ment, to manage his Office with more tender Circumspection.

II. Valentine Knight< no role > , Condemned for two Felonies. He hath been suspected to have commited Burglaries before: He was told that he ought to discover his lewd Companions, because it might prevent much Mischief; and that Felony is a great Crime, because those guilty of it usually make a Sporting Trade of it, so that such Criminals are seldom convinced of the Sinfulness of it; And that if he did not endeavour to break the Conspiracy of Robbers, whom he knew, he would accumulate the Guilt of their Sins upon his own, as being more Faitful to the Devil and his Wicked Associates, than to the Welfare of the Nation. He was also urged to make Restitution of what he had taken away by Violence or Stealth, otherwise his Repentance could not be sincere: Yet he remained insensible of his Sinful Condition, saying (as I am credibly informed) That he dreaded not Death, the Pain of Hanging would soon be over; so that he little considered what would become of his Soul after Death, as if he believed not any Future State of Happiness or Eternal Misery in the World to come.

III. Alice Meadowes< no role > Aged twenty five Years, Condemned for the wilful Murder of her Infant Male Bastard Child. She said that she lived with her Mother till seventeen Years of Age, after that she went to Service in the Country, but coming to London , she lived as a Maid Servant in Lothbury , for two Years and an half. In the Latter end of which the murthered Child was begot by a Lodger in her Mistress's House, tho warned by her to avoid any familiarity with him; she said, that she easily consented, when sollicited to the Act of Whoredom, without any hope of gain or promise of Marriage. I did earnestly exhort her to a thorough sincere Repentance for the Sins of her whole Life, especially for this unnatural Cruel fact, because all Creatures express a tender Care to preserve their Off-spring, she said that she is ashamed of it, and that to Cover Bastardy she committed a greater Sin, in the stifling of her new born Infant. She would not acknowledg any antecedent Sin, but only that she neglected to Pray, that God would preserve her chastity, and so was easily overcome. I askt her what true saving faith and Repentance are? She said, she was Ignorant in matter of Religion. I told her that the very dictates of natural Reason, and an ordinary modesty, might have presented her two great Sins. She exprest not any considerable sorrow.

IV. A Youth of twenty two Years condemned for felony in joyning with one Richard Whithorn< no role > not yet taken. The person robbed was Mr. John Harris< no role > , to whom he had formerly been an Apprentice. He says that his Father gave him Religious Education and put him to a Good Employment, in which he served six Years; but being uneasy in the Service of his Master, he left him and went over into Flanders, where he indured very much hardship. Thus he was brought to consider that he Justly reaped the sad effects of his disobedience to so Good a Father. Afterward he travelled into Holland; There he met with a Merchant who knew his Father, and gave him three pounds in Mony to return into England, and to submit himself to his Fathers good Counsel. Which he fully intended to do; but in his travelling through Chelmsford , he unfortunately met with one Richard Whithorn< no role > , who pretended that he knew John Harris< no role > , his former Master, and where he dwelt. So going together near the House, Whithorn undertook the Robbery, for he broke into the Closet at a Window and there found twenty five pounds. After this they went to the Ram in Smithfield , where Whithorn gave the condemned Person only eight pounds out of that said Summ. Promising him twelve Guineas, if he would not discover the said Whithorn. Upon the whole matter, the condemned Person Laments his former ill Life and that he fell into this Crime, resolving if he may have a respite from Death, to reform and betake himself to an honest and Laborious employment. I hope he is truly penitent.

V. Robert Smith< no role > condemned for Felony. He said he had been guilty of many and great Sins, which were committed by the frequent omission of prayer; that he did not guard his Heart as he ought against the sollicitations of Evil company, but he now resolves if he may be spared, that he will amend his life and walk more circumspectly.

VI. Susan Lucas< no role > , condemned for high Treason, in Clipping the current Coyn of this Kingdom. She kept a Publick House, till of late she brake the Sabbath, would Swear and Drink to excess sometimes. She denies not the fact to be notorious, but was tempted to it by bad company, which she is not willing to discover. She is reprieved upon being Quick with Child. I charged her not to grow secure upon this, as if her Sentence would be forgotten. She promised me that she would constantly come to the Chappel, and endeavour a thorough Repentance.

Valentine Knight< no role > and Alice Meadows< no role > were (on Wednesday the second of March ) drawn to Tyburn in a Cart; where being tyed to the Gibbet, the Ordinary and another Minister began most fervently to Exhort them both to call for Mercy, and truly to acknowledge before God, Angels and Men, what wicked Sinners they had been; Praying for them, That God Almighty would undeceive them of having any false Hopes of a better Life: To which seasonable Advice, Alice Meadows< no role > gave a heedful Ear; and begged all the Spectators to take Warning by her fatal End how they spent their Lives in this World, that they might not come to such a Shameful Death. But Knight was not so particularly Affected, as was hoped for: In his Way from Newgate , he behaved himself very undecently; not like one who was to undergo such a Sentence, but rather like one who, being Fool hardly, makes light of what should have been a Shame and Sorrow to him; but when he was in the Cart, he seemed to be a little more sensible of the near Approaches of Death, and sometimes would cry out to God Almighty; but other times would suffer his Eyes to wander abroad, tho' Exhorted to the contrary by the Ordinary. He Confessed in the General, That he had been a great Sabbath-breaker, a Swearer, a Drunkard, an Adulterer, guilty of offering great Violence to Persons that did him no Wrong, &c. but affirmed withal, That he was never guilty of the horrid Sin of Murder, and hoped that God would forgive him. After this, the Ordinary prayed with them again, and sung a Psalm of Penitency; and there recommended them both to the Mercy of their most Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ.

This is all the account I can give of this Session,

Samuel Smith< no role > , Ordnary .

London, Printed for L. Curtiss, at Sir Edmundbury Godfry's Head near Fleet-bridg. 1692.