James Young< no role > , Patrick Roney< no role > , John Bastow< no role > , William Fry< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > otherwise Harper< no role > , John Carbold< no role > , James Sundiland< no role > , Charles Gawen< no role > ,




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