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<HEAD>A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE CONFESSION AND EXECUTION Of the four Pri&s;oners Executed At TYBURN On <DATE><HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 5th of this In&s;tant <HI>February</HI> 1684.</DATE></HEAD>
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<ITEM>I&s;aac Davis, </ITEM>
<ITEM>George Stokes,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mary William&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alice Patte&s;on,</HI> who was burnt at <HI>Tyburn for</HI> High Trea&s;on</ITEM>
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<P>THe mo&s;t con&s;iderable in his Crimes of the&s;e mi&s;erable Wretch|es, who this day &s;atisfied the Law in their Execution, for tho&s;e heinous offences, for which they, were mo&s;t ju&s;tly. Condemned, was <HI>Edward Conyers,</HI> a per&s;on from who&s;e reverend Age, being above three&s;core, might have been expected a more hone&s;t cour&s;e of life in tho&s;e his latter days, &s;ince he was from the common frailty, and de|cay of nature obliged con&s;tantly to attend his call into another world which Summons he by his Vitious and Covetous de&s;ires of living in ea&s;e and plenty, has now fatally ha&s;tned upon him&s;elf. He was born at <HI>New-Ca&s;tle,</HI> and &s;ince lived in St. <HI>Giles in the Field</HI> with his wife and family, in the Reputation of an hone&s;t Man, though not very con|&s;iderable for his Riches in the Eye of the World.</P>
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<P>He <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">he la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions at the <HI>Old-Baily</HI> Arraigned with his Wife <HI>Jane,</HI> and both Condemned for High-Trea&s;on, for Clipping and o|therways Dimini&s;hing the Current Coin of this Kingdom, the Di&s;|covery of which was as follows.</P>
<P>A Daughter of <HI>Edward Conyers,</HI> being &s;ent out by her Mother to buy Bread and other Commodities they wanted, offering two Shil|lings which appeared lately clipt in payment was &s;eized, and being examined how &s;he came by that money, &s;he an&s;wered, &s;he had it from her Mother, when being told that they were clipt, and if &s;he did not di&s;cover all that &s;he knew about it, &s;he mu&s;t be pre&s;ently &s;ent to pri&s;on, &s;he immediately confe&s;t that her Father u&s;ed to clip money, and that they had Sheers, Files, Melting <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">s, and other In|&s;truments nece&s;&s;ary for that wicked Trade; upon this a Con&s;table with a Warrant went immediately to &s;earch the hou&s;e, where they found in <HI>Conyers</HI> Lodgings the &s;aid Implements as al&s;o clipt mony &amp; Clippings, upon this they were both &s;ent to <HI>Newgate:</HI> and at the <HI>Old Bayly</HI> the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions, upon plain and undeniable Evidence they were found Guilty of Felony and High-Trea&s;on and accordingly condem|ned, but <HI>Jane</HI> his Wife, by his Maje&s;tys great Clemency is Repreived upon her great Penitence and Contrition, <HI>Edward Conyers</HI> the Hu&s;|band, did not till a little before Execution &s;eem to be &s;o nearly touched in Con&s;cience, as a per&s;on in his unhappy Circum&s;tances ought to have been, he was willing to own him&s;elf in General a great Offender, and one who was grown old in Vitious Cour&s;es, but &s;uch as yet were rather the common Lap&s;es of Mankind, than parti|cular Vices from his own depraved affections. He was ready to Ex|empt him&s;elf from the Guilt of that Crime he was Condemned for, either in hopes of a Reprieve, &s;uppo&s;ing his &s;eeming innocence and denyal of the Fact might prove a good Argument for Royal mercy. But the Night before Execution, he &s;eemed to have a true &s;ence of his &s;ad condition and often prayed and read much in the Holy Bible, and was deeply concerned for the Deplorable condition of his poor Children, the care of which he very earne&s;tly recommended to his Friends But this Morning was Repreived, by his Maje&s;tys Grace and Favour.</P>
<P><HI>J&s;aac Davis,</HI> was another of tho&s;e unhappy Criminals who this day &s;uffered: his Crime for which he, &s;uffered was this.</P>
<P>On the 30th of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t, he with two others, between one and two in the Morning, broke into the hou&s;e of Mr. <HI>Mar&s;hfield</HI> liv|ing near <HI>Knights-bridge;</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Mar&s;hfield</HI> hearing a noi&s;e below in his hou&s;e came down in his &s;hirt, imagining two of his own Ser|vants were up at that un&s;ea&s;onable hour; as &s;oon as he was got to the bottom of the Stairs, they fell upon him, and cut and wounded him in &s;everal places, di&s;charging a Pi&s;tol loaded with Bullets; upon the report of which and the out-cry he made calling for help his Son came down and they immediately Fled, the Pri&s;oner for ha&s;te left his Hat behind him which was known to be his, both by Mr. <HI>Mar&s;hfield</HI> and his Son who had &s;een him wear it, he having been
<PB N="3" REF="2"><!-- PDF PAGE 5 -->formerly Mr. <HI>Mar&s;hfields</HI> Servant, was per&s;onally known to him tho under a di&s;gui&s;e. He could make very little defence for him&s;elf at his Tryal, and &s;ince &s;entence hath, by the extraordinary pains of that worthy per&s;on Mr. <HI>Ordinary</HI> been brought into a deep &s;ence and utter abhorrence of tho&s;e Vitious Cour&s;es which have brought him to this untimely End.</P>
<P><HI>John Stokes,</HI> a young man about eighteen years of age, was Indict|ed for picking the Pocket of <HI>Elizabeth Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> of her Pur&s;e in which was 38 Shillings in Mony; as &s;he was pa&s;&s;ing along <HI>Pye Corner;</HI> his Hand was taken in her pocket, but he Violently &s;natching it out ran away with the Mony, but upon per&s;uit was Seized and was Com|mitted to <HI>Newgate,</HI> an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> the <HI>Se&s;&s;ions</HI> upon plain Evidence was found Guilty: Tho he was but young in Years he had been long ac|quainted with &s;uch wicked practi&s;es, and now brought to Condeign puni&s;hment: Upon the near appoach of Death he began to receive the impre&s;&s;ion of tho&s;e Religious dutys with more Zeal and Atten|tion and to appear more &s;en&s;ible of his mi&s;erable and forlorn Con|dition.</P>
<P><HI>Mary VVilliam&s;on,</HI> alias <HI>Jones</HI> under the pretence of Service, hir'd her &s;elf to Mr. <HI>Powney</HI> of St. <HI>Lawrence Poultney London,</HI> and lived with him from Michelmas to the. 26th. of <HI>October</HI> following, at which time her Ma&s;ter and Mi&s;tri&s;s being gone a Journey, &s;he broke open a Trunck where their Plate and Mony lay, and Robbing them thereof, to the value of three hundred pound fled: Being afterwards apre|hended, and this appearing upon full Evidence again&s;t her, as al&s;o that &s;he being an old offender, and had been formerly convicted of the like; &s;he was now found Guilty, and this day Executed with great remor&s;e and &s;orrow for tho&s;e wicked practi&s;es &s;he had been to frequently guilty of, and now de&s;ervedly &s;uffered for.</P>
<P><HI>Alice Patte&s;on;</HI> lived in the Pari&s;h of St. <HI>Martins in the Fields</HI> and lodged at the Hou&s;e of <HI>Mary Hern,</HI> who was the mo&s;t material wit|ne&s;s again&s;t her. She was Indicted for Clipping &s;ix Half-crowns, of the Lawful <HI>Coyn</HI> of this Kingdom, called King <HI>Charles</HI> the fir&s;t his Half crowns, dimini&s;hing each of the &s;aid Half-crowns to the value of 4<HI>d.</HI> Her afore&s;aid Landlady &s;eemed to connive thereat, by procu|ring her broad mony, and after it was clipt by changing it into Guinys, allowing 21<HI>s.</HI> and 8<HI>d.</HI> a Guiny, which they at another place, changed again into Silver at 21<HI>s.</HI> and 6<HI>d.</HI> per. Guiny. The &s;aid <HI>Mary Hern</HI> confe&s;&s;ing &s;he had in this manner changed away &s;eve|ral con&s;ider able &s;ums, and al&s;o depo&s;ed, that &s;he had &s;een her <HI>Clip|ing Fileing and dimini&s;hing</HI> mony; a melting pot, melted Silver, Clipt-Mony and other Evidences thereof, being found in the Hou&s;e: She was therefore brought in guilty of Felony &amp; High-Trea&s;on and vvas this day burnt at <HI>Tyburn:</HI> &s;he &s;poke not much in publick, but in her Behaviour appeared very penitent and being brought to the Stake vvhere &s;he vvas chained, made often u&s;e of &s;e|veral pious Expre&s;&s;ions and Religious Exhortations to her neare&s;t
<PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 6 -->Friends, after &s;ome little time of Devotion the Fire vvas kindled, the Smoke of vvhich &s;uddenly choack'd her: She Expired only vvith he &s;ingle Groan.</P>
<P>There were in all 12. condemned, of which Number through his Maje&s;tys Grace and Clemency, &s;ix had a Repreive, and tvvo others, <HI>viz. Joan Nicholas,</HI> and <HI>Mary Defoe,</HI> pleaded their Bellys, and being by a Jury of Women found to be vvith Child, Execution vvas re&s;pi|ted till after their Deliverance, vvhen they mu&s;t &s;uffer according to Lavv, unle&s;s by his Maje&s;tys Gracious pardon they obtain a Nevv Life.</P>
<P>On <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 5th. of this In&s;tant <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">ch,</HI> about Nine of the Clock the Cart vvas brought into vvhich <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">ey vvere put, about E|leven the Cart drevv on to the place of Execution. <HI>Alice Patte&s;on</HI> being dravvn upon a Sledge. They behaved them&s;elves vvith a very devout and Chri&s;tian-like Carriage, de&s;iring the prayers of all pre&s;ent, and commending their Souls unto their mo&s;t merciful Re|deemer, vvere turn'd off by the Cart dravving avvay, vvhere &s;ome of them hung a great vvhile before they vvere dead.</P>
<P><HI>Entered according to</HI> ORDER.</P>
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<P>LONDON <HI>Printed by</HI> E. Mallet, <HI>in</HI> Black-Hor&s;e-Alley <HI>near</HI> Fleet-Bridge.</P>
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