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

19th July 1706

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19th July 1706


thy righteousness. And in this my great Extremely (in this needful time of trouble) Vouchsafe, Lord, to visit me with thy Salvation. Look down from Heaven upon me with those Eyes of Grace and Compassion, wherewith Thou art wont to look upon thy Children in their affliction and misery. Heal my poor wounded Soul, O thou Heavenly Physician, and pour into it, the Oyl of Joy and Gladness, the Spi it of Grace and thé Hope of Salvation. Encrease my Faith, perfect my Repentance, and let me feel that CHRIST dy'd for me; and that his most precious Blood, which cryes better Things than that of Abel, has cleansed my Conscience from all filthiness of Sin, and wholly purify'd and sanctify'd my Soul. Lord! grant that I may now peaceably and joyfully yield it up into thy merciful Hands. Let thy blessed Angels carry it into thy Kingdom; and do Thou receive it into thy Glory.

O Lord! hear me! and be gracious to me, and to my Fellow-Sufferer; that we may be both of us admitted into thy Heavenly Paradise.

Lord! Preserve thy Church: Bless my Friends; and forgive my Foes. Have pity and compassion upon my poor afflicted Wife; Comfort and Relieve her in her affliction, and be a Husband to her, protect and defend her in this troublesome World, and in thy due time bring her into that blessed and glorious Place, where I hope I am now going to enjoy Thee unto all Ages of Eternity, Amen.

O LORD JESUS, who didst shew Mercy and Salvation to the poor repenting Malefactor that was crucify'd with Thee upon the Cross, extend the same Grace to me; and speak peace to my afflicted Soul, and say, That this day it shall be with Thee in Paradise.

And Thou Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Father and the Son, sanctify me throughly, and fit and dispose my Soul now to enter into the possession and enjoyment of unspeakable and Eternal Blessings.

O THOU, most Holy, most Mighty, most Glorious, and most Blessed TRINITY, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, One ever Living and Immortal GOD, have mercy upon me; and suffer me not in this my last hour, for any pains or terrors of Death, to fall from Thee: But of thy Gracious and Divine Mercy, make this my Death a happy Passage for my Soul into the Mansions of Blissful Eternity; and grant, that my Body may also be raised one day unto the same Glory. Even so, O Blessed Lord God, who can'st do all things, according to thy infinite Power, both in Heaven and Earth; and to whom therefore I ascribe with my last Breath here, as is most due, all Honour and Glory, Praise and Adoration, for ever and ever. Amen.

Arnold shew'd me a Letter, which he sent (just before his Death) to his Wife; wherein he acknowledges, " That God " is just in his inflicting this deserv'd Punishment upon him; " and prays, that he would pardon and reform those Persons " (therein nam'd; but not here in hope of their amendment) " who brought him into those wicked things he had done, and " for which he must now die. He commends his Wife for her " Love to him, and for her being honest in every respect, and " exhorts her so to continue, and strictly to keep the Sabbathday; praying Almighty God to bless her, and their two " Children alive, with that in her Belly. And lastly, he heartily recommends them all (as he does his own departing " Soul) to the tender Mercies of God.

At the place of Excution, both Mr. Wills and Arnold desired the Standers-by, to pray for them; and both they and others, who should hear of their shameful Death, to take Warning by them; To avoid Idleness and ill Company; To serve God, and to keep the Sabbath-day religiously; To refrain from violent Passions, from Drunkenness, Swearing, and Cursing, and from all manner of Lewdness and Debauchery; And to think often of a Judgment to come.

This is all the Account here to be given of these Dying Persons, by

PAUL LORRAIN< no role > , Ordinary of Newgate .

Friday July 19. 1706 :

??? 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 and unjust, as sometimes to mistake even their Names and Crimes, and often 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 Execution, 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 (always Printed on both sides the better to distinguish it from Connterfeits) 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, Dryden Leach< no role > ; which if the Readers would but observe, they would avoid those scandalous Cheats so constantly impos'd, upon them.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Just Published,

EUrope a Slave, unless England break her Chains. Discovering the Grand Designs of the French Popoish Party in England, for several years last past. pr. 6. d. 2 Accurate Plans (on a Broadside to put in Frames) of Osteend, Newport, Dunkirk, and Wionoxberg. Also another of Tournay, and Aeth. All sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick-lane. pr. 6. d. each.

This Day is Published,

THe Misciellanious Works of the Right Honourable the late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon, with the Memoirs of the Life of and Character of the late Earl of Rochester, in a Letter to the Dutchess of Mazarine. By Mons. St Evremont. To which is added, a curious Collection of Orignal Poems and Translations, by the Earl of Dorset, the Lord S - rs, the L. H - x, Sir Roger l'Estrange Mr Otway, Mr Brown, Mr Prior, Mr Walsh Mr Row, pr. 5s: The Miscellanious Works of his Grace the D. of Buckingham in 2 Vol pr. 10 s The Jilted Bridegroom, or the London Coquet, pr. 1s. All sold by B. Bragg, in Pater-Noster-Row.

BOOKS Set forth by Paul Lorrain< no role > , Ordinary of Newgate , viz.

??? The last Words of the Lady Margaret De la Musse< no role > : And the Dying Man's Assistant, both printed for J. Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultry. A Preparation for the Sacrament; and Moral and Divine Maxims. Printed for B. Aylmer at the three Pidgeons in Cornhil. And a Guide to Salvation, sold at the Star in St. Paul's Church-Yard.

RObert Whitledge< no role > , Book-binder at the Bible in Creed-lane within Ludgate , can furnish all Booksellers, and others, with the Welsh Bible, Welsh Common-Prayer, and Welsh Almanack; and with all sorts of other Bibles and Common-Prayers, large and small, with Cuts or without, Rul'd or Unrul'd; Bound in Turky-leather, or otherwise; extraordinary or plain, or unbound. Also the Statutes at large, and the Articles and Canons of the Church of England. Tate and Brady's new Version of the Singing Psalms. The Common-Prayer in French. The new Book of Rates compleat. With all other Books neatly Bound.

A Companion for the Afflicted, whether in Mind, Body, or Estate. Being a Collections of Texts of Scriptures, and Forms of Prayer, suited to the several conditions of Persons in Affliction, to which is added, Directions and Prayers for the reciving the Holy Sacrament, and a Morning and Evening Prayer for the Use of Families. By John Lewis< no role > , Rector of Acryse , in the Diocess of Canterbury . Printed for W. Hawes at the Bible and Rose in Ludgate-street.

THe Grounds and Principals of the Christian Religion, explain'd in a Catechetical Discourse for the Instruction of young people. Written in French by J. F. Ostervald. To which is added, A Liturgy: Or, Form of publick Prayers, which are said in the Church of Neufchatel every Saturday at Five of the Clock in the Evening, and were establish'd in the Month of May, 1702. Rendred into English by Mr Hum. Wanley< no role > : And revis'd by Geo. Stanhope< no role > , D. D . Printed for W. Hawes at the Rose in Ludgate-Street

AN Answer to a Popish Book, entituled, A true and modest account of the chief Points in controversie, betwee the Roman Catholicks and the Protestants. Together with some Considerations upon the Church of England. By N. C. Wherein the Objections N. C. has brought against the Arguments which his Grace John, late Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury, made use of in his Sermons against Popery, design'd for the use of such as are in danger of being preverted by the Emissaries of the Church of Rome. Printed for W. Hawes at the Bible and Rose in Ludgate-street. 1706.

AT the Golden Acorn in White Fryars , coming down by the Green Dragon-Tavern in Fleerstreet , are to be sold all sorts of Acts of Parliament, Proclamations, Declarations, &c. With great variety of scarce Stitch'd Books and Pamphlers, according to the method of William Miller< no role > late of London , Stationer .

A Preparative to Death written Orignally in Latin by Erasmus, now render'd into English, to which are added Meditations, Prayers, and Directions for Well, Sick, and Dying Persons. The daily self Examinatior, or an earnest perswasive to the Duty of Daily self Examination. Both by Robert Warren< no role > . M. A . Rector of Charlton in Kent . A Consolary Discourse written above 1400 years ago, in a time of great mortality and distress. By that blessed Saint and Martyr Caecilius Cyprianus, English'd for the sake of the afflicted. Secreet and Family Prayers with brief helps for the more devout receiving the Lord's Supper; to which is added a Discourse of the value of the Soul, by J. Armstrong, B. D. Ramelies, A Poem humbly inscrib'd to the Duke of Marlborough. By W. Wagstaff Gent. Printed for Tho. Atkinson< no role > , at the White Swan in St Paul's Church-yard .

LONDON , Printed by Dryden Leach< no role > , in Dog-well-Court , White-friars , near Fleet-street .




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