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A Relation of what passed in the Imprisonment, and at the Execution of Hannah Blay.
H. B. belonged to a Bawdy-house in Ratcliff, where T. S. used to frequent, and was always welcome so long as his mony lasted, but having spent his mony, and denied entertain∣ment, except he brought more mony: to which he replied, he knew not where to have any, H. B. presently puts him upon rob∣bing his Master, (which he could not easily accomplish, by rea∣son of the diligence of the servant maid) and to murther the maid rather than fail of getting the mony: which he according∣ly did, & goes again to H. B. and tells her what he had done, then flies. But the justice of God pursued him so fast, that he was soon apprehended, and committed to Newgate. After he had accused H. B. for putting him upon the murder, she was apprehended, and committed also. At the Sessions she was En∣dicted, and Condemned for being accessary to the Murther committed by T. S. In the time of her imprisonment, she was very rude and debauched, being seldom sober, except at such times when she could by no means procure drink to be drunk withal. She often endeavoured to make T. S. drunk with her, which she once or twice effected, & endeavoured very much to draw him off from his Repentance, by driving his old trade of sin & wickedness. If any advised her to Repentance, & to take care for the future estate of her soul, she would laugh at them, & reply in some such language as she had learned in the devils school, with which she was well stored. She was, from that Ses∣sions, reprieved till the next, fully perswading her self she should scape that bout, and spending her time according to her former course of living, taking as little care what should be∣come of her soul, as if she had never offended a gracious God, & as of there was no devil to torment her, nor hell to be tor∣mented in. But now Sessions being again come, and she again brought down to the Sessions-house in the Old Baily, had Sen∣tence to be executed at Ratcliff where the Fact was commit∣ted The night before her Execution, the Ordinary of Newgate came to administer the Sacrament to her, which she refused, saying, she could not die in Charity with some (whom she na∣med) judging them the cause of her second Judgment & Exe∣cution. The next day, being Friday, Feb. 26. she was conveyed in a Cart from Newgate to the place of Execution, where she en∣ded her wicked life by a shameful death, without the least sign of sorrow or Repentance for her abominable whoredome and wickednesses: So that howsoever notoriously wicked she had been in her life, answerable thereunto was she in her shameful end, in impenitency and hardness of heart.