came up to London , where he had not been long, before he was listed in the first Regiment of Guards , under the Command of Colonel Townshend. He freely confest the Facts he now stood condemn'd for; but said he had done no such things before, and that those (which were his first) would be also his last, were he to live never so long. When I told him of his Barbarity to the Person of Mr. Proud, whom he violently assaulted, being not contented only to rob him, but using him most cruelly, even to his endeavouring the taking away of his Life: He answer'd, That in his Heat and Haste (being under Fear) he knew not well what he did, but now considering what he had done, he was very sorry, and begg'd his Pardon for it, thanking GOD, that the Wounds he had given him, proved not Mortal. Here he said, That though he never was a Robber before, yet he had been otherwise a very bad Young-man, he having liv'd a loose Life, and been very extravagant, a great Spendthrift, and withal a most undutiful Son, who had given his Father a great deal of trouble: All which he now was very much griev'd at, being sensible of the Evil and Misery his Follies had justly brought upon him in this World, and of the greater Punishment he deserv'd to undergo in the next: And therefore earnestly pray'd to GOD for Mercy, and his Father, and all others he had offended, for Pardon; and wish'd all Young-men might take Warning by him, and be more dutiful to GOD and their Parents, than himself had been; and so avoid such a sad and untimely End, as this he was now come to. When Yesterday the Death-Warrant was come down, and he found by it, that there was no hope at all for him to live much longer in this World, he then (upon my exhorting him to make a full Confession of his Sins, and clear his Conscience) own'd (though he had deny'd it before) that within these 4 or 5 Months he had committed several (but no great) Robberies on the Highway, sometimes about Paddington , and at other times in and about Whitechappel , as also in other Places further from London; and, That once he had begg'd a Furlow of his Officer, under pretence of seeing his Friends in the Country for a few Days; but it was upon no such occasion; his only Design being then to have more Time and Opportunity to do Mischief (as he did) to honest Men: Which wicked Course of Life is now a great trouble to his Soul, who heartily wish'd he had not been so wicked. He implor'd again and again GOD's Mercy and their Pardon whom he had any ways injur'd: And that was all the Satisfaction he could make.

2. Joseph Sherrier< no role > , condemn'd with the 'foresaid Tho. Bingley< no role > , for being concern'd with him in the 3 Facts above specified, He said, he was 22 Years of age, born at Alresford in the County of Suffolk , and a Lock-Smith by Trade: That since his coming up to London , which was in May last, he work'd with a Smith near Drury-lane , when he had time to work, he being in the same Service, and in the same Regiment and Company with Bingley, who (he said) was the Man that put him upon these Facts, which he would never have thought to commit, had he not been enticed thereto; adding, That when he saw the said Bingley had so barbarously (as he had) cut the poor Man's Head in diverse places, he cry'd to him, Why have you done that? And he further told me, he was very sorry to