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 FRANCIS COCAYNE< no role > , Esq ; Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Lord Chief Justice WILLES, Sir THOMAS DENNISON< no role > , RICHARD ADAMS< no role > , Esq ; Recorder , and others of his Majesty's Justices of OYER and TERMINER of the City of London, 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 5th , Thursday the 6th , Friday the 7th , Saturday the 8th , Monday the 10th , and Tuesday the 11th of December , and in the twenty-fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign, BENJAMIN BECKENFIELD< no role > This name instance is in set 3571. , ANTHONY BYRNE< no role > , WILLIAM TIDD< no role > This name instance is in set 1128. , JOHN NEWCOMBE< no role > , JOHN ROSS< no role > , THOMAS PROCTOR< no role > , DERBY LONG< no role > , JOHN WATLIN< no role > , JOHN CARBOLD< no role > , JOHN RICHARDSON< no role > , WILLIAM BAKER< no role > , JOSHUA WEST< no role > , WILLIAM DAWSON< no role > , JOHN FOSTER< no role > , LITTLE WILL, CHARLES SPECKMAN< no role > , and CATHARINE CONNOR< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

The Behaviour of these unhappy People has been really very decent, and their Attendance at divine Service in the Chapel constant, only Ben the Coalheaver, having been very ill ever since Conviction, seldom came out of his Cells, before the Day of Execution, and Connor being of the Romish Perswasion was not permitted to attend, but was visited by a Gentleman who was supposed to be of that Way of thinking.

On Thursday the 20th of December , the Report of seventeen Malefactors was made by Mr. Recorder to his Majesty in Council, when he was pleased to order the sixteen following, viz. Benjamin Beckenfield< no role > , Anthony Byrne< no role > , William Tidd< no role > This name instance is in set 1128. , John Newcombe< no role > , John Ross< no role > , Thomas Proctor< no role > , Derby Long< no role > , John Watlin< no role > , John Carbold< no role > , John Richardson< no role > , William Baker< no role > , Joshua West< no role > , William Dawson< no role > , John Foster< no role > , Little Will, and Catharine Connor< no role > , for Execution on Monday the 31st of December .