NEWS FROM TYBURN: OR, THE CONFESSION AND EXECUTION OF THE Three Bailiffs And the rest of the MALEFACTORS that Died with them.  
And also a true account of their deportment before several Godly Ministers in NEWGATE Who came to visit them there.  

With Allowance.   
LONDON: Printed for D. M. 1675.   

A true Account of several Malefactors that received sentence of Death the last Sessions at Justice-hall in the Old-bayly.  
THe pleasures of sin are but for a season; and after some numbers of years spent in lewd and dissolute Courses, the time of Reckoning comes, and the secure sinner is called to an unthought-of account for his past Crimes; how quick and sudden then, though sad and gloomy, are the periods and dispatches of that poor life, that must terminate in a deserved punishment! To the end therefore that the Loser sort of people may beware by the dreadful Examples of these that have already deservedly suffered, let them take this following account of their Confessions in Newgate.  
J. W. for Burglary and Felony, for stealing seven pieces of Broad cloth, which were all found in his Chamber. The heinousness of his Crime was Burglary, upon which, if there were not a strict hand of Justice, no person could be safe in his Dwelling: As he was in the flower of his Youth, a better fate might have attended him; but his own was so great, that he could not be pardoned. He confessed the lewdness of his Youth, that he had been bred to a good Trade; but Vanity and ill Company overcoming him, had brought him to that evil End. He took very patiently the Exhortations of the Ministers that visited him, and shown very great marks of Penitence at his death, desiring all the standers by to pray for him.  
L. O. and L. T. for breaking into a house at Kentish town, and Feloniously taking away several pieces of Cloth. The Crime which these committed was the same with the former: but as they had been longer at the trade, so these were the more hardened; the former being of a good Family, had drawn on the latter to his Confederate. As they had been accustomed to lewd Courses, they were the more hardened in their ends; neither is it possible that without erring from the Truth, that we should give a good accoount of all that die for their Crimes. However, they seemed to be both very penitent all the time they were in Prison, and is hoped continued so to the last; the former of them two had a great Love, and that for the Maintenance of the Mother and the Child he took these evil Courses, his idleness not permitting him to take any better. He desires his Friends to see her and bid her be careful of the Infant, and to betake herself to some honest Labour, wherein she would find more comfort than in those ways to which the Trade seduced him. Of the latter, we can only say, that he continued with that seeming repentance which was most suitable for a dying Man.  
J. D. R. O. and W. N. for committing a Murder upon Richard Allen a Sea Chirurgeon; as there is no Crime in the world that cries louder to Heaven than the sin of Murder, so had these the horror of it in their Conscience. The Evidence at their Trials was plain, which made their Condemnation easily follow; but though they could not make satisfaction to the party slain, they did their endeavour to satisfy Heaven.  
During their continuance in Newgate, they were visited by several Ministers, who with most pathetical Exhortations laid before them the Heinousness of their Offences, advising them to repent, for that it was high time, they being upon the very brink of Eternity.  
They remembered them of the sad condition they were in, as being doomed to die by the severe Sentence of Justice; that there was no hopes of longer life in this world, yet that there was a means left to serve them an Everlasting life in the next, and that it was an unspeakable Mercy that they had so much time spared them to make their peace with Heaven.  
These pious Exhortations wrought much upon R. O. and he continued very penitent confessing that he was as free to die as to live, were it not for his wife and Children, lamenting more them, that they should be the offspring of such a Parent, desiring his friends to take care so to Instruct them, that their Father's end might not hereafter be a reproach to them.  
J. D. Confessed the sin ulness of his Life, but more particularly bewailed hi● sin of Sa● b●thbreaking, of which he had been very Guilty, that he had been no less a profane hearer, he was deeply sensible of the Injury he had done the person, whose Life he had taken away; and was willing to satisfy blood for blood, since no other satisfaction could be given.  
W. N. Confessed that he had been a great oppressor of the poor in his Office, whom he had very much wronged by Extortion. That he had been a very great scoffer at the miscarriages of other men, and too much Guilty of that huffing pride and insolency, which is too common among men of their Condition, he exhorted therefore all those that had the same Employment to take warning by him, not to exceed the bounds of Mercy, nor to stand upon the utmost points of Rigour and Justice but above all to beware of being false to their trusts and of extortion, by which he had undone many poor people.  
Yet as mercy is not denied the worst of sinners, they went not without hopes of mercy to the place of Execution, being all extremely penitent and freely resigning themselves into the hand of Justice.  
J. D. a little boy about 14 years of age, for murdering a Citizen and Silk man in Milk-street, which he confessed: Young in years but old in wickedness: yet had he been older he could not have been more sensible of his fact, nor more apprehensive of his approaching death, nothing more troubled him in the Prison, than that he was so die so early, and that he had so soon imbrued his hands in blood, this youth had not many words to express himself, but he supplied that defect with his tears, weeping continually, especially when his friends or the Minister came to prepare him for another Life, to whom he wept bitterly, acknowledging the small Follies that his youth had been guilty of, more especially, he confessed to his Father how he had been used to spend his money at play with his Companions, when he was sent to receive any parcel of money: and that he had several times taken his money for that purpose, his carriage to his death was the same, though not with any great preparation, which could not be expected from his years.  
G. F. for robbing upon the High way, and firing a Pistol at a Watch man, when he was takens which did no execution, he afterwards threw the Pistol away; but the Robbery being proved, and for several other faults he was condemned to die. He was a stout Robber, and as he had committed many Crimes, which deserved the utmost severity of the Law, he shown no great Remorse, neither at his Trial nor at his death.  
W. V was taken with a bag of Guilts about him, which are great and small Picklock-keyes and other Instruments fit for that purpose: the Fact being proved by a woman that came in against him, that he was the man that broke open her Chest, and had taken away a parcel of money to a considerable value; and he being burnt in the hand before and these Instruments being found about him, he was found guilty and condemned to die. He robbed the man at the Woolsack in Hounds-ditch, an Ale house keeper, of twelve pounds in money, and two Silvertankards, often frequenting the house, and taking an opportunity to slip into the man of the house his Bed chamber.  
Another time he came into the Bullhead near St. Dunstan's church, called for a double Silver Tankard of Ale, and when the Drawer was gone he threw the Drink in the Chimney and went away with the Tankard. He was a person of an obscure Birth, and confessed himself to be a Thief, which was no more than was well known before.  
R. C. for Felony and Burglary committed by him and some others in White chapel, and others making their escape, and he only taken; the Fact being proved against him, he is likewise to die. If it were true that he confessed he deserved some pity, for he said he had not been long at the trade, it being the third time that he had been an offender, though not taken till the third time; and it seems probably because he was the only person left in the lurch, he pretended that being a Button mould-maker, his Workmaster broke, which drove him to necessity, that necessity into ill Company, and ill Company to his untimely end; for which he was very penitent.  
FINIS.