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

28th April 1760

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23rd April 1760


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

BY virtue of the king'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 Baily, before the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Chitty< no role > , knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London ; the Honourable Sir Thomas Dennison< no role > , knt. one of the Justices of His Majesty's court of Kings Bench ; the Honourable Sir Richard Lloyd< no role > , knt. one of the Barons of His Majesty's court of Exchequer ; Sir William Moreton< no role > , knt. Recorder of the City of London , and others of his Majesty's Justices of oyer and terminer for the said City and County, on Wednesday the 27th , Thursday the 28th , and Friday the 29th of February, 1760 ; in the 33d Year of His Majesty's reign, William Beckwith< no role > was capitally convicted for house-breaking and robbery; and John Guest< no role > and Thomas Smith< no role > for the like crimes.

And by virtue of His Majesty's commission of the peace, &c. holden for the City and County aforesaid, before the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Chitty< no role > , knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London , Sir William Moreton< no role > , knt. Recorder , and others of His Majesty's Justices of oyer and terminer for the said city on Wednesday the 16th , Thursday the 17th , and Friday the 18th of April 1760 ; Robert Tilling< no role > was capitally convicted for the crimes in his indictment laid. On Wednesday the 23d of April , the report of the said four malefactors




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