THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confession, and Last Speech of Thomas Douglas< no role > , that was Executed at Tyburn , on Wednesday the 27th of October, 1714 , for the barbarous Crime of Murder.

AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-baily, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 13th , 14th , and 15th of October, 1714 , Thirteen Persons, viz. Eight Men and Four Women, were severally Convicted of Capital Crimes, and so accordingly receiv'd Sentence of Death. Of these, One dy'd of a Feaver on Monday the 18th instant ; Eleven have obtain'd HIS MAJESTY's gracious Reprieve, (which I wish they may duly improve) and the other (namely, Thomas Douglas< no role > ) is now order'd for Execution.

While they lay under this Condemnation, I constantly visited them, and to that purpose had them brought up twice every day to the Chapel of Newgate, where I pray'd with them, and read and expounded the Word of GOD to them, thereby endeavouring to instruct them in the Principles and Precepts of the Christian Religion, (which some of them were not very well acquainted with) and make them sensible of the Guilt they had contracted, and the Miseries they had involv'd themselves in, by living and acting contrary to those Divine Precepts.

On the LORD's Day, the 17th instant , I preach'd to them (and others there present) both in the Morning and Afternoon, upon these Words, Acts 17. 30, & 31. And the times of this Ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all Men every where to repent: Because He has appointed a Day in the which He will judge the World in Righteousness, by that Man whom He has ordain'd; whereof He has given Assurance unto all Men, in that He has raised Him from the Dead.

From which Words, first explain'd in general, I shew'd in particular,