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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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of the
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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, at Justice Hall in the
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, in the twenty-sixth Year of his Majesty's Reign,
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were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.
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The Behaviour of these two poor unfortunate People has been very quiet and peaceable since their Conviction, they both daily attended at Chapel, and appeared devout while Service was performing.
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Wednesday the eighth Instant
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Mr. Recorder attended the Lords of the Regency with the Report of the two Malefactors, when their Lordships were pleased to order
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At the same Time their Lordships were pleased to order, that
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should be respited till their Pleasure touching him should be farther known .
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was indicted, for that he, at the General Sessions of our Lord the King, held at
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, and others, did on the
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, there swear, that he was beyond the Seas on the
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, with an Intent to cheat and defraud his Creditors .
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