in Hopes of meeting some Grasiers who generally went Home that Way. As we were going along I went up to a Gentleman on Horseback and robbed him of 27 s while Mann stood at a Distance, and did not know what I was about. Then, not meeting with the Grasiers, we turned towards Holloway , and came into that where we attacked Mr. Thorn and Mr. Brford, and robbed them of what was laid in the Indictments against us.

On the Saturday following we agreed to go to Epping-Forrest to take a Horse from thence which we had seen and liked; we went, but were disappointed of the Horse, and came back without doing any Business; but we at last got one at Islington , upon which I afterwards rode to Epping-Forrest , and committed several Robberies. Then we came to Mann's Lodgings and divided what we had got.

At that Time he told me he was resolved to go out no more with me, so I went to the House I frequented in Charter-house-Lane , and expected to have seen no more of him, but when he had spent all his Money he came to me and agreed to go out again with me. But somebody having informed the Keeper of the Marshalsea that we were at this House, he sent Nine Men to take us for breaking out of Goal; as soon as we heard them we ran up Stairs, and got out of a Window into an Alley that leads into Long-Lane , and so we went off. But the Thief-takers seized the Woman of the House, her Maid, and two other Persons, and carried them to the New Goal, where they were confined two or three Days, then they promised to be assisting in taking us if they might have their Liberty; upon this they were discharged, and some few Days afterwards as Mann and I were going to take Horse at the White Lyon at Islington in order to raise a little Money on the Road, we met the Woman of the House and two Men belonging to the Goal, we immediately pulled out our Pistols, and swore we would shoot them if they came near us, but the Woman told us we need not fear, for the Men did not intend to hurt us, so upon her Perswasions we all went to drink together at Pancras , there the two Men spoke to me in private, and told me I should be forgiven if I would consent to their taking Mann, because the Debt for which he was confin'd was a large one. I seem'd to comply, but I told them I did not care he should be taken in my Company, - I would leave him, when we got to Town, and then they might take him. But I had no such Design in my Head, for as we came together towards London , I told Mann the Story, and in one of the Fields we drew out our Pistols and threatened to shoot them if they did not go off directly; accordingly they went away from us, and we went immediately to the White Lyon for our Horses and rode to Epping-Forrest , where we robbed a Gentleman on Horseback, then we came to London , but I left my Horse at the Bell , a Publick House in the Road between the Green-Man and Stratford . I went that Night to Mann's Lodgings in Rose-street , very much in Drink; but Mann's Wife not being at home, he lock'd me into the House and went out to look for her; the Thief-takers being out upon the Search they took him, and he to save himself told them I was in the House, and gave them the Key of the Door, so I was taken out of Bed and carried to the Marshalsea , from whence I was removed by a Habeas Corpus to Newgate , and charged with the Felonies, Mann having made himself an Evidence against me.

'Tis not above five Years since I began these irregular Courses, which have cost my Father above 400 l. for I have very often been in Custody, and he has always with much Expence and Trouble appeared in order to procure me my Liberty. Had I been industrious in my Business, I could have earn'd 30 s. a Week as easily as I can write my own Name, and I have got a great deal of Money by my Business, but what am I the better now for all my Gettings? An untimely Death is my Reward! Better would it have been for me if I had gone naked all over England, begging my Bread from Door to Door.

William Udall< no role > This name instance is in set 1292. .

Copy of a Letter sent by Udall to P - g Y - g, with whom he had cohabited.

From my Cell, Feb. 25. 1738.

My Dear,

THESE, with my kind Love to you, hoping these few Lines will find you in good Health; as for my Part, I am as well as can be expected for one under my My dear, I send this to you, to desire you come to me, for I have a great, Mind to see you before I dye; you know that when you was under your Trouble, I never forsook you