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

5th June 1754

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2nd April 1754


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

BY virtue of the King's commission of the peace, of Oyer and Terminer, and jail-delivery of Newgate, held before the right honourable Thomas Rawlinson< no role > , Esq ; lord-mayor of the city of London , Mr. justice Clive, Mr. baron Legge, William Moreton< no role > , Esq ; recorder , and others of His Majesty's justices of Oyer and Terminer, for the city of London, and jail-delivery of Newgate, for the country of Middlesex, holden at Justice-hall in the Old-Bailey , on Wednesday the 24th , Thursday the 25th , Friday the 26th , Saturday the 27th , and Monday the 29th of April , and Wednesday the 1st of May , &c. in the 27th year of His Majesty's Reign, Mary Mayne< no role > , Hugh Mac Kabe< no role > , Silas Dowling< no role > , David Edom< no role > , and John Parry< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received sentence of death accordingly.

At the same sessions William Bradford< no role > was convicted for the wilful murder of Joseph Hoyd< no role > , and was executed on the 2d day after he received sentence of death, according to the late act.

1. Mary Mayne< no role > , spinster , was indicted, for stealing 1 pair of silver buckles, set with chrystal stones, value 1 l. 3 s. two cambrick aprons, with laced borders, and many other wearing apparel, together with a 3 36 s. pieces, the goods of Charlotte Parshall< no role > , spinster , in the dwelling house of the said Charlotte, April 2 .

2. Hugh Mac Kabe< no role > , was indicted




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