5. Thomas Trevor< no role > , condemn'd for Burglary, in breaking open the House of Mr. William Stevens< no role > , and stealing thence several Goods of Value, on the 8th of July last . He said, he would not give me any other Account of what he was, or had been, but this only, That he had serv'd King William and the late Queen above Twenty Years in the Army ; and the World should know no more of him from his own Confession: But to this I answer'd, That whether he would make any Confession, or no, I knew, and the World knew too well, that he had been an Old Offender, who had committed very many ill Facts, and that he had receiv'd Sentence of Death at the Old-baily before this time, and afterwards obtain'd a Pardon, which he pleaded there on the 12th day of August, 1713 ; but having abused that Mercy by committing new Crimes since, had now brought himself to this shameful End and Destruction. To which I added, That if he did not sincerely repent of all his Sins, which he could not but be sensible were many and great, he would perish for ever; and therefore ought seriously to consider it betimes, for his Life, yea, his Eternal Life, depended upon't. With this he seem'd to be somewhat touch'd, and to relent: But yet I cannot say that he was, as I wish'd he had been, brought up to a just degree of Contrition and Penitence, and an earnest Desire of God's Pardon for them: For (in short) he appear'd to be very obstinate, and to think, that less Repentance would serve his turn, whose Sins he thought did not make him so heinous an Offender in the Sight of God, as theirs did who had committed wilful Murder; of which Crime, he said, he never was guilty. Here finding him to build too much on his Innocence, or at least, less Sinfulness, I told him, That as God was so gracious as to forgive the greatest of Sins on true Repentance, so He would in his Justice most certainly punish the Sinner with Eternal Damnation, who would venture to die in the Guilt of the least Sin unrepented of. At last he own'd, he was concern'd in the Burglary he was condemn'd for, and had in many other respects been a great Offender.

6. Peter La Tour< no role > , corruptedly call'd Letune< no role > , said he was 20 Years of Age, born in Fleet street , London ; That his Father was a Frenchman, and an Officer in the Service of King William the Third of Ever-blessed Memory, and his Mother an Englishwoman: That he was brought up to the Sea , and serv'd on Board several Men of War, and the last Ship he serv'd in was the Bedford: That having left that Service for some Years past, he betook himself to very ill Courses, and committed several Felonies, all of which (one excepted) he being try'd for, and found guilty of, he was several times burnt in the Hand, and sent to the Workhouse. He confess'd his Guilt of the Burglary he stood now condemn'd for, which was the Breaking open the House of Mr. John Palmer< no role > at Edmonton , taking thence diverse Goods, on the 27th of July last . Of which Fact, and other Sins by him committed, he said he heartily repented; and gave some demonstration of his Gref, by his Cries and Tears, and other Expressions of the Sense he had of the heinousness of that wicked Course of Life which he had led.

7. Thomas Tinsley< no role > , condemn'd for the Stealing of a dark-brown Mare, out of the Grounds of Mr. Thomas Goddard< no role > , on the 17th of April last , as also for stealing another Mare (a black one) out of the Grounds of Mr. William Mitchell< no role > , on the 11th of May last . He said he was 28 Years of Age, born at South-Myns in Middlesex ; That about 8 Years since he went to Totteridge in Hartfordshire , and there follow'd Husbandry , and was a Servant to three or four Farmers alternately; and, That he had all-along behav'd himself faithfully in his several Services, and never committed any such Facts before as these he was now condemn'd for; which he readily acknowledged, and pray'd God to forgive him.

He was a poor ignorant Person, Yet he became very sensible that his Poverty; which at first he alledg'd for an Excuse of his Crime, was not a good Argument, for that could not alter the nature of his Offence, therefore such a Plea would avail him nothing at God's Tribunal, as it was of no force in Courts of Judicature among Men: But what was fit for him to do in the sad Circumstances he had brought himself into by his Sins, was truly to repent, and to that end raise in himself a just abhorrence of 'em, considering how displeasing they were to God, as well as hurtful to his Neighbour, and also to his own Soul. And here I gave him some particular Directions how he might perform this Duty, and by such a Performance