THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of the Three Malefactors, who were Executed at Tyburn , on Monday the 23d of December, 1723 .

AT the KING's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, &c. which began on Wednesday the 4th of this Instant December , before the Right Hon. Sir Peter Delme< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London ; the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice King, Mr. Baron Page, John Raby< no role > , Esq ; Deputy-Recorder , and several of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace; three Men and one Woman were found guilty of capital Offences, and had Judgment pronounc'd upon them accordingly.

I was the more careful in attending these unfortunate Men, (viz. J. Stanley, T. Saunders, and J. Harrington; Jane Martin< no role > being judg'd with Child) as the two last Men could not read, and as the first was of a Behaviour odd and uncommon. The Sunday preceeding their Deaths, I preach'd to them from Psal. 55, V. 23.

Bloody and deceitful Men shall not live out half their Days.

FIRST, considering from the Words, the Nature of Murder, according to the Natural, the Jewish, and the Christian Law.

SECONDLY, considering Parricide, and the particular Case before us; where was a near Relation, and the strongest Ties for Amity and Friendship. The different Crimes in wounding one whose Life is or is not wanted. Whither the Man whose Life is most needed to support his Family, is not most criminal, in running that Life into Dangers, or in bringing himself to untimely Death; and whither such a Father is not culpable for the Faults his necessitous Offspring may commit thro' Poverty.

THIRDLY, we consider'd, the being deceitful and bloody. If Murder is not most criminal in him, who pretends Love and Tenderness; especially if thereby a credulous unhappy Creature, blinded by the Beauty of a Man, left her Friends and threw herself on his Goodness and Sincerity: We desiring those present to reflect, if any of them had ever led a Person into Vice, and then kill'd her for being vicious.

FOURTHLY, we observ'd, by deceitful Men might be meant Thieves and Robbers, who love the Night, and lye lurking in secret Places. We requir'd them to rely on Christ, who died for Sinners, and was ready and willing to receive them into Glory and Happiness, tho' they were so unfortunate as to suffer an unhappy Death.