Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

13th January 1742

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8th December 1741


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

AT the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Jail-delivery of Newgate, (held before the Right Hon . DANIEL LAMBERT< no role > , Esq ; Lord-Mayor of the City of London ; the Lord Chief Justice LEE; the Hon. Mr. Baron REYNOLDS; 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 Jail-delivery of Newgate, for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily , on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 14th , 15th , and 16th, of October , in the 13th Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Five Men, viz. Joseph Allen< no role > , James Buquois< no role > , John Glew Gulliford< no role > , William Quaites< no role > , and Robert Ramsey< no role > , and one Woman, viz. Mary Page< no role > , were by the Jury convicted of capital Crimes, and sentenced to die. Also,

At the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Jail-delivery of Newgate, held (before the Rt. Hon . Sir ROBERT GODSCHALL< no role > , Knt . Lord-Mayor of the City of London ; the Hon. Mr. Justice CHAPPEL; the Hon. Mr. Baron ABNEY; the Hon. Mr. Baron REYNOLDS; the Worshipful Mr. Serjeant URLIN, Deputy-Recorder, and Others, his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer, for the City of London, and Justices of Jail-delivery, of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey , on Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, the 4th , 5th , 7th , and 8th of December, 1741 , in the 15th Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Seven Men, viz. John Newman< no role > , William Warner< no role > , John Dean< no role > , Dominick Fitzgerald< no role > , James Lee< no role > , Samuel Shuffle< no role > , and Joseph Lay
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< no role > , and four Women, viz. Esther Burnham< no role > , Mary Dutton< no role > , Ann Holland< no role > , and Margaret Watson< no role > , were by the Jury found guilty of capital Crimes, and sentenced to die.

While under Sentence, they were all very seriously exhorted to think upon their latter End, as they were in a short time to appear before the great God of Heaven and Earth,




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