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 of Newgate, holden for the city of London and county of Middlesex, at Justice-hall in the Old-Bailey , before the Right Honourable William Bridgen< no role > , Esq; Lord-Mayor of the city of London ; Sir Richard Adams< 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 gaol-delivery of Newgate, holden for the said city and county of Middlesex, on Wednesday the 7th , Thursday the 8th , Friday the 9th , Saturday the 10th , and Monday the 12th of December , in the fourth year of his Majesty's reign, six persons were capitally convicted and received sentence of death, for the several crimes in their indictments set forth, viz.

John Brannon< no role > , John Edinburgh< no role > , Joseph Jervis< no role > , Charles Reiley< no role > , Mary Robinson< no role > , and Mary Williams< no role > .

And on or about Friday the 16th of December the report of the said malefactors being made to his Majesty, by Mr. Recorder, two of them were respited, namely, John Edinburgh< no role > , for horse-stealing; and Mary Williams< no role > , for being concerned with Charles Reily< no role > and Mary Robinson< no role > in the robbery of Peter Manchester< no role > ; and the remaining four ordered for execution on Wednesday December the 28th , and were accordingly executed.

1. John Brannon< no role > was indicted, for that he, on the King's highway, on Thomas Worley< no role > did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and stealing from his person one pair of silver shoe-buckles, value 10s. his property; and Jane Blake< no role > , otherwise Buckley< no role > , spinster , for receiving the same, wellknowing them to have been stolen, October 17 .

The prisoner Brannon was one of five in a desperate gang, who attacked the prosecutor Worley, and another, John Paget< no role > , in Church-lane , White-chapel , about 12 at night. Having searched them and found no money on them, they took a pair of silver buckles from each, and a handkerchief from Paget: Mean time Esq; Gore's chariot passing by, they fired two pistols at it, because the coachman would not stop. Brannon was positively sworn to, as one of the two first that came up to the prosecutor, and held a pistol to him while he was robbed. He was detected and taken the next day by means of Jane Blake< no role > offering the buckles to a pawn-broker, Mr. Samuel Spencer< no role > , who stopped them, secured her, and sent constables to search her lodgings, where they took Brannon, found the other pair