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<P>THE CONFESSION AND EXECUTION Of the Six Pri&s;oners that &s;uffered at TYBURN On <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 22th of <HI>May,</HI> 1678.</P>
<P>At which time were Executed</P>
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<ITEM>John Cro&s;s,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Blake,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Stone,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Humphry Hulin,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Con&s;table,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ro&s;e Goodman.</ITEM>
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<P>As al&s;o of <HI>Charles Pamplin,</HI> who was Executed the &s;ame day in <HI>Covent-garden,</HI> for Murdering Lieutenant <HI>Dali&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>With a true Account of their Behaviour in Newgate from the time of their Condemnation, and la&s;t Speeches at the place of Execution.</P>
<P>With Allowance.</P>
<P><HI>London:</HI> Printed for <HI>D. M.</HI> 1678.</P>
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<HEAD>The Confe&s;&s;ion and Execution of the Pri&s;oners &s;uffering at <HI>Tyburn.</HI></HEAD>
<P>OF the&s;e unhappy wretches who now became nece&s;&s;ary Sacrifices to Ju|&s;tice, he that occa&s;ioned mo&s;t di&s;|cour&s;e, as well by rea&s;on of his being gene|rally known, as by the heinou&s;ne&s;s of his Crime, being the death of a very worthy Gentleman, was a per&s;on that being hereto|fore in a very good place, might have liv'd as comfortably and genteely as any man of his Rank could have wi&s;ht; but extrava|gance &s;till wanting Supplies, put him upon wicked de&s;ignes, lo&s;t his Employ, and &s;ince which, having followed loo&s;e irregular cour|&s;es, he at la&s;t came to commit this bloody Crime for which he was now executed: the Particulars whereof having been already
<PB N="3" REF="3"> publi&s;hed, need not here be repeated. When he came to receive Sentence of Death, he de&s;ired time to prepare him&s;elf; to which the Court an&s;wered, that he &s;hould have what was u&s;ual and convenient, but caution'd him not to mock God, or flatter him&s;elf with vain hopes of a Reprieve, as many do under that pretence; but rather with all his might to humble him&s;elf and make his peace with God. Several Mini&s;ters vi&s;ited him after his Condemnation, and earne&s;tly pre&s;s'd him to a hearty Repentance, and that if any others were Confederates with, or Abetters of him in this barbarous Murder, he would disbur|then his Soul by di&s;covering them: But he was at fir&s;t &s;o far from an&s;wering their expe|ctations therein, that he would give no full account of the Rea&s;ons or Provocations that moved him to do it; nor would he for &s;ome time declare him&s;elf guilty of the Murder, but at la&s;t he did confe&s;s it, &s;aying, It was upon an Affront that he could not bear; but expre&s;&s;ed him&s;elf heartily &s;orry for his cruel Rage, and de&s;ired all that were pre&s;ent, to pray for him to Almighty God, that he might
<PB N="4" REF="4"> obtain Pardon for that and all other his ma|nifold &s;ins.</P>
<P>After his Condemnation the generous Cha|rity of the Keeper of <HI>Newgate</HI> favoured him &s;o far as to permit him to lie in the Pre&s;s|yard, though he had not Money to defray the u&s;ual Fees of that Lodging; where he was at la&s;t &s;o far wrought upon, that never any man appeared more &s;en&s;ibly penitent: an In&s;tance or two whereof (among&s;t many others) we think fit here to recite. The day before his Execution he askt what it was a Clock, and being told pa&s;t eleven, <HI>Ah, Lord,</HI> &s;ays he, <HI>where &s;hall I be to morrow at this time?</HI> The &s;ame day a Barber coming to trim him, after he had wa&s;ht his hands very clean, looking upon them, he &s;aid, <HI>Clean&s;e, O God, my hands from Blood guiltine&s;s, and all my &s;ins as clean as they now appear from filth.</HI> Then taking a turn or two in the Chamber, <HI>God grant,</HI> &s;ays he, <HI>I may fear Death to morrow no more than I do to day: for I ble&s;s God I have now no dread upon my Spirits concerning the Death I am to &s;uffer. I know 'tis ju&s;t, and therefore will willingly</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="4"> <HI>undergo it; not doubting but the pretious Blood of my Saviour has attoned for that In|nocent Blood which I have ra&s;hly and wic|kedly &s;hed.</HI> And &s;o continued in an un|daunted temper and frame of Spirit to the very la&s;t.</P>
<P>The whole night before he &s;uffered, he &s;pent in Devotion, continuing in Prayer with &s;uch ar|dency of zeal, and &s;uch apt Expre&s;&s;ions of a broken heart, and yet humble Faith and A&s;&s;u|rance in the Mercies of God, as the like was &s;carce ever heard in that place before, And &s;o about ten a clock, was carried to the place of Execution, in <HI>Covent Garden,</HI> where he made a large Confe&s;&s;ion of his &s;ins, and recommending his Soul to God in a mo&s;t zealous Prayer, &s;ub|mitted to the Sentence.</P>
<P><HI>John Cro&s;s, George Blake,</HI> and <HI>William Stone,</HI> were all of a Gang of that wor&s;t &s;ort of High|way thieves, commonly called Foot padders, making it their bu&s;ine&s;s to lurk in the Roads neer <HI>London,</HI> and knock down and rob the Mar|ket people, (or others) in their return home|wards in the evening; Two Robberies of this kind they were now Executed for, one upon a Per&s;on pa&s;&s;ing on foot through King <HI>Harries</HI> Walk, who had but five &s;hillings about him the other a Butcher on Hor&s;e back in the High-way, not far from thence, from whom they took about three pound; nor were they content to rifle and bind them, but al&s;o barbarou&s;ly without any
<PB N="6" REF="5"> provocation, beat them &s;everely, &s;wearing they would make them know the danger of travelling with &s;o little Money. They committed ('tis be|lieved) &s;everal other Robberies the &s;ame night, and &s;ome it &s;eems re&s;i&s;ted them, for one of them was wounded in the Belly; the day they cho&s;e for the&s;e Exploits, was the Execution day after the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions. And 'twas proved that they were all three Spectators at <HI>Tyburn,</HI> in a Coach, and yet &s;o hardned were they in wickedne&s;s, that nothing di&s;maid with the untimely and &s;hameful ends of their A&s;&s;ociates, they imme|diately the &s;ame Evening return to act the&s;e Vil|lanies, which now ju&s;tly brought them to be the next that &s;hould &s;ucceed in that fatal place, and be made Examples them&s;elves, &s;ince they would take no warning by the &s;ad Examples of others, having long followed the&s;e ungodly Cour&s;es: for <HI>George Blake</HI> was burnt in the hand about a year and a half ago, for &s;tealing of Plate, and indicted la&s;t Summer A&s;&s;izes in <HI>Surrey,</HI> for a Robbery: And <HI>William Stone</HI> had formerly broke <HI>Hartford</HI> Goal, whither he was commit|ted for the like offence.</P>
<P>One of them e&s;pecially appeared now very penitent, and made a large Confe&s;&s;ion of his Crimes, &s;pending his time wholly in Reading, Prayer, and bewailing his &s;ins.</P>
<P><HI>Humphry Hulin</HI> and <HI>Thomas Con&s;table,</HI> two old Thieves, though but young men, &s;uffered for &s;tealing of &s;everal Hor&s;es: A Trade they had long been acquainted with, and thereby almo&s;t ruined divers hone&s;t people.</P>
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<P>And here we cannot but give notice of a grand Abu&s;e put upon the world in a Pamphlet printed for <HI>B. H.</HI> pretended to be a Narrative of the Proceedings at the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions: wherein is &s;et forth, that a Con&s;table was tryed for Hor&s;e-&s;tealing, but &s;ays he, <HI>upon Circum&s;tances of his Innocence, was cleared:</HI> whereas there was no Con&s;table brought upon his Tryal.</P>
<P><HI>Ro&s;e Wheeler, alias Goodman,</HI> a Woman grown old in wickedne&s;s, was Executed for two &s;eve|ral Robberies Committed in Hou&s;es where &s;he pretended to take Lodgings, thereby undoing &s;everal poor people, for &s;he had long made it her practice, and it &s;eems brought up her Daugh|ter to the &s;ame profe&s;&s;ion; for &s;he this Se&s;&s;ions was likewi&s;e Arraigned for the like fact, but re|fu&s;ed to plead, having heretofore been Con|demned for Stripping and Robbing of young Children, and often in <HI>Newgate</HI> for &s;everal other Thefts. Another young Woman was Condemned with her, but being &s;uppo&s;ed to be drawn in by her, obtained a Gracious Pardon: As likewi&s;e did another Woman and a young Man, who &s;e|verally had robb'd their Ma&s;ters.</P>
<P>The&s;e la&s;t mentioned Per&s;ons having &s;pent mo&s;t part of their Lives in a continual &s;eries of Wickedne&s;s, and Rebellion again&s;t God and all righteous Laws, it is no wonder if now, when they were overtaken by Ju&s;tice, and had he amazing terrours of Death to grapple with, they were &s;mitten with dreadful Horrours and A&s;to|ni&s;hment; from which both Mr. <HI>Ordinary</HI> and
<PB N="8" REF="6" MS="y"> other Godly Mini&s;ters endeavoured to awake and relieve them, fir&s;t by repre&s;enting to them the mi&s;erable Condition they were in; that the Temporal Death, which mo&s;t they fixt their thoughts upon, was nothing in compari&s;on of what was to &s;ucceed: And afterwards acquain|ted them, that there was yet a Way, and but only one, to prevent their everla&s;ting Mi&s;ery; which was a &s;peedy and &s;erious Repentance, and laying hold on the Merits of their crucified Saviour, by a firm and lively Faith: By who&s;e gracious Promi&s;es, and con&s;ideration of his In|finite Mercies, they &s;ought to take them off both from Athei&s;tical In&s;en&s;ibility on the one hand, and De&s;pair on the other, and &s;o &s;et them in the path of Life, before they ta&s;ted of the bitter Cup of Death; and 'tis hoped, by the Grace and Ble&s;&s;ing of God on their Labours, their pious Intentions towards the&s;e poor Souls were not in vain. For in their pa&s;&s;age, and at the place of Execution, they behaved them|&s;elves with all the marks of a &s;incere Penitency, bewailing their former mi&s;pent time, and horrid Impieties, imploring Mercy at the Throne of Grace, and de&s;iring all Spectators, by amend|ment of Life, to make a better u&s;e of their &s;ad Examples, than they them&s;elves had done of others &s;uffering in the like ignominious manner.</P>
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