THE ORDINARY OF NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, Etc.

BY virtue of the King's commission of the peace and oyer and terminer for the city of London, and at the general sessions of goal-delivery of Newgate , holden for the city of London and county of Middlesex , at Justice-Hall , in the Old-Bailey , before the Right Hon. Sir Charles Asgill< no role > This name instance is in set 4365. , Lord Mayor , the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the court of King's Bench; Mr. Justice Clive, one of the justices of the court of Common Pleas; the Hon. Mr. Baron Legge, one of the Barons of the Exchequer; Sir William Moreton< no role > , Knt. Recorder ; and others his Majesty's justices of oyer and terminer for the said city and county, on Wednesday the 5th, Thursday the 6th, and Friday the 7th of April, in the thirty-first year of his majesty's reign, George Smith< no role > , William Stevens< no role > , Richard William Vaughan< no role > , William Boodger< no role > , Henry Strickland< no role > , and James Cotes< no role > , were capitally convicted for the several crimes in their indictment set forth.

On Tuesday, 25April, the report of these six malefactors was made to his majesty by Mr. recorder, when four were ordered for execution, viz. William stevens< no role > , William Boodger< no role > , and James Cotes< no role > ; and on 01May, were accordingly executed; and George Smith< no role > for a robbery of some plate out of a