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

THE melancholy Papers relating to the Criminals executed in this County, having, the Session before this, receiv'd a happy Interruption, through an extraordinary Accident, which then happen'd, and is well known to the Publick; They now come out again, to give an Account of such of the Malefactors, lately condemn'd, as are the sad Subject of them.

At the general Sessions held at Justice-hall in the Old-bailey, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 4th , 5th , 6th , and 7th days of December, 1717 ; Eleven Persons, viz. Nine Men, and Two Women, that were Try'd for, and Convicted of, several Capital Crimes, receiv'd Sentence of Death: But the Two Women's Judgment being respited for their Pregnancy, and Four of the Men repriev'd by HIS MAJESTY'S most gracious Mercy (which I hope they will take due Care to improve) Five of them only are now order'd for Execution.

While they lay under this deplorable State of Condemnation, I constantly visited them, and had them, twice every day, brought up to the Chapel in Newgate; where I pray'd with them, read, and expounded the Word of GOD to them, and instructed them in those Points of Religion, which were most proper for them both to know and to practise; endeavouring to make them sensible, and to repent, of their past Sins and Follies, and to pray for that Grace, by the Divine Power whereof they might be happily rescued from under the Slavery of Sin and Satan, and admitted into the Glorious Liberty of the Children of GOD. This was the Drift and Purpose of my daily Admonitions to them, both in publick and private. And,

On the Lord's Day, the 8th instant , I preach'd to those Condemn'd Persons, and many others there present, both in the Forenoon and Afternoon, upon Luke 21. 27. being part of the Gospel appointed for that Day, and the Words these: And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a Cloud, with Power and great Glory.

From this Text and Context, first explain'd in general, and illustrated by parallel Places, I shew'd in particular,

I. The Certainty of Christ's Coming to Judge the World. And,

II. The Uncertainty of the Time when He shall come.