An Account of them while under Sentence.

HUMPHREY ANGIER< no role > was Indicted for Assaulting Mr. Lewen, in the Lane between Highgate and Hornsey , about Five o' Clock in the Evening, on the 23d of December, 1720 , and taking from him Seven Guineas, and Sixteen Shillings in Silver. He was also Indicted for Stopping Edward Herring< no role > , Waggoner , (between Knights-Bridge and Hide-Park Corner , between two and three o' Clock in the Morning, on the 21st of September, 1711 , and taking from Mr. John Sibley< no role > a Passenger, Nine Shillings and Six pence in Money: The Evidence against him being particulariz'd by one Dyer, who was the Prisoner's Companion in the Commission of the Facts, &c. The Jury found him Guilty of both the Indictments.

The Account which this Prisoner gave me, for the Satisfaction of any one who should be inquisitive about him, is as follows. He went very Young he said, (from a Town near Dublin in Ireland , where he was born) to the City of Cork , and was there put Apprentice to a Cooper , but could not by his Master be perswaded at all to Labour; yet he continued about that Place above four Years, tho' his Master was by no means desirous he should there remain, and took an uncommon Care of his House, lest he should be injur'd in the Night-time by Angier or his Companions: So that at length his Father perceiving, that the Master was wholly resolved to have nothing more to do with him, was prevail'd upon to carry him from Ireland to England , and let him try his Fortune, where he would have an Opportunity of preferring himself.

After he had wander'd about, and been in several Places, he was in Danger from some he had wrong'd, and therefore enlisted in the King's Service , (at Eighteen Years of Age, as he said) It being the time of the late Rebellion in Scotland, he was in expectation of being ordered thither, where he had Hopes of improving his Fortune, at the Expence of the Country Folks, without much Guilt, as he believed.

After this, being known to one Duce, (who suffer'd at the last Execution) he improv'd in a wrong way from his Conversation. Becoming also acquainted with the Sister of Duce, marryed her, tho' he acknowledg'd he had no vertuous Designs in his Mind at that time, as to the Course of Life he intended to lead, together with her; adding, that he wish'd he had then dyed, or had had some good Advice given him. But he was glad that the Cruelty and Barbarity that was in Butler and Mead, and others whom he too well knew, in shooting all, or most of those they robb'd, was not in his Temper: And Mead and Butler, &c. having told him, that overtaking a young Man, a Shoemaker, in the Dover Road, who told 'em he was lately marry'd, and was going to his Friends, thereupon, they ask'd him to go and look at a Bird's Nest in the Hedge, and there bound and gag'd and robb'd him, and afterwards turn'd back and shot out his Brains; this Angier affirm'd that he refus'd ever to sit down or drink with Mead after that, and told Butler that Cruelty was not Courage.