THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BEHAVIOUR AND CONFESSIONS Of the Criminals Condemned, on Saturday the 16th. of October, 1686 . At Justice-Hall in the Old. Bayly. And in the Second Year of his Majesties Reign.

Fourteen of which, received Sentence of Death, viz. John Evans< no role > , W. Richard Johnson< no role > , Edward Newgent< no role > Michael Wakeland< no role > , Richard Norgrave< no role > , John Cooley< no role > Thomas Faun< no role > , John Wright< no role > , Edmond Anthony< no role > , Ann Philmore< no role > , Richard Richardson< no role > , Joseph Hensteys< no role > and Edward Skelton< no role > .

Of which John Wright< no role > , Richard Norgrave< no role > , John Cooly< no role > , Michael Wakeland< no role > , John Clarke< no role > , alias Evans< no role > , and Anne Philmore< no role > , were in the Dead-Warrant to be Executed at TYBURN On Monday the 25th. of this Instant October, 1686. The other Condemned Criminals, are by His Majesty Graciously Repreived.

THe Ordinary cannot but stand amazed at, and deeply deplore the incorribility of such sinner, who are so habituated in a course of sinning, that no Examples of publick justice can prevail upon them to take warning, not wilfully to pervert their ways, and yet their Hearts fret against the Lord, when he finds them out, and brings them to Condign Punishment, for their Atheistical promising themselves, impurity, in the hardning of their Hearts against all former Covictions, abusing even the sparing Mercy of God and the King, which ought to have led them to Repentance and Amendment of Life.

On Saturday the 16th. of this Instant October , the foresaid Criminals were Condemned, and in the Afternoon the Ordinary visited so many of them as were willing to submit themselves to his Counsel and Prayers for them, to fit them for their approaching Death. He defined them that they would beseech the Lord, the Supreame judge of Heaven and Earth, by whose Smile Frown, Men live or die Eternally, that he would prevail upon them, to search and try their Hearts, and to call to Remembrance their former ill course of Life, for which he had justly suffered them, to run into such Notorious Crimes, which the Law of the Nation doth pass a Sentence of Death upon, and he warned them against that Advantage, which Satan would endeavour to get against them, by making them secure in a sinful State, as they had hardened their own Hearts, by the deceits of sensual Pleasures, and the prefering the fordidness of unjust gain, before the integrity of their precious Souls, to the hazarding their Eternal Destruction

After other Advice given them, they seemed not to be so affected with their dreadful State, as went to be defined. Therefore the