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

17th February 1744

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16th January 1744


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 ROBERT WESTLEY< no role > , Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London, the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice WILLES, the Honourable Mr. Baron CLARKE, the Honourable Mr. Serjeant URLING, Recorder of London, and others his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer, for the said City and County of Middlesex, and Justices of Goal-Delivery of Newgate for London and Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday, the 7th , 8th , 9th , 10th , and 12th of December, 1743 , and in the Seventeenth Year of His Majesty's Reign.

TWELVE Men, viz. John Garrard< no role > , Julian Hunt< no role > , Joseph Leath< no role > , Samuel Bowring< no role > , Henry Barrett< no role > , Peter Rogers< no role > , alias Jonoquier< no role > , William Clark< no role > , Thomas Hill< no role > , Samuel Moses< no role > , Michael Jude< no role > , Solomon Athorn< no role > , and Jacob Cordosa< no role > ; and one Woman, viz. Eleanor Gearing< no role > , were by the Jury convicted 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 ROBERT WESTLEY< no role > , Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London, the Right Honourable Lord Chief Baron PARKER, the Honourable Mr. Justice WRIGHT, the Honourable Mr. Justice ABNEY, the Honourable Mr. Serjeant URLING, Recorder of the City of London, and others his Majesty's Justices for the City of London and County of Middlesex, and Justices of Goal-Delivery of Newgate) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Friday, Saturday, and Monday, the 13th , 14th , and 16th of January, 1743-4 , and in the Seventeenth Year of his Majesty's Reign.

THREE Men, viz. John Burton< no role > , Henry Burroughs< no role > , and Joseph Isaacs< no role > , were tried, and by the Jury convicted of capital Crimes.

WHILE under Sentence, they were exhorted seriously to think upon, and prepare for Death, Judgment, and Eternity; and in order to go about this great Work in a right Manner, to consider from what they had fallen, from the Height of Integrity and Perfection, into a Labyrinth of Sin, Misery, and Desolation; and being in this wretched State and Condition, as such, they merited no Good at the Hand of God, but to be cast off by him into a Place of Eternal Torments, there to be punished with everlasting Destruction from the Presence of the Lord, and the Glory of his Power.




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