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The annals of Newgate; or, Malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors ... Calculated to expose the deformity of vice, the infamy and punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the paths of virtue ... / By the Rev. Mr. Villette.

  • Villette, John.
Date:
1776
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Credit: The annals of Newgate; or, Malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors ... Calculated to expose the deformity of vice, the infamy and punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the paths of virtue ... / By the Rev. Mr. Villette. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    barn, Barbara would needs go and fee the execution. Her mother, endeavouring to prevent her, ftruok her, upon which fhe left the houic, and meeting with an acquaintance, they went to Tyburn together, and from thence to a houfe by St. Giles’s-Pound, where, complaining of her mother’s ufage, and vowing never to return home, file was encouraged in that rcfolution by the company, who gave her hopes of living much more to her fatisfadtion, if fhe would but come into their meafures. She quickly complied, and they let her into fome of their fecrets in coining. Her firfb employment was to ut¬ ter their counterfeit money, ior which fhe was apprehended, fent to Newgate, convidfed, and fined. In Newgat$ fhe be¬ gan her acquaintance with Miles, who paid fomething for her when fhe was difeharged, but who afterwards proved ^n evidence againft her. While flie lay under condemnation, and before the dead warrant came down, fhe was very outrageous and turbulent in her behaviour, and could not be perfuaded to think of death, and much lefs of being burnt. Nor was fhe to be convinced by the ordinary of Newgate, that (lie had been guilty of any crime in coining. She even boafted, that fhe had never been a thief, and that fhe had been but twice in Newgate, and no more than once in the Compter. But, when her hopes of life were entirely vanifhed, her for¬ mer fpirit was quite funk. She faid, indeed, that fhe was not covetous of life, but could not bear the thoughts of burning. She added, that her mother, who was lately executed (but for what crime I know not) fuffered unjuflly, and fhe little thought it would be her fate to follow her fofoon, in a no lefs ignominious manner. She expreffed however fome fatisfac- tion, that her hufband was dead, who once lived in credit, and was a butcher by trade. When fhe flood at the flake fhe appeared to have lefs fear of death, tnan on the preceding day. She was very defirous of praying, and complained of the dirt and flones thrown by the mob behind her, which prevented her thinking fedately on futurity. One time fhe was beat quite down by them. She declared, that fhe had been taught to coin by a man and woman, who had now left it off, and lived reputably, though, when they firft began that trade, they were in very poor circumflances; but fhe would not discover who they were, it being, in her opinion, a pity that a family fhould be ruined, who had given over that pra&ice, and fo many hundreds live fecure in London, who {fill continued the fame ; and added, that, though (he faw the faggots lie ready to burn E 2, her,