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<p n="2">THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on <rs type="date" id="OA17180527_date2">Tuesday the 27th of May, 1718</rs>
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<p n="3">AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the <rs type="date" id="OA17180527_date3">23d</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17180527_date4">24th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17180527_date5">25th</rs>
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and <rs type="date" id="OA17180527_date6">26th of April, 1718</rs>
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, 22 Persons (viz. 15 Men and 7 Women, were Try'd for, and Convicted of, several Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death. But 2 of the Women having had their Judgment respited, upon account of their Pregnancy, and the other 5, with 10 of the Men, being repriev'd by HIS MAJESTY's Most Gracious Mercy (which I hope they will take great Care, as it is their great Interest, duly to improve) 4 only are now order'd for Execution, and another, viz. <rs type="persName" id="OA17180527_n3-1">John Price</rs>
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, next Saturday.</p>
<p n="4">All the while they lay under this Condemnation I constantly visited them in the Chapel, to which they were brought up twice every day; and there I taught and pray'd with them, endeavouring thereby to awaken their stupify'd sinful Souls unto Repentance, Amendment, and Righteousness of Life, as a due Preparation for Death; so that whether their Days were few or many, they might (by making a right Use of them) receive Comfort in this World, and at last obtain Eternal Bliss and Glory in the next.</p>
<p n="5">On the Lord's Day, the <rs type="date" id="OA17180527_date7">27th of April last</rs>
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, I preach'd to them, viz.</p>
<p n="6">1. In the Forenoon, upon Numb. 23. the latter part of the 10th Verse, taken out of the First Lesson for that Morning-Service, the Words being these. - Let me die the Death of the Righteous, and let my last End be like his. And,</p>
<p n="7">2. In the Afternoon upon Psal 19. 12, 13. Who can understand his Errors? Cleanse thou me from secret Faults. Keep back thy Servant also from presumptuous Sins: Let them not have Dominion over me. Then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great Transgression.</p>
<p n="8">In my discoursing upon the first of those Texts (after a short Introduction) I laid down this Proposition, viz.</p>
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