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

4th June 1770

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27th June 1770


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, OF Eight Malefactors, who were lately hanged at Tyburn , pursuant to their Sentence of the last Sessions in the Old Bailey .

BY virtue of the King's Commission of the Peace, oyer and terminer, and goal delivery, holden for the city of London and county of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall, in the Old Bailey , before the Rt. Hon . William Beckford< no role > , Esq; Lord Mayor of the city of London , George Perrot< no role > , Esq; one of his majesty's Barons of the Court of Exchequer , Sir Richard Aston< no role > , Knt. one of the Judges of his majesty's court of King's Bench , James Eyre< no role > , Esq; recorder , and others of his majesty's Justices of oyer & terminer of the city of London, and Justices of goal delivery of Newgate, for the said city and county of Middlesex, on Wednesday the 30th , Thursday the 31st of May , Friday the 1st and Saturday the 2d of June 1770 , in the tenth year of his majesty's reign, thirteen were capitally convicted for various offences; three of whom, viz. Charles Stephens< no role > , Henry Holyoak< no role > , & Henry Hughes< no role > , for murder, were sentenced to be hanged on Monday, the fourth of June , and suffered accordingly.

On Wednesday the 27th of June , the report was made to his majesty by James Eyre< no role > , Esq; Recorder of the city of London , of the remaining ten under sentence of death, when Daniel Pfluyer< no role > , James Attaway< no role > , Richard Bailey< no role > , Francis Lutterell< no role > , and John Read< no role > , otherwise David Miller< no role > , otherwise John Mil< no role >




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