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 the Lord Mayor of the City of London, for the Time Being; the Honourable Mr. Baron Comyns, the Honourable Mr. Baron Thompson; the Honourable Mr. Justice Lee; 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 JusticeHall in the Old-Bailey, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, being the 4th , 5th , 6th and 7th of April, 1733 , in the Sixth year of his Majesty's Reign.

Six Men, viz. William Gordon< no role > , William Ward< no role > , William Keys< no role > , William Harper< no role > , William Norman< no role > and Samuel Elmes< no role > ; and one Woman, viz. Elizabeth Austin< no role > were capitally Convicted by the Jury, and received Sentence of Death.

N. B. A Jury of Matrons being impannell'd, found this Elizabeth Austin< no role > with quick Child.

While under Sentence, they were exhorted seriously to prepare for Death, since upon the right employing their few remaining Moments, allow'd them by the lenity of their lawful Superiors, no less depended, then their everlasting Felicity or Misery in another World. I instructed them from these Words, And I heard a Voice from Heaven, saying unto me, blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth: you, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their Labours, and their Works do follow them. Rev. xiv. 13. I show'd them, that in this corruptible and sinful State, we are all liable to mortality, which proposition needs no proof, since we daily find it verify'd in our own experience, high and low, rich and poor, noble and ignoble, from the King sitting