Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
17th January 1763
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 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 William Beckford< no role >
, Esq. Lord Mayor of the City of London
, Sir Thomas Parker< no role >
, Knt. Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty's court of Exchequer
; the Honourable Henry Bathurst< no role >
, one of the Judges of his Majesty's court of Common Pleas
; Sir J. Eardly Wilmott, one of the Judges of his Majesty's court of King's Bench; Sir William Moreton< no role >
, Knt. Recorder
; James Eyre< no role >
, Esq. deputy Recorder
, and others of his Majesty's Justices of oyer and terminer of the city of London, and Justices of goal-delivery of Newgate, &c. holden for the said city and county of Middlesex on Friday the 14th
, Saturday the 15th
, and Monday the 17th of January
, in the third year of his Majesty's reign, eight persons were capitally convicted and received sentence of death, for the several crimes in their indictments laid, namely, Emanuel Mountain< no role >
, Hans Eeg< no role >
, William Autenreith< no role >
, Morris Delany< no role >
, John Collins< no role >
, William Champ< no role >
, Thomas Bryant< no role >
, and George Watson< no role >
. And on Wednesday February the 2d
, the report of the said malefactors being made to his Majesty by Mr. Recorder, William Autenreith< no role >
, Morris Delany< no role >
, John Collins< no role >
, and William Champ< no role >
, were ordered for Execution on Wednesday the 9th
Instant. And Hans Eeg< no role >
, George Watson< no role >
, and Thomas Bryant< no role >
, were respited during his Majesty's pleasure.
1. Emanuel Mountain< no role >
was indicted for the wilful murder of Joseph Carassa< no role >
. He stood likewise charged on the coroner's inquest for the said murder, January the 5th
.
This sudden affair happened at the house of John Smith< no role >
, a Dutchman, who keeps the
Mulbery-Gardens
in Nightingale-lane
, Wapping
.