HOw ſtupified are theſe daring Wretche • who headlong hurle themſelves into the ſnares of Death and ruine, regardleſs of theie future ſtates, not minding what ſhall happen nor the dire event that followes after ſuch raſh preſumption, for ſure it is, did man but know death was the certain portion of his Crimes, he would not without great caution and deliberate pauſe, ruſh forward on his pointed dart but fearleſs of ſuch ill or accident of chance as they term it the ſweet hopes of gain ſtill prompts them on with thoughts of large ſecurity, and to eſcape at laſt; Which often fa • l their expectations leaves them under the preſſure of offended Juſtice, whole dread Arm cruſhes them when leaſt able to defend themſelves, and cha • ns their Lives as a juſt expiation for offences done againſt the Laws both Divine and humain, as may frequently be ſeen in theſe ſad examples which I ſhall rela • e, theſe moſt remarkable w • s a • followeth, Th • m • s Sides a notorious offendor received Sentance, for that he in the Company of one John Moor had committed lately 3 notorious Robberies by breaking open the ſeveral houſes of the parties whole names we here recited, viz of one John Baker a Barber, of the Pariſh of Great St Bartholomews, in June laſt, about 5 of the Clock in the Morning, they being ſuppoſed to watch the ſaid Baker out, who being no ſooner gone, but they with Picklocks opened his ſhop, and took 3 Pereuks, a looking Glaſſ • s, 5 R • z • rs, 3 pair of Scizers, 3 Napkins and ſe • eral Caſes of Silver-tipped inſtruments; all to the vallue of ſixteen pounds which they undiſcovered conveyed away, on the 23d following, they broke open the Warehouſe of one Mr. Samuel Harris, in Bartholomew Cloſe, Sides toking thence 11 pieces of ſtuff • a • lued at 40 pounds, and carried the ſame to the houſe of one John Grain • er, living a • three Roſes in Cloth Fair, whither they being purſued, were found with it, the Priſoner having hid himſelf under the Bed feigning himſelf dead-drunk, the other was for Robbing one Charles Thomſon a Barber in the Pariſh of St. Brides, of Raz • rs, Scizers, Looking-Glaſſes, hair and Pereuks to a conſiderable vallues which was found hid between the Tiles and the Seiling, where they randeſvouſed, all theſe being proved Sides who had been burnt in the hand not above 2 Seſſions ſince. Received the dreadful Sentance of Death, after which he ſeemed much to bewail his Folly repenting that he had giuen up his youthful days unto ſuch vanity, declaring that it was looſe and ext • avigant Company that had brought him to theſe ways, and his not regarding the good education that his Parents had brou • ht him up in, deſiring all young Men to take warning by his ſad example, and not for the ſake of Idleneſs to plunge th • mſelves into ſuch ways as might bring on them a ſhameful death; and ſo ended his Life w • th great Penitency and contrition.

William W • lliamſ • n a Foot-pad and one of the great Gang that have ſo long infeſted the neighbouring Roads, his Crime was for Robbing Juſtice Northies Coach a little beyond Bow, in November laſt, and taking from ſeveral perſons there in Goods and monies to the vallue of one hundred and twelve pounds, viz a Necklace of Pearl vallued at 105 pound. a Cravat, a ſilver hilted ſword, a Scarf, and about 5 or 6 ſhillings in mony with other things conſiderable, after this Robery was done they return to their randeſvouſe in White Chappel, and there diſpoſed of the aforeſaid Goods, pawning the Scarf for their Reconing, Phillips and Rumley two of the Gang being already Executed, and the Robery proved againſt the Priſoner by one that with him in it; and he was caſt and received Sentance of death, after which he for a time ſeemed little concerned flattering himſelf as it is thought with the hope of a Pardon, but that failing he began to conſider how he ſtood tottering upon the Brink of Eternity; and that his hopes hang now but by the ſlender thred of Li • e the wh • ch had but a few days more to ſpin its Co • rſe upon which had but a few days more, to ſpin its courſe, upon which he bewailed his m • sfortune and with a ſad and heavy Countenance continued till the utmoſt moment of Mortality, exhorting all to repentance and for to beware of Crimes like his, &c.

In this Fa • al Scene of Death and ruine, followed Mary Clark of St Botolphs without Algate Widdow, for that inhum • in Act of Murthering her Baſtard-Child and to her ſhame, add ſin to ſin for being ſecretly delivered of a Female-Infant, ſhe with both her hands, ſtrangled it, and kept it in her Chamber two days or thereabout, before ſhe could have oportunity to convey it thence the which ſhe after put into the Common Vault, where it was found and after ſome enquiry certified to be her Child by reaſon of her illneſs ſhe gave ſuſpicion to ſome of the Neighbours who ſearched her, and thereupon found ſhe had had a Child, which ſhe could not deny, but her excuſe was that it was born dead, and that ſhe cried out but could get no help, but upon the Statute of King Jame • ſhe was found Guilty of wilful Murder, and S • ntance of Death, after which ſhe ſeemed ſo ſtupified that it was thought ſhe was not ſenſible of her condition, yet in ſome manner ſhe was obſerved to relent, eſpecially after ſhe had heard the good exhortations of ſeveral pious Miniſters who came to viſit her with the reſt.

Samuel Gr • ffin for robing the houſe of a perſon of Quality, the goods being found about him in a houſe in Shoo Lane and having been an old offender, and once pardoned, he received Sentance, he was not much concerned at the near approach of death during the reſort in N • wgate, but ſeemed obſtinate, and endeavoured vindicate himſelf, ye at the nearer approach of that gaſtly King of Terrors, he began to ſigh and oft with lifted up hands and eyes ſend up his ejaculations, eſpecially a little before his departure into the Regions of boundleſs immortality.