rayed with him, and have good Grounds to believe that ue Penitent, which ought to rowle away both the of his Crime and of his Untimely End. Let all Per, in the Sense of their own Propensity to sinning, Implore the Guiding Guarding Presence of the God of all Grace, that they may never be surprized into the like Guilt and fatal shortning of their Lives.

II. Anne Stephens< no role > This name instance is in set 8533200. , condemned to dye for Murthering her Bastard Child. I ask'd her how she became so void of all Reason and Modesty, as to prostitute her Chastity? She said, That he who tempted her, being a Servant in the same Family, promised her Marriage, whom she credited, and thereby was prevailed upon, in hope to better her Fortune, but he who bega the Child did not afterward regard her, but utterly refused to marry her, or make any Provision for her Subsistence. So, when she knew herself to be Quick with Child, to avoid the Shame of Bastardy, she quitted her Service, and sought out a Place of Privacy, to be delivered. She denyed not the Crime but lamented her Unnatural Cruelty to her Innocent Babe. She said, That Satan had brought her from one sin to another, because she had not led a good Life, but was Careless of her Duty to God, and was not contented with the Mean Condition of a Servant . She wept, but I told her, That her Tears could not wash off so deep dyed a Sin, but only the efficacy of Christ's Blood shed, applyed by Faith, to make her Heart truly and deeply Penitent She warns all persons to preserve their Chastity, and to take heed of the beginning of any Wantonness in their Conversation, left it spread to Grosser Acts, and end in such Barbarous Murder, to conceal Shame and avoid the Fear of Poverty, when scorned, and left destitute even of Necessaries to support Life, after they yield to the Wicked Temptations of Lustful Persons.

III. Lewis Rantzau< no role > , condemned for Murther. He said, That his Education had been mean, as his Father's Example had been evil, who committed an Unnatural Murder on his own Brother, and escap'd into France some Years since. This should have forewarned himself against such an Inhuman Fact, as hath exposed him to an Untimely Ignominious Death: For, it is observable, That Cruelty of Nature and the Mischievous Effects thereof may descend upon Posterity, if they be not the more circumspect to avoid those sinful Inclinations, which prompted their Predecessors to the effusion of Innocent Blood. He confessed, That he had proceeded in a Viscious Life; That he had been a Gamester, inclined to Drunkenness, Swearing, Prophaning the Lord's Day, and other Sins. But he despaired not of God's Mercy in Christ, and therefore begged of him to work in him True Repentance, in the Hatred of all his Viscious Courses.

IV. Nicholas Carter< no role > , about fourteen Years of Age, condemned for Robbery. He said, That his Father imployed him in sewing and making of Gloves : But he being Idle, and regardless of his Parents Good Admonitions, ran away from them, and joyned himself to bad Company. Thus he added to his own Evil Inclinations, and was trained up among his Companions, in getting Money by Slight of Hand, in Picking Pockets, till he adventur'd to rob Men of their Hats in the Street. He would not take former Warning, nor acknowledg his Consorts but said, That it repented him he left his Father's Imployment, and that he was disobedient. But if he might be spared he resolved to amend his evil Life.

V. Joseph Trant< no role > , condemned for Burglary.

VI. S. Porter, for Clipping the Currant Money of this Nation.

VII. Cristoph. Peirce< no role > , for robbing on the High Way.

VIII. Francis Litchfield< no role > , formerly burnt in the Hand, and now condemned for Robbery.

These four were very obstinate: They would not give any account of their former Evil Courses, neither were they in any manner sensible of the Crimes, they were condemned for. They had Good Advice given them every Day, yet they were not convinced of their trifling with the Offers of Grace and Salvation, as if they believed not a future Judgment, nor the eternal Existence of their Souls.

On Monday the 26th instant , eight of the Criminals who were Condemned this Sessions, were conveyed to the Place of Execution, viz. Samuel Porter< no role > was drawn in a Sledge, John Benlose< no role > in a Coach, the rest, Christopher Pearse< no role > , Francis Leichfield< no role > , Joseph Trant< no role > , Lewis Rantzau< no role > . Nicholas Carter< no role > and Anne Stephens< no role > This name instance is in set 3200. were car-tried in two Carts: Where being come, Samuel Porter< no role > was first tyed up; who was much hardned, and would not be perswaded to own that notorious Crime of Clypping, saying, That he thought it no Sin. Upon which the Ordinary declared, That it was not only a Crime against the King, but also a great Detriment to the Poor, especially when it was clipp'd within the Ring, for a Poor Man going to Market with a Clipp'd Piece of Mony, to buy Provision for his Family, if it be scrupled he must return without it.

The next being Mr. Benlose, he truly behaved himself like a true Penitent, being highly, sensible of the heinousness of his Fact, crying for Mercy from God; and desired Mr. Ordinary to read a Paper, which he had before written with his own Hand, the Contents of which are these.

The Thred of my Life is now spun to a sad Conclusion, and that you must needs think, That since I received this Earthly Sentence, I have been labouring to make my Peace with God, that so my Soul may be received into Everlasting Happiness. It may be expected, That I should make a long Narration in Detestation of my Crime: But Time and my own Inability abridges you of that Satisfaction: Let it suffice, I am sincerely sorrowful that I offered Injustice to him, whom my Conscience dictates, and my last Breath pronounces, was a Just, Good, and Kind Master to me. I am come to this Place to dye, and it adds to my Bitter Potion, that the cause of it is equivalent to the Shame. But if these Sufferings, upon my Repentance, may contribute any thing, to countervail for future Sufferings, thorrow Christ's Infinite Satisfaction, then it will be happy for me that I am afflicted, for that will remunerate my Earthly Sufferings, and then none will have cause to say, That Death put a stop to my Happiness; nay it will be begun. In Hope of this I willingly leave the Transitory Delusions and Injoyments of this Life, to possess Eternal Blessedness: Which God of his infinite and superabounding Mercy grant. And that all Spectators may answer the End of my Suffering, who am a Sad but Penitent Example that all may take Warning by me.

Lewis Rantzau< no role > was extreamly troubled for committing so horid and bloody a Fact is Murther, alledging, That it was Covetousness of Mony that induced him: Likewise Nicholas Carter< no role > , the Boy, desired all Young People to take timely warning by his so sudden a Death, acknowledging withal, That he had been used to pick Pockets all his days, &c.

Anne Stephens< no role > This name instance is in set 3200. desired all to take heed how they became Guilty of such wickedness as the Murthering of Bastard Children, &c.

Francis Leichfeild< no role > confessed, That he had been a great sinner, and begged pardon of all that he had wronged, and that he was never Guilty of sheding Blood, and that if he had herkened to his Wives good Counsel had never come to such an untimely End.

Christopher Pearse< no role > denyed the Fact, and would not be brought to Confess. Likewise Joseph Trant< no role > seemed very unsensible of his untimely End.

Then Mr. Ordinary prayed for them all, and after having fervently Exhorted them, and sung a Psalm, they were all turned off.

This is all the Account I can give of this Session.

Samuel Smith< no role > Ordinary .

ADVERTISEMENTS.

England's Alarm: or, the French-King's Cruelties Exposed. Containg a True Account of what Usage these Three Nations may expect, if ever they are so unhappy as to become a Prey to that most Cruel and Bloody Tyrant. Humbly offered to the serious Consideration of all such Protestants as endeavour to promote the Power of France, and Enslave these Protestant Kingdoms. Printed for Langley Curtiss< no role > near Fleet-Bridge ; and are to be Sold by most Booksellers in London and Westminster, Price Six pence.

The History of the Royal Congress at the Hague; Together with the Character, Families, Frces and Revenue of the several Electors and Sovereign Princes that Compose this most August Assembly, with a Relation of their Splended Equipage and Retinue. As also of the Glorious Company and Chair of State. The several curious and admirable Fire-works. The many Triumphal Arches, with the other vast Preparations made for his Majesty of Great Britain, with an Exact Drought of the manner of King William's Entry into the Hague, and Reception by the States General. Translated from the Dtch Copy Printed at Leyden. Sold by the Booksellers of London. Price Six Pence.

In Plow-Yard in Grays-Inn-Lane , lives Dr. Thomas Kirleus< no role > a Cllegiate Physician , and Sworn Physician to Charles II. until his Death: Who, with a Drink and Pill, hindering no Business, Cures all Ulcers, Scabs, Scurfs in the Face, or elsewhere; Kings-Evil, Leprosie, and Venereal Disease, expecting nothing if he Cures not Of the last, he hath Cured above 500 persons in this City, many after Fluxing. It quickly and safely Cures it inthe beginning, which cannot be done with Mercury, without danger of Life. The Drink is 3 s. the Quart, the the Pill 1 s. the Box, which is two Purges. They excel all Purges, in cleansing all Crudities and Impurities, and so prevent and Cure many Diseases, and especially the Gout and Stone. In all Diseases be gives his Opinion for nothing.

London, Printed for Langley Curtiss< no role > at Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's Head near Fleet-Bridge , 1690.