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

20th May 1715

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11th May 1715


THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour and Declaration of Nathanael Parkhurst< no role > , Esq ;

Who was Executed at TYBURN on Friday the 20th of May, 1715 , for the barbarous Murder by him committed upon the Body of Count Lewis Pleuro< no role > in the Fleet-Prison , on the 3d of March last .

AT the late general Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily , on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 27th , 28th , 29th , and 30th of April last past , Eighteen Persons (viz. Twelve Men and Six Women) were condemn'd for Capital Crimes, and among the rest the Gentleman who is now the Subject of this melancholy Paper. Of these eighteen Criminals, seven Men and one Woman were Executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 11th instant , (of whom I have already given an Account) and nine were Repriev'd, besides the Person of whom I am now giving the following Relation.

He said, he was 39 Years of age, born at Catesby near Daventry in Northamptonshire , came of a good and honourable Family, and had an Education (at Wadham College in Oxford , and elsewhere) suitable to his Birth, but did not make the right Use of it; for falling into bad Company, and being too conversant with Men of Erroneous and Dangerous Principles, who ridicul'd all Religion, denying the Immortality of the Soul, and even our Lord JESUS CHRIST, and looking upon his Gospel (and indeed the whole Book of




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