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

8th June 1744

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31st May 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 Rt. Hon. Sir ROBERT WESTLEY< no role > , Knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London; the Hon. Mr. Baron CARTER; the Hon. Mr. Justice BURNET; the Hon. Mr. Justice DENNISON; the Hon. Sir SIMON URLIN< no role > , Knt. 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 for London and Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 22d and 23d of February .

TWO Men, viz. Charles Cleaver< no role > This name instance is in set 1343. , and Tho. Wyton< no role > , were by the Jury, convicted of capital Offences, and received Sentence of Death.

AND, at another Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, &c. held before the Rt. Hon. Sir ROBERT WESTLEY< no role > , Knt. Lord Mayor of London, &c.

ONE Woman, viz. Elizabeth Mills< no role > , was convicted of a capital Crime, and sentenced to die.

AS also, At the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-delivery of Newgate, held, (before the Right Hon. Sir ROBERT WESTLEY< no role > , Knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London; the Hon. Mr. Justice BURNET; the Hon. Mr. Baron CLARKE; the Hon. Sir SIMON URLIN< no role > , Knt. 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, for the said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 10th , 11th , and 12th of May , and in the 17th Year of his Majesty's Reign.

FOUR Men, viz. Henry Cole< no role > , Hugh Connor< no role > , Robert Fuller< no role > , and Robert Rockett< no role > ; and two Women, viz. Sarah Lowther< no role > , alias Rockett< no role > , and Ann Terry< no role > This name instance is in set 815. This set is in the group(s): MothersOBP . , were convicted of capital Crimes and sentenced to die.

While under Sentence, they were seriously exhorted to think upon the Evil of their Ways and Doings, how we are conceiv'd in Sin, and brought forth in Iniquity, deserving to be cast out of God's Presence, because of original Guilt, the Sin of our first Father Adam, imputed to us; for who can bring a clean Thing out of an unclean? This we call original Sin, over which we ought to cry incessantly unto God, that He who made us, may have Mercy upon us, and cleanse us from all our Sins, original and actual, of Omission or Commission, that so being purified from all Uncleanness of the Body and the Spirit, we may be presented Holy and without Spot, and rebukeable before God, in the great Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

UPON Thursday the 31st of May , Report was made to his Majesty in Council, of the Malefactors abovemention'd under Sentence of Death in the Cells of Newgate, when Charles Cleaver< no role > This name instance is in set 1343. , for robbing Mr. Richard Pidgeon< no role > of one Shilling and Five-pence, and Mr. Abraham Constable< no role > ,




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