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

3rd October 1750

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3rd October 1750


his Bundle, as described in the Sessions Paper (p.125) His Companions run away, and left him to be taken. At first the Inadvertency and Ignorance of his Youth suffered him not to see his Condition after Conviction; but being made in some Measure sensible of his Offences, he lamented his former Sins, and appeared very penitent.

At the PLACE of EXECUTION.

ON Wednesday the 3d Instant , between 8 and 9 o'Clock in the Morning, John Griffith< no role > , William Tyler< no role > , and John Dewick< no role > in one Cart, Richard Wright< no role > , Anthony Whittle< no role > , and Thomas Shehan< no role > in a second, George Taylor< no role > , George Lloyd< no role > , and William Wright< no role > in a third, James Saunders< no role > , James Maclean< no role > This name instance is in set 3540. , and William Smith< no role > in a fourth, were conveyed to the Place of Execution, through a vast Concourse of People, as great as perhaps has at any Time been known upon such a melancholy Occasion.

When they came there, they were all put into one Cart, severally lamenting their Case, and praying fervently, while the Executioner was tying them up. Little otherwise remarkable happened among them, only Maclean, when he got out of the Cart he was brought in, into that from whence he was to be turned off, in a very devout Manner, with uplifted Hands and Eyes expressed himself, saying,

"O God, forgive my Enemies,

"bless my Friends, and receive my

"Soul." Smith did not, as was expected make any Speech to the spectators, being better advised. And after some time spent in Prayer, the Cart drew away under them, every Thing having been comvicted with great Decency.

This is all the Account given by me, JOHN TAYLOR< no role > , Ordinary of Newgate .

N. B. As we are determin'd never to further the Public by making two Parts of our Dying Speech, and it being next to impossible to insert to thin the Compass of One, the whole of so Remarkable a Life as that of Maclean's, We shall, to satisfy the Curiosity of the Public, publish in a few Days be Whole by itself; in which will be included several Curious Original Letters, wrote to and from Maclean; and as a Frontispiece, will be press'd, a very neat Picture of Him taken from the Life, while under Sentence, Drawn, and Engrav'd by Mr. Boitard.




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