THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the TRAITORS that were for High Treason Executed at TYBURN on Friday the 28th of October, 1715 .

AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 12th , 13th , 14th , and 15th , and adjourn'd to Tuesday the 18th instant , Seventeen Persons, viz. Fourteen Men, and Three Women, being Try'd for, and found Guilty of, several Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death, i. e. Fourteen (on Saturday the 15th) for Robbing and Stealing; and Three (on Tuesday the 18th instant) for High-Treason. Of these Seventeen Persons, the Three Women being first Repriev'd, because reported to be pregnant, and then Four of the Men by His Majesty's gracious Mercy, which I wish they may duly improve, the others (Ten in number) are order'd for Execution, viz. Three of them on this Day, and Seven on Monday next.

While under this Condemnation, I have constantly visited them, sometimes in the Dungeon, the Place where they are kept close confined, and oftener in the Chapel of Newgate, praying with them, and reading and expounding the Word of God to them, in order to make them sensible of the heinousness of their Sins, and raise their Repentance to the degree and height of them, so that it might bear a due Proportion to those grievous Offences which had justly brought them to this their shameful and untimely End.

On the Lord's Day the 16th instant I preach'd to them, viz. in the Morning upon these Words of Our Saviour's, St. Mark, chap. 1. the latter part of the 15th Verse, - Repent ye, and believe the Gospel.

From these Words (which I explain'd in general with their Context and parallel Places) I shew'd,

That they contain'd the whole Tenor of the Gospel, in which is requir'd of us, and propos'd to us as the Terms of our Salvation, viz.

I. Faith.

II. Repentance.

And upon these important Points I largely and distinctly discours'd, after I had first taken notice, That these being the first