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

13th July 1752

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26th February 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 Rt. Hon. ROBERT ALSOP< no role > , Esq ; Lord Mayor of the City of London , the Lord Chief Baron PARKER, Sir MICHAEL FOSTER< no role > , Knt . Sir THOMAS BIRCH< no role > , Knt . RICHARD ADAMS< no role > , Esq ; Recorder , and other 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, on Thursday the 25th , Friday the 26th , Saturday the 27th , Monday the 29th , and Tuesday the 30th of June , in the 26th Year of his Majesty's Reign, George Gibbons< no role > , William Signal< no role > , William Ward< no role > , James Holt< no role > , Peter De Bree< no role > , Daniel Macquin< no role > , William Belchier< no role > , Jonathan Burgen< no role > , Richard Lane< no role > , Robert Winter< no role > , and Joseph Joyce< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

Their Behaviour since has been quiet, and their Attendance at Chappel constant and regular; and while they were there shewed an Appearance of Heartiness in their Prayers and Devotions.

On Thursday the 9th Instant the Report was made to the Lords of the Regency, by Mr. Recorder, of eleven Malefactors, when they were pleased to command Execution to be done on every one of them on Monday the 13th .

1. George Gibbons< no role > was indicted, for that he, on the 26th of February , about the Hour of 4 in the Morning, the Dwelling-House of John Allen< no role > burglariously




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