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 Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice Lee; the Hon. Mr. Baron Reynolds; the Hon. Mr. Serjeant Urlin, Recorder of the City of London; 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 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 12th , 13th , and 14th of October , and in the 17th Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Two Men, viz. Abraham Pass< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. and Christopher Schmitz< no role > , or Smith< no role > , were convicted of capital Crimes, by the Jury, and received Sentence of Death.

The Case of these Two Malefactors was pretty extraordinary. Christopher Smith< no role > was a High German, born at Franckfort upon the Mayne , a Protestant of the Lutheran Communion , who had been but a few Weeks at London, and scarce understood one Word of our English Language; he could not speak Latin, nor any foreign Language, only a little French. A Reverend Clergyman of that Nation came sometimes to visit and exhort him, and also frequently brought him Money for the Relief of his Necessities, he being very poor, and destitute of Friends.

The other Criminal was a Foreigner, and a Jew , who though he understood and spoke English pretty well, as having been a considerable Time in England, yet being strictly tenacious of the Principles of the Jewish Persuasion, he believed nothing that I remonstrated to him.