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

23rd October 1751

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18th September 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 Lord Chief-Justice WILLES, the Hon. Baron SMITH, 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, and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey , on Wednesday the 11th , Thursday the 12th , Friday the 13th , Saturday the 14th , Monday the 16th , Tuesday the 17th , and Wednesday the 18th of September , in the twenty-fifth Year of his Majesty's Reign, DAVID BROWN< no role > , JOHN JEBB< no role > , CORNELIUS NEWHOUSE< no role > , JOHN HUNTER< no role > , ROBERT STEEL< no role > , ANN BERRY< no role > This name instance is in set 4129. , WILLIAM NEWMAN< no role > , JAMES MARCH< no role > , JOHN JARMEY< no role > , SAMUEL EAGER< no role > , EDWARD BLAND< no role > , EDWARD BROOKE< no role > , JOHN CARBOLD< no role > , BENJAMIN SMITH< no role > , JOHN IRELAND< no role > , BRIDGET SHEPPARD< no role > , and JOHN ROBERTSON< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

They were most of them miserable, unhappy, and ignorant Wretches, tho' their Behaviour was for the most Part quiet and submissive, and their Attendance at Divine Service constant, unless by Sickness prevented, which most of them have had in their Turns; only Robertson, for Misbehaviour, and striking one of the People belonging to the Place, and threatning Words, was chained to the Floor for some Days.




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