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

21st October 1743

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1st July 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 Rt. Hon. ROBERT WILLIMOTTE, Esq; Lord Mayor of the City of London; the Hon. Mr. Justice Burnet; the Hon. Mr. Serjeant Urlin, Recorder; and Others, his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the City of London, and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Thursday and Friday, the 19th and 20th of May, and in the 16th Year of his Majesty's Reign .

One Man, viz. William Brown< no role > , was, by the Jury, convicted of a capital Crime, and sentenced to die. Also,

At the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Jail-delivery of Newgate , held before the Right Hon. Robert Willimotte< no role > , Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London ; the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron Parker; the Hon. Mr. Baron Abney; the Hon. Mr. Justice Wright; and the Hon. Mr. Serjeant Urlin, Recorder of London; and Others, his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the City of London, and Justices of Jail-delivery of Newgate, for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 29th and 30th of June , and the 1st of July , and in the 17th Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Two Men, viz. Richard Warwick< no role > , and John Head< no role > , were, by the Jury, found guilty of capital Crimes, and received Sentence of Death. Likewise,

At the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Jail-delivery of Newgate, held (before the Right Hon. Robert Willimotte, Esq; Lord Mayor of the City of London; the Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice Wills; the Hon. Mr. Justice Dennison; the Hon. Mr. Serjeant Urlin, Recorder of London, and Others,




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