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

13th January 1752

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8th November 1752


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 THOMAS WINTERBOTTOM< no role > , Esq ; Lord-Mayor of the City of London , the Honourable Sir THOMAS DENNISON< no role > , Knt. the Hon. Sir THOMAS BIRCH< no role > , Knt. RICHARD ADAMS< no role > , Esq ; Recorder , and others of his Majesty's Justices of OYER and TERMINER of 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 4th , Thursday the 5th , Friday the 6th , and Saturday the 7th of December, 1751 , in the Twenty-fifth Year of his Majesty's Reign, WILLIAM DICKENSON< no role > , JOHN MACNAMAR< no role > , RUSSEL PARNEL< no role > , WILLIAM HUGHES< no role > , and RACHAEL BEACHAM< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

Their Behaviour under Sentence of Death was tolerably decent, and their Attendance at Prayers in Chappel constant, where they appeared with Seriousness and Devotion, during Divine Service.

On Wednesday the 8th Instant , the Report of the Five Malefactors was, by Richard Adams< no role > , Esq ; Recorder , made




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