Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

27th January 1718

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16th July 1717


2. Henry Chickley< no role > , condemn'd for assaulting Mr. Charles Brown< no role > on the King's Highway, and taking from him a Silver-Watch, a Pocketbook, and a Bank-Note of 25 l. on the 16th of July last . He said, he was 21 Years of age, born in the Parish of St. Mary in Warwick : That he had serv'd a Tobacconist in that Town for 5 Years together, who imploy'd him in cutting and making-up Tobacco: That when he left his said Master, he came up to London , and follow'd the same Imployment with a Tobacconist here, whom he serv'd two Years: That he had been for three Years in the Sea-Service , viz. two on board the Roebuck, and one in the Torbay, both Men of War. He own'd he had (for the greatest part of his Life) much neglected the Service of GOD, and committed many Sins, such as Lewdness, Debauchery, &c. but never was guilty of Theft or Robbery. And here he positively deny'd his being concern'd in the Fact he stood condemn'd for. But when afterwards I shew'd him how he ought seriously to consider, that if he was guilty of it, and endeavour'd to cover it with a Lye, e should be so far from getting any Advantage by such a Denial, that would but aggravate his Crime, and render him so much the more guilty before GOD. Upon this he said, That if he had done it, he was sorry for it: And that was all I could then get of him.

At the Place of Execution, to which they were this Day carry'd from Newgate , viz. John Stone< no role > on a Sledge, and the other in a Cart, I attended them for the last time; and with such pressing Exhortations and Prayers, as I judg'd most proper to use for them, I endeavour'd to work them into a due Sense of their miserable Condition by Sin in this World, and of the infinitely greater Misery (if they died in Impenitence) which they should undergo to all Eternity in the next. Then I ask'd them severally, What they had to say before this their Departure; and, Whether they could still persist in the Denial of their respective Facts? To which they




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