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

11th July 1764

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6th June 1764


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 Bailey , before the 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 ; Sir John Eardley Wilmot< no role > , Knt. one of the judges of the court of King's Bench ; James Eyre< no role > , Esq. recorder ; and others of his majesty's justices of oyer and terminer of the city of London, and goal-delivery of Newgate, &c. holden for the said city and county of Middlesex, on Thursday the 7th , Friday the 8th , Saturday the 9th , and Monday the 11th of June , in the 4th year of his majesty's reign, Jane Faulkner< no role > otherwise Hanks< no role > , John Adams< no role > , James Manning< no role > , and Henry Hareman< no role > otherwise Wilson< no role > , were capitally convicted and received sentence of death, for the several crimes in their indictments laid.

And on Friday, July 6 , the report of the said malefactors being made to his majesty by Mr. Recorder, two of them were ordered for execution on Wednesday July 11 , viz. Henry Hareman< no role > and John Adams< no role > , and the other two, viz. Jane Faulkner< no role > for stealing privately from the person, and James Manning< no role > for horse-stealing, were respited.

1. Henry Hareman< no role > otherwise Wilson< no role > (though his real name was Haverman< no role > ) was indicted for that he on James Openshaw< no role > on the king's highway did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and violently taking from his person one hat value 12s. one peruke 20s. one checquered handkeef value 4d. and 6d. in money, the property of the said James, June 6 .

It appeared upon the trial that the prosecutor having been to Clare-Market , was returning at past two in the morning by the stable-yard by Lincoln's-Inn-Fields , was called to by a soldier and another man with sticks in their hands, and when he had followed about six yards up the stableyard the soldier , (the prisoner)




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