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death_n	day_n	die_v	soul_n	6,945	5	5.0141	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08813	The confession and execution of the five prisoners that suffered at Tyburn, on Friday the 4th of June, 1680. Viz. Thomas Newell, John Biggs, [bracket] both guilty of burglary, and also of breaking prison lately out of Newgate. John Eakins, one of the same crew for burglary. George D. a marshals man, for murdering a child. And Richard Spykeman, for burglary. : With an account of their behaviour after condemnation, and at the place of execution.		1680 (1680)	Wing C5749; ESTC R213519	3,917	6

A Bailey belonging to the Marshals-Court going to Arrest a poor man for a Debt of seven shillings and according to the usual Cruelty and barbarousness of those savage Cattle beating and dragging him along a Child of the mans seeing her Father so used cryed out whereupon this bruitish fellow turn'd about and struck the poor Child a blow on the head with a great Cudgel so furiously that a Gentleman that saw it testified it was enough to have knockt down the stoutest man However the Child was for the present recovered to life and by the help of a Surgeon the Wound in some time seemed to be healed but still she complained of her Head and seemed to languish ever after and not long after dyed so that it was concluded he was the occasion of her death and accordingly the Jury found him guilty An Ale-house-keeper was likewise Indicted for killing a poor weak man whom 't was said he kickt but the proof not being positive and the party deceased having long been known to be very infirm he was acquitted Two Shop-lifts were Convicted of Felony for stealing of three pieces of Damask Silk out of a shop in London where they came pretending to buy Diaper and whilst the man went to reach it they got the silk but he soon missed it and pursuing them they according to the usual tricks of Practitioners in that Mystery were seen to drop it A Woman that came to be a Servant in a Gentlemans house before she had been there five days took an opportunity to Rob them of a considerable parcel of Plate and some Money and carried it down into the Countrey by a Carrier being discovered was now Indicted together with the said Carrier and she was found Guilty but the Carrier being a very honest man and nothing Criminal proved against him was deservedly Acquitted Two persons were charg'd with High-Treason for Coyning and some suspicious Circumstances were made out but if they design'd any such thing they were but Bunglers at the Trade and there being no punctual Proof they were found Not Guilty Let these poor wretches Woe be our warning and their Execution every Readers Admonition Consider I pray with what terrour did these miserable Criminals stand at the Old-Bailey-Bar their hands even trembling whilst lift up for Tryal and their very lips quaking whilst against the Dictates of their Consciences they pleaded Not Guilty Their Countenance Condemning them before the Judge and their Fears pusht on by Consciousness of their guilt Executing them both before and more severely than the Hangman Yet this Judge is but a man that must quickly dye himself that Sentence of Death which he can pronounce is already passed by Nature upon the most innocent That act of death which the Law inflicteth on these men is but momentary and who does not know whether himself shall not dye more painful than any of these With what horrour O God! shall each guilty Soul stand before his dreadful Tribunal in the day of the great Assises of the world that has not an interest on Gospel-terms in thy Christ and our Jesus whilst there is the unapproachable presence of an infinite Majesty to daunt him a fierce and clamarous Conscience to give Evidence against him Legions of terrible Devils waiting upon him a gulf of unquenchable fire ready to receive him whilst the glory of the Judge is no less confounding than the cruelty of the Tormenters where the Sentance is unavoidable and the Execution everlasting Why then to every Reader be it spoken do not these Terrors of thee our God make us wise to hold a private Sessions upon our own Souls and Actions that being acquitted by our own Hearts we may not be Condemned by thee and being judged by our selves we may not be Condemned though by yet at least not with the world As for Walter Gilman who was found guilty on two Indictments by the Middlesex Jury and about whom one of the London Jury was Confin'd for not finding him guilty of stealing a Watch he was Reprieved The Five before-mentioned were carried in two Carts Three in the first and Two in the last of whom the Marshals man seemed to be very penitent FINIS