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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	good_a	read_v	word_n	3,211	5	4.1636	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96218	The black book of Newgate, or, An exact collection of the most material proceedings at all the sessions in the Old baily, for eighteen months last past ... as also reflections and observations on several passages set forth as a warning to all that read it / by W.W. Gent.	W. W., Gent.	1677 (1677)	Wing W140A; ESTC R43947	3,907	9

know not what reasons found it only Manslaughter but Providence not suffering Murder so to escape when he came to his Book though a pretty good Scholar and well tutor'd before yet he could not read a word and thereupon was deservedly hang'd The other four were John Seabrook William Minors Arthur Minors and Richard Shaw for several Burglaries and Felonies At the Sessions held Jan. the 17th 1676 7. There were Two Condemned a woman of above Forty years of age for murdering her Bastard-childe who was Executed and a man for Personating another man as Bail before a Judge who at the Gallows received a gracious Reprieve At this time was that blasphemous Impostor Lodowick Muggleton tryed and sentenced to stand three days in the Pillory his Books to be burnt before his face to pay Five hundred pounds fine and give Bail not of his own Party or Gang for his good behaviour At the Sessions 7th of March 1676 7. Was Tryed and Executed the renouned Thomas Sadler and William Johnson for a Burglary in the house of the Lord High Chancellor of England and stealing the Mace and two Purses Sadler as he had lived impudently so he died pitifully and with little generosity of Spirit but Johnson with a becoming resolution and staid temper that at once shew'd his sense of his sins and faith in his Saviour made a very repentant and pithy Discourse at the place of Execution endeavouring to warn all others by his Example c. At the same time there suffered Francis Webb Matthew Gammond and Anthony Richoake for several Burglaries There being in all Fifteen Condemned the rest obtained Reprieves The Sessions 25th of April 1677. Was famous for the Tryal Condemnation and Execution of Robert William and Margaret Dine two own brothers and a sister for disfiguring and in a barbarous manner mangling the Nose and Face of one Jane King contrary to the late Act of Parliament in that behalf They all absolutely persisted to deny the doing this cruel fact and asserted their innocency to the last gasp and died very much pitied by many people that knew them At the same time suffered one Margaret Spicer for murdering her Bastard-childe As also David Hackley Jeremiah Dawson and Mary Brown all notorious Offenders and formerly burnt in the hand now convicted of several Felonies The Sessions the first of June 1677. There were then Condemned Mr. Nicholas Throckmorton for robbing two Ministers on the road three miles on this side Vxbridge taken by the most commendable courage of one of the Ministers men who alone fought with the Prisoner and his Companion for above half an hour and at last with the help of his Master moved though without a Weapon by his servant's brave defence to assist him what he could made one of the Thieves ride away and took the other He suffered very penitently on the 13th of June At which time was likewise Executed William Dennis for murdering a poor Tub-man who being in a furious passion against his Wife and having beat her exceedingly a Croud of people were gathered about whereupon taking down an Half-pike he swore he would kill some of them and accordingly dispatcht this harmless man sitting on his Water-tubs without the least provocation Which may teach all men to moderate their passions and not let them run unbridled to mischief lest thereby they bring themselves to some such shameful End The last Sessions in July 1677. Was sufficiently crouded to hear the Tryal of that Monster rather than woman Mary Hicks who suffer'd her self to be Buggered by a Mungril This detestable Villany was sufficiently proved by Three witnesses and for the same the vile wretch was executed on the 18th of July the Dog being carried along with her in the Cart and hang'd upon a Tree neer the Gallows before her face One of the Evidence being great with Childe there has been a scandalous Report spread abroad that the same day this woman suffer'd she should fall in Labour and not being able to be delivered confess that she had herein forsworn her self out of malice which Report and others to the same effect are utterly false and groundless the said Witness continuing in perfect health and well satisfi'd in the integrity of her Testimony The same day suffered John Gimbold and Mary Russel both old incorrigible Offenders and now Condemned for several Felonies Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum Happy 's the man that learns by others harms And ' gainst such fatal Crimes his Spirit arms FINIS