Spirit he shall through Christ merit become whiter than Snow. He said that he beg?d his Persons pardon for disobedience and the Pardon of all Persons whom he hath injured, but cheiely Gods Pardon: and hopes that Christ makes Intercession for him that he may be in Gods favour and may hear the Blessed Sentence pronounced towards him in the day of the last judgment come ye Blessed of my Father.

The Ordinary replied that man Heart is very deceitful of which he hat had sad experience in some who after his Majesties Gracious Pardon, have abused it notwithstanding all protestations and resolutions to the contrary and have in a little time afterwards false into new Crimes and could not recover that degree of r which they seemed to have exprest before, the Criminal said that he knew that Faith and Repentance were the st of God, and therefore he Prayer that he may be affifred so as to perform them g and that he desire to mourn for all Sin, chiefly because it offends God and desires his Conscience, and hat he begg not only Gods pardoning Mery, that Sin may not d him that the sence of Gods loving kindness, may r him up to te n perfectly and to labour after a clean and upright H.

II. James Shaw< no role > who was convicted for Burglary and Robbery, upon the House and Goods of John Coghil< no role > Esq ; part of the Goods being by him expesed to said and other plain circumstances against him: Acquaimed the Ordinary that he had served 3 years White and Black Smith : That his Master: Dyed and so he was left to the wide. World to first for himself, his Father being then Dead, that he had been a prophaner of the Sabbath an hard drinker a Gamester and a Sweater, that he ahd lived 6 years from his Wife and yet did not deny but she was an honest Woman, and a pains-taker, the Ordinary replied he had no reason to leave her Society, unless bad Woman drew off his love which he did in part acknowledge: he said that he had been formerly Condemned to Dy for Clipping, his Majesties Coin but deoyed the present Crime and that for Twelve Months past he had Prayed God to keep him his true and Faithful Servant. That he was no at last free to Dye yet he beleived God was very angry with him for former Sins or be would not have suffered him now to be Condemned he spake much as to the asserting his own nnocny as to the present Crime but the Ordinary replyed he could not give any Credit to his Cting language and Hypocritical pretences of Innocence; it being a great Sign of impdency and Impenitence in which to persist to Death would be the height of Wickedness.

III. The next Person by name John Wise< no role > , who was Incted and found guilty, of the Bous Murther and Robbery, of a good honest woman that liv?d in a Cellar near Pickadilly , by breaking her neck and takeing from her to the value as supposed of 6l. in money plane and good on a Sunday about 9 in the Evening in April last: The murther hah been e since concealed, and was now made pain by the Evidence of one who went for the Wife of Charles Tooley< no role > , who together with Richard Jones< no role > , and this Wise were concerned thein. She tified, that her said supposed usband, being ed into for this crime, and being there h death bed did confess the Murther and Robbery aore-said: And that when the said fact was committed the further re: That she saw Wise the same night have over his oe ch a se that was taken from the Widdow abovesaid: with many other plain Curcumstance.

This Wise said that he was born and bred about westminster , and bound Apprentice to a silk-Stocking Maker , but did not serve out the time he was ound for, that he went afterwards out to Sea and after that he spent some time n s from we he came into England two v s: that then he Prayed to God to ct him to some honest way of od but meeting with bad Company that desire soon vanished, for although he went to Church sometimes and gged at that present for a new Heart, yet he