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

23rd October 1685

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16th October 1685


The True ACCOUNT of the Behaviour and Confessions OF THE Condemned Criminals IN NEWGATE, VIZ. Samuel Presby< no role > , Richard Hooker< no role > , Edward Linsy< no role > , Robert Nichols< no role > , Thomas Crompton< no role > , Mary Fisher< no role > , Thomas Gardner< no role > , Richard Jones< no role > , Katharine Brown< no role > , Matthew Morgan< no role > , Mary Collwood< no role > , Ann Davis< no role > .

OF WHICH Samuel Presby< no role > , Richard Hooker< no role > , Thomas Crompton< no role > , were Executed at Tyburn , and Edward Linsy< no role > on Tower-hill .

AS ALSO Henry Cornish< no role > (who was Executed in Cheapside ) and Elizabeth Gaunt< no role > , was likewise Executed October 23d. 1685 . she being Burnt for HIGH-TREASON, AT TYBURN .

AT the Sessions of 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 14 , 15 and 16 Days of October, 1685 . These Persons following recieved Sentence of Death, viz. Samuel Presby< no role > , Richard Hooker< no role > , Edward Linsy< no role > , Robert Nichols< no role > , Thomas Crompton< no role > , Mary Fisher< no role > , Thomas Gardner< no role > , Richard Jones< no role > , Katharine Brown< no role > , Matthew Morgan< no role > , Mary Collwood< no role > , Ann Davis< no role > .

The Ordinary earnestly Admonish?d them on the Lords day, that they would redeem their mispent Time, in a serious consideration, for what special Sins, the Lord had withdrawn his preventing Grace; which he never doth, till Sinners have quench?d the motions and excitations of his Holy Spirit, enviting them by his Long Suffering unto Repentance.

Before the Ordinary began to read Prayers, he advised all the Prisoners, as his usual manner is, to observe most Solemnly the the Lords Holy Day, and to return unto him, as the only rest of their Souls, by seeking true Satisfaction and Delight in him, and his Service, from whom they wandred all the Week past, by the Vanity of their Hearts and Conversations: And that the Condemned Criminals in a special manner would be very Intentive on the publick Prayers of the Church, and to the Sermons which should be Preach?d to them, which they promised to do.

In the Forenoon the Ordinary Preach?d on the 21 Ver. of the fifth Chap. of St. Pauls Epistle to the Romans, viz. As Sin hath reigned unto Deaths, so hath Rightecusness unto Life, by Jesus Christ our Lord. From which, he informed them of the deplorable Estate of all Men, being virtually concerned in the Apostacy of the




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