THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 20th of March, 1716/1717 .

AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 27th and 28th of February , and the 1st and 2d of March, 1716/1717 , 28 Persons, viz. 3 Men and 5 Women, who were Try'd for, and Convicted of, Murder and other Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death: But 4 of the Women being found pregnant, and 8 of the Men having obtain'd a Gracious Reprieve (which Mercy I pray they may have Grace to improve) 14 Men and One Woman are order'd for Execution now, and Joseph Still< no role > alias Cotterel< no role > , upon Friday next, at Standford-Hill .

While under this Condemnation, I constantly visited them, who being (twice every Day) brought up to the Chapel in Newgate, where (after Prayers and the Word of GOD first read) they were chiefly taught (from the Scripture) the Doctrine of Faith and Repentance, and earnestly exhorted continually to exert themselves therein, as the Great Things that could beget them an Interest in CHRIST, and by which (thro' his alone Merits) Sinners may obtain Salvation.

What SERMONS I then preach'd to them, I shall give an account of in my Paper of Joseph Still< no role > alias Cotterel< no role > (or rather Cockerel< no role > , nick-nam'd Robin Chicken) condemn'd for the Murder by him committed on the Body of John Green< no role > , at Newington in Middlesex .

The Accounts they respectively gave me of themselves, are as follow, viz.

1. John Tomkins< no role > , condemn'd for the Murder by him committed on the Body of his Fellow-Servant Catherine Spooner< no role > , a Cook-maid in the Family of the Honourable Colonel Clayton, on the 26th of January last . He said, he was 37 Years of age, born at Malpass in Cheshire , was brought up to no Trade, but only was a Servant to Gentlemen from his Youth, and actually in Service when he committed the bloody Fact he is now to die for. He declar'd himself to be of the Popish Religion , and declin'd the receiving any Instructions from me; nevertheless I