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

16th April 1753

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16th April 1753


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 Gaol-Delivery of Newgate, held before the Right Honourable Sir Crisp Gascoyne< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London ; Mr. Justice Wright, Mr. Justice Gundry, Mr. Baron Adams, William Moreton< no role > Esq ; Recorder , and others of His Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer of the City of London, and Justices of Gaol-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall, in the Old Baily , on Wednesday the Twenty-first , Thursday the Twenty-second , Friday the Twenty-third , Saturday the Twenty-fourth , and Monday the Twenty-sixth of February , in the Twenty-sixth Year of His Majesty's Reign, John Jetter< no role > , Charles Sickamore< no role > , Mary Squires< no role > , Edward McManning< no role > , Grace Weedon< no role > , Isabella Roe< no role > , and John Higgons< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

Their Behaviour since Conviction was quiet, and their Appearance at Prayer and Chapel, such as in general become Persons sensible of their approaching End, and McManning being a Roman Catholick , a Gentleman of that Communion attended him.

On Wednesday the Tenth Instant the Report of seven Malefactors was made by Mr. Recorder, to His Majesty in Council, when he was pleas'd to order John Jetter< no role > , Charles Sickamore< no role > , Grace Weedon< no role > , Isabella Roe< no role > , John Higgons< no role > , and Edward McManning< no role > , for Execution on Monday the 16th Instant .




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