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

17th June 1751

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27th May 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 Gaol-Delivery of Newgate, held before the Rt. Hon. FRANCIS COKAYNE< no role > , Esq ; Lord-Mayor of the City of London , the Honourable Sir THOMAS BURNET< no role > , the Honourable Baron CLIVE, and 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 Gaol-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City of London, and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey , on Wednesday the 17th , Thursday the 18th , Friday the 19th , Saturday the 20th , and Monday the 22d of April , in the twenty-fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign, GARRAT BUNN< no role > , WILLIAM GIBBS< no role > , and EDWARD WARD< no role > were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

By Virtue of the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, &c. before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Sir THOMAS DENNISON< no role > , Baron LEGGE, &c. on Thursday the 23d , Friday the 24th , Saturday the 25th , and Monday the 27th of May , in the twenty-fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign, JOSEPH PEACOCK< no role > , THOMAS QUIN< no role > , WILLIAM DOWDELL< no role > , THOMAS TALBOT< no role > , WILLIAM HATTON< no role > , PHILIP GIBSON< no role > , ROBERT DAMSELL< no role > , MICHAEL LEVI< no role > , and HENRY BOYTEN< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

Bunn, Gibbs, and Ward have behaved with all Quietness and Decency to all Appearance since Conviction; most of the rest required good looking after to keep in any tolerable Decorum. They all attended Prayers in the Chapel, till the Gentleman appeared who attends on those unhappy Persons of the Roman Catholick Persuasion. William Dowdell< no role > and Quin declared themselves of that Way. And after some time, Ward, Bunn, and Talbot became Roman Catholicks some how or other; and only Gibbs, Peacock, Hatton, and Damsell remained Protestants, who were pretty constant Attendants in the Chapel to the last.




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