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

9th August 1732

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26th July 1732


Pancras , of his Hat, and 3 s. in Money, receiv'd her Majesty's most gracious Reprieve: Daniel Tipping< no role > , and Robert Element< no role > were order'd for Execution.

N. B. Robert Ellement< no role > had the Sentence Executed upon him, on Wednesday, the 26th of July last , and a genuine Account of his Life and Character was given, in the last Dying Speech of the said Date, and of his Behaviour and of the rest, while they were under Sentence; to which we refer the Reader. The Evening being the Execution of Robert Ellement< no role > , Daniel Tipping< no role > was graciously Repriev'd for a Fortnight, but the Crime for which he was convicted, having been represented henious and grievous, it was not thought expedient to enlarge his Reprieve any farther, but to let Justice take Place against him, according to his Sentence.

Daniel Tipping< no role > had the same Exhortations and godly Advices with all the rest, when they were under Sentence, which we shall not repeat here. I attended him in Chappel, and exhorted him to a serious Preparation for Death, from these Words, Mark the perfect Man, and behold the upright: for the End of that Man is Peace. Psalms, xxxvii. 37. From which Words I show'd him, that after all the vain Pursuits Men may pretend to have in enquiring after happiness; the only solid Ground and Foundation of attaining Felicity, is holiness in all manner of Life and Conversation, for without holiness no Man can see the Lord: The Reflection upon a Life well Spent, is the only Angel can give us comfort in a dying Hour; it is not the great Estates we have conquer'd, nor the numerous Honours and Employments we have gone through which can then afford us any Content or Satisfaction; but the only Thing which then can give us any Pleasure or Delight, is the Reflection upon the Innocency of our Life past, and the good Works we have done. I represented to him how terrible a Thing it is for a wicked Man to think, when Death approaches and his Fate is inevitable, how idlely and unprofitably, how viciously and profligately he hath spent his Time, in doing Mischief to his fellow Creatures, and in ruining and demolishing the common Interest of Mankind; but more especially, in offending and displeasing the great God, in breaking his Laws and contemning his Ordinances; how could he then ex




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