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 Baron Reynolds; the Hon. Mr. Justice Probyn, Mr. Serjeant Urlin, DeputyRecorder of the City of London; and others of His Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer, for the City of London, and Justices of Goal-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice Hall in the OldBailey, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, being the 14th , 15th , 16th , and 17th of July, 1731 , in the Fifth Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Eight Men, viz. Thomas Grainger< no role > , John Davis< no role > , John Drinkwater< no role > , Bernard Fink< no role > , William Yates< no role > , alias Warrington< no role > , John Armstrong< no role > , Nathaniel Lamprey< no role > , and Thomas Clarkson< no role > were by the Jury convicted of capital Offences, and sentenced to Die.

All of them being young Men, abandon'd to commit Wickedness, averse to every Thing that was Good, and whatever good Precepts they might have received in their Childhood, yet by a long continu'd Habit of vicious Courses, in following their diabolical and hellish Inclinations, their juvenile Instructions being almost wholly eras'd and obliterated: I explained to them, in a plain Way, the Articles of our Holy Faith, necessary to Salvation, and show'd them, that