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

9th November 1722

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12th October 1722


THE Ordinary of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT Of the Behaviour, Confessions, and last dying Words of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 9th, of November, 1722 .

THE King's Commission of the Peace and Oyer and Terminer, being Held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, on the 10th , 11th and 12th of October last ; before the Right Honourable Sir William Stewart< no role > , Knt . late Lord Mayor of the City of London , the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Pratt, the Honourable Mr. Justice Tracey, and Mr. Baron Price, and John Raby< no role > , Deputy, Esq ; Recorder ; besides several of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of London, and County of Middlesex: Four Men were then found Guilty of Capital Offences; viz. William Mar< no role > ; John Quin< no role > ; Samuel Molton< no role > , and Thomas Williams< no role > . The two last, whereof receiving His Majesty's Gracious Reprieve, in order to their being Transported; the two former remained for Execution.

While they lay under the Sentence of Death, no one had any Interruption in the Performance of his Duty, except John Quin< no role > , who who was Lighted-headed for the greatest Part of the time that he remain'd in that sad Estate; which prevented his improving in the Knowledge of his Religion, or performing the Great and important Work for his Soul, which lay upon him to perform; tho' I was assur'd that especially Thomas Williams< no role > , (whose Father had very carefully grounded him in the Knowledge of the Principles of his Religion) was extreamly willing and ready to Read to and Pray by him, in the Condemn'd-Hold; he seeming to take a particular Pleasure and Satisfaction in those Performances, and having much Heart and a Spirit in his Misfortunes, till he received the Tidings, that his Father was dead with Grief for his deplorable Condition, and also that his Mother was like to be Distracted and to meet with the same sad Fate; but being inform'd that his Father having been to see him under Condemnation, at four of the Clock, dyed with the vast concern of it, at six; it seem'd to make a much deeper Impression upon him, than the Prospect of Death had ever




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