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

AT the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-Delivery of Newgate, held for the City of London and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey , on Wednesday the 12th , Thursday the 13th , Friday the 14th , and Saturday the 15th of October last , before the Right Honourable Sir John Thompson< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London , the Worshipful Mr. Justice Denton, Simon Urlin< no role > , Esq ; Deputy-Recorder of the City of London , and others his Majesty's Justices, &c.

Three Men, viz. Thomas Car< no role > , Alexander Ratcliffe< no role > , Thomas Watson< no role > ; and three Women, viz. Elizabeth Adams< no role > This name instance is in set 4425. , Sarah Allen< no role > This name instance is in set 833. This set is in the group(s): MothersOBP . , and Charlotte Gregg< no role > , were convicted of capital Offences, and received Sentence of Death accordingly. And,

At the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-Delivery of Newgate, held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey , on Wednesday the 7th , Thursday the 8th , Friday the 9th , Saturday the 10th , and Monday the 12th of December last , before the Right Honourable Sir John Barnard< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London , the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Willes, the Worshipful Mr. Justice Probyn, Mr. Baron Thompson, Simon Urlin< no role > , Esq ; Deputy-Recorder of the City of London , and others his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer, &c.

Ten Men, viz. John Bugden< no role > , Abraham Davenport< no role > , William Cudmore< no role > , William Hardesty< no role > , William Brown< no role > , John Lane< no role > , Isaac Whitehead< no role > , Grafton Kirk< no role > , Terry Gerrard< no role > , Joseph Shaw< no role > ; and two Women, viz Elizabeth Osborn< no role > and Ann Clark< no role > were found Guilty of capital Crimes, and received Sentence of Death.

While these unhappy Persons were under Sentence, they were exhorted to Repentance, for their wicked Lives, and to a stedfast Faith in Christ. They were likewise informed of the Nature of that Faith and Repentance which were necessary to their everlasting Welfare. They were likewise made sensible that their Lives had been directly contrary to the Terms of the Gospel, and that their own Consciences must condemn the Courses they had been engag'd in; that without sincere Repentance, and Faith in the Merits of a Saviour, who knew no Sin, they must be miserable to all Eternity.

In order to bring Sarah Allen< no role > to a due Sense of her Crime in murthering her Child, I discoursed upon these Words, Can a Woman forget her ing Child, that she should not have Compassion the Son of her Womb? And I gave her, and the rest of these unhappy Persons, such Admonitions and Instructions, as were suitable to their several Circumstances and Conditions.

They were instructed in the Nature of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and were exhorted to renew their Baptismal Covenant, which they had broke in so many Instances, and had been so regardless of, during the whole Course of their Lives. And they were all seemingly attentive to the Instructions given them, except,