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<HEAD>A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE Behaviour, Confe&s;&s;ion, AND EXECUTION OF <HI>William Charley</HI> and <HI>Ann Scot,</HI> Who Received Sentence of Death on the 27th. of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t, at JUSTICE-HALL in the <HI>OLD-BAYLY,</HI> and were Executed at TYBURN On <HI>Friday</HI> the 4th. of this In&s;tant <HI>September</HI> 1685.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">As al&s;o a Brief Account of the Seven other per&s;ons, who received Sentence of Death with them, but before Execution found mercy in a Gracious Re|prieve, <HI>viz. John Thomp&s;on, Thomas Draper. Thomas Glani&s;ter, Cathrine Baucer, Ca&s;&s;andra Widdows, Ellenor Steel,</HI> and <HI>Elizabeth Hacker.</HI></HEAD>
<P>STill it appears, notwith&s;tanding the many precedent Examples Ju&s;tice has made of Offenders, that divers are be&s;otted to that degree, or deluded by the wiles and Tempta|tions of the Enemy of mankind; that regardle&s;s of their Safety, Lives, or Re|putations, they will ra&s;hly run them|&s;elves to Ruin and Di&s;grace, neither fear of Shame nor Severity being of force &s;ufficient to keep them within the Bounds of Hone&s;ty and civil Behaviour, nor to make them look back and con|&s;ider the danger they are in, till it is too late to Retrive the &s;ad di&s;a&s;ter, then, and but then, they are content to open their Eyes, and inform them&s;elves how they have been intic'd and drawn away how ea&s;ily they have con&s;ented to the per&s;wa&s;ions of wicked per&s;ons, whom <HI>Satan</HI> has laid as &s;nares in their way to undo them, as will more evidently ap|pear in the following Relation, in which is contained; more e&s;pecially the Crimes, Manner of Behaviour and Confe&s;&s;ion of two Per&s;ons cut off by the Hand of Ju&s;tice, in the prime and &s;trength of their days, as it was ob&s;er|ved and taken from them&s;elves in <HI>New|gate,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>VVilliam Charley,</HI> Tryed the prece|dent Se&s;&s;ions, holden at <HI>Ju&s;tice-Hall</HI> in the <HI>Old-Bayly</HI> upon an Indictment of Felony and Burglary, Committed on and in the Ware Hou&s;e of one Mr. <HI>Wil|liam Loveday,</HI> Scituate in the Pari&s;h of St. <HI>Michaels London:</HI> It appeared that Cloath had been &s;tolen thence to
<PB N="2" REF="2" MS="y">the value 120 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> and that upon &s;earch, part of it was found in <HI>Crouders-Well-Alley</HI> in <HI>Jeven &s;treet;</HI> and upon further inquirie it was proved to be brought thither by <HI>Charley</HI> and others, as like|wi&s;e other percels of Cloath, that had been carried out and di&s;po&s;ed of, and he having been formerly burnt in the hand, no per&s;on appearing to give te&s;timony on his behal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">, he was found Guilty; when upon his Conviction he became exceeding &s;ad, imagining as he &s;ince confe&s;&s;ed no mercy would be allowed him, &s;ince he had refu&s;ed to take warn|ing by his former puni&s;hment. The day following, being the 27th. of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t, he with Eight other Offenders re|ceived Sentence of Death, and was re|turned to <HI>Newgate</HI> in order to prepare him&s;elf for another World, his offences having render'd him incapable of a much longer continuance in this; where (upon his fir&s;t arrival) he betook him&s;elf to his Devotion, imploring the God of mercys, to have mercy upon his Soul; and that in compa&s;&s;ion thereto, he would be plea&s;ed to give him a heart to repent: After the&s;e and &s;uch like ex|pre&s;&s;ions, he proceeded to declare he had been a great &s;inner, tho' but a young man not exceeding 25. Years of Age: Being asked what his former bu&s;ine&s;s was, and how he &s;pent his time before he fell to &s;uch unlawful cour&s;es; he &s;aid he was born of hone&s;t Parents in <HI>Co|ventry,</HI> who u&s;ed their faithful endea|vours to qualifie him by learning and what el&s;e was convenient for bu&s;ine&s;s that might render him credible, and en|able him to live in the World; and that as &s;oon as he was of Years capable for Employment, put him Apprentice to one <HI>Mr. Hix,</HI> a Callender in the City of <HI>London,</HI> and furni&s;hed him with all con|venient nece&s;&s;aries; but he, after he had a while faithfully &s;erved the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Hix,</HI> finding opportunity to ramble a|broad &s;orted him&s;elf with bad Compa|ny, which by degrees drew him to neg|lect his bu&s;ine&s;s and in the end to &s;teal, the better to &s;upport and maintain his Extravagance: Being asked what was his fir&s;t Fact in that Nature, he replyed, &s;tealing a con&s;iderable quantity of <HI>Blew</HI> Cloath which he was intru&s;ted with by his Ma&s;ter, or at lea&s;t had the opportu|nity of taking it, he being at that time a Porter to a Drapers Shop, which Cloath he di&s;po&s;ed of at a &s;mall value, but the Theft being found out and proved again&s;t him; He was about Four Years &s;ince burnt in the Hand for that Felony, and Ca&s;hired from his Service, after which; ram|bling up and down he fell in Love with a Servant Maid, and to mannage Gen|tilely his Court&s;hip (being de&s;titute of any Lawful Employ, whereby he could &s;upport him&s;elf as he de&s;ired) he &s;aid he betook him&s;elf to unlawful cour&s;es &s;tealing (as opportunity gave leave) Goods at &s;undry times from di|vers per&s;ons, &s;pending the &s;mall value he had &s;old them at (being for the mo&s;t part under hand) upon the Woman he &s;o earne&s;tly de&s;ired; being asked how he found him&s;elf as to another State, he replyed, he was very &s;en&s;ible of his Latter End, de&s;iring nothing more than that he might live long enough to make his peace with God, whom he had offended in &s;o high a Nature, and who&s;e Mercys and opportunities of Grace he had &s;lighted and rejected, for which he was heartily &s;orry, hoping that it was not too late to repent him of the <HI>Evil of his ways,</HI> de&s;iring &s;uch as came to vi&s;it him, that they would in Chri&s;tian Charity pray for him, that God might give him a true Repentance, earne&s;tly de&s;iring that his misfortune might be of Efficacy to prevail upon o|thers not to give way to deceivers and deluding per&s;ons, to intice them under any &s;pecious pretence what&s;oever, to give up their mind to Idlene&s;s and Va|nity; but above all, he de&s;ired that all young men Apprentices would &s;eriou&s;|ly weigh his condition, and con&s;ider by what degrees he was brought to be an Object of Mi&s;ery, which he &s;aid he well hoped would be a means to conti|nue and retain them within the Bounds of Apprentices, <HI>viz.</HI> in minding the bu&s;ine&s;s they were intru&s;ted with, in plea&s;ing their Ma&s;ters, and giving them|&s;elves to &s;obriety and moderation, but e&s;pecially to avoid evil company, for that had ruined him, and is indeed the Root of wickedne&s;s, &s;hame &amp; di&s;grace.</P>
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<P>To tho&s;e that came to vi&s;it him he was very re&s;pectful, giving great attention to &s;uch advice as was given him, relating to a pre|paration for Death, and &s;o con|tinued very &s;en&s;ible and penitent during his being in <HI>Newgate.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ann Scot,</HI> Convicted the &s;ame Se&s;&s;ions with the former, and re|ceiving Sentence of Death, upon Evidence that &s;he had Feloniou&s;|ly taken a Flower'd Mantua-Gown, a Sattin-Petticoat and o|ther Goods, out of the Hou&s;e of <HI>James Marmion,</HI> Scituate in the Pari&s;h of St. <HI>Dun&s;tans</HI> in the <HI>We&s;t,</HI> and not being capable of &s;aying any thing material for her &s;elf; &s;he upon her return to <HI>Newgate</HI> became &s;ad as the former, being frequently ob&s;erved to wring her Hands and Sigh, &s;aying, &s;he was the unhappie&s;t Woman alive wi&s;h|ing &s;he had never been Born, ra|ther than to have fallen into &s;o unhappy a Condition: As for the place of her Birth, &s;he &s;aid it was in the County of <HI>Down</HI> in <HI>Ireland</HI> being brought up there to work divers curious Works with the Needle, but leaving her Parents, and coming over upon a &s;light oc|ca&s;ion, the chiefe&s;t Motive being to &s;ee this Country, and &s;he after a while brought to &s;ome nece&s;&s;ity betook her &s;elf to Imbrodering, and found a con&s;iderable Employ|ment, living as a &s;ingle Woman, in <HI>White</HI>'s-<HI>Alley</HI> in <HI>Chancery Lane,</HI> working there very hard, but that &s;ort of bu&s;ine&s;s failing, &s;he fell in|to loo&s;e and idle Company, who encouraged her in Leudne&s;s, and altogether took her off from her Employment to follow unlawful Cour&s;es, as well Debauchery, and Pro&s;titution, as plfering and ma|ny other Matters tending to De|fraud and Inju&s;tice, which by de|grees had imboldened her to the height of Wickedne&s;s in which &s;he was overtaken: She &s;aid a|bout a year &s;ince &s;he was Tryed for a Cravat valued at 3 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> 6 <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> which was &s;tole, but there being no other Evidence than that &s;he had paun'd it upon the account of another, &s;he was acquitted, yet was not &s;o wi&s;e as to lay that narrow e&s;cape to her Heart, nor to take up, and re&s;t her &s;elf &s;atisfied therewith, wherefore what had &s;ince befallen her, &s;he &s;aid was ju&s;t, and there|fore if &s;he mu&s;t dye &s;he would bear it patiently, tho' it happened untimely; &s;he not being above 34. Years of Age, yet the great|e&s;t part of that time &s;he had mi&s;|imployed in &s;ining again&s;t her ma|ker; few known &s;ins that &s;he was capable of Acting, Murther ex|cepted, &s;he having been a &s;tranger to her, yet &s;he hoped God would not lay them to her Charge in her la&s;t extremity, but out of the mul|titude of his Mercys, accept her imperfect Repentance, being ask|ed whether &s;he found her &s;elf di&s;|po&s;ed to imbrace the penalty of the Law, puni&s;hing with Death &s;uch has had offended in the like Nature as &s;he had done, her reply was, that if &s;he might live &s;he ho|ped &s;he &s;hould employ her time for the future to a better advan|tage, but if not, God's Will be done; and &s;o continued in often Prayer to her &s;elf, &s;eeming very
<PB N="4" REF="3">attentive to good and whole&s;ome advice relating to her immortal well-fare, expre&s;&s;ing her de&s;ire to be in&s;tructed therein, as much as Conveniency and Opportunity would permit, and in that State of Penitence during the Re&s;pit in <HI>Newgate</HI> &s;he was very diligent.</P>
<P>Seven other Per&s;ons lay like|wi&s;e under the &s;ame Condemna|tion, as <HI>Catharine Baucer, Ca&s;&s;an|dra Widdows,</HI> for being concerned with <HI>Ann Scot,</HI> in Robbing Mr. <HI>Marmion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thomas Draper,</HI> for &s;tealing a Gelding, valued at 6 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> from one <HI>William Wat&s;on,</HI> of the Pari&s;h of St. <HI>Sepulchres,</HI> on the 14th of <HI>Au|gu&s;t</HI> la&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>John Thomp&s;on,</HI> for breaking the Hou&s;e of <HI>Thomas Temple</HI> of the Pari&s;h of St. <HI>Michaels Wood-&s;treet</HI> on the 21th. of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t, and &s;tealing thence 7. Napkins value 4 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> 2 Handkerchiefs value 1 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> and other Linnen.</P>
<P><HI>Thomas Glani&s;ter,</HI> for breaking open the Hou&s;e of <HI>John Clark,</HI> in the Pari&s;h of St. <HI>Andrews Holborn</HI> on the 2<ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t, and &s;teal|ing 3 Stuff-Coats, value 12 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> 2 pair of Breeches value 5 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> and o|ther Goods of value.</P>
<P><HI>Elizabeth Hacker,</HI> for &s;tealing a Chamblet Cloak value 6 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> out of the Chamber of one <HI>Alexander Hul&s;ton</HI> of the Par&s;h of St. <HI>An|drews Holbourn,</HI> on the 27th. of <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P>But the&s;e, in hopes of their a|mendment and being reclaimed, found the Royal Mercy &amp; Prince|ly Compa&s;&s;ion in a Gracious Re|prieve for a longer Life, having before expre&s;&s;ed their Sorrowful &s;en&s;e of their &s;ad Condition to which they had brought them|&s;elves, by breaking the known Laws, and forfeiting their Lives to Ju&s;tice.</P>
<P>On <HI>Friday</HI> the 4th. of <HI>Augu&s;t, William Charley</HI> and <HI>Ann Scot</HI> were put in a Cart, and conveyed to <HI>Tyburn,</HI> the place of Execution where they were Executed as the Law in &s;uch Ca&s;es requires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>This may be Printd, R. L. S.</HI> <DATE><HI>September</HI> the 4th. 1685.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON;</HI> Printed by <HI>E. Mallet</HI> in <HI>Black-Hor&s;e-Alley</HI> in <HI>Fleet-&s;treet,</HI> near <HI>Fleet-Bridge,</HI> 1685.</P>
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