Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
31st July 1741
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
. Honourable DANIEL LAMBERT< no role >
, Esq
; Lord-Mayor
of the City of London
; the Right Hon. Lord Chief Baron PROBYN, the Hon. Mr. Justice FORTESCUE, the Hon. Mr. Baron WRIGHT, the Hon. Sir JOHN STRANGE< no role >
, Knt
. Recorder
, and the Worshipful Mr. Serjeant URLIN, Deputy-Recorder of the City of London, and others his Majesty's Justices for the City of London, and Justices of Goal-Delivery, for the City of London and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey
, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 1st
, 2d
, 3d
, and 4th of July
, and in the Fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign.
Four Men, viz. Thomas Steers< no role >
, James Rayner< no role >
, Richard Eades< no role >
, and John Scot< no role >
, were by the Jury found guilty of capital Offences, and received Sentence of Death.
Katherine Lineham< no role >
, who, in January Sessions last, was capitally convicted for a Street-Robbery upon Benjamin Parish< no role >
, but repriev'd on Account of her Pregnancy, was called down to her former Judgment, and receiv'd Sentence of Death also.