A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE CONFESSION AND EXECUTION of several Notorious Malefactors AT TYBURN, On Wednesday April the 16th. 1684.  
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Charles Close,  
B●rnerd Trevers  
Hugh Kelly,  
Katherine Smith.  
and Mary Corbet, who was Burnt at Tyburn for High-Treason.    
THese Malefactors, with three more, were Tried and Condemned at the last Sessions at the Old-bailey, of which two of them, by his Majesty's great Favour were Repreived, and the other, Jane Robinson, being found quick with Child by a Jury of Women impanneled for that Enquiry, was respited till her Delivery.  
I shall first give you a True Account, of the several Crimes, for which each person suffered, and then a Relation of the Behaviour of them, from the time of their Sentence, to that of Execution.  
Charles Close was an old Offender, and one of those Rogues, who about two years ago, Robbed Mr. Croom an Alehousekeeper, near Soho Fields, which was thus, he and two more of his Companions went in to drink, and after they had stayed sometime, and found an Opportunity sit for their purpose; There being no other Company in the house they sent down the Master for another Tankard of Drink and one of them followed him down Stairs, and of a sudden knocked him down; the other coming in to his Assistance, they used him very Barbarously, and afterwards robbed the house of a very considerable sum in Monies and Place, and made their Escape. But Justice which never suffers such heinous crimes to go unpunished, at last overtook this Offender in the Commission of a second Robbery, with Bernard Trevers and Hugh Ke●ly, who were all Indicted for Robbing the house of John Shutleworth, an Innkeeper at Wood-Green in the Parish of Tatenham, and takeing away, in Plate and Money, to the value of two hundred and fifty pounds, they laid their design with a great deal of cunning, by first going to drink as of they had been passing forward towards Hornsey. The Innkeeper seeing th●m in the habits of Gentlemen, ●●ok them for such, and made much of them, thinking he had got good Guests, and offered them a Lodging if they would stay all Night, when it was dark Bernard Trevers let in several others, who assisted them to bind the Family and rob the house. Hugh Kelly was taken at Portsmouth and part of the Plate found with him Bernard Trevers was taken about Charing-Cross, and either was, or went in the habit of a Granadeer. These three confessed upon their Arraignment that they were Guilty of Felony and Robbery, but not of breaking the house: however it being proved that Trevers unbolted a back door to let in the rest of his Companions, they were all three found Guilty of Felony and Burglary. Marry Kelly, the pretended Wife of Hugh Kelly was Indicted as Accessary for comforting, aiding, and harbouring them after the Robbery was committed, and a Gold Ring which was part of the Goods stole found upon her, but was acquitred  
Katherine Smith, alias Sandimore was a person very well known amongst the Pickpockets by the Name of Yorkshire Kate, and was Indicted for stealing handkerchief and other Linen, the Goods of Thomas Williams, and found Guilty of Felony and Burglary, she had been and Incorrigible Offender, whom no Acts of Clemency could oblige to an honest Life, she having formerly Six or Seven times, received the mercy of the Bench.  
Marry Corbet was formerly a Broker, and by her continual Crimes had rendered herself Obnoxious to the Law, but Mercy still prevented that punishment which she had so often deserved, she was now Indicted and Condemned for High Treason, for that she had Made, Coined and Counterfeited twelve pieces of Copper, Tin, and other Metals, into the likeness of Shillings, commonly called Queen Elizabeth's Shillings, and twelve other pieces of like Counterfeit Metal called Queen Elizabeth's Sixpences, which Fact was proved against her, by two Women, who had often seen her make the said counterfeit Money, by melting Penter, Copper, and the like, to a pound weight at a time, and pouring the same into Moulds of Wood, which fashioned it like the Shillings and Sixpences before mentioned. They also confessed they had put off much of that counterfeit money for her, and several pieces were produced in Court, upon which Evidence, she was found Guilty of High Treason.  
Having thus given the Reader an Account of the several heinous crimes for which these Malefactors were condemned I shall now proceed to speak of the Behaviour of each person under so great a Trial, and how they spent those precious Minutes which formerly were often tedious to them, but now grown so valuable, that no good Christian, but would part with all the Pleasures and Riches of the World to redeem his misspent time, or gain some few hours to pray to God for Mercy upon his Soul, which before he had so often slighted. After their Return to Prison. Charles Close, though before he seemed so steeled in wickedness and hardened in iniquity, that neither the danger of his Life, or the Eternal Shipwreck of his Soul, affected him with any serious consideration, yet coming into the condemned hole, he gave a great Sigh, & by some private Ejaculations, discovered his heart was not so Obdurate and impenetrable, as to be altogether unconcerned at his present condition. This happy change was soon taken notice of, by that Vigilant and Worthy Person Mr. Ordinary, who took all Opportunities to improve the least spark of Penitence or Contrition, to a true sense of that miserable State he was in, a Confession of those manifold and grievous Crimes he had been Guilty of, and an absolute Resignation of himself to the Will of God, and the punishment of those Laws he had so often Transgressed.  
Bernard Trevers, and Hugh Kelly, as they had been his former Companions in sin and wickedness, so now do they share with him in his present miseries and distress: They now afresh Confessed with Sorrow that Gild they had Publicly owned at their Trials, and as persons whose Education was always lose, and either encouraged by the Vicious Examples of others, or prompted by the pravity of their own Wills and Affections, or both; have been often Guilty of breaking the Sabbath, and spending the Lords Day in pursuit of Worldly business as too many do, or else in gratifying the Lusts of the Flesh, unlawful Pleasures or more wicked Deboches.  
On Sunday they were at Chapel, both Morning and Afternoon, & behaved themselves with that Reverence and Attention, as became persons who were so suddenly to give an Account of every idle Thought or sinful Glance, as they had so lately of their wicked Actions. The worthy Preacher, like a true Physician of souls first applied Corrosives to make them sensible of themselves, and that wretched State they were plunged into by that sinful Course of Life they had so long Rioted in, he Terrified them with God's Judgement on impenitent sinners, the Eternal Damnation of soul and body, if they did not now, while it is Called to Day, repent and turn to the living God. But on the other hand, he mercifully poured Oil into their wounded Consciences; and as none ought to Presume on, so not to despair of the Mercies of Everlasting Goodness.  
Katherine Smith, and Mary Corbet, though they had been both. Notorious Offenders, yet by their humble and submissive Behaviour, seemed truly Penitent, and I hope the great Labours of those worthy Divines who visited them, wrought them into a sincere Repentance, and that sweetness of Temper, as a good Christian would rejoice to die in.  
At ten of the clock they were put Into Carts; And Mary Corbet drawn on a Sledge to Tyburn, where she was burned and the rest Hanged.   

LONDON Printed by E. Mallet, 1684.