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

4th September 1685

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4th September 1685


The True ACCOUNT OF THE Behaviour and Confessions OF THE Condemned Criminals IN NEWGATE , VIZ. William Charly< no role > , John Tomson< no role > , Thomas Draper< no role > , Ann Scot< no role > , Catherine Baucer< no role > , Cassandra Widdows< no role > , Elizabeth Hacker< no role > , Thomas Glanister< no role > , Elinor Steel< no role > .

OF WHICH William Charly< no role > , and Ann Scot< no role > , for Felony, were Executed on Friday the 4th. of September, 1685 . AT TYBURN .

At the Sessions or oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery of Newgate, Held for the City of London, and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, the 26th and 27th Days of August, 1685. These Nine Persons received Sentence of Death, viz. William Charly< no role > , John Tomson< no role > , Thomas Draper< no role > , Ann Scot< no role > , Catherine Baucer< no role > , Cassandra Widdows< no role > , Elizabeth Hacker< no role > , Thomas Glanister< no role > , Eleanor Steel< no role > .

The Ordinary the Visited the Condemned Prisoners, on Friday, the 28th of August, and told them that it much affected him with Pity and Grief, to behold so many Persons under the Sentence of Death, in so short a time since the last Sessions, and that frequent examples of publick shame and Punnishment made no deeper impression on Mens Hearts, than not to avoid the like Crimes, for which others had so signally and justly Suffered.

He Exhorted them to consider seriously what the whole course of their Life had been, and for what special Sins God was now (by this Heavy, yet Rghiteous Stroke) making Inquisition: He endeavoured to make them sensible of their several Crimes, whereby they had violated their solemn Ingagements to God at their Baptism, and not Reflected on it, so as to make an Holy and Wife Improvement of it, to have resisted the Temptations of their evil Hearts, the World and the Devil




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