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

17th March 1755

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21st January 1755


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 jail-delivery of Newgate, held before the right honourable Stephen Theodore Janssen< no role > , esq ; lord-mayor of the city of London , Sir Thomas Dennison< no role > , knt . Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe< no role > , knt . William Moreton< no role > , esq ; recorder , and others of His Majesty's justices of Oyer and Terminer, for the city of London, and justices of jail-delivery of Newgate, holden for the said city, and county of Middlesex, at Justice-hall in the Old Bailey , on Wednesday the 4th , Thursday the 5th , Friday the 6th , and Saturday the 7th of December , in the 28th year of His Majesty's reign, Richard Preston< no role > , and John Dyson< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received sentence of death accordingly.

And, by virtue of the King's commission of the peace, Oyer and Terminer, and jail-delivery of Newgate, held before the right honourable Stephen Theodore Janssen< no role > , esq ; lord-mayor of the city of London , lord chief baron Parker, Sir Michael Foster< no role > , Sir Thomas Birch< no role > , 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 Thursday the 16th , Friday the 17th , Saturday the 18th , Monday the 20th , and Tuesday the 21st of January , in the 28th year of His Majesty's reign, Joseph Gill< no role > , Edward Murril< no role > , alias Delarand< no role > , Joseph Lovel< no role > , Thomas Trevis< no role > , John Moody< no role > , Isaiah Robins< no role > , John Armstrong< no role > , Thomas Welch< no role > , Wright Wankford< no role > ,




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