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Plunder, but never knew any Good it did him. All
the Time he was troubled with a violent Cold and
Cough, yet he never abfented himfelf from Chapel,
wliere he behaved gravely, quietly, and attentively,
and he often held down his Head becaufe of his Indif-
pofition, and lamented for his Wife and Child ; he faid,
that altho' it had been reported we were fifty or fixty
belonging to that Gang of Thieves in which he was
concern'd, he did not know of more then feven, nor
did he believe that there was any fuch Number as was
reported. He faid he had been a very ill difpofed, vi-
cious young Man, and confeffed that he had long fol-
lovv'd the Pradlice of Deer-ftealing, which brought him
into a bad Frame of Mind, and made him entirely re-
gardlefs of Faith and a good Confcience. He profefled
himfelf a Penitent, that he believ'd in Chrill, and was
in Peace with all Men.
The Confejfion of Jofeph Rofe.
HE was about 38 Years of Age, born of honeft
Parents, who gave him good Education, and
when of Age he ferv'd his Time to a Blackfmith, and
afterward he liv'd by his Bufinefs, and marry'd a Wife,
who had by him feveral Children, three of which was
living. He faid he had till fome few Years ago, the
Charafter of an honeft Man, and was well refpefted by
his Acquaintance; but then falling into the Converfa-
tion and Intimacy of thofe People call'd Waltham-Blach,
who live by ftealing Deer, or robbing Houfes; after
that he profpcred no more, fo that no honeft Perfon
would keep him Company. H^e was taken up and
kept fome Time in Chelmsford Goal, and being fufpe-
fted to be a Robber and Highwayman, and to be the
Perfon who robb'd and murd'red a Pipe-maker at Boiv,
about two Years ago he loft what little Charafter he
had before.
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