Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

4th September 1724

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14th August 1724


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of the Two Malefactors, Executed at Tyburn on Friday the 4th, of this Instant September, 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 . Lord Mayor of the City of London , Sir William Thompson< no role > , Knt . Mr. Sergeant Raby, 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 12th , 13th , and 14th, of August , Five Men and one Woman were convicted of Capital Offences, and accordingly receiv'd Sentence of Death, three of which were respited (as we are inform'd) in order for Transportation; the other two for Death, were for a Week or ten Days so visited with Sickness, that they could not give their constant Attendance on the publick Service in the Chapel; but behav'd in their respective Apartment, as Men preparing for their great Change, being admonish'd thereto by all the Motives perswasive to so indispensible, and needful a Work.

The Sermon preach'd on Sunday last to those under Condemntaion was bottom'd upon the 5th Verse of the 6th Chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Galations, For every Man shall bear his own Burden. From which Words, we took occasion to show the Effect of Sin in this Life, and the Misery of the Sinner. We show'd that the genuine Consequent of an uninterrupted Sinful course of Life is a Burden; and that this Burden will certainly lye hea




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