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

8th June 1719

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29th May 1719


THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches Of the Malefactors Executed at Tyburn, On Monday the 8th of June 1719 .

AT the Sessions held at Justice Hall in the Old-Baily , on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 14th , 15th , and 16th of May, 1719 , among the Persons then and there Try'd, Ten (that is, 7 Men and 3 Women) who were found guilty of divers Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death: But Five of them being Repriev'd, viz. 2 of the Women upon account of their Pregnancy, and the other Woman, with two of the Men, by the Mercy of THEIR EXCELLENCIES THE LORDS JUSTICES (which Mercy I hope and heartily wish they may duly improve.) Five are now order'd for Execution.

While they were under this melancholy State of Condemnation, I constantly visited them, and had them twice every day brought up to the Chapel of Newgate , where I read Prayers, and expounded the Word of God to them, endeavouring to perswade them now to live agreeably to it, who hitherto (as it appear'd) had highly offended. against it.

On the Lord's Day the 24th of May last , I preached to them and others there present, both in the Morning and Afternoon, upon Psal. 86. 12, 13. Of which Text having given an Account in my Paper concerning John Wheeler< no role > , who suffer'd on the Day immediately following, I shall not need say any more of it here: But proceed to the next.

On Friday the 29th of the same Month , being the Anniversary Day of K. CHARLES the IId's Blessed Nativity and Happy Restauration: I preached on part of the Gospel appointed for the Service of that Day, viz. St. Matth. 22. 21, 22. Then saith He unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar, the Things which are Caesar's; and unto GOD, the Things that are GOD's. When they had heard these Words, they marvelled, and left Him, and went their way.

Those Words of our Blessed Saviour to the Pharisees Disciples, and the Herodians, I first explain'd in general with their Context; and then consider'd in particular these three Things chiefly, viz.

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