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

21st January 1747

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22nd July 1746


Shoreditch , who brought him up to the Trade of a Hatband-Maker , which at Times he followed; but being of an idle Disposition, he soon got acquainted with bad Company, particularly with James Stansbury< no role > , the noted Master of the Blood-Bowl House, sometime since executed, with whom he committed several Robberies. As he had been guilty of several such Facts, he was suspected to be concern'd in a Robbery and Murder committed about five Years since on one 'Squire Peacock, in the Vinegar Fields, near Holloway Mount , about which I question'd him; but he utterly denied it. He was found guilty of two Indictments last September Sessions, and received Sentence for Transportation; but being again indicted for the above capital Offence, he was found guilty, and deservedly suffer'd. He owned he had been a very great Sinner, and that he justly died, and hoped for Forgiveness, through the Merit of Jesus Christ.

V. ROBERT RADWELL< no role > , was indicted for stealing one Gelding, of a black Colour, the Property of John Arnold< no role > , Esq.

ROBERT RADWELL< no role > , aged 43, born at Eaton , but brought up at Sandy in Bedfordshire , of honest and creditable Parents, who gave him some small Education, for he could only read, but had constantly endeavour'd to live in an honest Way amongst his Neighbours, who (if he had acquainted them with his unhappy Affairs) would, Numbers of them, have come to London on purpose to have given him a good Character; for he always lived in a reputable Manner there ever since he was capable of Business, both as a Farmer and Carrier ; and after he met with many Losses therein, was employ'd as a Servant to several Farmers, whom he continually served with Faithfulness and Honesty. His Behaviour, in Prison, has been with the utmost regularity; and altho' he was grosly ignorant of religious Matters, yet he never absented himself from Chapel, unless afflicted with Sickness, of which he had a great Share during his Confinement in the Cells of Newgate . He owned the Fact of putting the Horse to Sale, but said he was much in Liquor, and short of Money, and therefore was tempted by the Devil to commit this rash Action, for which he was heartily sorry; and hopes, as he forgives all Mankind, that he shall meet with Forgiveness both at the Hand of God and Man, not only for that, but for all his other Sins.

His Majesty has been graciously pleased to reprieve Robert Radwell< no role > .

VI. ROBERT FITZGERALD< no role > was indicted for Counterfeiting a Bill of Exchange for the Sum of 21 l 15 s. drawn upon Mr. Arnold Nesbit< no role > and Company , of Coleman-street , payable to Capt . John Hancock< no role > , or uttering the same, knowing it to be forg'd, with an Intent to defraud the abovesaid Nesbit and Company .

ROBERT FITZGERALD< no role > , aged 26, was born of reputable Parents in Ireland, near Dublin , who gave him a very liberal Education, and brought him up in the Romish Faith . He was never in any other Employ than that of a Clerk to Merchants and wholesale Dealers : He has been in London about 9 or




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