THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of the Five Malefactors, Executed at Tyburn on Friday the 28th of this Instant August, 1724 .

AT the King's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, &c. held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily , before the Right Honourable Sir Peter Delme< no role > , Knt . and Lord Mayor of the City of London ; Mr. Justice Dormer, and John Raby< no role > , Esq ; Sergeant at Law ; and several of His MAJESTY's Justices of the Peace (for the City of London and County of Middlesex; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, being the 8th , 9th , and 10th of July , in the Tenth Year of His MAJESTY's Reign, Five Men and two Women were convicted of Capital Offences, and accordingly receiv'd Sentence of Death. The two Women pleading pregnancy, and (found to be such) were respited from Deth, in order (as we hear) for Transportation.

The Behaviour of 4 of those Men, who lay under Sentence was such, as demonstrated to the World their just abhorrence of their Crimes, and their lively Apprehensions of their near approaching Sufferings for them. They were constant Attendants on the Service in the Chapel (exceed that Sickness prevented) behaving there with the decorum of sincere Penitents; in the Dungeon as Men making provision for a happy Eternity, spending their last Moments chiefly in Reading, and Praying; being frequently Admonish'd thereto from the Bulpit, and in the Closer from different Portions of the Sacred Scriptures.

On the Sunday before Execution they heard two Sermons; that the in the Morning grounded on the 7th Verse of the 139th Psalm, Whither shall I go from thy Spirit; or whither shall I flee from thy Presence? That in the Afternoon upon the latter part of the 32d Verse of the 15th Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians, Let us eat and drink, for to Morrow we die. From the former Words we asserted, and prov'd the Omnipresence of God, and, Secondly, show'd what influence it ought to have over the Conduct of our Lives in general; and Thirdly, made it applicable to the sorrowful dying part of the Audience, Exhorting them, that whereas they had not set God before their Eyes, and as little dreamt that they were under