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APPENDIX.

judgment was ſo pronounced as aforeſaid, in manner and form as the ſaid attorney general hath by his ſaid replication to the ſaid plea of the ſaid priſoner now here at the bar alleged. And herupon the ſaid attorney general on behalf of our ſaid lord the king now prayeth, that the court here would proceed to award execution againſt him the ſaid Thomas Rogers upon the ſaid attainder. Award of execution Whereupon, all and ſingular the premiſes being now ſeen and fully underſtood by the court here, it is orderd by the court here, that execution be done upon the faid priſoner at the bar for the ſaid felony in purſuance of the ſaid judgment, according to due form of law: And it is laſtly ordered, that he the ſaid Thomas Rogers, the priſoner at the bar, be now committed to the cuſtody of the ſheriff of the county of Kent ( now alſo preſent here in court) for the purpoſe aforeſaid ; and that the ſaid ſheriff of Kent do execution upon the ſaid defendant the priſoner at the bar for the ſaid felony, in purſuance of the ſaid judgment, according to due form of law.

On the motion of Mr. Attorney General.
By the Court.

§.4. Warrant of Execution on Judgment of Death, at the general Goal delivery in London and Middlelex.

London and Middleſex To the ſherirffs of the city of London, and to the ſheriff and of the county of Middleſex: and to the keeper of his majeſty's gaol of Newgate.

Whereas at the ſeſſion of gaol delivery of Newgate, for the city of London and county of Middleſex, holden at Juſtice Hall in the Old Bailey, on the nineteenth day of October laſt, Patrick Mahony, Roger Jones, Charles King, and Mary Smith, received ſentence of death for the reſpective offences in their ſeveral indictments mentioned; Now it is hereby orderd, that execution of the ſaid ſentence be made and done upon them the ſaid Patrick Mahony and Roger Jones, on Wedneſday the ninth day of this inſtant month of November at the uſual place of execution. And it is his majeſty's command, that execution of the ſaid ſentence upon them the ſaid Charles King and Mary Smith be reſpited, until his majefty's pleaſure touching them be farther known.

Given under my hand and ſeal this fourth day of November, one thouſand ſeven hundred and ſixty eight.

James Eyre, Recorder. L. S.