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<p n="9a"> <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n9-7">RAVEN</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n9-3">NICHOLAS MOONEY</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n9-4">THOMAS HOLLY</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n9-5">JOHN BURK</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n9-6">BENJAMIN WATTS</rs>
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, were capitally convicted, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.</p>
<p n="10">They all of them constantly attended divine Service in the Chapel, since their Convictment, and appeared very penitent and earnest in their Devotion.</p>
<p n="11">On <rs type="date" id="OA17490317_date8">Thursday the 9th Instant</rs>
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, the Report of the above 5 Malefactors was made by Mr. Recorder to his Majesty, when he was pleased to order the 4 following for Execution, viz. <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n11-1">John Raven</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n11-2">Thomas Holly</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n11-3">John Burk</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n11-4">Benjamin Watts</rs>
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, on <rs type="date" id="OA17490317_date9">Friday the 17th Instant</rs>
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<p n="12"> <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n12-1">Nicholas Mooney</rs>
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, upon Account of some Circumstances, which were laid before his Majesty, is respited till the <rs type="date" id="OA17490317_date10">20th of April</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n12-2">John Raven</rs>
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reprieved by his Majesty for Transportation , and the remaining three order'd for Execution as above.</p>
<p n="13">1. <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n13-1">THOMAS HOLLY</rs>
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was indicted for robbing <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n13-2">Mary Dale</rs>
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, in an open Field near the King's Highway, of one Silk Handkerchief, Value 6 d. <rs type="date" id="OA17490317_date11">Jan. 20th</rs>
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. He was a second Time indicted for robbing <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n13-3">Sarah Buscoe</rs>
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, &c. of a Silver Thimble, Value 3 d. and Six-pence in Money, <rs type="date" id="OA17490317_date12">Jan. 20th</rs>
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<p n="14">2. <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n14-1">JOHN BURK</rs>
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, late of <rs type="placeName" id="OA17490317_geo4">St. Giles's in the Fields</rs>
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, was indicted for robbing <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n14-2">Terence Walden</rs>
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of 1 Waistcoat, Value 2 s. and a Handkerchief, Value 6 d. <rs type="date" id="OA17490317_date13">Feb. 3d</rs>
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<p n="15">3. <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n15-1">BENJAMIN WATTS</rs>
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, alias ROTTEN , late of<rs type="placeName" id="OA17490317_geo5"> <rs type="placeName" id="OA17490317_geo6">Saterly</rs>
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in Suffolk</rs>
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, was convicted, as being a notorious Smuggler, and not surrendering himself according to order of Council .</p>
<p n="16">4. <rs type="persName" id="OA17490317_n16-1">John Burk</rs>
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, aged 21, was born in <rs type="placeName" id="OA17490317_geo7">Dublin</rs>
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. At about 9 Years of Age, he says, he was sent abroad as a <rs type="occupation" id="OA17490317_occ7">Cabbin-Boy</rs>
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, on board a Merchant Ship that sailed from <rs type="placeName" id="OA17490317_geo8"> <rs type="placeName" id="OA17490317_geo9">Appledore</rs>
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, near <rs type="placeName" id="OA17490317_geo10">Biddeford</rs>
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in Devon</rs>
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, trading to <rs type="placeName" id="OA17490317_geo11">Virginia</rs>
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, and he continued in that Capacity, and before the Mast for 3 or 4 Years.</p>
<p n="17">The last Voyage he went in her, he says, was about the Commencement of the late War with France, when being homeward bound he was press'd into his Majesty's Service, and taken on board the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17490317_geo12">Mortar Bomb</rs>
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. He had not sailed in her long, but cruising the Bristol Channel in Hopes to pick up more Seamen, off the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17490317_geo13">Island of Lundee</rs>
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, they met with bad Weather; and that Channel being pretty open to the Wind, as he says, as it</p>
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