Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
7th May 1742
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 Rt. Honourable Sir
ROBERT GODSCHALL< no role >
, Knt. Lord-Mayor of the City of London
; the Hon. Mr. Justice PARKER; the Hon. Mr. Justice Wright; the Hon. Mr. Baron ABNEY; the Hon. Sir
JOHN STRANGE< no role >
, Knt. Recorder
, and the Rt. 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, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey
, on Friday the 15th
, Saturday the 16th
, Monday the 18th
, and Tuesday the 19th of January, 1741\1742
, in the 15th Year of His Majesty's Reign.
Five Men, viz. Thomas Pinks< no role >
, Stephen Jenkyns< no role >
, Joseph Pig< no role >
, Jesse Welden< no role >
, and Christopher Jordan< no role >
, and two Women, viz. Eleanor Brown< no role >
and Margaret Lumley< no role >
; and at the Sessions the February following, five more Men, viz. Alexander Afflack< no role >
, John Lowden< no role >
, Robert Lloyd< no role >
, William Plummer< no role >
, and Morgan< no role >
or Martin Nowland< no role >
, were by their different Juries found Guilty of Capital Crimes, and sentenced to die.
Joseph Pig< no role >
, Eleanor Brown< no role >
and Margaret Lumley< no role >
, afterwards received His Majesty's most gracious Reprieve. And,
Stephen Jenkyns< no role >
, Christopher Jordan< no role >
, Alexander Afflack< no role >
, John Lowden< no role >
, Robert Lloyd< no role >
, William Plummer< no role >
, and Morgan< no role >
or Martin Nowland< no role >
, were Executed Wednesday April the 7th, 1742.