Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday, being the 8th , 9th , 10th , 11th and 13th of December, 1731 . in the fifth Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Eleven Men, viz. Patrick Knowland< no role > the Father, and Robert Knowland< no role > the Son, John Norman< no role > , John Rogers< no role > , William Newell< no role > , Thomas Woolcot< no role > , James Dortman< no role > , whose Name was Daultworth< no role > , George Mason< no role > , Samuel Cole< no role > , Edward Payn< no role > , and William Trevors< no role > , were convicted by the Jury of capital Offences, and had Sentence of Death past upon them.

When under Sentence, most of them being YOUNG MEN, wholly addicted to their sensual Appetites, and void of all good Qualities, and by Consequence grosly ignorant of religious Matters, and wholly unacquainted with the Ways of God. I expos'd to them the Danger and unreasonableness, of giving themselves up to their own Hearts, Lusts, and vicious Appetites, since that Course of Life cannot fail to bring them to Misery, Contempt, Disgrace and exemplary Punishment in this World, if persisted in, and if not repented of, to eternal Misery and Desolation in the Life to come. I show'd them that God had made us reasonable Creatures, after his own Image in Knowledge, Righteousness and true Holiness, that being endow'd with rational Faculties, capable to discern betwixt good and evil, it was a perverting of our Nature and insulting our Reason, to give ourselves up to the fulfilling of our wicked Hearts, Lusts and vicious Inclinations, which alienate our Minds from God, rob us of that glorious Image and Pattern after which we were made, and make us degenerate into the Nature of Fiends, Lyons, Tygers and other Beasts of Prey: So that instead of being Beneficent, Good and Merciful, like unto God who is all Love and Goodness, who is kind to the Evil and the Good, St. Mathew, v. 45. That ye may be the Children of your Father which is in Heaven: For he waketh his Sun to rise on the Evil and on the Good, and sendeth Rain on the Just and on the Unjust. They become common Enemies to God and Man, and every Thing which is Good and Vertuous, desirable and reasonable; and thus they precipitate themselves into innumerable Calamities, Sorrows and Distresses. And therefore the wise Solomon says, Righteousness exalteth a Nation: But Sin is a Reproach to any People. Prov. xiv. 34.