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

12th July 1742

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4th June 1742


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 Right Honourable Sir ROBERT GODSCHALL< no role > , Knight, Lord-Mayor of the City of London ; the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice LEE; the Right Honourable Mr. Baron REYNOLDS; the Honourable Sir JOHN STRANGE< no role > , Knt. Recorder ; and the Right 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 Goal-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice Hall in the Old-Baily , on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Monday, the 28th , 29th , 30th of April , and 1st and 3d of May , in the fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Seven Men, viz. Samuel Wood< no role > , John Carpenter< no role > , Robert Rhodes< no role > , Edward Larrat< no role > , John Barnham< no role > , alias Burnham< no role > , Richard Cooley< no role > , and Charles Newton< no role > , and one Woman, viz. Elizabeth Powell< no role > , were by the Jury found guilty of capital Crimes, and received Sentence of Death. Also,

At the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-delivery of Newgate, held (before the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT GODSCHALL< no role > , Knight, Lord-Mayor of the City of London , the Honourable Mr. Justice CHAPPLE; the Honourable Mr. Baron ABNEY; the Honourable Mr. Justice BURNET; the Right Worshipful Mr. Serjeant URLIN, Deputy-Recorder, and Others his Majesty's Justices of Goal-delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily , on Thursday and Friday the 3d and 4th of June , in the fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Two Men, viz. Thomas Miller< no role > , and Michael Grant< no role > , were, by the Jury found guilty of capital Crimes, and received Sentence of Death.

While under Sentence, they were earnestly exhorted to prepare themselves by a true and sincere Repentance, for that Change so near approaching, in order to which they were instructed in the Nature of true Repentance, that it consists in not only a penitential Sorrow for Sins committed in an absolute Resolution and determining to lead a new Life, to loth and abhor themselves for what they had done; but in asking with unfeigned Lips Pardon of God Almighty, to throw themselves before the Throne of Grace, and incessantly by fervent Prayer, to




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