THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE's ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, &c.

BY virtue of his majesty's commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, 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 Richard Glynn< no role > , Knight and Bart. Lord Mayor; the Right Hon. William Lord Mansfield< no role > , Lord chief justice of his majesty's court of King's Bench; the Hon. Sir Sidney Statfford Smythe< no role > , Knt. one of the Barons of his majesty's court of Exchequer ; The Hon. Sir John Eardley Wilmot< no role > Knt. one of the Justices of his majesty's court of King's Bench ; the worshipful Sir William Moreton< no role > Knt. Recorder of the city of London and others his Majesty's justices of Oyer and Terminer for the said city, and county on Wednesday the 24th ; Thursday 25th , and Friday 26th of October 1759 , in the thirty-third year of his majesty's reign: John Ayliffe< no role > , esq; was capitally convicted for forgery: James Piddington< no role > was convicted for stealing a gelding the property of Thomas Hill< no role > , esq; and William Piddington< no role > for being an accessary before the fact to that felony.

On Wednesday the 7th of November the report of the said three malefactors, was made to his majesty, when