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

5th July 1721

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5th July 1721


THE Ordinary of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT Of the Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Dying Words of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 5th of July,1721 .

THE Day preceeding the Execution of the Four Malefactors, who, out of seven Condemned to Dye, where then agreeable to His Majesty?s Pleasure, order?d for Execution; I instructed Them, from the Following Text of Scripture;

Finally, Be ye All of one Mind having Compassion One of Another; Love as Brethen, Be Pitiful, Be Courteous;

Not rendring Evil for Evil or Railing for Railing, but contrariwise, Blessing; knowing that Te are Hereunto called to Inherit a Blessing. (1 Pet. 3, 8, 9.)

In speaking to the Words, We mention?d to the Prisoners and Others, The following Things;

FIRST, The Being all of One Mind: Or, The not loving to foment Party-Disputes, and to make this our Land of Milk and Honey a Field of War and Blood. 2dly, The not loving to raise needless Arguments about Religion; or to make That which was designed to render Us Happy Hereafter, rendered Us Divided and Wretch?d Here: Yet not to be All of one Mind, so as a late Author would perswade Us, by blending the Christian, Jewish and Mahometan Faiths together. 3dly, We told the Prisoners that there was a Virtue in being of one Mind with Our Superiours, In thinking those Things Offences, which They had made Unlawful and Leaders to Death; whether it was, The Returning from Transportation; The Counterfeiting the Current Coin; or the Like.

SECONDLY, Having Compassion One of Another. Or as the Word will signify, (if We would prevent its being something the same with the Command be Low, be Pitiful,) Taking part in the Misfortunes of Others; To wit, Being Assistant to Others in their Calamities; Even detrimenting ourselves a little, if we can much advantage




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