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19               pinioned through all the County of Dublin, and committed there to Newgate, and shortly after, was tried and condemned. While he was under sentence of condem- nation, he offered 50001. to save his life, but the government would not be bribed to a save a rogue from the gallows, so he               was ordered to die, and accordingly hang- ed he was at Dublin, on Friday the 20th of May, 1706, aged 29 years, and then hung in chains, on the mount of Barns- moor in Ulster. Jack Balf and his brother (of the said               family,) were born some miles from Dun- laven, on the mountains of Wicklow. Jack was put an apprentice to a stocking- weaver, but was never once suspected of               misbehaviour till after his brother's sus- pension on the three-legged at Stephen's               green; soon after which he made an al- teration in his business, and turned a sur- veyor of the high roads, without license, and as he had been bred on the moun- tains, he first chose Tallow road, as it lay next to his inaccessible lurking places in               that country, where he committed such a number of robberies as put all the na- tion in dread of him. He was at length apprehended near Dublin, and executed