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

31st May 1718

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27th May 1718


THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confession, AND LAST SPEECH OF John Príce< no role > , vulgò Jack Catch< no role > , WHO, For the Murder of Elizabeth White< no role > in Bunhill-Fields , was Executed at that Place, on Saturday the 31st of May, 1718 , and thence carried to Stone bridge near Kings-land , in Middlesex , there to be Hang'd in Chains.

IN my Printed Paper concerning the Four Malefactors that were Try'd, Convicted, and Condemn'd (with this John Price< no role > ) at the Sessions held at Justice-hall in the Old-Baily, on the 23d , 24th , 25th , & 26th of April last , and Executed at Tyburn on last Tuesday the 27th instant , I gave an Account of their Lives, and of the several Sermons I preach'd to them while under Condemnation. And now I come here to set forth that which particularly respects the miserable Person who is the sad Subject of this Paper.

When he was now left alone, I still continu'd my Visits to him, and constantly pray'd with him, endeavouring to instruct him in those Things which were absolutely necessary for him both to know and to practise, during his Abode here on Earth; the shortness of which I endeavour'd to make him sensible of, that (if possible) he might be perswaded to lose no Time in his due Preparation for his approaching Change.




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