Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
4th 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 >