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24 He was carried in a cart to the place of on Saturday, April 7th, 1739, with John Ste   condemned also for horse-stealing. He himself with amazing assurance, and bowed to  spectators as he passed. It was remarkable as he mounted the ladder, his right leg  on which he stamped it down with an air, and  undaunted courage looked round about him;  after speaking near half an hour to the  threw himself off the ladder, and expired in  five minutes.

His corpse was brought back from the about three in the afternoon, and lodged at  Blue Boar, niin [sic] Castlegate, till ten the next, when it was buried in a neat coffin in  George’s church-yard, with this inscription R. T.  The grave was dug very deep; and the whom he appointed his mourners, took all  care to secure the body: notwithstanding  some persons were discovered moving off with  having taken it up,  The mob having got sce where it was carried to, and suspecting it was to  anatomized went to a garden in which it was deposited, and brought away the body through  streets of the city, in a sort of triumph almost  being only laid on a board, covered with straw,  carried on four mens’ shoulders, and buried in  same grave, having first filled the coffin with slake lime. He confessed to the hangman, that he thirty three years of age.

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