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22 R. T. aged 28 The Grave was dug very deep, and the perons whom he appointed his mourners, as above-mention’d, took all poible Care to ecure the Body; notwithtanding which, on Tueday Morning about three o’C1ock, ome Perons were dicovered to be moving off the Body which they had taken up; and the Mob having got Scent where it was carried to, and upecting it was to be anatomized, went to a Garden in which it was depoited, and brought away the Body thro' the Streets of the City, in a sort of Triumph, almot naked, being only laid on a Board, cover'd with ome Straw, and carried on four Men’s Shoulders, and buried it in the ame grave having firt fill'd the Coffin with tack’d Lime.

The following Account Turpin gave of himelf to the Topman, the week after his Condemnation, and repeated the ame Particulars to him again at the Gallows; which being taken down from his own mouth, are as follows:

HAT he was bred a Butcher, and erv'd five years of his Time very faithfully in White chpael; but falling into idle Company, he began to take unlawful Meaures to upport his Extravagance, and went ome times on the Highway on Foot, and met with everal mall Booties; his not being detected therein, gave him