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

22nd July 1719

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12th July 1719


THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches Of the Malefactors Executed at Tyburn, On Wednesday the 22d of July, 1719 .

AT the General Quarter-Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 8th , 9th , and 10th of July, 1719 , among the several Persons try'd for divers illegal Facts, Ten (viz. Six Men and Four Women) that were found Guilty of Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death: But Three of the Women being reported to be Pregnant, and the other, with Three of the Men, having obtain'd THEIR EXCELLENCIES THE LORDS OF THE REGENCY's gracious Reprieve, (which I here pray them duly to improve) Three only are now order'd for Execution.

All the while they lay under this sad Condemnation I constantly visited them, and had them brought up (twice every Day) to the Chapel of Newgate; where I pray'd with them, and read and expounded the Word of GOD to them; thereby endeavouring to instruct and comfort their Souls, and bring them into a State of true Repentance and a lively Faith in CHRIST, thro' whose allsufficient and most prevailing Merits alone, they might hope to obtain Pardon and Salvation. This (chiefly) was the Subject I daily treated of: And,

On the LORD's Day the 12th Instant , I preached to these Condemned Prisoners, and others there present, (Price Two Pence.)




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