all, the Company of those wicked Persons who had, some of them, brought him at first into, and all of them encouraged him in his former vicious Course of Life. But now he said, he hop'd, if he were to live again in the World, he would never give way to the Temptation, and it griev'd him very much he had done it so long, of which (he said) he repented with all his Heart; praying God, for Christ's sake, to forgive him all his Sins, as he freely forgave those that had injured him; and desired also the Pardon of them that he had any ways injured, to whom he was not able to make any other Amends, than by begging of God (as he did) to bless them. He could neither Read nor Write; but being brought up by his Parents in the Church of England, he was not altogether unacquainted with our Common-Prayers (some of which he could say by heart;) neither was he absolutely ignorant of the Principles of that Church, though he had for several years past lived so disagreeably thereto. He declared, he rely'd for Salvation upon the alone Merits of JESUS CHRIST. While he was under this Condemnation he behaved himself very decently, and (in outward Appearance) with Devotion, all the time I was with him praying and admonishing him. But yet he would not be perswaded to confess the Fact for which he was condemned to die, though I used many pressing Arguments with him to that purpose; shewing him how his persisting in this his Denial, put him into the greatest Danger of Damnation, turned his Prayers into Sin, tainted his Soul more and more, and removed him still further from God's Mercy; and would certainly bring, instead of a Blessing, an eternal Curse upon him; and that if he thought otherwise, and fancied himself (as he said he was) in a good State, this did not proceed from Reason or Religion, but from a Mind deluded by Satan; who being the great Enemy of his Soul, suggested such things to his Imagination, as might keep him from doing all that he was able to do, and God therefore strictly required he should now do, in order to his obtaining a saving Interest in Christ, whose Merits would never be apply'd to him, nor his precious Blood cleanse him from his Iniquities, unless he own'd himself (if, as it was plainly proved, he was) guilty of that horrid Murther, and, in a due Sence of the Heinousness of such a Crime, beg earnestly Pardon both of God and Man for it. After I had laid this often to him, he at last (when the Dead-Warrant was brought in, and not before) confess'd it was true, (as they swore it against him) that he was endeavouring to break open a House at the End of Great Queenstreet in Drury-lane , & that he shot the Watchman who came to prevent him in it. Which having declared, I gave him such Reproof and Admonition as was fitting; shewing him both the Heinousness of that horrid Crime of Murther which he actually had, with that of Burglary, which he intended to have committed, and the Aggravation of his Guilt by his long obstinate Denial of both. Upon which he acknowledged, he was very guilty indeed, and that his Sentence was just; that he was the worst and the vilest of all Sinners, not worthy to lift up his Hands or his Eyes to Heaven, and receive the least Mercy; praying God not to deal with him in the Severity of his Justice, but deliver him from that eternal Condemnation he had deserved; and desiring my Prayers for him to that end.

This being the Day appointed for his Execution, which (that it might be so much the more Exemplary) was perform'd at the End of LONGACRE in DRURY-LANE , near the Place where he had committed the Murther, and where a Gibbet was erected to that purpose, I attended him there for the last time; and having exhorted him still to stir up his Heart to God, and clear his Conscience before he departed this World, I pray'd and sung a Penitential Psalm with him. Then, upon my Motion, he warned young Men and all others, from living loose and irreligious Lives, and keeping ill Company; and desired them to learn by his sad and shameful End to avoid the Sins that he had done, and practise the Virtues he had left undone; owning that he was justly brought to suffer a shameful Death at the Place where he had committed a most bloody Fact; which he heartily lamented, and pray'd God to forgive. After this I pray'd again with him and for him, and made him rehearse the Articles of the Christian Faith, in which he declared he died; and having sung another Psalm, I pray'd a third time, and commended his Soul to God, and so left him to his private Devotions, for which he had some time allow'd him. When I was retired, he turned his Face towards me, and thanked me aloud, and desired me, and all Spectators, to pray for God's Mercy to him, till he was dead. Then the Cart (in which he was brought thither from Newgate) drew away, and he was turned off, while he was calling upon God in the Lord's-Prayer, and the like Ejaculatory Expressions, Lord have Mercy upon me! O Lamb of God that takest away the Sins of the World, have Mercy upon me! Lord, forgive me a great Sinner! O dear Father of Heaven, have Mercy upon me! Lord, save me for Jesus Christ's sake.

This is all the Account, which is to be given of this Dying Criminal, and which is heartily wished may prove a Means to the Reformation of others, by

PAUL LORRAIN< no role > , Ordinary of Newgate .

Frid. Sept. 22d, 1704.

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WHEREAS some Persons take the Liberty of putting out Sham-Papers, pretending to give an Account of the Malefactors that are Executed; in which Papers they are so defective & unjust, as sometimes to mistake even their Names and Crimes, and often quite misrepresent the State they plainly appear to be in under their Condemnation, and at the time of their Death: To prevent which great Abuses, These are to give Notice, That the only true Account of the Dying Criminals, is that which comes out the next Day after their Execucion, about 8 in the Morning, the Title whereof constantly begins with these Words, The ORDINARY of NEWGATE his Account of the Behaviour, &c. In which Paper (the better to distinguish it from Counterfeits) are set down the Heads of the several Sermons preach'd before the Condemned; and after their Confessions and Prayers, an Attestation thereto under the Ordinary's Hand, that is, his Name at length; and at the bottom the Printer's Name.

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