Smithfield , who where willing to Educate him at School, and in religious Principles, but he being of a Perverse Temper, was no way Inclinable to any Thing that was Good or Virtuous, but associating himself with the vilest of People, in whose Company he contracted the basest Habits, which brought him suddenly to an untimely End. His Father dying, left him Young, and he was not put, nor willing to go to any Trade, only he staid sometime with a Barber and Peruke-Maker , of whom he learnt a little of his Business, but that was what he minded least, making it only a Pretence, for he had contracted such an Intimacy with Whores, and Thieves, that he delighted in no other Company, nor in doing any Thing that was Praise-worthy. For above six Years past, he hath been one of the most notorious Thieves and Robbers in and about Town, having committed many Street-Robberies, pickt Pockets, broken divers Houses, for he had an Iron Instrument or two, with which he professed he could with ease open any Door in England , and these Implements with a dark Lanthorn, a piece of Wax candle and a Tinder-box, all needful for breaking Houses, and such works of Darkness, as he went about in the Night time; his Implements he call'd Mills, with which he forc'd open Doors or Windows; which Things were all found in the Room where he was taken; and at other Times he went out a Shop-lifting and stealing whatever fell in his Way.

He liv'd in a House at the back of Holbourn , where the Landlay kept above Forty Rooms, and had them commonly let out to as many Robbers and common Thieves, each of whom had a Woman, whom they call'd their Wives, and these went out, some by Day, to see what they could pick up by Shop-lifting or picking of Pockets, or any other way as occasion offer'd; but most of them went out at Night, in order to commit Highway or Street Robberies, and whatever they got, Mrs. W-t-d, or her Husband, bought it of them at a cheap Rate, and they spent it with her, who was common to all of them, in a most prodigal and luxurious Manner, in Junketing, Carousing, Dancing, &c. M-s W-d, who hath been often in Newgate for her vile Practices, and infamous Life, in encouraging and assisting Robbers, Thieves and Whores, and her Husband, who were put out of that Place of the Town Disgracefully, are now mov'd into some Place of the City, where Cole own'd the robbing of Mr. Chamberlain, in Cock-Lane , as sworn against him, and as in the Indictment, and that he sold the Plate to W-t-d, who immediately melted it all down.