THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and dying Words of the Six Malefactors, who were Executed on Monday the 1st of this Instant February , at Tyburn.

AT the KING?S Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery, of Newgate, Held (before the Right Hon. Sir George Merttins< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London , the Lord Chief Baron Eyre, Mr. Justice Dormer, Mr. Serjeant Raby, and several of His Majesty?s Justices of the Peace, for the City of London and county of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday being the 15th , 16th , 18th and 19th of January last , in the eleventh Year of His Majesty?s Reign; Nine Men were Convicted of Capital Offences, and receiv?d Sentence of Death accordingly; two of whom we hear are Reprieved, in order for Transportation, viz. John Map< no role > , and Richard Blackburn< no role > and the third to have his Majesty?s free Pardon, viz. Alexander Warren< no role > .

After Sentence pass?d, and they return?d to the Condemn?d Hold, they all appear?d seemingly easy under their then unhappy Circumstance; all, and severally, owning the Justice of their Sentence, by a frank Acknowledgment of those Crimes for which they were shortly to suffer in the Loss of their Lives, except John Hewlet< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , who in great Resentment and Passion, always charg?d the Prosecutor?s Evidence with horrid Perjury; alledging his Innocence (as to the Murder of Joseph Candy< no role > ) to be the same as of a Person?s who had never seen him. At several Times they had private Instructions in the Condemn?d Hold, on Account of Two or Three whomillness prevented from coming to Chappel.

On the Sunday after Condemnation they were admonish?d from the Words of God spoken by the Prophet Isaiah, recorded in the 55 Chapter and the 7th Verse. Let the Wicked forsake his Way, and the unrighteous Man his Thoughts, and let him turn into the Lord for be will have Mercy upon him,