THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Friday the First of February, 1716/1717.

AT the General Quarter-Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Friday the 11th , Saturday the 12th , and Monday the 14th of January 1716/1717 , Nineteen Persons, viz. Sixteen Men, and Three Women, that were Try'd for, and Convicted of, diverse Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death. But One of the Women being found pregnant, and another, with Twelve of the Men, having obtain'd a Gracious Reprieve (which I wish and here advise them to value and improve) Four Men and One Woman only are now order'd for Execution.

On the Lord's Day the 13th of last Month , I preach'd to them and others there present in the Chapel of Newgate, both in the Forenoon and Afternoon, upon Rom. 12. 1. (being part of the Epistle appointed for that Morning-Service, and the Words these: I beseech you, Brethren, by the Mercies of God, that ye present your Bodies a Living Sacrifice, Holy, Acceptable to GOD, which is your Reasonable Service.

Having first explain'd the Words in general, I then spoke in particular to these chief Points observable in them, viz.

I. The Preface, couch'd in these Words that are most Emphatical and most Perswasive, I beseech you, Brethren, by the Mercies of God.

II. The Exhortation, that contains a most important and comfortable Duty, which is this; That ye present your Bodies a Living Sacrifice, Holy, Acceptable to God.

III. ult. The Strong Motive or Argument used by the Apostle herein, viz. the Reasonableness of this Duty; for (saith he in the Text) It is your Reasonable Service.

I enlarg'd upon those Heads, and drew such practical Inferences as naturally result from them; and then concluded with particular Admonitions to the Malefactors, who were to receive their Sentence the next Day.