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 Rt. Hon. the Lord Chief Justice Raymond; the Hon. Mr. Baron Cummins; the Hon. Mr. Baron Thompson; the Hon. Mr. Justice Denton, and others of His Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer, and GaolDelivery 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 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday, being the 28th , 29th , and 30th, of April , and the 1st and 3d of May, 1731 , in the Fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Nine Men, viz. James Berry< no role > , Richard Cooper< no role > , Francis Woodmarsh< no role > , Richard Trap< no role > , alias Blue Dick, John Peaverly< no role > , John Butler< no role > , Francis Lynn< no role > , alias Glynn< no role > , James Owen< no role > , and Ambrose Newport< no role > , were by the Jury found guilty of capital Crimes, and receiv'd Sentence of Death accordingly.

After Sentence, they were instructed in the chief Articles of our most Holy Christian Faith: That it is necessary to know that there is one God, the Sovereign Lord of Heaven and Earth; who made all Things by the Word of his Power, and who preserves every Thing in its Being; " For in him " we Live, and Move, and have " our Being, as certain also of your " own Poets have said, for we are " also his Off-spring: " As saith the Apostle St. Paul, Acts. xvii. 28.