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<p n="2">THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of <rs type="persName" id="OA17241207_n2-1">Lovi Houssart</rs>
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, who was Executed in <rs type="placeName" id="OA17241207_geo1">Bishopsgate-street</rs>
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, on <rs type="date" id="OA17241207_date2">Monday the 7th of this Instant December</rs>
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<p n="3">AT the KING's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery, &c. Opened, before the <rs type="persName" id="OA17241207_n3-1">Right Honourable Sir Peter Delme</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="OA17241207_occ1">Knt</rs>
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. then <rs type="occupation" id="OA17241207_occ2">Lord Mayor</rs>
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, the Honourable Mr. Justice Tracy, Mr. Baron Price, Mr. Serjeant Raby, and several of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the City of London and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17241207_geo2">Old-Baily</rs>
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, on <rs type="date" id="OA17241207_date3">Wednesday the 4th of October last</rs>
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, seven Men and one Woman were by the Jury found guilty of Capital Crimes.</p>
<p n="4">Among them was <rs type="persName" id="OA17241207_n4-4">Lovi Houssart</rs>
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, who being, a considerable time ago, apprehended and tryed for the Murder of <rs type="persName" id="OA17241207_n4-3">Anne</rs>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="OA17241207_occ3">Wife</rs>
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, by giving her one Mortal Wound in the Throat with a Razor, or some other shurp Instrument, was, thro' want of sufficient Evidence, acquitted. He was afwards try'd and convicted of Bigamy. An Appeal was then lodg'd against him, by <rs type="persName" id="OA17241207_n4-1">Solomon Rondeau</rs>
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, Brother and Heir to <rs type="persName" id="OA17241207_n4-5">Anne Houssart</rs>
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, but found Defective, and therefore cancel'd. When he was brought upon his Tryal, on a new Appeal, the Counsel of the Appellant and Appellee agreed to join Issue upon the Plea of the Prisoner, which contain'd six Matters, in Bar and in Abatement (as that another Appeal was yet depending: That there was a Misnomer: That he was not Labourer, but <rs type="occupation" id="OA17241207_occ4">Barber Chirurgeon</rs>
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: That the Appeal mention'd Persons not existing, as <rs type="persName" id="OA17241207_n4-2">John Doe</rs>
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and Richard</p>
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