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He acknowledg'd he had for feveral Years paft kept
Company with one Amey Fonvkr, by whom he had ft-
veraJ Children, and wifli'd he had married her inftead
of the Perfon who was liis Wife, for he faid he ihould
not then have fallen into thofe irregular Courfes he after-
wards did. Upon his Trial he behav'd himfelf with a
great deal of Indecency, and continu'd the fame till a
very few Days before his Execution.
Thus was he cut oiF [as he fays himfelf in the fol-
lowing Copy of a Paper that he read at the Place of
Execution) in the Prime of his Youth, being but about
28 Years of Age, and was executed at Tyburn in Com-
pany with Benjamin Branch a notorious Street-Robber,
yanies Stacks alias Htrward, condemn'd for robbing on
the Highway, Margaret Mwfhey, convifted for pri-
vately ftealing a Silver Salver and Porringer, the Pro-
perty of Mr. Cefleel, and Margaret Wallis likewife
condemn'd for robbing her Mailer at Iftington.
At the Place of Execution all the abovefaid Perfons
appear'd very Devout and Penitent, and Bella?ny brought
a Paper in his Hand to the Place of Execution, which
as foon as they arriv'd, he read, to the Auditors, a
Copy whereof is as follows. •
Gentlemen,
I A M brought here to fufter an ignominious Death,
for my having willfully tranfgrefled againft the
known Laws of God and my Country ; J fear there
are too many here prefent who come to be WitnefTes
of my untimely End, rather out of Curiofity than
from a lincere Intention to take Warning by my un-
happy Fate; you fee me here in the very Prime of
my Youth, cut off like an untimely Flower in a rigo-
rous Seafon, thro' my having been too much addifted
to a voluptuous and irregular Courfe of Life, which
has been the Occafion of my committing thefe Crimes
for which I am now to fuffer. As the Laws of God
as well as Men call upon me to lay down my Life, as
julily forfeited by my manifold Ti'anigreiTions, I ac-
' knowledge