THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of the Five Malefactors, who were Executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 29th of April, 1724 .

AT the King's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, &c, held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey , before the Right Honourable Sir Peter Delme< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor , &c. Mr. Baron Gilbert, John Raby< no role > , Esq ; Deputy-Recorder, and several of His MAJESTY's Justices of the Peace. Which began on Wednesday the 26th, of February last , and was continued on Monday, Tuesday, &c. being the 30th , 31st , &c. Six Persons receiv'd Sentence of Death, viz. John Wild< no role > , James Collins< no role > , Thomas Williams< no role > , William Witherington< no role > , Frederick Schmidt< no role > , and Mary Morgan< no role > .

And at the Sessions, which began and ended on Wednesday the 15th , of this Instant April, five Men receiv'd Sentence of Death, viz. Thomas Burden< no role > , John Winderham< no role > , Samuel East< no role > , John Gunner< no role > , and Edward Joyce< no role > . Of these eleven Men five were order'd for Execution, and five Repriev'd and Pardon'd; but Mary Morgan< no role > This name instance is in set 851. This set is in the group(s): MothersOBP . dyed under Condemnation, chiefly as she herself believed, thro' the closeness of the Place where she was confined; having before her Death confess'd the Murder of her Child, and the Manner how it was perform'd, and mention'd the young Man that was the Father of it, &c. as well as she was able, and as she had Sense and Speech left wherewithal to declare her Sentiments.

The Sunday preceeding their Deaths, the Text was taken from 1 Sam. 31st, Chap. ver. 4th, Then said Saul unto his Armour-bearer, draw thy Sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his Armour-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid: Therefore Saul took a Sword and fell upon it.

In considering the Nature of Suicide, we observ'd, That what some Assert, That as God is of infinite Mercy, he cannot require or be pleas'd with Men's continuing in Life under Agonies and Torture such as almost make them think hardly of the divine Being, &c, is not of any Validity: For tho' he is a God of Mercy, he has made Man not to be Happy in this Life; and the same Reasoning would hold as well against God's Mercy, because he has not made Us as happy as Angels, but Places us in this