THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF

The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of William Johnson< no role > This name instance is in set 4690. (alias Holloway< no role > ) and Jane Housden< no role > This name instance is in set 4691. , who were both Condemn'd for Murder, and hang'd without Newgate; and of Three other condemn'd Malefactors, executed at TYBURN, on Friday the Nineteenth Day of September, 1712 .

AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily , on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 10th , 11th , and 12th instant , Two Men and Three Women, that were found guilty of Capital Crimes, having then received Sentence of Death, are now order'd for Execution. There was also a young Man condemned the Sessions before, and repriev'd to this, who was called to his former Judgment, and advis'd to prepare himself for Death: But he has again obtain'd the QUEEN's Mercy; which if he does improve well, and makes the right use of (as I hope he will) I shall not repent for the Certificate I have freely and justly given concerning his Behaviour: A Thing which I never do for Condemn'd Persons, but when there is a very great reason for it; for though no one is more able to do this than my self, yet all these Twelve Years (almost) I have been in this unpleasant and ingrateful Office, I never did it but for two others under Condemnation; whom I have now the Satisfaction to find they live honestly and well, and prove themselves good and loyal Subjects to HER MAJESTY. Which I say here to satisfy those Persons who knowing me not, nor my Office, may seem to be uneasy and offended at my Justice and Charity to the poor young Man, for whom I did this, purely because I know he deserved it; and did not do it for others, because I think they deserved it not.

While these Malefactors lay under this Condemnation, I visited them, sometimes in the Condemn'd Hold, and oftner in the Chapel of Newgate , whither they were brought up twice every day: And there I pray'd with them, and read and expounded the Word of God to them, and earnestly exhorted them to Repentance. As the Crime of two of them was of the most heinous Nature, so my Admonitions to them particularly were most pressing; but I found that what I said to them much grated upon their wicked, stubborn, and obstinate Dispositions.

On the last Lord's Day the 14th instant I preach'd to them, viz. in the Morning, on Numb. 35, 31. the Words being these. Moreover, ye shall not take Satisfaction for the Life of a Murderer, which is guilty of Death: But he shall be surely put to Death.

Having explain'd this Text and the Context in general, I then proceeded to shew particularly and distinctly;

I. The horrid Nature of this enormous and heinous Crime of Murder, which in this World, is irremissible, as it is irreparable.