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

24th January 1707

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13th December 1706


and Man; That he hop'd to be sav'd through the alone Merits of Jesus Christ; That he forgave all the World, and pray'd the World to forgive him; That he dy'd in Charity with all Men; and desired the Prayers of the Standers-by. And he openly declared, as he had before done to me; That the Information which he gave before My Lord Mayor, was true in every part of it.

Then we went to Prayer, and Singing of Psalms, &c. And after I had perform'd my publick Office with him, I left him to his private Devotions, for which he had some time allow'd him. And then the Cart drawing away, he was turn'd off; while with great earnestness he was calling upon God to have mercy upon his departing Soul, in these and the like Ejaculations. Lord Jesus, I come, I come. O Lord pardon my Sins, and have mercy upon me. Sweet Jesu, receive my Soul! &c.

I suppose, That from the Information which Mr Coats has made so publickly at the Tree, the Gentlewoman, who (it seems) is so much in the forementioned Mr. R. L's Interest, will now be satisfy'd, That I have delivered nothing in this Paper concerning Mr. Coats's charging the said Mr. R. L. &c. but what he (upon the Word of a dying Man) confess'd to me; and that she has been very unjust in writing to a certain Person (no doubt) worthier than her self is, That by Bribes one might have any thing put into the Dying Speech. But if ever that Gentlewoman come under my Hand (which God forbid) she will find, that I am not a Man capable of being bribed.

This is all the Account here to be given by

PAUL LORRAIN< no role > , Ordinary .

Friday, January the 24th, 1706/1707

??? Whereas some Persons take the Liberty of putting out of 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 9 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, and Atestation 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.

Note, You are desired to observe the spelling of the said Printers Name.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Newly Re-printed,

EUrope a Slave, unless England breaks her Chains: Discovering the Grand Designs of the French-Popish Party in England for several years last past. Sold by I. Cleave next Door to Seargeant's-Inn in Chancery-Lane, and Tho. Atkinson< no role > at the White Swan in St. Paul's Church-yard .

THE third Volume of the Writings of the Author of The London-Spy, consisting of Poems on divers Subjects, viz. A Dialogue between Britannia and Prudence. Fortune's Bounty. A Protestant Scourge. A Musical Entertainment. A Satyr against the corrupt Use of Money. The Libertine's Choice. The charitable Citizen. All Men mad, or England a great Bedlam. A Satyr against Wine. A Poem in Praise of Small-Beer. On the Success of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough. Helter Skelter, or the Devil upon two Sticks. Journey to H -, in three Parts. Honesty in Distress. With several other Poems never before Printed. Sold by B. Bragge, in Pater-noster-row. Where may be had the first and second Volumes with several other Miscellanies, single, by the same Author

Now in the Press, and speedily will be Published

THE Wooden World dissected, in the Characters of, 1. a Ship of War. 2. a Sea-Captain. 3. a Sea-Lieutenant. 4. a Sea-Chaplain. 5. the Master of a Ship of War. 6. the Purser. 7. the Surgeon. 8. the Gunner. 9. the Carpenter. 10. the Boatswain. 11. a Sea-Cook. 12. a Midshipman. 13. the Captain's Steward. 14. a Sailor, &c. By a Lover of the Mathematicks. Sold by B. Bragge, at the Raven in Pater-noster-row: Where may be had a Present for the Dispensers of Equity, Law, and Justice throughout England and Wales. By Sir Mathew Hales< no role > , late Lord Chief Justice of England . The present Condition of the English Navy, set forth in a Dialogne be twixt young Fudge of the Admiralty, and Captain Sheerwell an Oliverian Commander.

Yesterday was Published,

A Poem upon the Law, occasion'd by a late Act of Parliament, entituled, An Act for the amendment of the Law, and the better advancement of Justice, together with a Character of, and a Panegyrick upon my Lord keeper and the 12 Judges. By a Gentleman of the inner Temple. Sold by B. Bragge in Pater-noster-row. Where may be had, the Lord Beilhaven's Speeches to the Parliament of Scotland on the Union, &c. Mr . Thomas Beaven< no role > 's Speech to the Quakers, at the Monthly Meeting to be held at Warminster , in the County of Wilts , Nov. 8th 1706. Korah: or, the danger of Schisme, a Poem. A Sermon preach'd at Sutton in Surrey, on Dec. the 13th, 1706 .By William Stevens< no role > , B. D . Published at the request of the Auditors.

This Day will be Published.

THE Secret History of the Calves-Head Club, compleat: or, the Republican unmask'd. Wherein is fully shewn, the Religion of the Calves-Head Heroes, in their Anniversary Thanksgiving-Sons on the Thirtieth of January, by them called Anthems, for the Year, 1693, 1694, 1695. 1696, 1697, 1698, 1699, &c. with Reflections thereupon, Now published to demonstrate the restless, implacable Spirit of a certain Party still amongst us, who are never to be satisfy'd, 'till the present Establishment in Church and State, is subverted. The Sixth Edition, with large Improvements; and a Description of the Calves-Head-Club, curiously engrav'd on a Coper Plate. To which is annex'd, a Vindication of the Royal Martyr, King Charles the First. Wherein are laid open, the Republicans Mysteries of Rebellion. Written in the time of the Usurpation, by the Celebrated Mr. Butler, Author of Hudibras. With a Character of a Modern Whig; or, the Republican in Fashion. London, Printed: and sold by by B. Bragge, at the Raven in Pater-Noster-Row, against Ivy-Lane. 1707.

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 3 Pidgeons in Cornhil: And, A Guide to Salvation. Sold at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard, London.

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 Palms. The Common-Prayer in French. The new Book of Rates compleat. With all other Books neotly Bound.

London: Printed by Dryden Leach< no role > in Dogwel-Court in White-friars , near Fleet-street , 1707.




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