Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
12th July 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