APPENDIX.

The following Lines were delivered by WILLIAM UDALL< no role > This name instance is in set 1292. , to the Printer of these Papers, with a Request that they might be published, for the Reasons mentioned in the Beginning thereof.

SINCE my being apprehended (this last Time) I have looked upon myself as a dying Man, as one who had but a few Days to spend in this Life; for though I have been but a few Years engaged in these rash destructive Courses, yet I have several Times appeared before the Court at the Old Baily , having had the good Fortune as often to have been admitted an Evidence against some of my Companions, therefore I had too much Reason to expect, that as the two Robberies upon the Causeway between Islington and Holloway would be prov'd upon me, those Convictions would put a Period to my Life.

It can hardly be imagined (I think) that a Man sensible of his unhappy Condition, and that he is but a few Moments from Eternity, can be induc'd from any Pleasure he takes in the Review of a wicked, vicious, ill-spent Life, to recite those Crimes to the World which he must repent of, or be for ever miserable: But least any one should believe that to be my Motive thereto, I think it necessary to declare, that I look upon my self (in this dying Condition) bound to take Shame and Confusion of Face to myself, and for the Benefit of the World to mention some Facts in order to clear particular Persons who are suspected of having been concerned therein, and to warn Youth by my sad Example to avoid those Courses, which sooner or later end in Misery, Destruction and Death.

My Father was a Man of good Reputation in the Parish of St. James's, Clerkenwell , a Distiller by Trade; he took Care of my Education, and sent me to School to Mr. Groves, in Red-Lyon-street , where I continued till it was Time for me to be put to Business; accordingly I was bound Apprentice to Mr. James Hagar< no role > , who at that time lived in Leadenhall street , over-against the East-India House, and was since Partner with Mr. Webster in Exchange-Alley. Here (God forgive my poor Soul) began my Dishonesty, for a Journeyman my Master employ'd, communicated to me the Method of scraping the Insides of the Cases of Gold Watches which came to be mended, &c. and by this Means I got so much Money, as made me extravagant and vicious, and exposed me to many Temptations. I continued with Mr Hagar four Years and three Quarters, but he then dying, my Mistress turned me over to Major Woolhead, who gave her seventeen Guineas for the Residue of my Time, out of which she gave me seven, and kept ten to herself. But I did not stay above eleven Weeks with Mr. Woolhead, for getting acquainted with one Stanbridge at Clerkenwell , I made an Agreement with him to work with him for a Year, and he gave me a Bond to procure me my Freedom when my Time should be expired.

While I was with Mr. Stanbridge my Acquaintance began with Raby (lately executed) and Jack Pool< no role > ; this was about five Years ago, and with them I first commenced a Thief; they urged me to go with them to pick Pockets, to which I consented, and leaving Mr. Stanbridge, I got acquainted with Wager, Baker, and the rest of that Gang, and have committed many Robberies in their Company, in Fleet-street , Leadenhall-street , Bloomsbury Square , and the King's Road ; but after some Time Wager and Baker quarrelling with me about the dividing some Money, I left their Company, and robbed with Raby Our Place of meeting was at J - e W - ms's House in Hanging-Sword-Alley in Fleet street . Whenever we got any Thing he used to Stand Lock, that is, he used always to dispose of it.

When Raby and I had parted with Wager and his Company, my Father, who always was very fond of me, set me up in my own Business; Raby's Mother likewise set him up in a Barber's Shop, in Order to our living honestly, and forsaking our vicious Companions and Courses, and we both kept to our Business for the Space of 3 Months, but did not entirely leave our old Haunts, for we frequently went to drink at Mother Bird's , in Colson's-Court , in Drury Lane , and at another House in the same Lane, at both which Places I have spent and lost in Gaming a Hat full of Guineas.

Here we got acquainted with Jack Poole< no role > and George Sutton< no role > (since executed) and they tempted me away from my Business when I had Employment enough to have maintained myself very well, and in an honest Way, for I had Work