Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
18th May 1743
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. ROBERT WILLIMOT< no role >
, Esq; Lord Mayor of the City of London
; the Right Hon Lord Chief Justice LEE; the Hon. Mr. Justice REYNOLDS; the Hon. Mr. Serjeant URLIN, Recorder of the City of London; and Others, his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the said City, and Justices of Jail-delivery of Newgate, holden for the City of London and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 13th
, 14th
, and 15th of April, 1743
.
Three Men, viz. James Crop< no role >
, John Eyres< no role >
, and George Watson< no role >
, and three Women, viz. Elizabeth Cannon< no role >
, Ann Ellard< no role >
, and Sarah Wilmshurst< no role >
, were, by the Jury convicted of capital Crimes, and received Sentence of Death.
At the same Time also, Report was, made of John Tighe< no role >
, and Henry Bulley< no role >
, who in the former Report to his Majesty, were Postpon'd.
While under Sentence, they were exhorted seriously to repent of all the Sins of their Life, particularly those heinous Crimes of Murder, Theft and Robbery, whereof they were convicted, and for which they were to suffer so much Disgrace and Shame; and in order to bring them to a true Sight and Sense of their Sin, and to a sincere Repentance for the same, they were admonish'd to think upon the Depravity of their Nature, how that we are all conceived in Sin, and brought forth in Iniquity; this is what the holy Psalmist David, in his special penitential Psalm, for that Purpose composed, because of his great Sins of Adultery and Murder he had committed, with the height, of Concern confesseth unto God, Behold I