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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of the Malefactor, that was Executed at Tyburn, on
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Monday the 8th of April, 1723
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AT the KING'S Commission of the Peace, and Oyer, and Terminer, which began at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, on
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Wednesday, the 27th of February last
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; before the
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Right Honourable Sir Gerard Conyers
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, Knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Hon. Mr. Justice Powis, Mr. Justice Denton, Mr. Baron Gilbert;
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John Raby
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, Esq; Deputy-Recorder, and several of his MAJESTY'S Justices of the Peace for the City of London and County of Middlesex; Three Men receiv'd Sentence Death, of viz.
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William Burks
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William Summersfield
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Thomas Frost
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: The two Last of these receiving His MAJESTY'S Reprieve, in order to their be Transported to some of the
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beyond the Sas, the First of them was left for Execution.
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DURING the time that
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lay under Condemnation, he never once absented from the Prayers in the Chapel, being well assured, that he should suffer Death; which put him seriously upon preparing for his Departure into another World; without delaying the time and flattering himself with absurd Notions of a Pardon or Reprieve as is always the Manner of Persons under Sentce of Death, till the Warrant for Execution is sent to the Prison, ar they are acquainted with the certainty of their Fate: And then t is that they begin to be serious, and to consider that they are enter in into the Presence of the eternal Soveraign and Creator of the Unierse; so difficult is it for them to entertain Thoughts of another Life, till the Magistrates are so kind to them as to satisfy them there i no possibility of their continuing in this,
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