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

23rd December 1730

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9th December 1730


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE, His ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.

AT the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol-Delivery of Newgate, held (before the Rt. Hon. HUMPHREY PARSONS< no role > , Esq; Lord Mayor of the City of London; the Hon. Mr. Justice Page; the Hon. Mr. Baron Commins; the Worshipful Mr. Serjeant Raby, and others of His Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol. Delivery for the City of London, and Gaol-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, being the 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, and 9th of December, 1730 , in the fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Fifteen Men, viz. Abr. White< no role > , Francis Saunders< no role > , John Mines< no role > , alias Minsham< no role > , alias Mitchel< no role > , Robert Taylor< no role > , William Brabyn< no role > , James Hall< no role > , William Holland< no role > , Peter Norman< no role > , J. Smith, J. Barnet, Richard Smith< no role > , W. Whitford, Thomas Mansel< no role > , Charles Rey< no role > , and Joshua Cornwall< no role > ; and two Women, viz. Constance Buckle< no role > , and Mary Smith< no role > , were by the Jury found Guilty of capital Offences, and receiv'd Sentence of Death.

The two Women, viz. Constance Buckle< no role > , convicted of a Street-Robbery, in Company with White, Saunders, Minsham, and Taylor; and Mary Smith< no role > , convicted for robbing a Man, by picking his Pocket of Five Shillings, in the Street near Leicester-fields, in the Night-time, pleaded their Bellies: Upon which a Jury of Matrons being sworn and impannell'd, brought them both in with quick Child; and then they were remanded back




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