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

5th August 1754

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22nd July 1754


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 jail-delivery of Newgate, held before the right honourable Thomas Rawlinson< no role > , esq; lord-mayor of the city of London , the lord chief justice Willes, Mr. justice Foster, Mr. justice Burch, 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 county of Middlesex , holden at Justice-hall in the Old-Bailey , on Wednesday the 17th, Thursday the 18th, Friday the 19th, Saturday the 20th, and Monday the 22d of July, in the 27th year of His Majesty's Reign, James Barrington< no role > , alias Cobley< no role > , Ann Lewis< no role > , alias Elizabeth Jones< no role > , and Mary Smith< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received sentence of death accordingly.

At the same sessions, Joseph Mills< no role > , and Thomas Finch< no role > , also being convicted for murder, received sentence of death immediately after conviction, and were executed on the 22nd of July, pursuant to the late act against murderers.

Before the sessions ended, Ann Lewis< no role > , (who was indicted, and tried for forgery in February1752, and had respite of judgment, upon




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