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

23rd November 1757

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17th November 1757


Rich-ard Benham< no role > , Jeremiah Bailey< no role > , and Joseph Wood< no role > , were capitally convicted for the several crimes in their indictments set forth, And,

By virtue of the king's commission, Etc. before the right hon. sir Charles Asgill< no role > This name instance is in set 4365. , knt. lord mayor , sir Thomas Parker< no role > , knt. lord chief baron of his majesty's court of exchequer , sir Eardley Wilmot< no role > , knt . one of the justices of the court of king's bench , sir William Moreton< no role > knt. recorder , and others his majesty's justices of gaol delivery for the said city and county. On Friday the 13th, Saturday the 14th, Monday the 16th, and Tuesday the 17th of January 1758 , in the 31st year of his majesty's reign.

Elizabeth Tomkinson< no role > , Joseph Wheeley< no role > , Elizabeth Allen< no role > , Margaret Larney< no role > , Alice Davis< no role > , Samuel Ong< no role > , John Davis< no role > , and John Allen< no role > received sentence of death, for the several crimes in their indictments laid. And,

By virtue of the kings commission, Etc. before sir Charles Asgill< no role > This name instance is in set 4365. , knt. lord mayor , sir Thomas Dennison< no role > , knt. one of the justies of his majesty's court of King's Bench , sir Richard Adams< no role > , knt. one of the barons of the Exchequer , the hon. William Noel< no role > , one of the justices of the court of Common Pleas , sir William Moreton< no role > , knt. recorder , and other his majesty's justices of gaol delivery for the said city and county on Wensday the 22d, Thursday the 23d, Friday the 24th, and Saturday the 25th of February 1753 , in the 31th year of his majesty's reign Edward Humphrys< no role > was capitally convicted for a burglary.

On Thursday November 17th 1757 , the report of Henry Clark< no role > was made to his majesty, by Mr. Recorder, when he was pleased to order him for execution on Wenesday the 23d following, which was done accordingly. And.

On Thursday, March 23, the report of 11 other malefactors was made to his majesty, when eight were ordered for execution on Friday 31st of March, viz. William Green< no role > , Jeremiah Bailey< no role > , Joseph Wood< no role > , Joseph Wheely< no role > , Alice Davis< no role > , Samuel Ong< no role > , John Davis< no role > , John Allen< no role > , who were executed according to their sentence. Richard Benham< no role > for sheep steeling, Elizabeth Allen< no role > for a felony, and Edward Humphrys< no role > for a burglary were respited, and also Elizabeth Tomkinson< no role > and Margaret Larney< no role > This name instance is in set 13020. being found pregnant by a jury of matrons, on the day of sentence being past.

1. Henry Clark< no role > was indicted for that he on the king's highway, on Thomas Parker< no role > , did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and stealing from his person one silver watch value 3l. one half guinea and 5 shillings in money, the property of the said Thomas Parker< no role > , September 19th this was proved on the evidence of three witnesses.

1st, Thomas Parker< no role > one of his majesty's messengers deposed, that on September 19th going to Thorp in a postchaise, and a very dark night about twelve o'clock, near Turnham Green he was stopt, and robb'd of his watch, and the sum laid in the indictment;




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