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and other of his majesty's justices of Oyer and Terminer for the city and county, on Wednesday the 28th, and Thursday the<rs type="date" id="OA17581002_date4">29th of June 1758</rs>
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. in the thirty-first year of his majesty's reign. <rs type="persName" id="OA17581002_n13-2">John Carrier</rs>
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was capitally convicted for forgery. And,</p>
<p n="14">By virtue of the King's commission of the peace and Oyer and Terminer for the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17581002_geo13">city of London</rs>
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, and at the general sessions of goal-delivery of <rs type="placeName" id="OA17581002_geo14">Newgate</rs>
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, holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17581002_geo15">city of London</rs>
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, and county of <rs type="placeName" id="OA17581002_geo16">Middlesex</rs>
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, and others of his majesty's justices of Oyer and Terminer for the said city and county, on Wednesday the 13th, Thursday, the 14th, Friday the 15th, and Saturday the <rs type="date" id="OA17581002_date5">16th of September1758</rs>
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, in the thirty-second year of his majesty's reign, <rs type="persName" id="OA17581002_n14-9">Richard Pensum</rs>
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, received sentence of death, for the several crimes in their indictments laid. And,</p>
<p n="15">On Tuesday the 26September, the report of eight malefactors was made to his majesty, when the five following were ordered for Execution on Monday the 2October, viz. <rs type="persName" id="OA17581002_n15-1">Margaret Larney</rs>
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<p n="16">And three respited, viz. <rs type="persName" id="OA17581002_n16-3">Mary Rulger</rs>
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for street robberies, and <rs type="persName" id="OA17581002_n16-2">Elizabeth Tomkinson</rs>
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for a felony.</p>
<p n="17">1. <rs type="persName" id="OA17581002_n17-1">Margaret</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="OA17581002_n17-2">Terence Larney</rs>
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was indected, for that the feloniously and traitorously with certain files and other instruments, one piece or good and lawful money of the current coin of this kingdon, called a guinea, did unlawfully file and diminish against the form of the statute in that case made and provided, the 16th December 1757</p>
<p n="18">This poor unhappy prisoner having been convicted so long since as January last, and respited on account of her pregnancy, doubtless, began to say within herself, Surely the bitterness of death is past, especially as she hart gone through the pain and peril of child birth aggravated with all the miseries of <rs type="placeName" id="OA17581002_geo19">Newgate</rs>
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and a cell, she began to hope that these dangers and sufferings would have entitled her to a longer respite and exchanged her sentence for transportation, but in vain she now found the sting of transgressing this law, too certain to be avoided; a law so important and necessary to the preservation of the current coin of the nation entire and undiminished, on which the public credit, commerce, national justice, and the facility of dealing do greatly depend.She now sound to her inexpressible grief, that private compassion, however</p>
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