THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF

The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Monday the 17th of March, 1717/1718 .

AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Thursday and Friday the 27th & 28th of February last , and adjourn'd to Thursday the 6th instant , Thirteen Persons, viz. Eight Men and Five Women, that were Try'd for, and Convicted of several Capital Crimes, receiv'd Sentence of Death: But Three of the Women being found Pregnant, and another, with Three of the Men having obtain'd HIS Most Sacred MAJESTY'S gracious Reprieve (which I wish them Grace duly to improve) Six, viz 5 Men and 1 Woman 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 of 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 repent of their past Sins, and to pray for that Grace, by the Divine Power whereof they might be rescu'd 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: And,

On the Lord's Day the 2d instant I preach'd to them, both in the Morning and Afternoon; and the Words of my Text (taken out of the Second Lesson for that Morning-Service) were these, Luke xiii. 3. I tell you, Nay: But except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

In my Explanation of these Words of our Blessed Saviour, I first shew'd the Occasions upon which they were both spoken here, and repeated at the 5th Verse; and then observ'd, How Almighty GOD (in his Dispensations towards the Children of Men) does punish some Sinners with sudden Destruction, and others He reserves for future Judgment; thereby teaching us speedily to repent, lest (in our Security) we may be surpris'd, and have neither Room nor Time left us for recollecting our selves, and amending our wicked Lives: A miserable Condition! which those wretched Sinners shall be reduced to at the last, who shall be thus overtaken by the Divine Ven