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

AT the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-Delivery of Newgate, held (before the Right Honourable Sir John Salter< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London ; the Hon. Mr. Justice Chappel, the Honourable John Strange< no role > , Esq ; Recorder of the City of London , and the Worshipful Mr. Serjeant Urlin, Deputy-Recorder of the said City, and others his Majesty's Justices for the City of London, and Justices of Goal-Delivery of Newgate, for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey , on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 16th , 17th , 18th , and 19th of January, 1739-40 , and in the Thirteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Six Men, viz. Gilham Snowd< no role > , Joseph Wells< no role > , William Motte< no role > , Robert Onion< no role > , John Lineham< no role > , and John Hawkins< no role > , were by the Jury found guilty of capital Crimes, and received Sentence of Death.

While under Sentence, they were exhorted to think upon the Evil of their Ways and Doings, how they had provoked they Holy One of Israel to Wrath against their own Souls, in innumerable Instances, by committing many Sins and Crimes in Violation of all God's Laws, which are altogether Righteous and good; and therefore it was, that the just Vengeance and Judgments of God, had overtaken them.

As they had been guilty of many Sins in general, so they were desired