THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and dying Words of the Malefactors, who were Executed on Wednesday the 22d of this Instant December at Tyburn.

AT the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Jayl Delivery of Newgate, held (before the Right Hon. Sir FRANCIS FORBES< no role > , Kt . Lord Mayor of the City of London , the Hon. Judge Fortescue, Mr. Baron Page, John Raby< no role > . Esq ; Serjeant at Law , 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 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, the 8th , 9th , 10th , 11th , 13th , and 14th Days of December , in the twelfth Year of his Majesty's Reign, eight Men and two Women were by the Jury found guilty of Capital Offences, and receiv'd Sentence of Death.

Of these ten Persons three Men and one Woman receiv'd his Majesty's most gracious Reprieve; and the other Woman was by a Jury of Matrons found to be with quick Child, upon which her execution was respited.

While under Sentence, they were instructed in the necessity of true repentance, from the Words of our Saviour, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. From hence I took occasion to show them the lost State and Condition all Men are in by Nature, that being conceiv'd in Sin and brought forth in Iniquity, we coming into the World guilty, and defil'd that from this original curruption, as from an impure Fountain proceed the innumerable actual Sins of Life, and therefore, the Scripture says of Man that every imagination of the thoughts of his Heart is only evil continually: Upon which account a though they had been free from those heinous Crimes, which by the Laws of this Kingdom are made Capital upon just and necessary Reasons, yet they had abundance of other Sins (if not repented of) sufficient to Damn them, for which they had all the reason in the World to repent and mourn before God; more especially considering that Faith in Jesus Christ and Repentance unto Life are the principal conditions of the Covenant of Grace. &c. I explain'd to them the original of Right and Property; how very unjust it was, for one Man to defraud another; and how necessary it was for establishing and preserving of good order and Society in the World, to enact Capital Laws, and put 'em in execution against notable Offenders: &c. And because some of them were convicted of Crimes bordering upon Murder, I insisted upon the Barbarity, Impiety and Cruelty, of that horrid Crime, from these Words, Gen. iv. 9. 10. And the Lord said unto Cain, where is Abel thy Brother, and he said, I know not: am I my Brother's Keeper? And he said, what hast thou done? the voice of thy Brothers Blood crieth unto me from the Ground? &c. I Instructed them also in the nature, design and gracious Benefits proceeding from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper from these Words, This do in remembrance of me. St. Luke xxii. 19. &c. While from these and such like considerations, they were instructed; all of them appear'd outwardly very attentive and devout at every occasion, and concurr'd in the Worship with abundance of decency; although at first, when they came to Chappel, they show'd themselves not to have been much accustomed to publick Worship, as not understanding the proper times for kneeling and standing, perhaps this was owing to the confusion they were then seiz'd with: But in a short time they came to make their Responses very regularly, and continu'd, in appearance, to do so in a Christian and becoming manner; yet they did not appear so deeply affected, as People in their Circumstances, upon the very brink of eternity, ought to have been; which is not much to be admir'd in Men of such dissolute Lives, as the generality of common Malefactors are. Bird never appear'd in Chappel but two or three times, being confin'd to the Condemn'd-Hold, by reason of most violent Sickness; but when he was exhorted either publickly or privately, he seem'd (to his capacity) to be attentive and serious.

Upon Thursday, the 16th of December , the Report of the above-mention'd ten Malefactors under Sentence of Death was made to their Excellencies the Lords Justices in