THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of Humphrey Angier< no role > , and Joseph Middleton< no role > ; who were Excuted at Tyburn , on Monday, the 9th of September, 1723 .

AT the KING's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, Held for the City of London, and County of Middlesex; before the Right Honourable Sir Gerrard Conyers< no role > , Knight , Lord Mayor of the City of London , the Honourable Mr. Justice Denton, and Sir William Thompson< no role > , Knight , Recorder , besides many of His Majesty's Justice of the Peace;) Five Men were found Guilty of Capital Offences, and received Sentence accordingly.

After Judgement given upon them, they set themselves very carefully to Recover their Reading, which by a long Carelessness was in a great Measure forgotten; extreamly lamenting and bewailing the Estate their Vices had reduc'd them to; some on Account of themselves, who must suffer a shameful Death; and others on Account of their Families and Relations; One of them affirming that his aged Mother was distracted and ty'd in her Bed upon hearing the Disasters he was fallen into; and another declaring that his Wife whom he marry'd wholly for Love, and without any Profit or Advantage, had proved the sole Occasion of his Misfortunes, and was so far from being concern'd at his Sufferings, that she ridicul'd him, and refused him all manner of Sustinance and Support.

But as for Joseph Middleton< no role > , he had a farther Reason to lament; that having so great a Work to perform, he was hinder'd in the Performance, by being altogether unable to Read. But Humphrey Angier< no role > took a deal of Pains, as I was told, in reading to him almost all Night, and in calling upon him to attend very early every Morning, so long as Angier had Health; and after Angier was afflicted with Sickness, the Loss of him was supplyed to Middleton, by a Person under Confinement, who not only Read proper Books to the Malefactors in the Day time, but continued with them all Night, exciting them to repeat their Devotions, as soon as they had taken a very short Repose.