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

11th February 1734

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18th January 1734


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 Right Honourable Sir William Billers< no role > , Knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London; the Right Honourable the Lord chief Baron Reynolds; the Honourable Mr. Justice Denton; 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 Gaol-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex,) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 16th , 17th and 18th of January, 1733-4 , in the Seventh Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Ten Men, viz. William Simmonds< no role > , Samuel Steele< no role > , George Cotterell< no role > , Henry Tilson< no role > , Henry Worrel< no role > , William Symonds< no role > , George Peters< no role > , James Belford< no role > , John Travis< no role > and James Mackdowal< no role > , were by the Jury convicted of capital Offences, and receiv'd Sentence of Death.

When under Sentence, I instructed them, how to perform the duty of true Repentance, from these Words. Except ye Repent says our Saviour, you shall all likewise Perish, St. Luke 13. 3. When Christ sends out his Apostles to Proclaim remission of Sins, and other benefits purchas'd by his Death to all the World; he makes this the Terms wherein they are to be tendred. Preach repentance and remission of Sins, says he, in my name to all Nations, beginning at Jerusalem, St. Luke. 24. 47. Christ never




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