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{iUy altered, and he began to think of his approaching
Dii'iblution. He faid however, the Relations before
given were ftridly true in Faft, and however jocofely
he had began the fame, he would not retract any Thing
therein, being fatisfied in his Confcience, that it was a
Duty incumbent on him to lay the fame open to the
Publick, in Hopes by difcovering the Methods ufed by
his mifchievous Comoanions, he might contribute to the
Welfare of the Publick.
On Tuefiiay, the Day before his Execution, he re-
ceiv'd the Sacrament in the Morning, attended Divine
Service at Chapel, as he ufually had done before, and
defired as little Interruption as poifible, applying him-
ielf ferioufiy to his Devotion.
From the Time of his Sentence he entertained no
Hopes of a Pardon or Reprieve, but as the Time for
his Execution approach'd, he feem'd convinced of the
Injury he had done the Publick, and upon the Advice
of fome worthy Divines who vifited him, faid he was
more fully fatisfied that it was a Duty incumbent on
him to make all the Difcoveries he could ; he there-
fore particularly defired the Town might be informed,
that of late it had, and ftill was a common Praftice to
fteal the Keys out of the Pins of the Windows, and
like wife, that in the Day Time, whilft one or two pf
them went into Shops and amufed the Folks therein
with one frivolous Story or other, fome of their Con-
federates would upon their Hands and Knees come be-
hind their Counters, and thence open or fteal away
the Money Drawers without being perceived.
He likewife mention'd the Names of divers Perfons
v/ho were their Accomplices, and Receivers of ftolen
Goods ; and particularly a Scotch Woman in Leicefler-
Fields, who he faid had cheated them out of Part of
the Plate they ftole in Bride-Lane; another or two in
Drury.-Lane ; and alfo a very notorious one in Chick-
Lane in White-Hor-fe-Alley, which he faid was a com-
mon Receptacle for thofe of his unlawful ProfelTion, and
wliere all the Tlxieves in Towa frequent.
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