THE ORDINARY OF NEWGATE His ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, Etc.

BY virtue of a commission of Oyer, Terminer, and Goal-delivery of Newgate, held before the Right Honourable Sir Richard Hoare< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the city of London , Mr. Justice Wright, Mr. Justice Abney, Mr. Baron Clark, John Stracey< no role > , Esq ; Recorder of the city of London , and others of his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the city of London, and Goal-delivery of Newgate, held for the said city of London and county of Middlesex , at Justice-hall in the Old Bailey , on Thursday the 15th, Friday,the 16th, and Saturday the 17th of May, in the ninteenth year of his Majesty's reign; three malefactors, viz. SAMUEL WATSON< no role > , SAMUEL PRIGG< no role > , and WILLIAM RUSSEL< no role > , alias SAUNDERS< no role > , were capitally convicted for several crimes, and received sentence of Death accordingly, as followeth.

SAMUEL WATSON< no role > , born of very honest parents in Whitecross-street , in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate , with whom he served his time honestly as breechesmaker by trade, aged 28 years; wan indicted for robbing Jane< no role > , the wife of George Morris< no role > , of a scarlet cloak, and also of robbing