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 Rt. Hon . Daniel Lambert< no role > , Esq ; Lord-Mayor of the City of London ; the Rt. Hon. Lord Chief Justice Lee; the Worshipful Mr. Serjeant Urlin, Deputy-Recorder of the City of London; and others his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer, for the City of London, and Justices of Gaol-Delivery of Newgate, for the said City and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall, in the Old-Bailey , on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 8th , 9th , and 10th of April 1741 , in the 14th Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Three Men, viz. John Carr< no role > , William Robinson< no role > , and Andrew Macmanus< no role > , were by the Jury found Guilty of Capital Crimes, and receiv'd Sentence of Death.

While under Sentence, they were seriously, and fervently exhorted, to prepare for Death, from these Words, Mark the perfect Man, and behold the upright, for the End of that Man is Peace, Psal. xxxvii. ver. 37. they were desired to observe, that however flourishing the Wicked may be for a Season, yet is their End Destruction. I have seen, (says the Psalmist) the Wicked in great Power, and spreading himself like a Green Bay-Tree, yet he passed away, and so he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found; whereas Righteous, and Godly Men, whatever Adversities they meet with in this Life, are sure of eternal Happiness in that which is to come.

Their former Life having been spent in a very wicked Manner, they were exhorted to reflect upon the Evil of their Ways, how they had provoked the Holy One of Israel, for which the just Judgments of Heaven had overtaken them, as they had been great Sinners, they were pressed to mourn over their Sins, to con