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<p n="2">THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and dying Words of the Malefactors, who were Executed on <rs type="date" id="OA17260803_date2">Wednesday the 3d of this Instant August, 1726</rs>
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, at Tyburn.</p>
<p n="3">AT the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Jail-Delivery of Newgate, held (before the <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n3-1">Right Honourable Sir FRANCIS FORBES</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="OA17260803_occ2">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17260803_geo1">City of London</rs>
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, the Honourable Mr. Justice Dormer, Mr. Justice Reynolds, Mr. Justice Denton, Mr. Baron Thomson, Knt. Recorder of the City of London, Mr. <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n3-2">John Raby</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="OA17260803_occ3">Serjeant at Law</rs>
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, and other his Majesty's Justices of Jail Delivery, and Oyer and Terminer aforesaid, together with his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City of London, and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17260803_geo2">Old-Baily</rs>
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, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, being the <rs type="date" id="OA17260803_date3">13th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17260803_date4">14th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17260803_date5">15th</rs>
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and <rs type="date" id="OA17260803_date6">16th of July, 1726</rs>
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, in the Twelfth Year of his Majesty's Reign.</p>
<p n="4">Eight Men, viz. <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n4-1">Edward Reynolds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n4-2">Richard Hinton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n4-3">Thomas Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n4-4">William Flower</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n4-5">Peter Piercy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n4-6">John Brakes</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n4-8">John Claxon</rs>
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was also convicted Capitally, for assaulting and robbing on the Highway, upon <rs type="placeName" id="OA17260803_geo3">Enfield-Chace</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n4-10">Robert Collinson</rs>
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, of a Watch val. 4 l. and 7 d. in Money, on <rs type="date" id="OA17260803_date7">Thursday May 26</rs>
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, but he dy'd before Judgment was given) and one Woman, <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n4-11">Mary Standford</rs>
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, were found guilty of Capital Offences, and receiv'd Sentence of Death.</p>
<p n="5">While under Sentence, <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n5-1">William Flower</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n5-2">Peter Piercy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n5-3">John Brakes</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n5-4">Thomas West</rs>
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, came not to Chapel above three or four times, three of them having been afflicted with grievous Sickness all the time, and Piercy in three or four Days after Sentence falling sick also, which was the reason why the said four were constantly confin'd to the Condemn'd-Hold; and <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n5-5">Richard Hinton</rs>
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having had a Fever, and entering assurances of a Pardon, never attended in Chapel. Brakes dy'd in the Condemn'd-Hold of violent Convulsion Fits, and a Fever, before the Report was made to his Majesty in Council.</p>
<p n="6">Of the four who came always to Chapel, excepting <rs type="persName" id="OA17260803_n6-1">Thomas Smith</rs>
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, three were grosly ignorant of the Christian Religion, and therefore I endeavour'd to instruct them in the Principle of our most Holy Faith in the most familiar and easy Manner, representing to them, how that Man having been made a perfectly holy Creature at first, after the Image of God, in Knowledge, Righteousness, and true Holiness, had fallen from his primitive estate of Integrity and Perfection, into an abyss of Sin and Misery, from whence the Wit of Men and Angels could not have extricated him, if God, in his infinite Goodness, and Mercy, and Love, had not interpos'd; whence I exhorted them to love God, who had thus loved us, we having nothing but deformity, as the Scripture represents the Matter, we being cloath'd with Sin as with a loathsome Leprosy; there being a natural enmity in us against God and his Ways, as St. Paul says, Eph. iv. 18. Having the Understanding darkned, being alienated from the Life of God, through the Ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their Heart, who being past feeling, have given themselves over unto Lasciviousness, to work all Uncleanness with greediness. From this I enlarg'd upon the infinite Love of God, in remembering us in our low Estate, so that when there was no Hand to help us, no Eye to pity us, then God was pleas'd to say unto us, Live. When our first Parents Adam and Eve, and we in them, had unfortunately fallen, then was God's time of Love, in promising that the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Head of the Serpent; that Christ, who is there called the Seed of the Woman, should destroy the Kingdom of Satan, and bring the lost Posterity of Adam, who truly believe in him as their only Saviour, sincerely repenting of all their Sins, particularly those for which they suffer'd, and which oppress'd their Consciences, and loving God with their whole Hearts, into mansions of Bliss and Happiness, a right to which, by their apostacy and fall from God, they had forfeited and lost. I shew'd to 'em, how dangerous and pernicious the Sin of Covetousness is, as being directly opposite to the simple and pure Nature of God, estranging our Minds from God, and centering them upon the Creature, which Practise is inconsistent with the Worship and Service of God, as our Saviour says, Ye cannot serve God and Mammon, St. Mat. vi. 24. One of them having been convicted of Murder, I insisted upon the heinousness of that Sin, as being an usurpation upon the Prerogative of Almighty</p>
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