THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and dying Words of the Malefactors, who were Executed on Monday the 24th of this Instant May , at Tyburn.

AT the KING's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer and Goal-Delivery, &c. Holden (before the Right Honourable Sir George Merttins< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor , the Honourable Mr. Justice Fortescue, Mr. Baron Page, Sir William Thompson< no role > , Knt . Recorder , Mr. Serjeant Raby, Deputy-Recorder, besides many of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of London and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old Bailey , on the 13th , 14th , and 15th of this Instant May, five Persons were by the Jury found guilty of Capital Crimes, and received Sentence accordingly.

Of these five Malefactors, J. Plant received his Majesty's gracious Reprieve, he having been in the Royal Service from the Time he was 9 Years old, and being a Man who had suffered much in North-America, and by a Shipwreck on a Rock by Cape Sables, and by Pirates who plundered him there; and also by the Spaniards when he was settled at Malaga, till the Time that he was taken on board the Essex Man of War on the Coast of Sicily, &c. This Prisoner being exempted, the remaining four, viz. William Sperry< no role > , Robert Harpham< no role > , Jonathan Wild< no role > This name instance is in set 3033. , and Robert Sandford< no role > , were ordered for Execution. While they continued under Condemnation they were instructed in the Nature of Equity, the Original of Right and Property, the Aggravation or Extenuations of an Offence, from the following Words of Soloman.

Let us bear the Conclusion of the whole Matter; Fear God and keep his Commandments, for this is the whole Duty of Man, Eccles. chap. xii. ver. 13. After the Instructions relating to the Sacrament, and other Duties, they were shown the Nature of Self-Murther, the Unreasonableness, Cowardice, and Danger of it; together with the fallacy of the Arguments usually offered in favour of Self-Murther, from the following Words, Job ii. 9, 10.

Then said his Wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine Integrity? Curse God and dye.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish Women speaketh: What, shall we receive Good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive Evil? The Prisoners seem'd attentive to these and other Discourses that were offered to them.

I am now, as usual, to give some short Account of these Malefactors, with regard chiefly to their Behaviour under Sentence of Death; for the Satisfaction of those who were concerned in bringing them to Justice: In doing this, I shall confine myself to what I judge necessary thereto, and to what was the original Design of this Paper; not endeavouring to satisfie those who are curious to know all the Actions of Malefactors Lives.

1. WILLIAM SPERRY< no role > , of Bromley , was convicted of assaulting T. Goulding on the Highway, and taking a Coat, Breeches, Stockings,