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

11th December 1752

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12th February 1753


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, Etc.

BY Virtue of the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery of Newgate , held before the Right Honourable Sir Crisp Gascoyne< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London ; the Lord Chief Justice Willes, Mr. Baron Clive, Mr. Baron Legge, Sir Richard Adams< no role > , Knt . Recorder , and others His Majesty's Justices of Gaol Delivery, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex, at Justice Hall, in the Old Baily , on Wednesday the Sixth, Thursday the Seventh, and Friday the Eighth Day of December, in the Twenty-sixth Year of His Majesty's Reign, William Clarke< no role > , William Morriss< no role > , William Cross< no role > , William Lee< no role > , Ann Fox< no role > , and Abraham Ward< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

ABRAHAM WARD< no role > being convicted of Murder, received Sentence immediately upon the Jury's bringing in their Verdict, and was executed on the 11December, according to Direction of the late Act of prevent Murder. And,

By Virtue of the King's Commission of, Etc. held before the Right Honourable Sir Crisp Gascoyne< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London ; the Lord Chief Baron Parker, Sir Michael Foster< no role > , Sir Thomas Birch< no role > , Sir Richard Adams< no role > , Knt. Recorder, and others of, Etc. on Thursday the 11th, Friday the 12th, and Saturday the 13th of January, in the Twenty-sixth Year of His Majesty's Reign, Timothy Murphy< no role > , John Briant< no role > , Patrick Nugent< no role > , William Baldwin< no role > , and Joseph Hall< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.




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