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

7th May 1742

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7th April 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.




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