THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE, His ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.

AT the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery of Newgate, held (before the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London ; the Honourable Mr. Baron Thomson, Recorder of the City of London; the Worshipful Mr. Serjeant Urlin, Deputy Recorder of the City of London; and others his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer, for the City of London; and Justices of the Goal-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 6th , 7th , 8th , 9th , and 11th, of September, 1732 , in the VI. year of his Majesty's Reign. Eighteen Men, viz. James Borthwick< no role > , James Johnson< no role > , alias Drew< no role > , Joseph Powis< no role > , Lewis de Vic< no role > , Paul Cray< no role > , John Bumpus< no role > , Peter Bell< no role > , William Mead< no role > , Vyner White< no role > , Charles Patrick< no role > , John Vaughan< no role > , Edward Perkins< no role > , John Macgrady< no role > , Will. Shelton< no role > , William Fleming< no role > , Thomas Lowder< no role > , alias Loveden< no role > , Edward Dalton< no role > and Serjeant Griffiths< no role > ; and one Woman viz. Elizabeth Pardo< no role > , where by the Jury Convicted of capital Crimes and receiv'd Sentence of Death.

While under Sentence, I instructed them from these Words, ' of the ' which I have told you before, as I ' have also told you in time past, that ' they which do such things, shall not ' inherit the kingdom of God, Gal. 5. 21. Here I expos'd to them the many vices, they had enslav'd themselves to Whoredom, Drunkeness, Idleness, Covetousness, and many other excesses and extravagancies; and how that by being addicted to all manner of Intemperance, as the Apostle expresseth it, ' who being past feeling, ' have given themselves over unto ' lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness, ' Eph. 4, 19. I show'd them, that because of their abominable, wicked and scandalous lives, now God's judgments had most Justly over taken them, and therefore they ought to 'bear the rod, and