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A TRUE RELATION Of the EXECUTION of
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. (For Murder) At
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, where he was also Hang?d in Chains, on Monday the
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, Executed the same Day at
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, for HIGH-TREASON. WITH A Copy of a Paper of his own Writing deliver?d in Newgate: As likewise a true Account of their Behaviour, and last Confessions, at the said Places of Execution.
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WHEREAS at the late Sessions of Gaol-Delivery held in the Old-Baily on Thursday and Friday, the
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16th.days of May,1684
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. Five Men received Sentence of Death, (viz.)
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was Reprieved from Execution.
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, the morning of the said Friday, Reprieves came for
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, &c. until the Monday following, Gower and Robinson only being that day Executed, (from whence some believed a Pardon might have Fucceeded;) which time of Reprieve being expired, they were likewise Executed on
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, alias Ashburnham, a Notorious Highway man, whose Name hath been in a Proclamation, and several Gazetts, in order to his being Apprehended, was Indicted, Tryed, and found Guilty, for the Murder of
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