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taken her Advice, I had never brought rayfelf to this
untimely End. I die in Charity with all the World,
and the Lord have Mercy on my poor Soul.
The Confejfion of Jofeph Whitlock who was
conviSied for being concerned in the before-
mentioned Robbery.
JOSEPH Whitlock was about 27 Years of Age,
born of honeft Parents in the Country, who put
him to a Farrier in the Country, to which Trade he
ferv'd about four Years; afterwards he marry'd, and
liv'd by his Bufinefs, in which he might have fucceed-
ed very well, but bad Company was his Ruin. He
own'd his committing of many Robberies and Bur-
glaries, in Company with Brsivti and their Aflbciates,
with feveral other V^illainies, particularly the Robbery
and barbarous Ufage of Colonel Des Romahie and his
Maid, and the robbing a Man in Surry, from whom
among other Things |they took a fraall Cafe of Brandy,
with which they were fo intoxicated, that taking the
River at Kingfton, three of them were taken at Putney
faft afleep in a Boat. He feem'd to be a young Man
of goodUnderftanding, tho' wholly corrupted with vi-
cious Difpofitions and Praftices. Under Sentence his
Carriage was civil and modell; he was penitent, hop'd
for Salvation thro' the Mercy of God in Chrill, and
died in Peace with all Mankind.,
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