Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
23rd 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