THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Friday the 13th of February, 1718/1719 .

AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily , on Friday the 5th , and Saturday the 6th , and thence adjourn'd to Monday the 8th of December, 1718 , Four Malefactors, viz. 3 Men and 1 Woman, that were Try'd for, and Convicted of several Capital Crimes, accordingly receiv'd Sentence of Death. And at the last Quarter Sessions held at the same Place on Thursday the 15th, Friday the 16th, Saturday the 17th, and thence adjourn'd to Monday the 19th of January, 1718/1719 , Fifteen Persons, viz. 12 Men and 3 Women, that were then likewise Convicted of diverse Capital Crimes, did also receive such a Sentence: But of the former number the Woman being found Pregnant, and one of the Men graciously Repriev'd; and of the latter, another Woman also Pregnant, and the other two, with 5 of the Men, having likewise obtain'd the Mercy of a Reprieve, which I wish they may duly improve; and to all these one being added, who dy'd in the Hold on the 6th instant , 8 only are now order'd for Execution.

While they lay under this Condemnation, I constantly visited them every Day, either in the Condemn'd Hold, or in the Chapel of Newgate ; where I pray'd with them, and read and expounded the Scriptures to them, endeavouring to give them a true Notion of the Duties of Christianity, by shewing them on the one hand the exceeding great Reward attending the Performance, and on the other the unexpressible Misery unavoidably ensuing upon the wilful Neglect thereof. These were the things I chiefly labour'd day by day to make them sensible of, in order to the bringing them to true Repentance and Amendment of Life, and thereby to Eternal Salvation: And,

On the Lord's Day the 7th of December last (the Day before their receiving Sentence of Death) I preach'd to them, in the Morning and Afternoon, on Rom. 15 4. being part of the Epistle for the Day, and the Words these; For what soever things were written aforetime were written for our Learning, that we through Patience and Comfort of the Scripture might have Hope.

In my discoursing upon these Words (after a general Explanation of them) I consider'd severally these three Expressions in them, viz.

I. It is written.

II. A .

III. For our Learning.

Observing,