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

8th February 1723

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6th January 1723


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of the Malefactors, that were Executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 8th of February, 1722-3 .

AT the KING's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer, and Terminer, which began at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly , on Wednesday, the 6th of January last ; before the Right Honourable Sir Gerard Conyers< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London , Mr. Justice Powis, Mr. Justice Dormer, John Raby< no role > , Esq ; Deputy-Recorder , and several of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace; Five Men and Two Women were Convicted of Capital Offences, viz. Charles Weaver< no role > , John Levee< no role > , Richard Oakey< no role > , Matthew Flood< no role > , William Blewit< no role > ; Mary Radford< no role > , and Sarah Wells< no role > : William Blewit< no role > , and Mary Radford< no role > This name instance is in set 808. This set is in the group(s): MothersOBP . receiving his MAJESTY's Reprieve, and Sarah Wells< no role > being declar'd with Quick Child, the remaining Four were order'd for Execution.

The Day preceeding their Execution, I endeavour'd to instruct them from the following Words, Psalm 36. ver. 12.

These are the Workers of Iniquity fallen: They are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

From whence, we consider'd,

FIRST, Those Misfortunes that Iniquity brings upon the Sons of Men: Those Distempers of Body, and that Infirmness of Constitution, which inferiour Sins induce upon debauch'd and luxurious Persons. And that certain and inevitable Destruction, which enormous Offences occasion, as David saith, The Sinner shall not live out half his Days, and which was too plainly and too sadly there apparent in Reality, to want a Demonstration from Words.

SECONDLY, Since They, the Workers of Iniquity, were so unhappily fallen, from Gaiety to Grief, from Liberty to Fetters, from Friends and Acquaintance to Contempt and Misery, and the Light of the Sun to an unhappy End; how they were to act, in order to secure




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