had offered to make up the Affair for a Sum of Money, and some other favourable Circumstances.

1. LAURENCE LEE< no role > , and PETER MURPHY< no role > , were indicted for robbing John Delaport< no role > , on the King's Highway, near Islington , April the 4th .

3. PATRICK HAYES< no role > , was indicted, for that he with several others not yet taken, did break, and enter the dwelling House of Jane Frances< no role > , Widow , and stealing from thence one Linnen Pocket, value 6 d. three Iron Keys, value 6 d. one pair of Spectacles, value 6 d. and 5 s. in Money, the Goods of the said Jane, one Cambrick Handkerchief, value 3 s. and 9 s. in Money, the Property of Jane Edwards< no role > , Feb. the 8th .

4. JOHN ROGERS< no role > , was indicted for robbing Joseph Oates< no role > , and Mary Howard< no role > , in an open Field near the King's Highway, of six Pair of Linnen Sheets, Value 40 s. four Linnen Aprons, value 2 s. and other Things, the Goods of Charles Carnan< no role > , Nov. the 21st .

1. John Rogers< no role > , aged 24, was born near Honiton in the County of Devon , when young he left his Parents, and came to London with a Gentleman in Capacity of his Servant , with whom he remained several Years. The Gentleman, not intending to keep him as a Servant any longer, he says, would have bound him Apprentice to a Trade, but he would fix his Mind on nothing, unless being a Waterman , and in that Business he was employed for some Time; but afterward being prest into the Service of the British Fleet made three several Voyages to the Mediterranean. Upon the Conclusion of the late Peace, he was discharged the Service, and went to live with his Wife in Stepney , and some of his Neighbours and Lodgers reported him to have been a quiet harmless Fellow. But he has since fallen into bad Company, and deservedly paid for it with the Loss of his Reputation, and Life.

His Confession is that with Respect to the Robbery for which he is to dye, he is certainly guilty in Fact, but that he never intended any such Thing, till he was overpersuaded by his Accomplices, but a little while before they met the Persons they robbed. And, he says, that one of the Accomplices, being a Witness against him at his Tryal laid to his Charge what he took upon himself to act when the Robbery was committed, but being better vers'd, and more knowing, he slipt his own Neck from the Halter, and put it about his (Rogers's.)