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

24th July 1685

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18th July 1685


The True ACCOUNT OF THE Behaviour and Confessions OF THE Condemned Criminals IN NEWGATE, VIZ. William Blower< no role > , Robert Frances< no role > , William Vanderburst< no role > , George Attwell< no role > , Samuel Anderson< no role > , Thomas Weal< no role > , Nathaniel Page< no role > , John Smith< no role > , John Henly< no role > , John Somerset< no role > , John Morgen< no role > , Henry Antony< no role > .

OF WHICH William Blower< no role > for High-Treason, in Clipping the Currant Coin of this Kingdom: Robert Frances< no role > , John Smith< no role > alias Morgen< no role > , and Henry Langhley< no role > alias Antony< no role > , were Executed on Friday the 24th. of July, 1685 .

Together with their LAST Dying WORDS Before their Execution at TYBURN.

AT the Sessions of Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol-Delivery of Newgate, held for the City of London, and County of Middlesex, at JusticeHall in the Old-Baily, the 16th ,17th ,and 18th of July 1685 . And in the First Year of His Majesties Regin, these Twelve Persons received sentence of Death, viz.

William Blower< no role > for High-Treason, Robert Frances< no role > , William Vanderburst< no role > , George Attwell< no role > , Samuel Anderson< no role > , Thomas Weal< no role > , Nathaniel Page< no role > , John Smith< no role > , John Henly< no role > , John Somerset< no role > , John Morgen< no role > and Henry Antony< no role > .

On the last Lords Day, being the next after Condemnation pass'd upon the aforesaid Criminals, the Ordinary read Prayers, and Preach'd to them in the Forenoon and Afternoon of the said Day. His Text was in the fifth Chapter of the Prophet Amos, and the sixt Verse, viz. Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall Live.

From which facred Scripture, the Ordinary delared, that this Duty of seeking the Lord, as the Fountain of Being and Blessedness, is the Fundamental duty of all Natural Religion, and the most comprehensive Duty and Priviledge of the positive instituted Religion of Christianity. That it comprehends the Exercise of every Grace of the Holy Spirit.

That the Sincere seeking of God, is a Voluntary and Holy Turning, and holding the Mind on him, till the Heart and Affections be enstamed with the Love of God, and a de




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