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

15th September 1710

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15th September 1710


rous of my Prayers and Instructions, which she had, and from which (as she said) she receiv'd great Comfort. She acknowledg'd the Judgment of GOD upon her to be just, and cry'd mightily for his Mercy. At first, she said, her Heart was lock'd up, and she could not pray at all; but afterwards she felt, that GOD had soften'd it, and melted it into Repentance; saying, I am now willing to die, rather than live: For I hope I shall do very well. Those were her own Words.

2. Charles Dean< no role > , condemn'd for breaking open the House of Mr John Stone< no role > , in the Parish of Shipperton , on the 7th day of June last . He utterly disown'd the Fact, and said, He was not in the House, nor in any wise guilty of it. But he declaring himself a Roman Catholick , and having Priests of his own Perswasion, that came to him, and advis'd him not to be directed by me, I am apt to think, that he thought himself so far from being under an Obligation of making any Confession to me, that his refusing to do it was a Duty which his Religion, or at least his Teachers, requir'd of him. He was (as he told me) about 26 Years of age, born of good Parents in the County of Montgomery in Wales , and brought up to the Law in London , where he had liv'd from his Youth, as far as he could remember, and was for some time an Attorney's Clerk , and, for these two Years past, had kept a Chamber in the Temple, and done Business for himself.

This is the Account he gave me of himself; wherein I observ'd he was cautious of opening his Mind to me in any thing, which might have a tendency to the clearing his Conscience, reserving his Confession of that to be made, as I suppose, to his Father-Confessor.

At the Place of Execution, whither they were both carried this Day from Newgate in a Cart, I attended them for the last time. I exhorted them to be free and ingenuous in their Confessions, and not to die with a Lye in their Mouths: Upon which Charles Dean< no role > said, He was not guilty, nor the Person, viz. Crouch, committed for the same Fact; and further he declar'd, That he died a Roman Catholick.

As for June Forest< no role > , she persisted in what she had said before concerning the Murther of her Child; and mightily lamented her sad and shameful End, and cry'd bitterly: And by that, and other outward Demonstrations, shew'd the inward Grief of her Heart.

After this, and some further Exhortations given them, I pray'd with them, and desir'd them to rehearse the Apostles Greed, and sing some penitential Psalms with me. Which done, I commended them to GOD's Mercy, and so withdrew. They had some time allow'd them for their private Devotions; then the Cart drew away, and they were turn'd off, all the while calling upon GOD to have Mercy on their Souls.

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

PAUL LORRAIN< no role > , Ordinary .

Friday, Sept. 15. 1710.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Books set forth by Paul Lorrain< no role > , Ordinary of Newgate .

A Guide to Salvation, or the Way to Eternal Bliss: Being a Collection of Meditations and Prayers, suited to the Exercise of a Devout Christian. Printed for W. Meadows at the Fann in St. Paul's Church-yard,

The Last Words of the Lady Margaret de la Musse< no role > . And, The Dying man's assistant. Both Printed for, and Sold by John Lawrence< no role > at the Angel in the Poultry .

A Preparation for the Sacrament: with Moral and Divine Maxims. Printed for B. Aylmer at the 3 Pidgeons in Cornhil.

ROBERT WHITLEDGE< no role > , who formerly lived at the Bible in Creed-Lane , is removed to the Bible and Ball in Ave-Mary-Lane near Ludgate , where all Booksellers and others may be furnisht with Bibles and Common-Prayers of all Sorts, with Cuts or without, Ruled or Unruled, Bound in Turky Leather or Plain. Mr. Strut's Cuts Curiously Engrav'd; also other fine Cuts fitted for all Sizes and Common-Prayers. The Welsh Bible, Welsh Common-Prayer, and Welsh Almanack. The Duty of Man's Works of all Sizes. The Duty of Man in Latin. Latin and French Common-Prayers. Tate and Brady's New Version of Psalms, with the New Supplement. Dr. Gibson on the Sacrament. The Statutes at large, in Three Volumes. Washington and Wingate's Abridgment of them. The Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, in Folio and Octavo. The New Translation of AEsops Fables. Also Bp. Beveridge's Works, in 5 vol. And Dean Stanhope on the Epistles and Gospels, in 4 vol. All which Books and Cuts are likewise sold by J. Baker in Mercers-Chapel

Lately publish'd for the Use of Schools,

Vocabularium Latiale; or, a Latin Vocabulary in two parts. The First being a Collection of the most usual and easie Latin words, whether primitive or derivative; with their signification in English, after the order of the Eight parts of Speech, giving a Specimen of each, and most naturally shewing the gender, increase, declension and motion of Nouns and Pronouns, with the Conjugation-Preterperfect Tense and Supine of Verbs both Simple and Compound. The Second, shewing the variation and declining of all the declinable parts, both regular an irregular. By Tho. Dyche< no role > , School-Master in London , Author of a new Spelling-book, entitul'd, A Guide to the English Tongue. Printed for S. Butler, at Bernard's-Inn-Gate, in Holbourn, J. Holland, near St. Paul's Church-yard, and A. Collins, at the Black-Boy in Fleet-street. Price 1 s.

Just Publish'd,

The Fifth & Last Part of Vulgus Britannicus, or British Hudibrass: Price 6 d. Where may be had all the other Four Parts; Being the History of the Mob, &c. in Burlesque Verse, in Ten Cantos. 1, and 2. The Disorders of the Rabble, the Folly, Hypocrisy and Moderation of the Times. 3. On the Mobs pulling down Dr. Burges's Meeting-House, and the other Disorders in the Street. 4. On the Mobs Revels round their Bonfire in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. 5. On the Burning of the Clock, and a Speech of a Holy Brother to the Poor Machine, before it was committed to the Flames. 6. Their further Mischiefs, and suppressing of the Rabble by the Guards. 7. Capt. Tom's Speech to his Dispersing Brethren. 8. The Beating up for Trainbands: The Citys Preparation for Raising the same; the Watch and Ward, with their Character and Deportment. 9. The Peoples Clamours at the Charge of Warding and Trainbanding. 10. The Battles, Disputes and Squabbles of different Parties in a Tavern-Kitchin, near the Exchange. With several other things, both pleasant and diverting. All Written by the Author of the London Spy; and sold by J. Woodward, in St. Christopher's Church-yard, Thredneedle-street; J. Morphew near Stationers-hall, and by most Booksellers in London and Westminster.

London Printed, and are to be sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers-Hall.




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