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and to merit his Life by a ready Submiffion, and ob-
liging others to do the like; but Go-w was no Fooi, and
he eafily faw there were too many gone before who had
provided for their own Safety at his Expence : And be-
iides that, he knew himfelf too deeply guilty of Cru-
elty and Murder to be excepted by the publick Juftice
as an Evidence, efpecially where fo many other lefs
CriiBinals were to be had. This, I fay, made him
(and with good Reafon too) give over any Thoughts of
efcaping by fjch means as that.
But, as I faid, Go-iv was no Fool, fo he feem'd to
give over all Thought of Life, from the firft Time he
came to England, not that he iliew'd any Tokens of his
Repentance, or any Senfe of his Condition fuitable to
what was before him ; but continuing fulien and referv'J,
even to the very Time he was brought to the Bar;
when he came there, he could not be try'd with the
reft, for the Arraignment being made in the ufual
Form he refufed to plead; the Court ufed all the Ar-
guments which Humanity dictates in fuch Cafes, to pre-
vail on him to come into the ordinary Courfe of other
People in like Government, laying before him the Sen-
tence of the Law in fuch Cafes, namely, that he miift
be prefled to Death, the only torturing Execution which
remains in our Law, which however they were oblig'd
to inflia.
But he continu'd inflexible, and carry'd on his Obfti-
nacy to fuch a Height, as to receive the Sentence in
Form, as ufual in fuch Cafes, the Execution being
appointed to be done the next Morning, and he was
carry'd back to Neujgate in order to it, but whether he
was prevail'd with by Argument, and the Reafons of
thofe about him, or whether the Apparatus for the
F^xecution, and the manner of the Death he was to die
terrified him, we cannot fay, but the next Morning he
yielded, and petition'd to be allow'd to plead, and be
admitted to be try'd in the ordinary Way, which being
granted, he was brought to the Bar by himfelf, and
pleaded, being arraign'd again upon the fame Indift-
H 2 ment.