A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE CONFESSION AND EXECUTION Of the three Prisoners AT TYBURN ,

On Wednesday the 21th of this Instant January 1679 . Viz. Peter Richardson< no role > , Thomas Gold< no role > , John Maccarty< no role > .

As also the Account of the taking three Notorious Highway Men, who Robbed the Ipswitch Coach of four hundred Pounds.

MOst admirable is the protecting care of Omnipotent providence, to keep the Sons of Men from running headlong on their own destruction, nay even in the very Jaws of Death, saign would step their dangerous Carreer: But oh! So prone are the vile hearts of disobedient Miscreants, that many are affected with their own destruction whilst it shews it self from far, and only seems to threaten, as may be seen in the dread Catastrophy of certain miserable Criminals, whose great Offences against the Nations Laws committed, have pull'd a dreadful Ruine on their Heads, not only painful, but likewise shameful Deaths.

The first of which we shall begin with in this Trajeck Sceen, is Roger Swinny< no role > , who was Indicted and Arraigned, for that he in the Company of Edmund Swinny< no role > his Brother, and one Harrison, did Murther Richard Jones< no role > a Bailiffs follower , near Lincolns Inn Gate in the little Fields , the nature of the Crime as followeth. A certain Bailiff having a Bill of Middlesex against the aforementioned Harrison, for about sixty pounds Debt, came to take him, attended with five Followers, whereof the deceased was one; but the aforesaid Harrison having timely notice of the same, sent for the Prisoner (as the Bailiff's swore in Court) to Guard him into London, to that crossing over the nearest way, they quite outstripd the Bailiffs and might have gon into Lincolns Inn , and so avoided the danger, but in a Braves do, they turned about, and dared them for to come on, at which they and the Baliffs drew; and in the Skirmsh Jones received one mortal wound in his Prest, about half an Inch over, and five inches deep; at which, Reeling for a while, then cried I am killd and spoke no more. The Prisoner denied that he had drawn his sword but in his own Defence, and that they drew upon him first, and what he did was to preserve his Live; being