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 ; the Right Honourable William Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's court of King's-Bench; the Honourable Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe< no role > , Knt. one of the Barons of his Majesty's court of Exchequer ; James Eyre< no role > , Esq. 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 Wednesday the 13th , Thursday the 14th , and Friday the 15th of April , in the third year of his Majesty's reign, seven persons were capitally convicted and received sentence of death, for the several crimes in their indictments laid, namely, John Rice< no role > , John West< no role > , Joseph Johnson< no role > , Paul Lewis< no role > This name instance is in set 3638. , John Turner< no role > , George Chippendale< no role > This name instance is in set 1595. , and Hannah Dagoe< no role > . And on Friday, April the 29th , the report of the said malefactors, and also of Esther Lyon< no role > , convicted in February sessions preceeding, being made to his Majesty, four of the said malefactors were respited, to wit, Esther Lyon< no role > , John West< no role > , Joseph Johnson< no role > , and John Turner< no role > , during his Majesty's pleasure; and John Rice< no role > , Paul Lewis< no role > , George Chippendale< no role > , and Hannah Dago< no role > or Diego< no role > , were ordered for execution on Wednesday May the 4th .

On the evening before execution, a respite of 14 days was brought for George Chippendale< no role > , and to be continued, if within that time he shall submit to suffer the amputation of a limb, in order to try the efficacy of a new-invented styptic for stopping the blood-vessels, instead of the