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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of
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, who were Executed at
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, on
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Wednesday, the 6th of November, 1723
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ON
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Wednesday the 16th of October last
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, began the Commission of Peace, and Oyer and Terminer &c, at Justice Hall in the
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; before the
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Right Honourable Sir Gerrard Conyers
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Lord Mayor
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of the
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, the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Prat, Mr. Justice Tracy, Mr. Baron Price,
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, Recorder; besides several of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace.
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At this Commission of the Peace, four Men were found Guilty of Capital Offences, and received Sentence of Death accordingly, viz.
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, Being very illiterate, I had orcasion to visit them the more frequently; at which times, they said their not applying more seriously to the Performance of their Duty, and the Understanding their Religion, was occasion'd by those Incumbrances and Impediments which they met with in that miserable Place where they were confin'd. After some time those Obstacles being in some Measure removed, the three Men who could read, assured me that they spent their whole time, as well Night as Day, in reading to
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, who could neither Read or Write, allowing very little time to themselves for Sleep. But one of them complain'd every Day of White's bad Behaviour, desiring he might be hinder'd from Laughing and foolishly Talking, and from Vices of a very gross Nature, which Whiting and Makey affirm'd him to be guilty of, in the Place of his Confinement, with the Women that were put in to them; threatening the Women, and terrifying them, till they were willing to comply with his wicked Commands and Resolutions.
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