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

19th April 1700

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19th April 1700


those Actions; which now seem'd odious and abominable in his Sight. He lamented his unhappy Condition, often reflecting on his Ill-spent Life, calling his bad Actions to remembrance, and expressing a deep sorrow for them. I hope he is Penitent

IV. Thomas Alleson< no role > , Convicted for Burglary; confest that he was an old Offender, had lately received Mercy also, but yet would take no Warning. He was formerly a Labourer , and workt very hard for his living, but growing idle and so reduc'd to want, to extricate himself out of those pressing Circumstances, he listned to bad Advice; he added, he died in Charity with all Men, and as an Instance, freely and heartily forgave the Evidence, who was the first Person that seduced him; and persuaded him to be of his Gang.

On Friday the 19th of April, 1700 . these two Persons were convey'd from Newgate to Tyburn , John Larkin< no role > , alias Young< no role > , who was drawn in a Sledge, and Thomas Alleson< no role > carried in a Cart; and being tied up, Young applied himself to the Ordinary, and told him he could not dye in Peace till he had acquainted him with one thing, which he had hitherto conceal'd, which was this; Being in Newgate with Mr. Charles Newey< no role > , who was lately convicted for Felony, as also Pillor'd and Fined for Suborning an Evidence to Swear falsely, he prevailed with him for a Sum of Money to write a very Scurrilous Libel, entituled The Case of Capt . Charles Newey< no role > , which he promised to Print speedily, containing very notorious Falshoods, and Scandalous Reflections on the Lord chief Baron and the other Judges who tried him, the Recorder, several Justices of the Peace, and some others, for which he heartily begged their Pardon, and said, it was so malicious and base, that he thought none would presume to Print it. Then he turned to the People, and desired them to take warning by his Punishment, that his most just and lamentable Death might terrifie more from continuing in their Sins, than the example of his evil Life had led into Sin. He also exhorted them to be horribly afraid of the sad end of evil Doers, and of the Vengeance of God, which is oft-times swift but when 'tis most slow, will be sure at last, and utterly insupportable to all those who will not take care in time to appease him by amendment of Life. He was desired to confess his Crime for which he died, but he denied it; then he pray'd thus, O Almighty and most Righteous Judge, to thee it belongeth to take Vengeance, and to me to suffer it. I must clear thy Justice, and confess I have my Deserts, and have none but my self to blame for this shameful Death. But now O Lord, when the Sword of Vengeance is unsheathed, and is come to the stroke, do thou stand by me and comfort me. Deal not thou with me as I have done with thee: But tho' I have basely and wretchedly forsaken thee all my Life, yet leave me not I humbly entreat thee in this my last Hour. Save me O God! a great and wretched, but a penitent contrite Sinner, In thy Merits do I trust, O Blessed Jesus! save me who am chief among Sinners, and rescue my trembling and departing Soul from eternal Misery. Then turning himself, he took a decent leave of all the Spectators, and prayed God to make them all the better by the sadness of the Sight; returning Thanks to the Ordinary for the pains he had taken with him, and his Prayers, desiring the continuance of them in his last Agonies. Tho. Alleson behaved himself very well, confest that he had been an old Offender, and therefore suffered deservedly. They had time allowed for private Prayer, and then the Cart drew away, they were turned off.

John Brown< no role > and Tho. Badge< no role > are to be Executed to Morrow near Stepny , where the Fact was Committed.

Dated April 19, 1700.

John Allen< no role > , Ordinary .

RObert Young< no role > , alias Larkin< no role > , delivered a Paper to the Reverend Mr. Ordinary, wherein he acknowledges his great Crime in accusing the Right Honourable the Earl of Marlburough, the Earl of Salisbury, the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Rochester, the Lord Cornbury. Sir Basil Firebrass< no role > , which Paper will be published, together with several other Papers of his Life, next Munday Morning. Printed for E. Mallet.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

AT the farthest House on the Left-hand, in Blew Ball Court, in Salisbury-Court, Fleet-street, (being the first Court on the Left-hand, over against Salisbury-Square) Gentlemen, &c. may have an Interest made to invest them in Places suitable to their several Qualities and Capacities. We have now several considerable Places in Town and Country to dispose of, some to be acted by Deputies. We have also several of a lesser value, viz. 80 l. 70 l. 60 l. 50 l. 40 l. a Year Sallaries, for those that Write and cast Accompts well. We also speedily and Faithfully Sollicite all sorts of Causes depending in the Courts of Law and Equity, Treasury, Admiralty, Navy Office, &c. We Buy and Sell Estates, Houses, Ground-Rents, &c. Those who apply themselves to us shall have no reason to suspect being imposed upon; for our chief Undertaker is a Person of Quality, well known to many of the Nobility and Gentry, who has been pleased to employ some near Relations of Mr. A. deceased (the Original Undertaker of this Business in England) For Particulars we refer to our Bills published at most Coffee-houses, or any Gentleman may be furnished with them at our House.

WHereas Mr. Edmund Searle< no role > Deceased, was famous for Curing Deafness , and likewise his Son, who practis'd several Years in the same Method. This is to Advertise all Persons, That Graves Overton< no role > is the only Servant Living that ever was Instructed by the said Edmund Searle< no role > .

I entreat a favourable Construction from all Persons, for exposing my self in Print, which I had not done but to Vindicate my self, in answer to a Scandalous Publication by an ignorant malicious Woman, who was but a Servant Maid at the time I was daily assisting in those extraordinary Cures. I give my daily Attendance at my House in Giltspur-street , alias Pye-Corner , at the Sign of the Hand and Ear . I hope this may be caution to prevent her doing farther prejudice by her Ignorance in this Affair. I have a Head-Pill which hath cured several Persons who have been Deaf many Years, as can be attested by my Neighbours: Also a Cephalick Snuff.

B. Lilburn, that lately Lived on Ludgate-hill, next to the Kings Arms Tavern near Fleet-Bridge, now Lives at the Golden-Board, and Ball, near the Globe-Tavern, in little Moor-fields, near great Moor-gate, up one Pair of Stairs. Who maketh and selleth, (and has done above 16 Years) the Water for taking away the Freckels, Pimples, Worms, and Morphew in the Face: With Elixir Salutis, Balsamum Vite, Tinctura Vitoe, Waters and Ointments for the Eyes, and Ointments for fore Nipples; Ointments for the Rickets, Burns, Scalds, Wounds, Aches, Strains, &c. Powders, Dentrifices, Elixirs, Edences, Oils, Spirits, &c. both for Oinament, and Curing most Distempers incident to Humane Bodies; where you may have Advice as well as Medicines, likewise Judgment upon Urine.

LONDON: Printed for E. Mallet, at the Hat and Hawk in Bride lane, where any Person, may have Advertisements Inserted in this Paper.




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