THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of the Malefactors, that were Executed at Tyburn, on Monday the 31st of December, 1722 .

AT the KING'S Commission of the Peace, and Oyer, and Terminer, Holden at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of this Instant December; before the Right Honourable Sir Gerard Conyers< no role > , Knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice King, Mr. Justice Eyre, Mr. Baron Page, J. Raby, Esq; Deputy-Recorder, &c. Three Men and Two Women were Convicted of Capital Offences, viz. Edmund Neal< no role > , William Pincher< no role > , John Harriot< no role > ; Sarah Nut< no role > , and Mary Burroughs< no role > ; of these, three receiving his MAJESTY's Gracious Reprieve; the two former were order'd for Execution.

During the time, that these unhappy Malefactors lay under Condemnation, it fell out, that those of them who suffer'd Death, as deserving it most, appear'd to me to be most in Expectation of Life; having settled in themselves a wrong Notion, that the Nature of their Offence was to be measur'd only by the Money they took from the old Man. And they were the less able to be Effective in their Duty, as they had, by an habitual idle Course, in a great measure lost that Ability to read which they once possest; but as they were furnish'd with good Books, that Unhappiness was repair'd by one who read to them in the Place of their Condemnation. Tho' they all profess'd, and indeed show'd an Inclination to Repent of a vicious Course of Life, and regarded whatever was inculcated into them, yet during the publick Prayers in the Chappel, having so much addicted themselves to Idleness and Play, that they could not abstain from it, or force themselves to be wholly serious for one Hour, tho' their Happiness for ever depended upon it.

Tho' frequently there are Complaints made; of the Interruptions given them, in the Place of their Confinement, these Men were no way disturbed by any prophane Prisoner among them, who not being dis