exorbitant Expences; for it is the universal Practice of these miserable Men, to spend with a Prospect of Plunder, and to plunder with no other View than to spend; so that it is impossible for them to avoid that Fate which they deserve, since they are continually tempting it, and as it were, hourly running their Heads against the Gallows.

Habit in these People ripens Want of Fear, and Want of Conscience, into horrible Audacity: This very Fellow when he was taken, had a couple of Iron Instruments discovered in his Room, of which being asked the Use? He said they were his Mills, and that with them he would undertake to open any Doors in England. On his Trial however he said that they were not his, but that they were Tools belonging to John Stanley< no role > , who had made himself an Evidence.

To pursue the Thread of this Man's Villainies any further, would be tedious and improper, inasmuch as they are particularly related by himself. All that can be drawn from this Recital, is this Memento, that too high an Expence, and the running into promiscuous Companies, are Things the most dangerous to the common Sort of People, and of Consequence they ought to be avoided and left off, from the View of this unpleasant Spectacle, whose Death, if it deters others, effectually answers the End of Justice.

An Account of Joseph Cole< no role > 's Robberies, written by Himself.

ABOUT six or seven Years agoe, I and two others committed a Robbery in the Spaw-Flds by Islngton , on a Gentleman, and took from him a Gold headed Cane, 35 s. his Hat and Wig, and a Scarlet Roquelaur.

The next Robbery we committed was in a House in the back Street at Islngton , which we broke open between the Hours of Twelve and One, by wrenching the Bar of the Kitchen Window, we took from thence a dozen and a half of Holland Shirts, 8 Holland Shifts, some Cambrick Head Cloths and Handkerchiefs, a Great Coat, a Gold lac'd Hat and Wig, and three dozen of Plates.

Some Time after this Robbery, we robbed a Gentleman by the Burying-Ground by Gray's-Inn-Lane , we stript him of his Clothes, which were of an Olive Colour, and likewise took from him his Gold lac'd Hat and Wig, a Cane and 15 s. in Money, a pair of Silver Buckles we took out of his Shoes, and his Knee-Buckles.

Then Leonard Bu, Thomas Flannaka< no role > , and Myself, robbed a Gentleman in the Long-Fields going to Tottenham-Court , we took from him 9 s. in Silver, four Guineas and a Half in