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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.
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BY Virtue of the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail-Delivery of Newgate, held before the Rt. Hon.
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ROBERT ALSOP
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Lord Mayor
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of the
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City of London
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RICHARD ADAMS
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Recorder
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, and other his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer and Jail-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex, on
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Thursday the 14th
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Friday the 15th
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Saturday the 16th
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Monday the 18th
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Tuesday the 19th
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Wednesday the 20th of September
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, in the twenty-sixth Year of his Majesty's Reign,
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Randolph Branch
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William Descent
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were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.
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The little Time they had to endeavour to make their Peace with God, they seemed to employ in Prayer to God for his Grace, that they might repent of their horrid Guilt, and in reading such Meditations as might bring them into the Way of Salvation, that so they might have Hope through Christ. They behaved well at Chapel both Parts of the Day, and the Morning of Execution, and seemed affected with Remorse and Contrition.
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They were indicted on Wednesday Evening last, for assaulting and robbing Mr.
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, near
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, in Well-close Square
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, of which Indictment, upon very sufficient Evidence, the Jury found them both Guilty. In the Course of the Evidence upon this Indictment, there appeared so strong Proof also of Murder, that the Court thought proper to try them on that Indictment also. And, being charged with the Indictment
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