THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.

By Virtue of the King's Commission of the Peace, OYER, and TERMINER, and Goal-Delivery of Newgate, held before the Right honourable Sir WILLIAM CALVERT< no role > , Knight , Lord-Mayor of the City of London ; the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Baron PARKER, Mr. Justice FOSTER, RICHARD ADAMS< no role > , Esq ; Recorder , and other of his Majesty's Justices of OYER, and TERMINER, for the said City of London, and Justices of Goal Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex, at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey , on Wednesday the 5th , Thursday the 6th , Friday the 7th , Saturday the 8th , and Monday the 10th of July , in the 23d Year of his Majesty's Reign; JOHN STEWART< no role > , JOHN POE< no role > , WILLIAM SHEPPHERD< no role > , JOHN FRYER< no role > , MARGARET HARVEY< no role > , JOHN GRAY< no role > , VALENTINE GODWIN< no role > , JAMES JOHNSON< no role > , JOHN PALMER< no role > , URIAH CREED< no role > , RICHARD MAPESDEN< no role > , and ANTHONY DUN< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

While they have been in this unhappy Situation from the just Censures of the Law, I was constantly wont to be at Prayers with them in the Chapel every Day which they seemed devoutly to attend; And after Prayers one or other of them in their turns had such Admonition and Instruction given them, as to the best of my knowledge appeared to be necessary and proper for bringing them to a Sense of their Sins, a Reformation of their Lives, and to such Preparations for Death as might expunge the Sting thereof, and mollify its Poison; as might heal their Corruptions, and render them fit for enjoyment of the Presence and Favour of God in the Life everlasting.

On Wednesday the 26th of July the Report of ten Malefactors was made by Mr. Recorder to his Majesty, when