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

28th July 1755

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28th July 1755


pray earnestly and devoutly, as sensible how much their sins stood in need of pardon from heaven.

The behaviour of them all was decent in the general, as persons sensible of their unhappy circumstances.

On Tuesday the 22d instant, William Moreton< no role > , esq; recorder of London , made the report of six malefactors to the lords of the regency, when their lordships were pleased to order John Sibthorp< no role > , James Bignal< no role > , otherwise John Morgan< no role > , and Barnaby Horn< no role > , otherwise Horan< no role > , for execution, on Monday the 28th instant. And.

At the same time, their lordships were pleased to order Mary Smith< no role > , John Dailey< no role > , otherwise Peterson< no role > , otherwise Walter Gahagen< no role > , capitally convicted in September sessions 1753, and Thomas Scott< no role > , capitally convicted in June session, 1752, both for forging seamens wills, to be respited, till their lordships pleasure touching them should be farther known.

1. John Sibthorp< no role > was indicted for stealing one bay gelding, value 8l. the property of Roger Atwood< no role > .

2. James Bignal< no role > , alias John Morgan< no role > , was indicted for returning from transportation before his time.

3. Barnaby Horn< no role > , otherwise Horan< no role > , was indicted for theat he, being a subject of Great-Britain, on the 13August, in the 26th year of His Majesty's reign, with force and arms, did procure Alexander Plunket< no role > , being at that time a subject of our sovereign lord the King, to enlist and enter himself in the French king's service, as a soldier , he being a foreign prince, without leave or license first obtained.

He was charged a second time, for unlawfully detaining him, the said Plunket, with intent to cause him to enlist, or enter into the service of the French king.

He was charged a third time, for that he did feloniously procure the said Plunket to embark on board a certain ship or vessel, with intent to be inlisted to serve the French king as a soldier.

On Monday, about nine o'clock, the day fixed for his execution, a respite was brought to the keeper of Newgate for Barnaby Horn< no role > , just as he was going out of the press-yard to the cart; and his irons, which had been knocked off, were again put on, and after drinking a glass of wine and water,




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