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 gaol delivery, for the city of London, and at the general sessions of gaol delivery of Newgate, holden for the city of London and county of Middlesex, at Justice-hall in the Old-Bailey , before the Right Honourable Sir Matthew Blakiston< no role > , Knt. Lord-Mayor ; the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's-Bench; the Honourable Sir Edward Clive< no role > , one of the Judges of his Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas ; 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 1st , Thursday the 2d , and Friday the 3d of April , in the first year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Third, Cicely Vere< no role > , for Shoplifting, and Thomas Davis< no role > , for Forgery, were capitally convicted; and on Tuesday April the 14th , the report of the said Malefactors having been made to his Majesty by Mr. Recorder, Cicely Vere< no role > was respited until his Majesty's pleasure, touching her, be further known; and Thomas Davis< no role > , was order'd for execution on Monday the 20th of April following.

1. THOMAS DAVIS< no role > , was indicted for forging a certain order for the payment of money with the name J. Stocker subscribed thereto, purporting to be subscribed by James Stocker< no role > , requiring Joshua Mauger< no role > , to pay four guineas to the bearer, meaning the said Thomas Davis< no role > , with intent to defraud the said Joshua Mauger< no role > .

He was a second time indicted, for forging another counterfeit warrant for the payment of five guineas, directed to Jonathan Mauger< no role > , by the description of Captain Mauger, and publishing the same with intent to defraud; and also for forging the name J. Stocker, to a receipt for the payment of nine pounds, with intent to defraud Joshua Mauger< no role > .

It may seem proper to recapitulate what was proved on his trial, because he made pretences to deny and evade the guilt of this crime to the last.

It was proved that the prisoner, Thomas Davis< no role > , had deliver'd the two orders, and received the two several sums of four and five guineas from the prosecutor, Mauger, and his clerk; pretending he had these orders from James Stocker< no role > , Master at Arms to his Majesty's ship Boreas , and