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  SP9/251/213; account of an offender who was hanged. The "Ordinary of Newgate" was the prison chaplain (as we would now call him) of Newgate Prison. He made extra money by publishing accounts of the "behaviour, confessions and dying speeches" of those he accompanied to the gallows at Tyburn. This source describes an offender who was hanged, along with five others, at Tyburn, on 13th December, 1706.
 
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  SP9/251/213; account of an offender who was hanged