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 None of which, I hear, are now living, two others, viz. George Wilon and Thomas Oughterlaney, were repited from Execution, till his Majety’s Pleaure hould be known; the former dy’d abroad, and the latter came Home, and received his Majety’s Pardon; the Account of the whole tands thus,

I am not ignorant how acceptable the Behaviour and dying Words of Malefactors are to the generallity of our Countrymen, and therefore hall deliver what occurr’d, worthy of Notice, in the BehahaviourBehaviour [sic] of thee Criminals.

The firt ix that were called to Execution, were Magnes, Moody, Sympon, Sutton, Ahplant, and Hardy; all of them old Standers and notorious Offenders: When they were brought out of the Hold, on the Parade, in order to break off their Fetters, and fit the Halters; none of them, it was oberved, appeared the leat dejected, unles Sutton, who poke faint, but it was rather imputed to a Flux that had eiz’d him two or three Days before, than Fear. A Gentleman, who was Surgeon of the Ship, was o charitable at this Time, to offer himelf in the room of an Ordinary, and repreented to them, as well as he was able, the Heinounes of their Sin, and Neceity which lay on them of Re-