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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last Words of
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, who was Executed at
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in the Parish of St. Paul Shadwell
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, on Monday the
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4th of this Instant January
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William Anderson
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Tyburn
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on
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AT the KING'S Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer and Goal-Delivery, &c. Held (before the Right Honourable Sir
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Lord Mayor
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, the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice King, Mr. Justice Dormer, Mr. Baron Page, 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
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, on Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, being the
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Days of December last, four Men were by the Jury found guilty of Capital Offences, and received Sentence accordingly.
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Two of the Persons, so sentenced, having obtained His Majesty's Reprieve, viz.
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Rowland Swanson
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) were incapacitated as to the performance of their Duty, by the Anger and Resentment their Condition had fill'd them with, (
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in particular, at the same time that he acknowledged the rescuing the Prisoner West from the Hands of
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, affirming he was no way designedly disguised and that he no way apprehended he had any occasion to disguise himself, any more than had Tims, Bowler, Tibbs, Fencote, or any other upon the same Enterprize)
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