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

11th February 1751

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21st January 1751


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 Jail-Delivery of Newgate, held before the Right Honourable FRANCIS COKAYNE< no role > , Esq ; Lord Mayor of the City of London , the Lord Chief Baron PARKER, Sir MICHAEL FORSTER< no role > , Knt. Sir THOMAS BIRCH< no role > , Knt. RICHARD ADAMS< no role > , Esq ; Recorder , and others of his Majesty's Justices of OYER and TERMINER, for the City of London, and Justices of Jail-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City, and County of Middlesex, at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey , on Wednesday the 16th , Thursday the 17th , Friday the 18th , Saturday the 19th , Monday the 21th, of January , in the Twenty-fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign, HUGH DUNN< no role > , JAMES SULLIVAN< no role > , THOMAS APPLEGATE< no role > , MICHAEL SOSS< no role > , JAMES FARRIS< no role > , WILLIAM VINCENT< no role > , DANIEL DAVIS< no role > , ANTONY WESTLEY< no role > , THOMAS CLEMENTS< no role > , EDWARD SMITH< no role > , JAMES FIELD< no role > This name instance is in set 3573. , RICHARD PARSONS< no role > , JOHN HUGHES< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

These unhappy Wretches have behaved with all Decency, and Quietness, and attended divine Service regularly. Field, Dunn, and Sullivan, had a Gentleman of the Romish Persuasion to attend them, being Irish, and bred up in that Way, and of Course never came to Chapel.




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