However , Mercy so far interposed after the Sentence of Justice , that only Five of them actually suffered : Amongst whom was Elizabeth Longman , an old Offendor , having been above a Dozen several times in Newgate : Some time since she was convicted , and obtained the benefit and favour of Transportation , and was accordingly carried into Virginia : But Coelum , non Animum mutant , qui trans mare currunt . She had not been there above Fourteen Moneths , before she procured Monies remitted from some of the Brotherhood here , wherewith she bought off her Servitude , and over she comes again into England , long before the term of her Sentence was expired . Nor was she content to violate the Law only in that point , but returned to her old Trade ( for so these people call stealing ) as well as to her Countrey ; and was soon after her Arrival conducted to Newgate , for mistaking several parcels of Silk , upon which being Convicted , and pleading her Belly , she was set by the last Sessions before this : But now it appearing that she was highly accessary ( though all the while in Newgate ) to the Robbery of a Person of Quality , and that she was wholly incorrigible , not to be reclaimed by any Warnings , she was brought down again to the Bar , and demanded , what she could say for her self , why she should not suffer Death , according to Law , upon her old Judgment . To which she still pleaded , that she was quick with Child . But being searched by a Jury of Matrons , they found no such thing ; so that she was carried with the rest into the Hole , and ordered for Execution . As for her behaviour , I am sorry no better account can be given of it ; for truely she did not seem so sensible of her End , or to make that serious preparation for it , as night be expected from a Person in her condition : yet were not the charitable assistances and endeavours of the Ordinary and several other Ministers wanting towards her , though 't is feared they did not make the wisht-for Impressions upon her Spirit .

Two othes viz. Edward Wall and Edward Russel that suffered , were brought to this untimely and ignominious End , by the means and seducements of this unhappy Woman . For they together with one A. M. going after the former Sessions to a Gentlemans House , to sollicite and engage his Interest , in order to the obtaining of a Reprieve for a Woman that past for one of their Wives , and was then under Condemnation , they chanced to spie the Maid a scowring a very considerable quantity of Plate , the glittering sight whereof so much affected them , that when they came back to Newgate , to give an account of their business , amongst other discourse , they mentioned what abundance of Plate they saw . And will you only see it ? ( says this Besse Longman , being by ) then you deserve to starve indeed , when Fortune puts a Booty , as it were , in your Mouths , and you are such Cowards , that you dare not take it : With these and many other words to that purpose , she animated them on so far , till by her Instigation and the Devils together , they resolved upon the Villany , and accordingly went the next Night , broke open the Gentlemans House , and took thence a great quantity of Plate : But upon description and search , A. M : was taken next Morning on Saffron-hill , with a Silver Ladle , a Silver Porringer , and that famous Engine of Wickedness , called a Betty . He was carried for the present to New Prison , and there kept till he had discovered the other Parties ; and upon his ingenu●u● Confession obtained the Mercy of a Reprieve from that Execution , which his Fellow Criminals now suffer'd .

The other person executed , was Henry Seabrooke : He was condemned the former Sessions for robbing the Merchant at Dukes place ; but upon his pretending to discover the rest of the Cabal , and other great matters , was kept from the Gibbet all this while ; but now failing to verifie those pretentions , he was ordered by the Court to receive his punishment according to his former Sentence , with the rest of the Prisoners condemned this Sessions .

Of these poor wretches , two , viz Wall and Russell , as they ingenuously pleaded guilty to their Indictment at the Bar , so they behaved themselves very modestly at their Condemnation ; and afterwards in Prison when Ministers came to visit and discourse with them , in order to their Souls everlasting good , they received them with great expressions of joy and esteem , attending with much reverence and seeming heed to their Spiritual Instructions , who with most necessary and importunate Exhortations pressed them to a speedy and hearty Repentance ,

Since it stood them so much in hand , being upon the brink of Eternity , they told them , Their Condition was sad , as being justly sentenced by Men to a temporal Death ; but that was infinitely short of being condemned by God , and suffering Eternal Death under the fury of his Wrath : that though it was vain for them to flatter themselves with hopes of ●onger life in this world , yet there were means left to secure them of Everlasting Life in the ●ext : and that to such vile sinners as they ●ad been , it was an unspeakable Mercy , that ●hey had yet a little space left them , wherein ●o make their peace with Heaven ; and what ●ould the damned Souls , weltring without ●ope in Eternal Flames , give or do for such a ●recious opportunity ? With such and many ●ther pious Admonitions and Prescriptions did ●hese Spiritual Physitians endeavour to cure ●he Ulcers of their Souls , and excite them to ●hrow off the peccant matter , and wash away ●●●i● Iniquities with tears of a sincere Repen●ance , proceeding not from a sense of approaching Punishment , but of trouble for the Evil it self , and their provoking of God thereby .

To all which they gave very great attention , promising to put that blessed Advice in practice ; and so continued in a very serious and laudable frame till the time of Execution , which was the 17th of this Instant May , being then conducted to Tyburn with vast numbers of people following the Carts to behold the last sad Scene of their deplorable Tragedy .

Being come to the Gallows , and the usual Prayers and Solemnities being performed , one of them spoke a pretty while to the Multitude , protesting , This was the first Fact that he was ever actually guilty of , though he had been accessary to divers others , and had been all his days a very ill Liver ; so that he could not but acknowledge that he suffer'd justly . He very much admonish'd all persons to consider their ways ; especially warning Youth not to mis-spend their time in Idleness , or Disobedience to Parents or Masters ; and to have a care of being seduced and drawn away by lewd women , affirming that such Courses and their Temptations , and to satisfie their Luxury , had been originally the cause of his destruction , and that shameful death he was now going to suffer .

The rest said very few words , unless to some particular Acquaintance ; but by their Gestures seemed to pray secretly , and so were all Executed according to Sentence .