AN ACCOUNT OF Oliver Hawley AND John Condon, Who were Executed at TYBURN, On Friday the 2d. of July, 1686, For Robing His Majesty's Male, near ILFORD, in the County of ESSEX.  
WHereas R— A— Oliver Hawley, and John Condon, were on Tuesday the 22d. of July, 1686. Tried at the King's-Bench▪ Bar, for Robing the King's Male, on the 12th. Day of April last passed, at or near Ilford, in the County of Essex, and upon full Evidence, found Guilty of the said Robery; together with one John Smith, not yet Apprehended; it has since pleased his most Gracious Majesty to extend his Royal Mercy to R— A— in Granting him his Reprieve, who continues still in Newgate, in hopes of his Majesties farther Clemency.  
I shall not pretend here, to give any particular Account of the Life or Character of R— A— as being an Object of the King's Mercy; not doubting but whatever former Faults he may have Committed, the influence of so much Royal Grace and Favour shown upon him, may be a means of that solid Conversion, which may regulate his future Actions, as to make the remainder of his Life, atone for his past Follies and Offences.  
My present Business therefore, is to give you some knowledge of Oliver Hawley and John Condon, the present just Sufferers for this Notorious Robery.  
The more Eminent of which Malefactors Oliver Hawley, Aged at his Death about Thirty Years, was by Birth an Irishman and accordingly received his Education in his Youth in his Native Country, till about Ten Years since, through some unhappy Misdemeanours, Committed there, he was Compelled to quit Ireland, and take Sanctuary in England, where being in Kent, and living to that height of Expenses, which the Pockets of his Relations were not well able to support, and for the maintenance of which, it was very much suspected he must have used no very honest Course of Life, as was soon after made manifest; for in a a little time after he Robed a Farmer, that lived on the back side of Windmill Hill, near Gravesend in Kent, of 9 l. and upwards, for which, he was Apprehended and Committed to Maidstone-Goal, and for the said Fact received Sentence of Condemnation: Never the less, through great intercession, he obtained so much Remission of his Sentence, as to be Reprieved from Death and Transported to Jamaica. But truly, that Country agreed so little with his Constitution, that he made a shift in a very short time to get home; and to divert the Danger of a too early appearance in England, he went over into Flanders, and enter himself a Soldier, under the late James Scot, then at the Siege of Mastricht; however, this Honourable Employment, being not extraordinary much in his Element, he continued not long in that service, for growing in League with one of his Comrades, they Confederated together, and Committed a very Notorious Robery, and afterwards (as Brothers in iniquity are not always the strongest Friends) a Quarrel arose between them, in which, he made a shift to Kill his said Comrade, and so very fairly, by way of self preservation, he took Care to avoid a double Danger, that threatened him for both those Crimes, by flying to Bourdewx, where being safely Arrived, he had Recourse to a never failing Talent of his, viz. good Words and hearty Protestations, and thereby wrought himself so far into the Favour of a Master of a Ship then bound with French Wines for England, as to select him for his peculiar Friend and confident, Caressing him before, and also during his whole Voyage at no common rate of Civility, bearing his whole Charges, and supplying his whole Wants for bare ask for: For all those many and signal Courtesies; no sooner was the Master of the said Ship Arrived in England, but the first Return of Gratitude from the said Hawley, the Snake, that Patron had so generously warmed in his Bosom, was instantly to inform the Commissioners of the Customhouse of the said French Wines, than imported contrary to Act of Parliament; by this means the whole Cargoe was seized and condemned, and the poor Master of the Vessel utterly Ruined and undone. Upon this, he got into some Business about the Customhouse, and being in some Credit from this preferment, he soon after, with some other fellow servants of his own Quality, went down the River to attend the coming in of some Ships then expected, and accordingly they went aboard of an East-India Merchant, where a certain Lady was on Board to buy some Rarities, wherein the said Hawley did her some little service, for which she gave him a Guinea. But Hawley, upon further search on his Majesties Account in the said Ship, took occasion to be bribed to a Connivance, by a present of Silks made to him, (for indeed, a person so notoriously false before to his Friend, would not be over apt of being extraordinary true to his Prince;) but his fellow searchers suspecting Hawley, made bold to open the bundle of Silks (which he pretended was foul Linen) and thereby detected his Corruption, for which being complained of, he was turned out; the loss of which Employment put him to hard shifts, but by a sudden fetch of Wit, he applied himself to the aforesaid Lady, and very cunningly telling of her a false ground of his Expulsion, he representing to her, that the Receipt of her Guinea, and not his own Bribery, was the occasion of his turning out, intercession was made for him, and he regained his admission into his place; upon this, some of his Brethren resenting this false insinuation, and not over-well liking the Behaviour and Principals of the said Hawley, got a Copy of his former Conviction for Robery in Kent, and were just upon craving Judgement thereupon, but Hawley being timely Alarmed at the Prosecution against him, very prudently withdrew, and kept himself hid, till he got himself into a Free-Pardon, during this time, having heaped together no little indignation & malice against his late Prosecutors; he took occasion of venting his Poison and Spleen, by swearing against a very great Number of them, how justly, or unjustly he was their Accuser; God only that knows the Secrets of men's hearts can truly judge; however, he so far struggled up in the World again, that he at length got into Employment again, in Essex  
He was in a Creditable and profitable Station, when he entered into this Combination of Robing the Male, being thereby the better informed what Sums of Gold the Jews and other Traders into England do almost daily import into this Kingdom, however, as far as the Office he was in contributed to his privity and knowledge hereof, his own Avarice ('tis certain) was the main instrument of his Ruin; when not contented with so credible and competent portion of Worldly Happiness as his Place with honesty might have supplied him withal, he durst imbargue in so notorious a design, as has justly pulled down, not only its own vengeance along with it, but also that Arrears of Punishment, not till now paid, for all the transgresions of his former lewd and enormorous Life.  
As to his behaviour in Prison since his Condemnation and nearer his day of Execution, his deportment has all along appeared very airy and unconcerned; and as for what Audit he may have made with God before his departure, is wholly unknown; his Religeon whatever it were,, I shall not meddle with it.  
The other person John Condon, Condemned and Executed with the said Holy, was a Native of Ireland also, but the Transactions and Conduct of his Life, have no way been so remarkable, nor indeed is there any particular of that Note, worth recounting here; let it suffice that as this Relation consists of nothing but very great Truths; we have informed ourselves of nothing more relating to the said Condon, than that he somitime since kept a Chandler's Shop almost over against the Fountain Tavern in the Strand, near the Savoy.  
His behaviour in Prison hath been much different from that of his fellow sufferer, having had some remorse for his so great offence.  
On Friday between Ten and Eleven of the Clock in the Morning, they were put into a Cart at Newgate and conveyed to the place of Execution, where being Arrived, were (making no Speech at all) Executed according to Law.  
FINIS.   

This may be Printed, R P. the 2d. of July, 1686.   

London; Printed by E. Mallet, next Door to Mr. Shipton's Coffeehouse near Fleet-bridge, 1686.