hainous crimes not onely weeping bitterly but by many expressions declared his hearty unfeigned Contrition Afterwards on Tuesday he desired to receive the Sacrament the Ordinary asked him because he would have no more Wine then needed how many would Communicate with him he replyed his Wife and two Sons but they being asked did refuse Mrs. Turner alledging she was not in Charity with some persons whom she imagined too eager in prosecution of Justice against her Husband but Mr. Ordinary prest so much a necessity of her reconciliation and gave her such sound advice that she willingly imbraced to be pertaker in that Holy Ordinance but their two Sons did not receive it Whilest thus he prepared himself for Death he was not negligent in using all endevours for the prolongation of his Life To this end he desired Mr. Tryon to accompany his Wife with a Petition to his Majesty for a Reprive which they accordingly delivered upon their knees in the Long Gallery but the King told them he could not do it having received such an account of him from the Judges and Magistrates of the City of London and being humbly requested for a respite for some few weeks he would not consent for so few dayes This not prevailing he desired Mr. Ordinary to move the Lord Chancellor in the businesse propounding two reasons to perswade him thereto the first was the shortnesse of the time which he alledged was very quick considering that load of sin that lay heavy upon his Conscience and the other was that he had the Estates of two or three Widowes in his hands which by reason of his sudden cutting off might be much injured thereby But notwithstanding these plausible pretences it would not hinder the Execution of Justice But one thing we had almost omitted namely That when Mr. Ordinary preached on the Sunday treating of a thorough and sound Repentance by which they might obtain Pardon for their sins the Collonel in terpreting that to be meant of his Corporal Body which Mr. Ordinary spake in reference to his Spiritual condition when the Sermon was ended he seriously asked him if there were a Pardon for him or no. But no doubt the man was thoroughly convinced of his crime and the heynousnesse of it and spent the whole day in sorrow and mourning for his offences and therefore those are much too blame who reported him to be drunk that day that he ranted and swore Dam him and sink him he would have a Pardon though it cost him five thousand pound but such is the Nature of some base lying spirits to insult over men in misery and when they cannot touch their bodies brand them as much as in them lies in their very memory To confirm the Truth of these passages concerning Mr. Ordinary with the Collonel we shall give you a Letter from his own hand which he wrote to a person of quality here in London who desired of him the Relation of the whole businesse Here followes the Letter SIR MY Occasions have been extraordinary so as I have wanted a convenient Opportunity of recalling the several Passages that were between Me and Mr. Turner I shall begin after he was cast I attended Him to the Press-Yard and told Him that shortly the Sentence of Death would be denounced against him He answered I dread not Death I have looked Death oft in the face I pray Sir pray for me that I may not faint when the day of Death comes I told him Death was the King of Terrour and a man had need of a strong Faith to shield him against the fiery Darts of Death from hurting the Soul He replyed Sir we shall have time to talk of these Things Monday or Tuesday I pray said he call upon me as oft as you can Tuesday night I waited on him and told him Colonel I am come to repeat the Sentence justly denounced against you by the Iudge and I assure you you shall die and not live therefore my advice is to set your House in order what do you mean by that said he my Meaning is your outward Affairs relating to your Family and in satisfiing those that have intrusted you but principally the Closet of your Soul to see that it be furnished with the Grace of Almighty God as faith repentance c. I pray Sir said he direct me for I believe I am not a man for this World Sir I should have told you that Sunday in the afternoon he came to Chapel carried himself very soberly heard my Sermon attentively which was out of the Book of Numbers Balams wish who I told him had lived a curser a ranter He desires O that I might die the Death of the Righteous and that my later end were like his He gave me thanks for my Sermon and told me he hoped it would do his Soul good I told him Meditation was the way to make the word fruitful I desired him to dismiss the Company that frequented him and to do as Hezekiah when sentance was passed he prayed and wept sore Pray to God for pardon of sin and bath the feet of your Saviour with your penitential Tears and your Saviour will bath your Soul in the fountain of his most pretious Blood Sir said he I shall take your advice Notwithstanding Company pressed on him Wednesday I visited him with the rest of the Prisoners in Chapel pray'd and adviced them where I met with a true Penitent Jane Cradock who had spent all her time after sentence in mourning and lamenting I return'd to Collonel Turner he gave me ten shillings for my Sermon and some other monies to hire a Coach to speak to the Lord Chief Iustice to allow him a longer time for his repentance and preparation to die and to satisfie four Widowes who had intrusted him with large summs 4000 l. as I remember I went to the Lord Chancellor where I found the Iudges moved in his behalf but his request could not be granted die he must the morrow by eight of the Clock or time usually appointed I gave him notice thereof his reply Lord God I have been a great sinner and shall I have so small a time of repentance God is more mercifull then man or I have no hope I told him it was not the length of time but the truth of repentance God looked at a moments true repentance the Theif's case was accepted be as Penitent as he and you shall not fail of remission the proofe whereof will be by the Concomitants confessed restitution forgiving others I shall do all and observe said he your Method I pray'd God to assist him in this his conflict Thursday I came to him I found him very pensive he desired the Communion we made a pause at last having prest him to restitution he promised he would to his power I found by him his power was small he had lived high upon the Estate of others as I perceived by some passages that dropt from his Lips therefore I told him
of them put a Cloth into his mouth and bound his hands and feet whilest Turner at the Beds feet took the Keys of his Ware-house and Counting-house out of his pocket and whilest they were busy in gaging him he in the mean time searches the Closet where he finds the Jewels and pockets them privately not acquainting his Companions therewith But there was store of Money beside with which they severally loaded themselves to the value of 1023 l. This was done all in the space of an hours time which money they carried to one Higginson's house at Lowsie-lane in Dukes Place which they hired some dayes before pretending it for the use of a Master of a Ship his Mate Purser and Boat-Swain The next morning Turner fetcht away the money to his own house giving to White and his Friend onely Twenty pound a peice for their pains and promised William Turner a hundred pound Soon after they were gone Mr. Tryon got the gag out of his mouth and though bound tumbled out of his Bed in doing which he sell upon an earthen Chamber-pot and hurt himself sorely but recovering his legs and getting to the Window called out Murder and Theives which being next the Street his Neighbours heard him and with a Crow of Iron broke open the dore for Turner had locked it after him and unbound him then did they see how he was robbed but the Man and Maid being missing caused some suspition of them who presently after came pretending they had been at Supper at Col. Turner's which was not so whereupon a Constable went to examine the businesse who found Col. Turner and his Family in bed who likewise upon the request of the Constable went along with him to Mr. Tryon's where he kept such a bustle about the businesse that his too overmuch diligence gave him cause to be suspected which suspition was afterwards aggravated by his listning to hear when others were examined the Man and Maid being at that time throughly sifted by Sir Thomas Aleyn who took a great deal of pains in the businesse however Turner was let go that night and in the morning betimes removed the money from his own house to the house of one Mrs. Fry a Sempstresse at the lower end of the Minories pretending it to be the money of a Merchant newly broke who having a Wife and seven or eight Children desired to have it secured This businesse Mrs. Fry reveals to a Kinswoman of hers in the house who having been formerly a Servant to Alderman Love and hearing of Mr. Tryon's Robbery suspected the money was not well gotten and thereupon acquainted her Master Alderman Love of it who as speedily informed Sir Thomas Aleyn thereof Sir Thomas therefore taking a Foot-boy with him speedeth down and in the way meeting with Major Tasker desired his Company to go along with him which he accordingly did and entering the house of Mrs. Fry found Col. Turner with his hands in a Chest wherein was two Wallets of money one of a 100 l. the other 200 l. Sir Thomas took the Keys from him and going into another Room found two Wallets of money more Then was a Constable called for and Turner being examined whose money it was he said he had received it of a Goldsmith but could not tell his name being further asked why he should remove his own money he answered he onely did it for two or three dayes till this Foolery was over Whilest thus they were arguing the matter Iohn Turner the Son who had helped to bring the money thither hearing how the businesse went got out by a back dore and leaping over a pale behind the house made an escape but the Collonel though he pretended he were in persuit of the Theives and therefore desired freedome to goe about it yer would not Sir Thomas grant it but calling for a Coach in company with Major Tasker and the Constable brought him to Mr. Tryon's house telling him he had brought him 500 l. of his money and did not doubt but also a person that could help him with the rest he had lost but Turner having spoken with Mr. Tryon in private upon promise of helping him to all the next day about four or five a clock in the afternoon he was permitted to go at Liberty The next day he went to the Exchange as he formerly used to do where about two a Clock he was arrested in the Streets by the two Coles at the suit of four Officers of the Poultrey Compter who had bailed him to a Writ of one Mr. Van de Burgh a Dutch Merchant who carried him to the Hoop Tavern where they stay'd him in the mean time his Wife brought the Jewels to Mr. Tryon's so that he had all his again But the matter was so apparent against Mr. Turner that Sir Thomas Aleyn by Warrant committed him to Newgate whether he was carried about one or two a Clock the same night and Ianuary the 15. and 16. he was Arraigned for the same at Iustice Hall in the Old Bailey where he was by the Jury found Guilty and on the 19 day of the same moneth had Sentence of death pronounced upon him Thus though that Felons to escape may hope At last they are rewarded with a Rope The same day Col. and William Turner were by Sir Thomas Aleyn examined apart who finding their Designe fully discovered declared the manner of it as we have mentioned it unto you CHAP. VI. The Passages betwixt Col. Turner and Mr. Ordinary of Newgate with the manner of his Going to Execution SOon after his Condemnation Mr. Welden the Ordinary of Newgate went unto him telling him he was a Dying man being dead in Law and very earnestly pressed foure things unto him First That as he was an open Sinner so that he would make open Confession of his sins urging to that purpose the saying of the Wise-man in his Book of Proverbs He that hideth his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall find mercy Secondly A hearty Contrition for his enormous Offences which had brought that just judgement of God upon him Thirdly A Restitution for words without deeds was but a feigned and hypocritical Repentance And Fourthly Charity to forgive others as he would that God for Christ's sake should forgive him He pressed much to him the Message which the Prophet Isâ—â—â—â— brought to Hezekiah viz. Set thy house in order for thou shalt die and not live He told him that by house was meant not onely his temporal but his spiritual body that the Body in respect of the Soul was but as the shell to the kernel or as the Jewel to the Case which enclosed it what a small minute of time he had left him betwixt that the infinite space of Eternity therefore what great need he had to make the best improvement of that short time with many other such like speeches which wrought very much upon him declaring by many outward signs a reall sorrow for his
sent one Mr. Gray of Black Fryers to the Lady Hewyts being thirty two mile off with all the speed he could for a Certificate under her hand to quit him of that aspersion which she accordingly did in a Message to the King the Coppy of which Letter as I received it from Mistris Turner I shall give you Verbatim viz. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty VVHereas I have received intimation that your Majesty is informed that James Turner Gent. Prisoner in Newgate did receive 200 l. in order to the saving the life of my late dear murthered Husband Dr. John Hewyt and did nothing therein but kept the money These are humbly to certifie your Majesty that I never knew or heard that the said James Turner was imployed thereabouts nor did he ever receive any such sum of money of me or any other to my knowledge nor do I know him And this I do upon the request of the said Mr. Turner make bold to attest under my hand this 18 day of January 1663. MARY HEWYT George Gray maketh Oath that he did see the above written Certificate Signed and acknowledged by the Lady Mary Hewyt Io. Bramston George Gray But that the saddle might be laid on the right Horse the truth is it was one Col. Whetton a person very intimate with the Usurper who by fair promises got 235. l. of the Lady she so dearly affected her Husband that she would have parted with her whole estate to have saved his life This Whetton pretended that a hundred pound of it was for Secretary Thurlow who he said was likewise to be instrumental towards it but Thurlow cleared himself of it by a Letter so that the whole blame lies upon Whetton Another Calumnie is commonly reported of him that being beyond Sea with our now Gracious Sovereign he should deceive him of some sums of Monie wherewith he had been entrusted but this is easie to be refuted it being well known he was never out of England and so by consequence could not be culpable of that offence I should therefore advise people not to be too credulous of every report they hear of him as that which some have confidently reported That because he alwaies kept two or three brave Geldings that He was the head of all the high-way-men in England and that under pretence of solliciting mens businesses which occasioned him to stay out late some nights that it was onely a cloak to blind the eyes of the world when he was abroad upon worse matters insomuch that the Tanners of Rumfard and other Market-folks since his death have been bold to say That they hoped now they should ride safe home since that great Robber Turner was dead But for these and sch like conjectural stories I shall desire the Reader to suspend his judgment til Time the father of Truth shall bring things to light For that of one Marshal concerning some Monie that was lost in Coleman-street as also that he should cheat a woman by a false Deed there is so little of likelihood in it that were it not onely to stop the mouths of some who are apt to believe every false report I should not so much as once mention them Therefore though his Vices were great yet we ought not to lay other mens faults upon him onely upon supposition which is no evidence in Law and of the two ought rather to judge the best or at least to weigh and consider throughly the contrary Reasons lest we come under the lash of the Poet He that doth judge and will but one side hear Though he judge right he 's no good Iusticer But it is a known observation That in such calamitous cases more is commonly charged then proved and it may be his adversaries observed Machiavels Rule To throw dirt enough upon him for that some would stick For I have observed That let a lie be invented though never so ridiculous it shall meet with some fools that will believe it Witness that story about ten years ago of the great Giants coming into England No doubt his crimes were very great for which we may judge his excesses were the greatest occasions of them In the mean time Humanity commands us to think the best of him and to pitie his Wife and six Children whom he left behind him the onely remains of seven and twentie by one woman whereof two he left behind him in prison upon account of the same fact But one thing is known to many for a truth which indeed comes near to inhumanitie and barbarousness namely his preserving some of the Fat or other parts of the Corps of divers persons â—ately executed for Treason as those who have seen it with him have informed me which though pretended to be used for the making an excellent Medicine he had for the Gout yet it is a most unmanly thing to have no reverence to Humane Blood though in persons justly punished Nor could this person who had been so litigious in his life rest free from suspicion after his death a common rumour being bruited That he was not hanged till quite dead but that afterwards by means used to him recovered again to life But this storie being most of all ridiculous I leave to be believed by those that are more credulous then my self I shall conclude with a merrie Epitaph which was made by an ingenious person upon him leaving it to the Reader to judge of it as he pleases HEre lies the Carcass of a wretched Wight Who at Noon-day did bid the world Good-night Of what Sect he was of there 's few can tell He like Erasmus hung 'twixt Heaven and Hell Valiant by consequence he must be sed He scorn'd to die like Cowards in his bed And whereas others run from Death's embrace He boldly went to meet him in the face Lastly his Courage was so mighty too He did what all that saw him fear'd to do FINIS Postscript LEt the Reader take notice we hear there is a Rumour of a false Copy which is likely to come forth let him beware of it lest it abuse the Memory of the Dead
where you wanted a power the will was accepted I demanded who would receive the Communion he answers Himself his Wife his Sons and Daughters I demanded whether his Sons and Daughters had received the Communion before they answered no some of 'um others they were not prepared his Wife also refused to receive with him but we perswaded Her to joyne in that Sacred Performance with her Husband otherwise it would be adjudged she had no charity for him he importuned her and saluted her so she came after conscecration I administred when the Cup was delivered to him I found a heart of stone become a heart of Flesh and the Blood of Christ melt the Adamant for before he received he brake forth into this speech Lord Iesus dear God I pray that this Blood may not seal up my Damnation who have been a great Offender Lord thy Blood is able to save me O God thou never didst cast away penitent sinners Let thy Blood seal up my Salvation dear Lord. So he drank it and after said I have comfort in my Soul He was very attentive to the Admonitious of my Self and Lord Bartlet's Chaplain who went with me in Cart. That is all I can say who am Your Loving Friend JOHN WELDON Ord. of Newgate Dept. to Clarkes c. Thursday Morning being come the fatall Day appointed for his Execution he was very intent upon his preparation for another World and spent the Morning wholly with the Ministers and in taking leave of his Wife and Children to whom he gave many good and wholesome admonitions About 10 a clock both the Sheriffs came in Person to conduct him to the place of Execution Coming out of the Presse-Yard and seeing a Cart there prepared to carry him he was somewhat abashed and desired of Sir Richard Ford one of the Sheriffs he might have a Coach which was denyed Sir Richard telling him the King had ordered it otherwise Then did he desire he might walk on foot but that neither would be granted whereupon he went up into the Cart and being by the Officer ordered to sit in the Body of the Cart the usual Place for Offenders he desired to be permitted to ride on the Copps but that also was denyed and so he was tyed according to the custome of Fellons There rode with him in the same Cart Mr. Ordinary of Newgate and another Minister great was the Confluence of People all the way he passed along the streets the Windows being so thronged as hath not been known in the memory of Man upon the like occasion Being come to the Place of Execution which was in Leaden-Hall-Street at Lime-Street end where a Gibbet was Erected He called the Executioner unto him and told him that his Friends desired his Cloaths and therefore in Consideration of them he gave hime fifty shillings and halfe a Crown besides to Drink He also gave 15s to the Serjeants and Yeomen there present to see his Body and Cloaths delivered to one Mrs Smith a Neighbour that lived hard by then looking round about upon the People addressing himself to the Sheriffes he made a long Speech the substance whereof is this CHAP. VII The Speech of Collonel James Turner at his Execution with his Character as also an example of his horrible Swearing HE confessed that it was the greatness of his sins that brought him thither the greatest of which was prophaneness blaspheming God and taking his name in vaine that he was much addicted to Company yet never accompanied with Theives or such base inferiour people but by hearing others Swear got a habit of it though inwardly he detested it That for the fact which brought him thither it was of his own contriving and that his two Sons Iohn and Ely were ignorant of it and therefore desired they might be released That his Father was a Reverend Divine a Gentleman of good Life and Conversation That his Wife was descended from a Family of repute in Dorset Shire one of her Uncles having lent the late King 8000l That his Wife now being brought to this distâ—ess his two Children might be releast for her comfort and not to add affliction to her affliction That he was afraid the crying sinnes of this Nation without Gods wonderfull mercy would bring some heavy punishment upon it That the dislike of the disorders in the World hath made him many times wish himself in his grave That being a Boy men were more friendly given to Hospitality but that now the World was full of malice and difference Then did he free himself of some Calumnies cast upon him and gave account of his service under the old King Next did he fall upon the occasion of his coming thither imputing it to the just hand of God for his sinnes desiring all people to take warning by him that had he not been Arrested at that sad juncture of time Mr. Tryan had had every penny worth of his Goods and Money again desiring God to forgive them that was the hinderance thereof Then did he vindicate himself of some other Caumnies cast upon him namely concerning that sad fire in Loathbury of which he protested his innocency therein As likewise some Money that was lost in Coleman-Street which heaverred he never knew of He also purged himself of an imputation laid upon him concerning a Gentleman of his own Name that lay in his House as if something should be put into his Drink to dispatch him out of this World the Gentleman dying suddenly of which he likewise declared his innocency Next did he give some breif account of his Faith and Profession how he had been bred up in the Protestant Profession and was a zealous practiser of the Rites and Ceremonies belonging thereunto That he was truely and heartily sorrowful for his sinnes desiring of God the forgiveness of them That he had made a true and faithfull confession and restitution so far as in him lay and that his repentance was not feigned desiring to be with Christ in Glory and that he was in perfect Charity with the whole World Next did he free himself of some imputations that he was drunk the Sunday before in Prison Desiring some order might be taken concerning the Hole in Newgate that poor Prisoners might have some Boards to lie downupon them in ease that they might not be so tormented when they should be preparing for their ends Afterwards he desired them about him to joyne with him in prayer in which he earnestly begged for the forgiveness of his sinnes Praying heartily for the Kings Majesty and all the Royal Family as also for the Majestrates and Ministers of the Land That God would provide and take care for his Wife Children Thanking him for that space of time for Repentance and that he was not cut off by sudden death desiring God thorough Jesus Christ to wash away his sinnes and receive his Soul Then did Mr. Ordinary of Newgate pray with him afterwards he had some private Ejaculations wherein he exprest
much sorrow for his times and earnestly begged pardon for them Then taking his leave of the Sheriffs desring to be remembred to the L. Maior the rest of the Aldermen he address'd himself for his last minute still earnestly beging of God for mercie and desiring for his comfort the Doctor to read to him those Verses in the second of the Hebrews being the 14 15 16 17 and 18 Verses Next did he give 40. s. to a Minister to be given to the poor of that Parish and 18. s. 6. d. more for his Wife to be delivered to his young Sons School-master Afterwards he directed the Executioner to take off the Halter from his shoulders which being done he took it in his hands kissed it and put it about his neck himself and having fitted his Cap went out of the Cart wherein he made his Speech upon the Ladder where the Executioner tying the Rope and pulling it something too much he very smartly said to him What dost thou mean to choak me pray fellow give me more rope How long hast thou been Executioner that thou knowest not how to place the Halter Then bidding the Executioner not to turn him off till he gave him a sign he again fell to Prayers and desiring the Lord to receive his soul upon the sign given he was turned off the Ladder After some short time he was cut down and his bodie conveyed to the House of Mistris Smith a neighbour near by where it continued till when it was buried very decently at the Parish Church of St. Andrews Undershaft And this was the end of Mr. Iames Turner a man who by the course of Nature might have lived many years longer He was a person of a middle stature something corpulent but active of a chearfull countenance which he kept up even to the very period of his life not much changing to the very last He was one very loving to his Wife and indulgent to his Children of a high spirit which having not an Estate answerable thereto caused him to fall into many errours His vices were great and many yet were they not without a mixture of Vertues and other good qualities He was much addicted to the sin of Swearing a vice which hath in it neither profit nor pleasure and unless a man be wholly given up to wickedness cannot but strike the Conscience with much regret in the committing of it He was very charitable to the poor especially to such who had formerly been able to give themselves But his thoughts were vaster then his estate and therefore as I formerly hinted I am perswaded the occasion of this his last wicked act was to have wherewithal to keep up that state and grandure he had formerly lived in fearing nothing so much as to strike sail and stoop to the privacie of an ordinary way of life Many were the troubles he had passed through which we may think he rather desired then studied to avoid as some men delight to fish in troubled waters so did he take pleasure in divers and intricate troubles though I conceive the profit arising by them was the greatest motive to make him undertake them For his valour we find not much commendation of him yet do not I think he was a Coward as some have aspersed him Indeed as I said before his vices were many and great especially that horrid sin of Cursing and Swearing whereof we shall give you an example as a Warning to all those who are addicted to those horrid crimes which we received from the hands of one who knew all the passages for truth ABout Septemb. 1662. Col. Iames Turner sent to a Citizen of London to come to him to the Castle Tavern in Cornhil who found a Gentleman with the said Turner to whom two Captains also came Turner entreated the Citizen he sent for to move a Company of which the Citizen was a member to give out of their bounty ten pounds to release a prisoner out of the Fleet which was by him promised and some few days after granted by the said Company and the prisoner set at liberty Turner swore very much without any provocation the Citizen told him if he continued to swear he would not stay in his company Whiles they were drinking a Blackamoor-boy of some 14 years of age brought pipes and small beer Turner swore and curst the Boy and said he was like the Devil for which the company did much reprove him the Drawer standing by said the Blackamoor was to be baptized the next Lords day with his Masters child his wife then lying in The Citizen to try the Blackamoors fitness for baptism asked him Who made him who answered God Turner very furiously replied and swore desperately the Devil made him earnestly saying and swearing You rogue the Devil made you God never made you The Citizen desired Turner to forbear his swearing and had much ado to get him to be quiet whilst he asked him further interrogatories the Blackmoor replied Christian like answers to the questions of Who redeemed him Who sanctified and preserved him wherefore God made him and several other Christian-like answers the Boy gave till he came to answer to the Priestly Prophetical and Kingly Office of Christ. Turner still continued vehemently cursing and swearing against the Boy It being now near ten a clock at night the four Gentlemen present and also the Drawer and the Blackamoor Turner sitting with his face against the casement therein came a mighty great flap or stroke upon the window as if two great wings would have drove the window into the room upon the company which made them all in a great amazement whereupon the Citizen ran to the window opened the casement but could not see any thing as the cause not a quarrel broke nor any dirt upon the window Turner gave over cursing and swearing and sate as a man ready to sink into the ground that one of the Captains told Turner this is because of your swearing and cursing The window was near a story from the yard which belonged to the Tavern and a Shed of boards from it downward that in no probability any man did it CHAP. VIII Col. Turner vindicated in several asperssons cast upon him HItherto have we given you a Narative of his life and conversation which as it was bad so have some men endeavoured to make it worse then it was rendring him rather a Monster then a man and upon flight conjectural grounds have added stuff of their own brain to make it pass with the more likelyhod so that what at first was but a molehill soon becomes a mountain according to Ovid. The thing at first invented great doth grow And every one doth something add thereto As may be instanced in their Calumniation of him that he should take two hundred pounds of the Lady Hewyt to procure a pardon for her Husband and that he never did any thing in the business which when he heard of being when he was in Newgate he