Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
26th 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 >
,