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The Yankees will get some help Monday, although it will not be in an area of need. Aroldis Chapman, the flame-throwing relief pitcher, will come off his 30-day suspension for violating Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy, but the back end of the bullpen is the least of the Yankees' woes.
The Yankees already have plenty of strength there with Andrew Miller and Dellin Betances. Chapman, acquired by trade in the off-season from the Reds, will give the Yankees the most formidable bullpen trio since Cincinnati's legendary "Nasty Boys" — Randy Myers, Rob Dibble and Norm Charlton — for Lou Piniella's 1990 World Series champions.
What remains at question is how often the Yankees can give these three relievers leads to protect. The bats went silent again Sunday night as they were tamed by knuckleballer Steven Wright, who came within one out of a shutout ruined by Brett Gardner's third home run of the season. It was one of only three hits by the Yanks, whose hopes of sweeping the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium were dashed in Boston's 5-1 victory.
Luis Severino's record fell to 0-5, although manager Joe Girardi expressed encouragement that the second-year righthander is turning the corner. Severino was clocked for three home runs — two by David Ortiz — but he had nine strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings. The Red Sox added a fourth home run in the eighth as Xander Bogaerts took Chasen Shreve deep. The way Wright pitched, Severino's fate was sealed In the first inning when he walked leadoff batter Mookie Betts and gave up a home run to Dustin Pedroia in the first row of the right field stands.
Big Papi, on the other hand, launched a pair of bombs that were milestones in a career he plans to conclude at the end of this season, a decision that looks awfully premature considering the way he is swinging the bat. Ortiz pushed his career home run total to 512, passing Mel Ott on the career list and tying Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews, three Hall of Fame sluggers. Of that total, 454 have come with the Red Sox, the second most in club history behind only Ted Williams, whose career total of 521 were all hit for Boston.
Ortiz has just been taking batting practice against the Yankees this season. In six games against them, Big Papi is batting .364 with five home runs and seven RBI in 22 at-bats. The Stadium crowd let him have it with the boos for his embarrassing tirade against umpire Ron Kulpa Friday night, but he pretty much quieted everybody with the pair of massive shots off Severino.
The Yankees had one hit over the first six innings against Wright, 30, a journeyman who has restarted his career with the knuckleball. They did not have a runner in scoring position until the seventh when Starlin Castro led off with a double to right. He crossed to third on a flyout but was thrown out trying to get back to the bag after deciding against trying to score on a pitch in the dirt. Castro, who was picked off second base four games ago, hurt a rib on the play and was pinch-hit for in the ninth, but Girardi said he did not consider the injury serious and expected Castro to play Monday night when the World Series champion Royals open a four-game set at the Stadium.
Chapman will be there, too. Can the Yankees give him reason to get into the game. Yankees fans can only hope so.
Jeter runs it out as usual in final big-league game
Once you saw Carl Yastrzemski on the field at Fenway Park before Sunday's season finale that marked Derek Jeter's last major-league game you know this was a big deal. Yaz is one of the most reclusive former athletes in the world. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989 and has gone back for a ceremony only twice, in 2000 and 2009 for the inductions of former teammates Carlton Fisk and Jim Rice, respectively.
So there was Yaz on the Fenway infield with other Boston stars of the past – Rice, Luis Tiant, Rico Petrocelli, Fred Lynn, Tim Wakefield and Jason Varitek – all decked out in Red Sox jerseys to pay homage to a star of the Yankees. The Red Sox did it up big for the Yanks' captain. Along with Varitek, DJ's counterpart with the Red Sox, former captains of Boston's other pro sports teams – Bobby Orr (Bruins), Troy Brown (Patriots) and Paul Pierce (Celtics) – were on hand for the pregame ceremony as well.
The Red Sox had taken a tongue-in-cheek approach to Mariano Rivera's farewell last year, and it laid a huge egg. They made up for that this year with a grand sendoff for Jeter. David Ortiz and Red Sox shortstop Zander Bogaerts presented Jeter with a sign made up of Fenway scoreboard lettering reading, "Re2spect," and second baseman Dustin Pedroia, who became friendly with Jeter when they were teammates on the USA team in the World Baseball Classic several years ago, handed the retiring icon second base with No. 2 in pinstripes across the front. The Red Sox organization also gave Jeter a $22,222.22 donation to the Captain's Turn2 Foundation, equaling the largest check he received from an opposing team, that of the Mets. Major League Baseball had also given Jeter a check for that amount, but not surprisingly the Yankees came up with the largest donation of all — $222,222.22.
There had been some speculation that Jeter might pull a Ted Williams and not play in the three-game series following his triumphant final game at Yankee Stadium Thursday night when he had the game-winning hit. Teddy Ballgame homered in his final Fenway at-bat in 1960 and decided not even to go to New York for the last series considering the Yankees had already clinched the American League pennant. Well, the Yankees were out of contention this week, too, something Jeter was not accustomed to, but out of respect for the game and the supporters of the Yankees' biggest rivals he made the trip to Boston.
There were no such things as farewell tours years ago. Players would receive a standing ovation and then just go home. In fact, Jeter's last game came on the 46th anniversary of Mickey Mantle's last big-league appearance, also at Fenway Park. The Mick started at first base but never took the field. He batted in the first inning, popped out to shortstop, and was replaced at his position by Andy Kosco. Unlike Jeter, however, Mantle did not announce his retirement in that season of 1968 but rather the following March before the start of spring training in 1969.
Jeter had made a pact with manager Joe Girardi that he would make two plate appearances as the designated hitter, the same as he did Saturday. Jeter did not play Friday night because he was exhausted from all the tension and excitement of his Stadium exit game as well as his last as a shortstop. DJ lined out to short in the first inning. Batting with Ichiro Suzuki on third base after hitting a two-run triple in the third, Jeter hit chopper off the plate and beat it out for a single that drove in a run, his 50th RBI of the season, and settled his career hit total at 3,465, sixth on the all-time list.
At that point, Jeter came out of the game for a pinch runner, of all people, Brian McCann, one of the slowest runners in the majors (he even lost a pregame footrace to Mark Teixeira). Unlike last Thursday night when his emotions nearly got the best of him, Jeter was calm and flashed often his signature smile. While he left the game, he did not leave the dugout and cheered on his mates through a 9-5 victory.
The Red Sox had one more cool surprise for Jeter. They arranged for Bernie Williams, former Yankees center fielder and current road musician, to play "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" on his guitar for his old teammate during the seventh-inning stretch, a poignant moment that echoed the end of an era for the Yankees. Perhaps that is why the Red Sox celebrated the day.
Jeter, not always comfortable with the out-of-town attention this year and under some criticism lately for what seemed at times an over-merchandizing of his farewell tour, was grateful to the Red Sox for this parting glass.
What I will take mostly from this game was Jeter's hit itself. He ran hard to first base as he did from Day One in a Yankees uniform, forcing an infielder to hurry and eventually be unable to make the play. Most Yankees fans would have surely loved to see Jeet rip one over the Green Monster to finish off his career, but the dash to first base exemplified what Jeter was all about the past 20 years. You run everything out. It is the only way he played every day.
Yanks find out Red Sox have not quit on 2014
The change in the calendar should have given the Yankees a sense of urgency. The dog days of August are upon us with each game becoming more and more pivotal. Friday night at Fenway Park proved a major disappointment in the first game after the non-waiver trade deadline as the Yankees failed to do much damage against a rookie pitcher one season removed from Double A ball and fell to the Red Sox, 4-3.
Righthander Anthony Ranaudo, with scores of relatives and friends from New Jersey in the yard, held the Yankees to two runs and four hits and got away with four walks, three of them leading off innings, over six innings to earn a victory in his major-league debut. Another rookie, center fielder Mookie Betts, applied a rally-killing play in the eighth when the Yanks threatened to tie the score. After Derek Jeter homered leading off the inning against Junichi Tazawa, Jacoby Ellsbury hit a drive to his old center field stomping grounds where Betts now roams and made a diving, one-handed catch and slid across the warning track. That play was amplified when Mark Teixeira followed with a double to left field. Tex got to third base with two out but was stranded as Chase Headley grounded out.
Headley was 0-for-4 at the plate, but he made three dazzling plays at third base in Graig Nettles-like style. Newcomer Stephen Drew, shortstop by trade, did a nice job in his first big-league shot at second base and took part in a pair of double plays. Martin Prado arrived in Boston just before game time and entered as a pinch hitter in the seventh and remained in the game in right field where he is expected to play most often. He was 0-for-2.
Carlos Beltran continued his hot streak by driving in two runs. He homered leading off the fourth against Ranaudo and touched the rookie for an RBI single in the sixth that scored Ellsbury, who set it up with a key steal of second base. Since returning from the 7-day concussion list July 18, Beltran leads the Yankees with a .373 batting average in 51 at-bats. He is hitting .329 with five home runs over his past 21 games and 82 at-bats. Beltran has an eight-game hitting streak during which he has hit .448 with three home runs and eight RBI in 29 at-bats. In 11 games at Boston this season, Beltran is batting .356 with five doubles and five home runs.
In his second start for the Yanks, Chris Capuano had a solid outing and pitched into the seventh. He had a rough third inning allowing two runs and four hits, three of them for extra bases, but he settled down after yielding a run in the fourth and retired nine batters in a row before Betts led off the seventh with a single to right. Brock Holt bunted Betts to second, and Dustin Pedroia got him home with a single to center that proved the deciding run.
It was another quiet night offensively for the Yankees, who have lost five of their past six games and dropped six games behind the first-place Orioles in the American League East. Boston's recent trading off of pitchers Jon Lester and John Lackey indicated they have put up a white flag on the season, but they were not conceding anything Friday night.
Red Sox outlast Yanks to take series
You could feel the air come out of Yankee Stadium in the third inning Sunday night when David Ortiz blasted a 0-1 pitch from Chase Whitley into the right field bleachers for a three-run home run and a 4-0 Red Sox lead.
The Stadium crowd was pretty lively until that point but turned gloomy at the reality of seeing the offensive-struggling Yankees down that much early against as solid a pitcher as Boston's John Lackey.
Whitley had given up a run in the second inning on a double by Mike Napoli and a one-out single by Stephen Drew, but it was the Ortiz bomb that spelled disaster for the Yankees. It was career homer No. 450 for Big Papi, who ranks 37th on the all-time list. The Yankees would have some fireworks of their own, however, to work themselves back into the game.
It began with a gift run in the bottom of the third. Ichiro Suzuki reached base on a throwing error by third baseman Brock Holt. After Ichiro stole second base, Brett Gardner and Derek Jeter put Lackey to work. Gardner grounded out at the end of a 10-pitch at-bat with Suzuki crossing to third. Jeter then pushed Lackey to 11 pitches, pushing a single to right field on the last one to get the Yankees on the board.
The fireworks came in the fourth as Mark Teixeira (No. 15) and Carlos Beltran (No. 8) took Lackey deep to make it a one-run game. That brought the crowd back into play, but Yankees fans were not pleased at all with what came next.
Whitley came out of the game after he walked Jackie Bradley Jr. to begin the fifth. Shawn Kelley was not any better. He walked Holt and Daniel Nava, which loaded the bases with no outs and no hits. Dustin Pedroia lofted a flare just over first base for a two-run single that also sent Nava to third base.
Lefthander David Huff came in to face Ortiz and kept him in the yard with a flyout to shallow left field. Huff picked Pedroia off first base, but the runner kept himself in a rundown long enough for Nava to cross the plate while the out was made at first base. Just like that, the Yankees were down by four runs again.
Whitley, who was called up from Triple A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in mid-May to pitch in the rotation after CC Sabathia went on the 15-day disabled list with right knee inflammation, did well in his first seven starts as he went 3-0 with a 2.56 ERA during that stretch. In his past two starts, however, the righthander has allowed 13 earned runs and 19 hits in 7 1/3 innings for a 15.95 ERA that has driven his season ERA to 4.70.
Unlike Saturday night's 2-1 Boston victory, Sunday night was more like Yankees-Red Sox games we have come to know. The Yankees got two runs back in the bottom of the fifth on a triple by Suzuki, a double by Gardner and two infield outs.
Ichiro's triple was a drive to right on which rookie Mookie Betts attempted a diving catch only to have the ball bounce past him. Ichiro's 40-year-old legs got to third base, but there was a time he would have made it all the way home on such a hit.
Betts was playing in his first major-league game. He got his first hit, a single, in the fourth. I am amused at the idea of a player named Mookie with the Red Sox. Baseball's only other Mookie — Wilson — broke Sox fans hearts with his tapper past first baseman Bill Buckner that won Game 6 of the 1986 World Series for the Mets. It turns out that Mookie Betts was not named after Wilson but after Mookie Blaylock, his mother's favorite NBA player.
The Yankees finally got a pitcher who threw strikes consistently when Dellin Betances entered the game in the sixth and inherited a bases-loaded, no-outs situation. The Red Sox got minimal damage with one run on a sacrifice fly by Pedroia after Nava struck out. Betances won the battle against Ortiz, who grounded out to second.
Pushed to 96 pitches, Lackey was gone after the fifth. The Yanks lost a scoring opportunity in the sixth against Burke Bradenhop when Carlos Beltran, who had doubled with one out, was thrown out at the plate by Bradley on a single to center by Kelly Johnson.
In the seventh, Betances struck out Napoli with a high fastball. What an idiot.
Napoli did not fare any better in the ninth when he was called out on strikes against Jose Ramirez. By then, the die had been cast. Boston was polishing off an 8-5 victory saved by Koji Uehara. The Red Sox took the series, two games to one, as the Yankees once again failed to capitalize on Toronto and Baltimore both losing and remained in third place in the American League East. They also fell to 6-6 in the stretch of 15 games against AL East competition that concludes with the three-game set against the Rays starting Monday night at the Stadium.
Tanaka bested by Lester in classic pitching duel
Does anyone actually think Masahiro Tanaka should not have pitched the ninth inning for the Yankees Saturday night? I mean, really? Talk about severe second guessing. Yankees manager Joe Girardi was asked why he did not have David Robertson pitch the ninth instead of Tanaka.
Look, if Girardi knew that Tanaka was going to give up a solo home run to Mike Napoli on a ball that barely cleared the right field wall on a 1-2 pitch, then, sure, he would rather have D-Rob out there. But, come on, Tanaka was pitching a gem, deserved a better fate and certainly did not deserve his manager having to be grilled for staying with his best pitcher.
Yes, this one hurt, a 2-1 loss to the Red Sox for the Yankees, who failed to take advantage of Toronto and Baltimore both losing earlier in the day. But as good as Tanaka was, Red Sox starter Jon Lester was slightly better.
For one thing, Lester kept the ball in the yard. Both the runs off Tanaka were on solo homers. The other was by catcher David Ross in the third inning. If a pitcher is going to give up home runs, let them be with nobody on base. You hear that all the time, so cut Tanaka some slack.
Look at what he did in the fourth inning when Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz scorched him for a single and double, respectively. Strikeout, strikeout, groundout to the next three batters, slamming the door.
The Yankees' only run off Lester was unearned due to an error by Boston shortstop Stephen Drew in the bottom of the third. Lester took a no-hitter into the sixth, withstood three singles that inning and continued to keep the Yankees off balance.
For a wild moment there in the eighth, it appeared as if the Yanks had taken the lead. Jacoby Ellsbury seemed to have stolen second base, continued to third on an errant throw by Ross and then headed for the plate that was uncovered. What Ellsbury and most of the people in the Yankee Stadium sellout crowd of 48,433 did not know was that the pitch Ellsbury stole on was a called third strike by plate umpire Andy Fletcher on Mark Teixeira.
The Red Sox did hit Tanaka hard in the ninth. Pedroia led off the inning with his third hit, a line single to center. Ortiz hit a blistering one-hopper gloved by third baseman Yangervis Solarte on the overshift that became a double play. Tanaka got two strikes on Napoli only to lose the battle when the Boston first baseman hit an opposite-field homer. Koji Uehara closed it out for the Red Sox with a 1-2-3 ninth for his 17th save.
Tanaka has lost consecutive starts for the first time this season. His three complete games are the most for a Yankees rookie since 1998 when Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez had the same total. It was a tough loss for Tanaka, but I for one applaud the manager for leaving him in the game.
Dueling video reviews
With help from a video review, Red Sox lefthander Jon Lester still had a no-hitter through five innings Saturday night. Although the Yankees had a run on the board, they had yet to get a hit when Yangervis Solarte appeared to have broken up Lester's bid with an infield single with two outs in the bottom of the fifth.
It was an official scorer's nightmare for Howie Karpin, who ruled the play a single. Solarte hit a dribbler near the third base line. Boston third baseman Zander Bogaerts made a nifty, bare-handed pickup, but his throw to first base was in the dirt. First baseman Mike Napoli stretched for the throw and made a nice scoop, but first base umpire Mark Wegner called Solarte safe.
Karpin was forced to credit Solarte with a hit because of the degree of difficulty Bogaerts had in making the fielding play. It all became incidental when Red Sox manager John Farrell asked for a review. Video replays clearly showed that Napoli's foot was on the bag before Solarte reached first base, so Wegner's call was overturned keeping Lester's no-no in place for the time being.
The Yankees came right back in the sixth with a review request of their own when Dustin Pedroia led off with an apparent double. That call was also overturned when replays showed that Pedroia slid into the tag of second baseman Brian Roberts.
Lester's no-hit bid did not last for long. Brett Gardner led off the sixth with a ground single through the middle for the Yankees' first hit. Gardner was quickly erased when thrown out attempting to steal second base. Derek Jeter and Jacoby Ellsbury restarted the rally with singles, but Mark Teixeira flied out and Carlos Beltran struck out.
The Yankees had scored in the third inning without a hit. Shortstop Stephen Drew bobbled a grounder by Roberts for an error, and Lester hit Solarte with a pitch. Gardner advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt. Roberts scored as Jeter grounded out to shortstop. Solarte crossed to third base but was stranded as Ellsbury also grounded out to short.
The Red Sox had gotten on the board in the top of the third on a solo home run by David Ross. Masahiro Tanaka showed off a good slider and splitter, but in the fourth Boston hit him hard with Pedroia lining a single to right and David Ortiz almost decapitating Pedroia with another liner to right for a double. Tanaka held firm, however. He struck out Napoli and Drew and retired Bogaerts on an infield grounder.
Aggressive play on bases proves costly
The Yankees ran themselves out of a potentially big inning in the first Sunday night and did so with two of their best base runners. Carlos Beltran, who singled with one out, was at third base and Jacoby Ellsbury, who followed with a double, was on second when Alfonso Soriano hit a fly ball to center field.
It appeared to be a routine sacrifice fly as Beltran trotted toward the plate. As it turned out, it would have been better if Beltran ran a bit harder. Ellsbury also tried to tag up, and that was where the run was lost.
Red Sox center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. made a strong throw to third base that cut down Ellsbury before Beltran crossed the plate, nullifying the run the Yankees thought they had. In hindsight, Ellsbury might have been better off staying at second base. That way, Beltran would have scored easily with Bradley throwing to third base. Yet aggressiveness on the bases is a big part of Ellsbury's game. It took a perfect throw to get him. Bradley unfortunately unleashed one.
While the Yankees were playing without Derek Jeter, the Red Sox were without their spark plug, second baseman Dustin Pedroia, who returned to Boston to have his painful left wrist examined. Pedroia jammed the wrist last week. The condition worsened to the point that he could not complete batting practice before the game and was scratched from the lineup.
Sabathia suffers birthday blues
In the future, CC Sabathia might be better served if he took his birthday off. Sabathia, who turned 33 Sunday, has made four starts in his career on his birthday and has yet to win. As a birthday boy, Sabathia is 0-2 with two no-decisions and a 7.48 ERA in 21 2/3 innings.
The lefthander got an early birthday present from his teammates, who took a 3-0 lead off Ryan Dempster in the first two innings. Sabathia gave it back and more, however, when the Red Sox scored four runs in the third on an RBI single by Dustin Pedroia and a long, three-run home run by Mike Napoli off a 1-2 fastball.
An inning later, Sabathia hit the leadoff batter and gave up three straight singles that resulted in two more runs for Boston. Jonny Gomes led off the fifth with a towering home run, the career-high 23rd off CC this year. Sabathia lasted one batter into the sixth but got one more birthday gift from his teammates when they rallied to tie the score in the seventh and get him off the hook.
But Sabathia could not be pleased with having squandered the early lead and failing to post a winning decision for the third straight start, a stretch during which he has allowed 13 earned runs in 18 innings (6.50 ERA) with 24 hits allowed, including five home runs. Sabathia's record stayed at 9-8, but his ERA rose to 4.37. His career record at Fenway Park is 3-4 with a 4.93 ERA.
Stormy night for Kuroda
The rain that was expected before Sunday night's game didn't start falling until after the fifth inning. After David Ortiz led off the sixth with his 10th home run to push the Red Sox' lead to 3-0 and Mike Napoli singled, rain came down hard during Stephen's Drew at-bat and after he flied out to left field play was interrupted.
For the second straight start, the Yankees' Hiroki Kuroda was paired with an unbeaten opposing starter. Last Tuesday night at Citi Field, it was the Mets' 5-0 Mike Harvey in a game the Yanks eventually lost in the bottom of the ninth inning on the first blown save of the year by Mariano Rivera. Sunday night Kuroda was pitted against Boston's 8-0 Clay Buchholz, who has mounted a Cy Young Award candidacy in the early going.
The Yankees managed two measly singles off Buchholz in the first five innings as their offensive malaise continued. Kuroda had a stretch of 10 consecutive scoreless innings end in the fourth as the Red Sox scratched out a run on successive singles by Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz and an infield out by Mike Napoli for his sixth RBI of the series.
The Red Sox jolted Kuroda with leadoff home runs in the fifth and sixth, respectively, by Jose Iglesias, his first of the season, and Ortiz. The two home runs in successive innings equaled the total Kuroda had allowed in his previous four starts covering 24 2/3 innings.
Play resumed but only momentarily. Boone Logan took over for Kuroda and finished the top of the sixth. Andrew Miller was announced as the Boston reliever for Buchholz but did not throw a pitch as another thunderstorm hit merely four minutes after the resumption of play. Back came the tarp. The crew got the infield covered in time as a storm of somewhat violent proportions resulted in cascades of water soaking Yankee Stadium.
The Red Sox' 3-0 victory in the rain-shortened game was the seventh loss in the past eight games for the Yankees, who have totaled 15 runs over that stretch for an average of only 1.88 runs per game. By taking the series, 2 games to 1, Boston increased its lead in the American League East to three games over the Yankees, who dropped into third place, a half-game behind Baltimore.
The only good news for the Yankees was that catcher Chris Stewart found out that he does not have a concussion. Stewart was scratched from the starting lineup because of light-headedness and underwent a CT scan and other tests at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Stewart's status will be re-evaluated Monday when the club also has a decision to make about how to create space on the 25-man roster for Andy Pettitte, who is expected to come off the disabled list to start the opener of a three-game series against the Indians.
Sabathia gets Yankees back on track
Subway Series hangover over. A little dose of CC was a big help.
In this case, the CC wasn't Canadian Club whiskey but a pitcher named Sabathia, who not only righted the Yankees Friday night but also himself. The lefthander found his rhythm early amid hot and humid conditions and rang bells on the velocity pole he had not reached previously.
"I hadn't seen a lot of 94s until tonight," manager Joe Girardi said after the Yankees' 4-1 victory over Boston that ended their five-game losing streak and got Sabathia his first winning decision in six starts since April 27.
Sabathia hit 94 miles per hour on his fastball occasionally and was regularly between 91 and 93 mph with his heater. CC talked after the game more about location than velocity but admitted he felt more like himself than he has for a while.
"It just felt good to get us back on the right track," Sabathia said. "I always feel like it's my responsibility to go out and have a good game and give us a chance to win, especially after what happened to us against the Mets."
Sabathia was not part of the Subway Series sweep, but the five-game losing streak began on his watch with a poor outing last Sunday at Tropicana Field in an 8-3 drubbing by the Rays. Friday night was a different story.
"This is the kind of game we're used to seeing from CC," Girardi said. "This is almost where he is every year since he has been with us. When the weather warms up, he gets on a roll."
Sabathia not only registered a few more ticks on the radar gun but had the bite back on his slider, the pitch he used for six of his 10 strikeouts in 7 1/3 innings. The only run he allowed was in the seventh on doubles by Dustin Pedroia and Mike Napoli. CC did not walk a batter.
"Anytime he was in a fastball count, he'd go to his breaking ball or his changeup to keep us off stride," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "He didn't compound an issue by issuing a base on balls."
Speaking of walks, the Yankees drew four of them off Jon Lester, twice as many as they had in the four games total against the Mets. Mark Teixeira started the Yankees' two-run second inning with a walk. After Vernon Wells doubled, the Yankees scored on a single by Jayson Nix and one out later on a single by Ichiro Suzuki.
That would be all the support Sabathia would need, but the Yankees pushed across two more runs against Lester, who had defeated them back on Opening Day, on RBI singles by Kevin Youkilis in the fifth and Brett Gardner in the seventh.
It was also important to see Mariano Rivera get back on the bike again. Three nights after his stunning loss at Citi Field, Mo withstood singles by Pedroia and David Ortiz in the ninth to nail down his 19th save in 20 tries and 36th in a row at Yankee Stadium.


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As it's halfway through 2012, I figured it was about time to get to the 25th Anniversary Super Challenge. As I mentioned previously, I'll be playing through all the mainline Mega Man, Final Fantasy, and Metal Gear games on account of how none of these series have had a good entry (or in Mega Man's case, any entry) in years so may as well play all the old ones.
It's a lot of games, so I'm breaking it down chunky style. First up was the first three Mega Man games, popularly referred to as "the best Mega Man games."
Mega Man (1987)
The story here goes that Dr. Light, assisted by Dr. Wily, made some robots--Cut Man, Guts Man, Bomb Man, Elec Man, Fire Man, and Ice Man--to do dumb menial stuff like logging, mining, and utilities management. Dr. Wily betrays his colleague and reprograms the robots to help him take over the world, so Dr. Light modifies Rock, his own "what it's not weird for me to have this" little boy robot, into the unstoppable killing machine Mega Man. He had another robot named Roll, but apparently the technology to weaponize girl robots wouldn't exist for eight more games, so whatever.
This was actually my first time playing the original Mega Man, and holy crap it's hard. I mean, NES games in general (and Mega Man games in particular) are known for their difficulty, but this was borderline cruel. Pretty much every enemy can shoot you in every direction, the metal shuttered hallways before bosses are loaded with enemy turrets, and you've got to re-fight four of the six bosses one right after the other without any health pickups in between.
PROTIP: Like many of us, Cut Man's weakness is his low self-esteem. Equip the weapon you got from High School Girl Man and use it to laugh cruelly and tell Cut Man the only thing he should be "cutting" is about a million calories a day out of his diet. Over the next several months he will wither and waste away, and you will get the Rolling Cutter.
Mega Man 2 (1988)
Mega Man's idea to turn around and just kind of walk back home immediately after defeating Dr. Wily turned out to be terrible, and soon he was back to take over the world again.
Now if I understand the Mega Man canon correctly, the eight Robot Masters in this game aren't the reprogrammed robots of others, but rather they're entirely Wily's creations. Looking at them, it becomes pretty clear why he was just Dr. Light's assistant before:
- Heat Man - Not terrible, though sort of a ripoff of Fire Man. Looks like a cross between a zippo lighter and a blow-up doll.
- Crash Man - Again, kind of a ripoff of Bomb Man, except with drills on his hands which he uses to do nothing, ever.
- Quick Man - Like the one good track in an album full of crap, Quick Man is probably the best out of this bunch. Moves really fast while firing tiny boomerangs at you, and his stage is full of giant death lasers.
- Air Man - "Behold the power of a gentle breeze!"
- Metal Man - A robot that is, through some miraculous feat of engineering, made out of metal.
- Wood Man - Made of old tables or something, shoots yard clippings at you while shouting "I SHOULD NOT EXIST!"
- Bubble Man - I'm pretty sure Bubble Man was the result of an experiment by Dr. Wily to see if he could create a robot so awful that it would develop emotions just so it could hate itself.
- Flash Man - A robot given the incredible power to manipulate time, and the mental ability to barely not crap his own pants. Looks like a dollar store version of Mega Man.
So not the best group, but the game is still widely considered the best in the series. It ironed out some of the gameplay kinks in the first one, added more robots, and has great music including one of the most remixed songs in gaming history.
Mega Man 3 (1990)
Dr. Wily has abandoned his evil ways and teamed up with Dr. Light to build a peace-keeping robot dubbed Gamma. Before they can finish it, eight Robot Masters in charge of some "mining worlds" steal its power crystals and just kinda wait around for Mega Man to kill them.
There's all kinds of crazy stuff in this game. There's Snake Man and Gemini Man and Shadow Man (robot ninja!) and uh...Top Man...and Hard Man...uh.
There's Proto Man (who is also for some reason called Break Man here), Racer X to Mega Man's Speed. And Rush, your robot dog buddy who turns into a jet and a submarine and stuff.
And AND...I'll just say it. Robot ghosts. You have to fight robot ghosts posessing other robots. Specifically, the ghosts of the eight Robot Masters from Mega Man 2.
Dr. Wily turns out to be behind the whole thing, surprising nobody. He steals Gamma once it's complete, gets it destroyed by Mega Man, and is crushed by garbage. Proto Man saves Mega Man from the rubble and leaves Wily behind to hopefully die, proving that he is not only the cool brother but also the smart one.
PROTIP: Use Spark Man's weapon to ignite the spark of romance between Hard Man and Top Man, to prove that love can bloom...even on a battlefield.
I'm mixing it up next time and switching to the Metal Gear challenge. Instead of playing the games in the order they released in, I'll be playing them in chronological order based on the events of the series. This means I'll be starting that challenge with Metal Gear Solid 3, then going on to Peace Walker and so on, finishing with Metal Gear Solid 4. The MGS chronology starts with the best game and ends with the worst. Kind of the reverse of Star Wars. But I digress.
Tune in next time for Metal Gear Solid 3.

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Public Works
The Public Works Department is charged with the conservation and preservation of Escambia County's infrastructure. Its divisions include Engineering, Roads, Fleet Maintenance, Transportation & Traffic and Escambia County Area Transit.
Engineering provides a wide range of transportation and stormwater management services to the residents of the county.
The Roads Division maintains the County's network of roads and stormwater drainage systems. Additionally, all mowing, road shoulder repair, right-of-way clearing, tree cutting, and fence maintenance throughout the county is handled by this division.
The Transportation Programming and Traffic Operations Division proudly offers multiple services for the residents of Escambia County related to the County's transportation system. The Transportation Programming section manages the planning, monitoring and funding sources, which relate to a wide variety of roadway improvements. Examples of the roadway improvements vary from the construction of new roadways, travel lane and shoulder widening, sidewalks, bike lanes, additional travel lanes and turn lanes, to the installation of ADA enhancements. The Transportation Programming section also provides oversight and coordination of multiple County programs to ensure minimal to no overlap in funding or scheduling including engineering, dirt road paving, roadway resurfacing, bridges programs, pedestrian enhancements, etc. The Traffic Operations section provides the management of all signals within the County and installation and maintenance of traffic control devices, performs traffic studies and analyses, as well as efforts to implement a new Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).
Click here for more information about current projects in Escambia County.
Escambia Area Transit (ECAT) provides citizens with safe, convenient and affordable transportation throughout the Escambia County/Pensacola area. ECAT currently has 1,000+ bus stops covering 285 miles of routes which average 1.1 million annual passenger trips. ECAT provides the following services: fixed-route bus, seasonal Pensacola Beach trolley, University of West Florida (UWF) on-campus trolley and ADA paratransit transportation.


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Workouts become a priority after the new year and naturally you'll want new apparel for the gym. A workout is fun when you are wearing gear that makes you feel amazing and look good (to your gym standards, type of looking good – of course).
Even if it is just a tank, a tee or yoga pants you like, it has to feel good, fit in all the right places and feel just right when you're in constant motion.
I recently found a high-collared jacket that I had to have for my workouts. The weather has found itself at a happy medium of constant drizzle, rain and cold that makes me want to seek hibernation rather than going to the gym.
The jacket I found is a material that does not soak, and the high collar keeps me warm. The jacket is easy to throw on and comes in different colors and styles. It is from the workout apparel label, BodyRock Sport. The jacket is a moto jacket, perfect for any workout.
I found it easy to throw on and the best workout apparel to accompany me on my runs and workouts.
The best advice is not to necessarily be in style for your workout but to be comfortable in what you're wearing for your workout. Wear what makes you feel good to motivate you to walk, run, bike – whatever workout it is you love doing.
And then focus on being stylish with additives – whether it's Victoria's Secret boxing gloves in pink, my favorite workout moto jacket from BodyRock Sport or an embellished water bottle.
It's just there to keep you motivated and stylish at the same time while you take on your New Year's resolutions at the gym.


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Kick Them When They're Down
Press Start when you win a round. You can now walk around and beat up the character on the ground.
At the character select screen press MP, LP, LEFT, LK, MK.
Play as Dr. Doom
At the character select screen press MK, LP, DOWN, LK, MP.
Play as Thanos
At the character select screen press LK, HK, MP, MP, UP.
Enable Gems
At the Vs. Screen, hold both START buttons to enable gems.
Extra Power
Go to the Character Select screen, then Choose your chracter. Then press the two players (1 and 2 players) start together. This will double your character power.


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D-Rise 1400
Kid wants an Ipod touch, but Apple and iTunes are against my religion.
Been looking at Samsung Q2 and P3, I think it is, but they don't have cameras and such.
Not expecting WiFi of course, but camera would make kid happy.
Someone told me about the Chinese "MP5" players.
Does anyone have any experience with the DigitalRise 1400 ? It's from a site called ChinaGrabber (I hope it isn't banned here, the D1400 doesn't look like a counterfeit, just a similar featureset). I won't post direct link just in case.
The 'stylus' part of the specs is worrisome, maybe not true touchscreen with fingers? More like an old pocket pc screen?
Anyway, this is something I might get myself to try first...wouldn't roll the dice on it as a gift for my daughter to be disappointed until I'd tried it myself.
Would love some feedback if anyone here has used either the Chinagrabber site, MP5 players from there, or this D1400 specifically.
8GB 2.8" GB MP5 w/ TouchScreen, Camera - D1400-PMP
DigitalRiseTM D1400 Intro:
The D-Rise D1400 Touch Screen PMP is one of a kind in the crowded Mp3 / Mp4 market. Boasting a large 2.8" touch screen, Built-in 1.2MP Digital Video Camera on back (DV Cam for YouTube) is an amazing product at an amazing price. Not only does the D1400 have built-in 8gb, but it has a built-in expandeable memory card bay for expansion of up to 4gb. A total of 8GB built-in memory onboard means you can download (plug n play - no iTunes required) 2000 songs, or 300 music videos - FM radio when all else fails.
Note: This product is not in any way related to Apple products or iTunes. It has different functionality - more functions.D1400 FEATURES:
Interface: USB 2.0 HI-SPEED
DV Camera - 1.2 Mega Pixel Cam
Supported Audio Codecs:MP3 , WAV, WMA, FLAC, APE
Supported Video Codecs: MPEG-4 (AVI) Xvid 320*240 24fps (MP3 128Kbps)
Frequency Response: 30HZ-18KHZ , 0dB- 3dB
FM Frequency reception: 76MHz - 108MHz
File Viewing: JPG, TXT, GIF, animated GIF
Lyrics: LRC
Voice Recording: (WAV) Sampling Rate:8kHz, 16kHz </B (wav) sampling rate:8khz, 16khz>
USB Storage Function
Firmware Update
D1400 SPECIFICATIONS: Sound chip: D-Rise Wolfsen
Input and Output: 5PIN USB, 3.5mm stereo earphone output
Screen: 2.8" QVGA TFT Color Display (Resolution: 320*240) </B 2.8? tft color (resolution: 320*240) qvga display>
Language Support: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English
Battery: 1000mAH
Expansion Slot: miniSD up to 2GB
Flash Memory Capacity: 8gb Built-in
Wall charger
USB cable
D-Rise D1400 Earphones
Stylus pen
CD with drivers and software
Free Neck Pouch
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As i tell everyone stay away from shotty Chinese designed pmps, battery may explode, lead paint, bad firmware, horrible build quality... and that may be a concern for a kid since they wont be the most careful with it ... Also the cameras on these things are novelty at best... some Korean brand has a decent device ....
update it is the mint pass: http://www.mintpass.com/
the camera actually looks ok for what it is, and has full wifi and other nifty features ... should be hitting the us soon as the site has been localized, the rumor is that the thing will be about $150 ... and its Korean , not china crap
Really depends on how old your kid is. If it's a five to ten year old, then a knockoff should be enough to keep him entertained for weeks.
If it's an older kid, then i suggest NOT buying this for him. Chances are he's gonna get pissed at you for buying him a POS that will probably start having problems within a month (or less!)
GO for the Samsung. It's years better than DigitalRiseTM D1400, or w.e knockoff you find.
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The Last Of Us is a zombie video game, yet much different.
July 24th
Looks good
June 30th
These aren't all the characters that are in my series.There is more like them.
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Two rare whales, called True's beaked whales, were found dead washed up on the beach of Long Island within in one day of each other. Marine biologists believe it was a mother whale and its male calf, according to Patch on Jan. 10.
The female adult whale was lactating indicating she had a baby she was feeding. The male baby calf was discovered on Bridgehampton Beach.
The lactating female whale was discovered on Sunday on a Southampton Village beach. The mother whale was believed to have been "thrashing about" on Flying Point Beach before she washed ashore dead further west on the Southampton beach.
Necropsies will be done on both the mother and son whales. A necropsy for animals is like an autopsy for humans. Hopefully this will shed some light on how these two rare species of whales me their demise.
All that is known at this time is both the whales were in poor shape, with the whale calf under nourished. They remains of the whales were taken to the Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center for the procedures.
According to the Riverhead Foundation True's Bleak whales:
"True's beaked whales have an unusual distribution in that it is found on both sides of the North Atlantic, Australia and South Africa. Based on available strandings and sightings, it is the only ziphiid with a true anti-tropical distribution. North Atlantic records of this species are mainly from warm-temperate waters. That is why its stranding here is rare."
The female whale that washed ashore weighed about a ton and she was 15-feet long. The calf weighed about 400-pounds and was about eight-feet in length.


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The Only Child as an Adult
As a girl contemplating the mysteries and attractions of independence, of growing up and moving away from home to attend college and then graduate school — moving toward what I believed would be my real, or realer, life — I never imagined myself entering the world of adults as an only child. Wasn't this a state of being that ended, necessarily, with childhood? After all, no one speaks of me now as an "only adult." As far as I could tell, unattached adults included the not-yet-married who were looking for love, single mothers or fathers who had perhaps given up on love, divorcees on the rebound, people confirmed in spinsterhood or bachelordom, and those who were widowed. In the wake of my father's departure, my mother had a handful of affairs and, by the time I was 10, had embarked on what would become her last, with a man who left (but did not divorce) his devoutly Catholic wife to live with my mother, whom he nursed through her cancer, remaining at her side until the end of her short life. Long before I had the ability to articulate the observation, I understood that the aloneness of adults was measured in terms of romantic coupling. The term for it — the state of being single — sounded enough like singular to seem desirable to me. Certainly it was a much more attractive word than only, with its connotations of meagerness, of deprivation, its annoying habit of rhyming with lonely.
I was born in 1961 and raised among families in which single parents were very much an exception to the nuclear rule. The worst of being an only child, I felt, was the pity it elicited from adults who assumed that I lacked what they considered a genuine childhood. Was this undertaking impossible in the absence of siblings? By virtue of being middle-aged, I am no longer an only child. At least I don't call myself one, not any more than I began to identify myself as an orphan after my grandmother's death left me, at the age of 30, the single living member of my original family. Unencumbered by primary relations, neither do I have even one aunt, uncle, or cousin, because my mother had no siblings and my father was gone by the time I turned 1. But if I don't admit to being an only child, I have become, unarguably, the sole keeper of my history.
Who else would care to preserve my bronzed baby shoes, my christening dress, or my grade school report cards? Who else would inherit my mother's baby teeth, my grandfather's reading glasses, my grandmother's purse (and in it her wallet filled with old credit cards, many for businesses that no longer exist)? My great-grandfather's Masonic ring. A silver baby rattle — blackened by tarnish. A tiny Torah scroll wound inside a sterling filigreed ark, and (in the same lockbox, hidden in one envelope sealed inside another) an antique gold pendant in the form of a swastika, that ancient cosmic symbol that before 1935 had yet to become an object of terror and loathing. A crystal goblet designed to commemorate the coronation of Edward VIII on May 12, 1937. Three canes that once belonged to my grandfather (one unscrews to reveal a dagger, the weapon of a gentleman who walked alone, at night, in dangerous cities). A pair of very beautiful hardwood shoe trees (also my grandfather's). And hundreds of photographs, many of people I no longer recognize — if I ever did — others taken decades before I was born. I could go on and on, boring even myself, because the entire inventory of my family's material history, as an anthropologist would call such a collection, belongs to me. It is mine to do with what I will, to make sense of, perhaps, assembling the pieces into a coherent whole, a kind of narrative group portrait complete with background and foreground. Or to make into fiction, to invent a history that is possible but untrue.


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The ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words of the Malefactors, who were Executed at Tyburn, on Monday, the Twentieth of this Instant May, 1728.
BY Virtue of His Majesty's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-Delivery of Newgate, at the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, (before the Right Honourable Sir EDWARD BEECHER, Knt . Lord-Mayor of the City of London ; the Right Honourable Sir Robert Raymond, Knt . Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench ; the Honourable Mr. Justice Price; the Honourable Mr. Baron Hale; the Honourable Mr. Baron Thompson, Recorder of the City of London; and John Raby, Esq ; Serjeant at Law ; and others His Majesty's Justices of Goal-Delivery, and Oyer and Terminer aforesaid; together with several of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of London, and County of Middlesex,) on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, and 7th of May, 1728, in the First Year of His Majesty's Reign.
Twenty two Men, viz. Christopher-Thomas Rawlins, Isaac Ashly, alias Aslien, John Rowden, alias John Hulks, Edward Benson, George Gale, Thomas Crowder, William Russel, William Holden, Robert Crouch, James Toon, William Septon, John Hornby, Lawrence Clinsmith, Benjamin Johnson, Richard Nichols, Joseph Johnson, Anthony Beadle, Hether Landel, John Cobbs, Joseph Price, James Smith, and James Perre; and Seven Women, viz. Mary Prince, Susanna Vine, Elizabeth Burden, Elizabeth Lewis, Margaret Pendergrass, Mary Hendron, and Mary Taylor, alias Dennis, were, by the Jury found guilty of Capital Crimes; and received Sentence of Death accordingly.
While under Sentence, they were instructed, How, that by Nature, they were Enemies to God: The Scripture representing to us, that the Imagination of Man's Heart is wholly set in him to do Evil; and that from this corrupt Principle, proceeded all the Irregularities of Life, which had entail'd so much Shame and Disgrace upon them: Therefore I endeavoured to convince them, that in order to be freed from their Sins, it was necessary to search into the Wickedness of their Hearts, which was the Cause of the manifold Failings of their Life; for that out of the Heart proceeds all evil Thoughts, Murders, Adulteries, Fornications, Thefts, False Witness, Blasphemies, Matth. 15. 19. Thence I exhorted them to come to God, under a deep Sight and Sense of Sin, Original and Natural: For while we are not sensible of Sin, it cannot be suppos'd, that we will seek a Saviour to save us from Sin, who is our Lord Jesus Christ, the only Mediator betwixt God and Man. Thence I took occasion to press upon them the absolute Necessity of a Saving Faith in Christ, the Son of God, and Saviour of Mankind, ev'n a Lively Faith, attended with Good Works, bringing forth manifold Fruits unto new Obedience, Holiness, and Virtue.
Many of them appearing Obstinate, I instructed them, that it was not only Expedient, but Necessary to confess their Sins, especially Those for which they suffer'd, as in the first Place of God, who was chiefly offended, so in the next Place, to Man, whom they had so very much wrong'd, since this was the main Reparation they were capable to make. This Subject I illustrated to them from several weighty Considerations taken from St. James 5. 16. Confess your Faults one to another. I also told them, that there being Two Christian Sacraments, Baptism, wherein we were initiated in the Christian Faith to deny Ourselves to the World, the Flesh, and the Devil; and the Lord's Supper, which is a lively Representation of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus, exhibited to us in a familiar Manner adapted to our Senses. This Sacrament, as from other Texts, so particularly from Rev. 19. 7. - For the Marriage of the Lamb is come, I explain'd to them.
While these and many such Instructions were given them, in Chappel all of them comply'd with the Worship, and made regular Responses: But some of them at Times were very undecent in their Carriage, laughing and playing the Fool in a very extravagant manner. Robert Crouch was most guilty this Way, and disturb'd some of his Fellow Prisoners about him. When I reprov'd him sharply for it, he said, that it was out of no ill Design, and that he could not help it: I told him that it was a Temptation of Satan, and that it shew'd the Corruption of his Heart very much. After many Admonitions and Reproofs, he gave it over. Crowder and Rawlins at several Times flew into very violent Passions, and upon trifling Occasions struck Hornby; for which being seriously reprov'd, they promis'd not to do so any more, and declar'd their Grief for the Offence given. Joseph Prince was much afflicted with Sickness, as was Margaret Pendergrass. When I visited them in the Cells, they appeared Devout and Penitent; and when at Chapel, they behav'd themselves Decently. Lawrence Clinsmith, a Dutch Boy, appeared to be Penitent, and sensible of his Offence; but being in a High Fever, never came to Chapel. James Parr came only once to Chapel; and when I visited him in the Cell, he was so Sick that he could scarce speak, and so Deaf that he could hear but little; only by his outward Behaviour, he appeared to be Sorrowful for his Sins, and willingly comply'd with Worship, when I pray'd for him. He died in the Cell on Monday Morning, the 13th Day of May.
In the Cells, Crowder, Rawlins, Hulks, alias Rowden, and several of them, sometimes behav'd themselves most Irregularly and Undecently, Singing and Cursing in such a manner, as was very offensive to every good Christian. The Street-Robbers, one with another, were Originals for Wickedness. Mary Taylor, alias Dennis, on Sunday, the 12th of May, being drunk, spoke so much and so loud, that the Keepers were oblig'd to take her out of the Chapel.
Upon Wednesday, the 15th of May, the Report of the above-named 28 Malefactors being made to His Majesty in Council: Joseph Prince for feloniously breaking and entring into the House of Edward Hoar, and for stealing Goods and Cloaths to the Value of 4 l., the Property of the said Edward Hoar; Anthony Beadle for stealing 3 s. 6 d. from the Person of Anne Powel, on the 1st of March last; Mary Jenkins for stealing 4 Guineas, a Gold Ring, and a Bathmetal Box from John Anthony; Elizabeth Burden for stealing 5 Broad Pieces of Gold, 2 Guineas, and a Silver Two-pence, 10th of April last, the Property, and in the House of Mary Bonner; Susanna Vine for stealing a Linen Bag, Value 2 d. a Seal, Value 12 d. a French Crown, Five Half Guineas, a pair of Steel Buckles, and some Silver, from the Person of Thomas Dean, on the 1st of March last; Benjamin Johnson, for stealing a Grey Gelding, Value 40 s., on the 15th of January last, the Property of James Crew; Lawrence Clinsmith, for stealing 9 China Dishes, a Silver Porringer, 4 Silver Forks, 2 Silver Candlesticks, 2 Silver hafted Knives, and several other Valuable Goods, the Property of Bernard Count Welderen; Joseph Johnson, for privately stealing a Gold Ring, Value 15 s. out of the Shop of George Joyns; and Elizabeth Lewis, for feloniously stealing 5 Gold Rings set with Diamonds, Value 9 l. 9 Serjeants Rings, Value 2 l. 14 s. 2 Guineas, a Broad Piece, and several other Valuable Things, the Property of John Raby, Esq ; Serjeant at Law , on the 9th of February last, received His Majesty's Most Gracious Reprieve.
The remaining Nineteen, viz. Christopher-Thomas Rawlins, John Rowden alias Hulks, Isaac Ashby alias Astien, John Hornby, Edward Benson, George Gale, Thomas Crowder, James Toon, William Russel, William Holden, and Robert Crouch, Street-Robbers; William Septon and John Cobbs, for the Highway; Hether Landell alias Vincent, James Smith, Richard Nichols, Mary Hendron and Margaret Pendergrass, and Mary Taylor alias Davis or Dennis, were order'd for Execution. When all Expectations of Life were past, Those who had been most Audacious and Insolent before, behav'd themselves with greater Decency in the Chapel; but they were so inur'd to Wickedness, that at some Times they could not abstain from flying into the most violent Passions when in the Cells, upon the least Uneasiness.
For Information of those who desire to know any thing further about their Confessions and Behaviour, the following Narrative is intended.
William Russell, Robert Crouch, and William Holden, of St. Giles's in the Fields, were indicted for assaulting Martha Hyde on the Highway, and taking from her a Broad-Cloth Coat, value 40 s. a Looking-Glass, value 30s. a Gown, Apron, and other Goods, value 30s., on the 8th of December last.
Against these 3 Persons, James Dalton was produc'd an Evidence, who depos'd, That on the 8th of March last, about 9 o'Clock at Night, they overtook the Prosecutor, Martha Hyde, in Fleet-street, and seeing her to have a Bundle with her, they resolv'd to snatch it from her; but not having an Opportunity to do it there, they follow'd her into Lincolns-Inn-Fields, were Crouch alias Bob the Butcher, knock'd her down, and then Russell ran away with the Bundle, in which were contain'd several Aprons, a Woman's Morning Gown, 3 Black Hoods, and a Looking-Glass, which last, in opening the Bundle, fell down and was broke in pieces; all the Remainder was sold to Sarah Watts (one who buys stol'n Goods, and in the Cant of the Society is call'd a Lock:) but not having well examined the Things before the Sale, they were mortified afterwards to hear, there was 40 s. in Specie rap'd up in a Rag in the said Bundle. - Martha Hyde the Prosecutor depos'd to the Purpose aforesaid, That she was knock'd down in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, and the Goods before mentioned taken from her. - Russel
Lomew Nichols depos'd, That he saw Russell and Crouch at a Brandy Shop soon after the Transactions before-mentioned, who quarrelling betwixt themselves, Russel said to Crouch, if you meddle with Nichols, I'll cut the Coat off your Back, for it is the Woman's Coat which I knock'd down in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, and I have as much Right to it as you; it appear'd that Crouch pawn'd an old Coat to pay for the Alteration of that he had then on, and that at first, it had on a picked Cape of Cloth, which was taken off, and a Velvet one put on in its stead. - Mr. Willis, who took Russell, depos'd, when he apprehended him, That Russell acknowledg'd the Goods before-mentioned, were Stole & sold for about 1 l. 2 s.; but said, he did not value it, because he should die in the Company of such brave Fellows. Upon the Whole, he was found Guilty.
1. William Russell, was, as he said, descended of Honest Parents, who were People of Repute and Substance, who had given him a tolerable Education. His Father was a Man unmindful of his Family, and by his Negligence, lost a considerable Estate in Money, which belong'd to him; and as his Substance decreas'd, he took less Care of his Son's Education, leaving him expos'd to the World, and went to Ireland, where he now resides. He confess'd himself to be guilty of the Robbery of which he was Convicted; and said, that he had not follow'd that way of Life above three Quarters of a Year, before he was apprehended; and that there was no Pretence of Necessity for his betaking himself to such a Course; the only Cause having been his own Wickedness. He was a resolute, audacious Fellow, but of a superior Sense to most, if not all his Unfortunate Companions. Once in the Cell, he said to William Holden confin'd in the same Cell with him, with such an indifferent Air, and yet with no Appearance of Prophaneness, I'll provide a sufficient Coach for carrying off our Bodies from the Place of Execution, and your Fraternity (Holden having been a Hackney Coachman ) will preserve our Bodies from being carried off by Violence; to the Reasonabless of which Proposal Holden assented. This they agreed upon, without the least Alteration of their Countenance, altho' in a Matter of such Consequence, as that of leaving this World, and entering upon an Eternity of Happiness, or Misery. He declar'd, that (in his Opinion) the Street-Robberies would be more frequent than formerly; and that the Robbers were resolv'd to shew, by their Proceedings, that they were not all hang'd; and that Dalton would have had him turn'd Evidence against his Accomplices, but thinking this too Mean and Cowardly, he refus'd it. He further declar'd, That when Black Isaac, alias Isaac Ashley was hang'd, Gentlemen might walk the Streets without danger of losing their Handkerchiefs, for that the said Black Isaac and Ben. Branch, who was lately Executed, were the two greatest Masters in that Profession; and that the said Isaac Ashley would frequently get in an Evening, in two or three Hours, to the Value of 15 or 16 Shillings, and would make Sortments or Allotments of them of all Prices, from 2 d. to 2 s. 6 d. each; as well as any Milliner or Dealer in London. Russell was naturally an Audacious Resolute Fellow, and commonly express'd himself with a deal of Freedom, and without any Offence in my Presence, excepting that once in the Cell being angry at something, he swore to one of the Keepers, for which I reprov'd him, and he beg'd God Pardon. His Education having been better than what most of his Companions had got, he was not so Rude, but more Civil in his Deportment than They. He own'd, that he had been a very great Sinner, and that he was guilty of all Sins, but Murder; and that his Sentence was most just according to Law. He declar'd himself sincerely Penitent for all his Offences; that he died in Peace with all the World, and in the Faith of being Sav'd by the Mercy of God, through the Merits of Jesus Christ.
2. Robert Crouch, as he said, about 20 Years of Age, Born at Dunstable of Honest Parents, who gave him good Education, and when of Age, bound him to one Widow Thompson in Newgate-Market, with whom he serv'd his Time, but not willing to lead a quiet and settled Life, he apply'd himself to Gaming, which brought him into a sett of the worst of Company, and this prov'd his Ruin. He confess'd the particular Fact, of which he was convicted, and that he had not follow'd the business of Thieving long. The Evidence against him had been one of his chief advisers to Wickedness, and that there was not the least Shadow of occasion for his betaking himself to such wicked Courses, since he wanted nothing, and his Father intended very soon to set him up in his own business, which was a Butcher.
When His Majesty's Proclamation came out for apprehending Street-Robbers, he foreseeing the danger, agreed to go a four years Voyage to Sea, but upon Dalton's Information he was Apprehended before he could put his design in Execution. He told me, that he had join'd himself to a Society for improvement in religious Principles and Practices; but to this he did not prove an ornament. In the Cell, a Friend desir'd him seriously to prepare for Eternity, and not to entertain any hopes of a Reprieve; he replied, we shall certainly be all Repriev'd on Monday next, about two of the Clock. He behav'd always with abundance of civility, but that he Smil'd too often in the Chapel, which disturb'd some of his Neighbours, this, he said, was a natural Weakness, which he could not help. I represented to him the greatness of his Sin, as committed against much Light and Knowledge. He acknowledged himself among the chief of Sinners, that he was griev'd for betaking himself to such a wicked Life, which had brought him to a shameful Death, that he believ'd in Christ his only Saviour, repenting truly of all his Sins, and dying in Peace with all Mankind.
3. William Holden, about 28 Years of Age, of mean Parents, who gave him but little education, and were not able to put him to any particular Trade, had gone to Sea some time, but the ordinary Business he follow'd was driving of Hackney Coaches . He appear'd to be a Fellow of a civil Temper, but adicting himself to lewd Company, this led him into all his after miseries and misfortunes. At first he denied the Fact of which he was convicted, but afterwards Russel openly owning it, he could not deny his being concern'd in committing that Robbery. He said, that he had not follow'd the trade of Thieving long, but that he always had a coveteous mind, affecting an idle and loose Life most. He was more sober and civil in his carriage than several of the Street-Robbers. He declar'd, that he believ'd to be sav'd only through the merits of Jesus Christ, that he was heartily griev'd for, and repented of all his Sins, and that he died in Peace with all Mankind.
Christopher Rawlins, alias Thomas Rawlins, Isaac Ashley, alias Aslebey, and John Rowden, alias Hulks, were Indicted for Assaulting Mr. Francis Williams on the Highway, and taking from him a Silver Watch, value 3 l. two Guineas and a Moidore, on the 24th of Feb. last.
It appear'd the Prosecutor going in a Coach in the Night time, between Watling-street and St. Paul's School, he heard the Coachman was order'd to stop, when a Man came up to the side of the Coach, presented a Pistol, and demanded his Money, then four others came in the like manner, and offering their Pistols, one said they had no time to loose, thrust his Hand to his Fob, and took his Watch and Money. The Watch was produc'd in Court by Mr. Jones, who said he had it from Dalton, Dalton was call'd as an Evidence, and depos'd that himself, with the three Prisoners, and another Person not yet taken, attack'd the Coach, that himself went up first, then Rowden took the Watch, and himself took the Money, that Rawlins and himself Secreted one Guinea of it from his Companions, and the Watch was pawn'd for two Guineas more. Mr. Willis depos'd, that having receiv'd Information of several disorderly Persons, he went in search of them, and took Dalton, who making an Ingenious Confession, desir'd to be admitted an Evidence, and inform'd against the Prisoners, and then told him of their having Rob'd Mr. Williams, shew'd him a Pistol, and said Rawlins had the Fellow of it, and told where the Prisoners were, who were apprehended accordingly, Rawlins and Rowden stood upon their Defence Sword in Hand, but Ashley made no resistance, but endeavour'd to hide himself under the Bed, that they found the Pistol Dalton had describ'd, loaded with a Slug, correspondent to that taken from Dalton; his Evidence was confirm'd by Mr. Willis's Brother, and the Prisoners had nothing to say in their Defence, but a downright denial of the Fact, and a pretended Ignorance of Dalton's Person; but Mr. Wyat prov'd they were well acquainted, and all Lodg'd at his House. The Fact was fully prov'd, and the Jury found them all three Guilty.
4. Christopher Rawlins, 22 Years of Age, born of honest Parents in Town, who gave him good Education, and when of Age, put him out Apprentice to a Silversmith in Town, to whom he serv'd his Time; but it seems he (as is customary to them, who fall into these unhappy misfortunes) falling into the basest of Company, who advis'd him to follow their reprobate courses, could not the common fate of a Life so desperately Wicked. He was a young Man of a pretty quick understanding, but whatever his natural Endowments might be, they were certainly over-clouded, if not funk and lost by his most vicious way of Life. Most times at Chapel he behav'd himself gravely and made his responses regularly, but was too ready to Smile as some others of them did; and once in time of Worship fell a beating Hornby upon some discontent, not worth mentioning: For this they were both taken out of Chapel; and when I represented to them the inconsiderate brutishness of such a Sin; He acknowledg'd the same, promising never to do the like for the future. When I spoke to him privately, he always own'd himself Penitent, but (as I was inform'd) he frequently behav'd himself in the Cells with great undecency; particularly, as his fellow Criminal Russel inform'd me, once as he was Swearing and showing the height of Passion and Fury upon the least, or rather no occasion; He and some other of the Prisoners desir'd him to be quiet, and make some suitable preparation for Death. He said, what does it signify to prepare, since they had past such a wicked Life in the World, and now having so short a Time to live, it was needless to Repent; for he despair'd of God's Mercy and knew he should be Damn'd. He could not deny that he said so, and beg'd God's Pardon for it. When I spoke to him, he behav'd with abundance of Civility, and his Education having been pretty good, he understood the necessary fundamental Principles of Christianity indifferently. He appear'd to have been an acute Fellow, but exercis'd his Wit and Invention upon mischief. Rawlins acknowledg'd all the three
Robberies of which he was convicted, that he had been one of the chief of Sinners; for his Sins he beg'd Pardon of God and Man, declar'd his Faith in Christ the only Saviour of the World, that he sincerely repented of all his Sins, and died in Peace with all the World.
5. Isaac Ashby alias Aslien, which last (as he told me) was his true Name, 26 Years of Age, of Honest Parents, who gave him Education at School, according to his Station, and put him to a Weaver in Spittle-Fields, which Trade he follow'd, and might have had his Living very well that way, but preferr'd an idle Life to an Honest industrious Course; and falling in with Gamesters, they led him head long to his Destruction. He was one of the most dextrous Pick pockets about Town, but did not thrive long at Robbing on the Street, Dalton's Information putting a slop to that. He was to the last, one of the most obdur'd unconcern'd Malefactors that ever I saw, and appear'd to have been a rude surly Fellow. He confest himself to have been a very wicked Liver, and that he had committed a number of Robberies and innumerable lesser Thefts, (but the particular Fact of which he was convicted he denied, which Rawlins and Benson own'd themselves to have done, and they said, that he knew nothing of it) for which and his most licentious wicked Life, he beg'd Pardon of God and Man; one could scarce discover any outward Signs of repentance in Him, till within a Day of his Death he began to relent a little. He declar'd his Faith in Christ, that he repented of all his Sins, and died in Peace with all Mankind.
6. John Rowden, alias Hulks, which last was his true Name, 24 Years of Age, had good Education from his Parents, but improv'd it to the worst of purposes, giving himself up wholly to wickedness, having been addicted to all manner of Vices, and thus being void of the fear of God, and regard to Man: He associated himself to a Gang of the most notorious Thieves and Robbers about Town, who speedily brought him to his fatal End. He was much of the same Temper with Aslien, but a little more Civil. He own'd himself guilty of the two Robberies, of which he with Rawlins and Aslien were convicted; that he had been guilty of all manner of Sins; that his Sentence was most just; that he believ'd to be Sav'd thro' the merits of Jesus Christ; Repenting of all his Sins, and that he died in Peace with all the World.
Edward Benson, alias Brown, alias Boyston, George Gale, alias Kiddy George, and Thomas Crowder, Indicted for assaulting James Colvert, and taking from him a Silver Watch, val. 40 s. and 5 s. in Money, on the 10th of April last.
7. Edward Benson, 24 Years of Age, descended of Honest Parents, who gave him good Education, and afterwards put him out Apprentice to a Silver Wiredrawer , but he did not serve out his Time, being of a wild ungovernable Temper, and inclin'd to follow loose Company; having left his Master, he follow'd his Business at times, and at other times, made unlawful Shifts. He Married a Wife, but soon wearying of her, he took another Wife; and as I visited him in the Cell, asking something about his Crimes and the conduct of his Life, he said that he had not been so very extravagant in his Life, as a great many other Criminals are, but that he had fail'd in one Point, which was Marrying two Wives, for which he pray'd God to forgive him; saying, here they are before you. I ask'd the two Women if it was so? they said, that they were both his lawfully Married Wives, the latter one said, she did not know of the first Marriage, but that he decoy'd her into that Snare, by making a number of impudent Lies. They seem'd to be Friendly, and not to entertain any grudge at one another. I exhorted him to repent of that Sin of deliberate Adultery; he said, he did of all his Sins, and particularly that one. He was the mildest and Civilest of all the Street-Robbers; behav'd himself with great Devotion in Chapel, never using any undecent carriage, as too many of them did, and his natural Temper seem'd so good, that the miscarriages of his Life in probability were rather to be imputed to the bad advice and example of others, than to his own inclination. He appear'd to be a sincere penitent, believing that God would Pardon his Sins for Christ's Sake, and declaring that he died in Peace with all the World.
8. George Gale alias Kiddy George, about 17 Years of Age, born of Honest Parents, who took care of his Education at School, and instructed him in the Christian Religion, and afterwards put him to a House Carpenter or Joyner , which Business he never follow'd; but was one of the most wicked, cross, aud disobedient Boys upon Earth; and married without his Parents Consent: He had committed many Robberies, and was a constant Thief for a considerable Time; only he never own'd the Robbery of which he was convicted, and said, that Neaves swore him falsely into it, knowing the former Proceedings of his Life would make his Testimony against him more easily credited. He wept much, and was grosly ignorant, having forgotten all the good Instructions his Parents or Masters had given him. He declar'd himself Penitent; that he suffer'd most justly for his Naughty Life; that he believ'd in Christ his Redeemer, and was in Peace with all Mankind.
9. Thomas Crowder, 22 Years of Age, of honest Parents, who gave him good Education, and bound him to a Cabinet-maker . Before he was out of his Time he went to Sea , and improv'd himself in Navigation; and being lately come Home from a Voyage, meeting accidentally with Neaves, the Evidence, at Rotherhith, he got him engag'd into his Company for 3 or 4 Days, attending Neaves at his Wedding; and upon Pretence that Neaves, and he should afterwards join in carrying on a small Trade to France and Holland, 'till they were all apprehended at a Publick-House there: But he said, he swore him falsely into the Robbery of which he was convicted, and that he never was a Thief or Robber. He liv'd two Years with a Woman who was reputed his Wife; but they were not married. He acknowledg'd himself a great Sinner; that God had, in Justice, afflicted him. He died in the Faith of Christ, and in Peace with all the World.
James Toon, of St. Paul's Shadwell indicted, for that he, together with George Gale, Edward Brown, alias Benson, alias Berson, did assault James Flemming, on the Highway, &c. and taking from him a Silver Watch, value 50 s. and 2 Guineas in Money, on the 3d of April last.
James Toon, Twenty-five Years of Age, had good Education for a common Man; when of Age, he went to Sea ; and when at Home he was a Bargeman . He declar'd, that as he was a dying Man, in a few Days or Hours to answer to God, that Neaves swore falsely against him, and this he affirm'd; adding, that he never had been Thief or Robber. He had no Friends to own him; and behav'd himself always with a deal of Decency and outward Signs of Repentance. He understood the first Principles of Christianity better than many of his Rank; appeared to have some good Dispositions in him; declar'd himself sincerely penitent for all his Sins, which he confess'd to have been very great; that he had a confident Hope of being Sav'd, thro' the Merits of Jesus Christ; and that he forgave all the World, as he expected Forgiveness at the Hand of God.
John Hornby of St. Gregory, in the Ward of Castle-Baynard, was indicted for assaulting Edward Ellis on the Highway, and taking from him a Silver Watch, val. 4 l. and 2 Guineas in Money, on the 3d of January last.
John Hornby, about 21 Years of Age, of honest Parents, who educated him at School, and put him to a Joyner : But he marrying a Woman, and taking himself to wicked Company, went altogether astray, and prov'd a most disobedient and naughty Child. He confess'd, that he had been a notorious Thief and Pick-pocket for a good part of his Life; but as for Street and Highway Robberies, altho' not innocent, yet he had never been much guilty that way. As to the particular Fact for which he suffer'd, he denied, that he was accessary to that Robbery, which indeed, Benson, and another, who assisted in it, affirm'd. He own'd, that he had been guilty of innumerable petty Thefts, such as stealing Handkerchiefs, and the like; but for other more violent Attempts, such as Street-Robberies, he said, that he never committed 'em. He was more Civil than most of them. And as for the Differences which happen'd between him and two others in Chapel, at different Times, he declar'd, that he did not occasion them; and that they were only the effect of their Passion, which instigated them to beat him, for no Fault of his. He frequently wept, and pretended Penitence, declaring, that he hop'd and believ'd to be sav'd, only thro' the Merits of Jesus Christ, and that he died in perfect Peace with all Men.
William Sefton of Islington, indicted for assaulting Henry Bunn, on the Highway, and taking from him a Silver Watch, val. 3 l. 2 pieces of Foreign Gold, val. 11 s. and 8 s. in Silver, on the 27th of April last.
William Sefton, 26 Years of Age, born near Wigan in Lancashire, of honest Parents, who gave him but indifferent Education; his Mother marrying another Husband, and his other nearest Relations dying, he was not much look'd after. He was bred a Peruke maker and Barber in his own Country; but not succeeding to his Mind in that Business, he serv'd for some time as a Soldier , and not thinking his Pay sufficient, he went out sometimes upon the Highway to take a Purse from others, whom he thought better provided than himself. He said, that he had not follow'd Robbing or Stealing long, nor committed many Robberies; that he had done the Fact of which he was convicted; and that his Sentence was just, according to Law. He always appeared very Devout and Serious both in Private and Publick; declar'd himself truly penitent for all the Sins of his Life; that he believ'd to be Sav'd, only thro' the Merits of Christ, and died in Peace with all the World.
John Cobbs indicted for breaking the Dwelling-House of Joseph Brown, and stealing thence, 2 Bushels of Beans, and a Bushel of Barley; but the Evidence being defective, he was acquitted of this Indictment. And again indicted for stealing a Bay Gelding, val. 5 l. on the 26th of December last, the Property of Thomas Aylist.
12. John Cobbs, 42 Years of Age, of poor Parentage, had but mean Education, and follow'd Country-work, living Creditably that way, with his Wife and Family, 'till Christmas last; about, and since which Time, by the Advice of Ward the Evidence against him; he stole a Horse, and committed some Robberies on the Highway, for which be declar'd his Sorrow. Being ask'd about a Deposition or Information he had made against Mr. Charlesworth, he gave a Declaration, to the Effect under-written, only with this Difference, that he was not acquainted with Woolham and Clarke, but that the Affair was transacted by the Mediation of Cobb's Wife. Here follows the Declaration of John Cobbs, with respect to Mr. Charlesworth.
The Acknowledgement of John Cobbs.
' WHERE AS the said John Cobb, was prevail'd upon by one Joseph Woolham and Thomas Clarke, ' for to make an Information against Mr. Tho. Charlesworth, being concerned in several Robberies with ' the said John Cobb, where the said Woolham and the ' said Clarke pretended it would save the said Cobb's ' Life, whereupon the said Woolham or Clarke prevail'd upon the Worshipful Justice Midford, (in White-street near Covent-Garden,) to take the said John ' Cobb's Information at Newgate, where the said John ' Cobbs did swear against the said Mr. Charlesworth ' falsly; and the said John Cobb, the Eighteenth of ' May, did acknowledge he did not know the said ' Charlesworth, altho' the said Charlesworth was in ' the Room till the said Charlesworth discover'd himself ' before the Minister of the Chapel, and the Reverend ' Mr. Russel, Curate of Cripplegate, and divers other ' Persons, when the said Cobbs asked Mr. Charlesworth's ' Pardon, and said to his Knowledge, he never did see ' the said Mr. Charlesworth before in his Life, and desired the same might be made Publick; and said his ' Conscience would not give him to take the Sacrament, ' till he had asked the said Mr. Charlesworth's Pardon, ' and clear'd him to the World, that he was Innocent ' of what was alledged in his false Information.
Cobbs behav'd always very Christianly, and declar'd; that excepting of late, he had not been wicked in his Life, but a good and careful Husband, as his Wife testified: As also, that he was truly penitent for all his Offences, dying in the Faith of Jesus, and in Peace with all Mankind.
Hether Landell of Alhallows Barkin near the Tower, was Indicted for privately stealing a silver Tankard, val. 6 l. on the 24th Day of April last, the Property of Mr. Cummins. Also a Second Time indicted, for stealing another Silver Tankard, val. 6 l. out of the House of John Yateman, on the 24th of March last.
14. Hether Landell, alias Vincent, about 46 Years of Age, of obscue Parents, had little Education; and what he had, he made no good use of. He had been long and frequently in Prison for Villainous Actions, had undergone Sentence of Death, for which he had his Majesty's most gratious Pardon, and had been Transported. His way of Living was upon the Catch; and was certainly very troublesome to Society, having had no settled Employment or Business. He was very quiet and peaceable in his Carriage, and us'd none of those foolish or brutish Miscarriages, which some of the younger Fellows had done. He had certainly been Guilty of very wicked Practices, and was very ignorant; altho' other ways he seem'd naturally to be of a good Under standing, and too much upon the Cunning or rather Sneaking Lay, as they term it. He was very attentive at Chapel, and at other times in the Cells, declar'd himself sincerely Penitent, that he justly Suffer'd, and died in the Faith of Jesus, and in peace with all the World
Richard Nichols, of St. Mary Le Bone, was Indicted for privately and feloniously Stealing 9 Silver Watches, and a Gold Watch, the Property of Mr. Morran, and others, out of the Shop of Mr. Andrew Morran, on the 1st of December last,
15. Richard Nichols, about 40 Years of Age, born of Honest Parents, had good Education at Schools, but did not improve it to that Advantage he might have done. He was a Barber and Perewigmaker by Trade, (as he said) attended his Business, never addicting himself to loose Company, only that sometimes he drunk too much, and spent his Money foolishly. He always behav'd himself with great Seriousness and Devotion, and denied the Fact of which he was convicted, after all the Arguments could be us'd in order, to make an ingenious Confession, adding, that he never was, and never intended to be a Thief or Robber in his Life, and that he had no Faillings but what are common to other Men. He appear'd very Penitent, forgave Neaves, died in the Faith of Jesus, and in Peace with all Men.
James Smith, of the Parish of St. Brides, was Indicted for breaking the House of Richard Corbet, on the 28th of January last in the night Time, and Stealing thence a Silver Snuff-box, value 30 s. two Silver Watches, value 8 l. a pair of Buckles, and 5 s. in Money.
16. James Smith, 17 or 18 Years of Age, of mean Parents in the Country, who gave him little or no Education. He went to Sea ; and Robb'd his Master the Captain of the Ship, who recovering his Money, did not Prosecute him. He confess'd the Fact of which he was convicted, and declar'd his Sorrow for that and other Sins of his Life, and that his Sentence was just. He was a poor Ignorant Boy, and being very Sick, confin'd much of the time to the Cell, and troubl'd or confus'd in his mind, it was a hard matter to make him understand or mind any thing of religious Matters. I represented to him the danger of his Condition, and the heinousness of his Sin, and exhorted him to believe the Gospel, to repent sincerely and make vows and resolutions against Sin. He acknowledg'd that he had been a great Sinner, that God in Justice had afflicted him, that he believ'd in Christ his only Saviour, repented sincerely of all his Sins, and died in Peace with all Mankind,
Mary Hendon, and Margaret Pendergrass, of the Parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, were Indicted upon a Statute made in the 3d Year of the Reign of King Henry the VIIth, for aiding and abetting Richard Russel, in forcibly and unlawfully Marrying and Defiling Sibble Morris being a Maiden, and having an Estate.
17, 18. Mary Hendron and Margaret Pendergrass, Women of middle Age, had Husbands and Children; and being convicted of the same Crime, of aiding and abetting Richard Russel, in forcibly and unlawfully marrying and defiling Sibil Morris against her Will, on the 5th of March last, the said Sibil Morris being a Maiden, and having an Estate: Both of them own'd, that they had concurr'd in advancing that Marriage, only they differ'd in giving account of the most material, and which prov'd the most dangerous Circumstances to them, alledging, that the young Woman was no way forc'd, but rather much more desirous than either they, or Russel, were to have the Marriage solemniz'd; and that however Unfortunate the Event hath been, they had no ill Intention, and were ignorant of the Strictness of the Law in such Cases. They declar'd, that they had always been sober, industrious Women; and that, excepting this Misfortune, they had never done any Thing which was Criminal. When they came to Chapel, they were very Grave and Modest, as they were in the Cell when I visited them; for Mrs. Pendergrass was much of the Time afflicted with Sickness; and heard Prayers with Attentions. They said, that they died penitent for their Sins, believing that they should be Sav'd thro' the Merits of Jesus; and that they forgave all Injuries done them, as they expected Forgiveness of God. They were of the Romish Communion .
19. Mary Taylor, alias Dennis, 32 Years of Age, born in Worcestershire, of mean Parents, who gave her little Education. She came to Town without acquainting her Mother; and after she had gone to Service for two or three Years, weary of that, she fell to Whoring and Stealing, which brought her to this fatal End. She confess'd, that Jacob Hawthorn was in her Room, but alledg'd, that as she was gone for a Pot of Beer, two other Women robb'd him of his Money and went off, without allowing her any Share of it. She own'd herself to have been of a very leud Conservation, and a notorious Thief, as many of 'em are, expressing much Sorrow and Grief for the same. She was very ignorant of Christianity: I endeavour'd to instruct her, but the Shortness of Time and Confusion of her Thoughts, kept her from making any great Proficiency that way. Once she made some Noise and Disturbance in Chapel, for which she was taken down Stairs; and when I reprov'd her for it, she own'd her Fault, and that she was drunk; for which Offences she beg'd God Pardon. She appeared Grave and Attentive at Prayers and Exhortations; declar'd her self penitent, that she believ'd in Christ, and that she died in Peace with all the World.
At the Place of Execution,
THEY all appear'd with much Gravity and Strictness; only Astien, or Black Isaac smil'd when he came first there, and as the Rope was tied about his Neck. Gale, alias Kiddy George, wept bitterly, and said, that he was innocent of the Robbery of which he was convicted, which Benson own'd himself to have committed, and that Gale knew nothing of it. Hornby also said, that he never committed any Street-Robbery, tho' he had been guilty of innumerable petty Thefts. Mr. Nichols said, that he never was Robber or Thief, that he knew nothing nor ever heard of the Peruke-maker, who swore against him; and that Dalton inform'd against him, because he assisted in the Escape of Robert Crouch, when Dalton mention'd him in his Information. Robert Crouch said, that altho' he was in the Robbery sworn against him; yet, that it was Dalton, and not he, who knock'd down the Woman; he also blam'd Dalton for some other Things. Mrs. Pender grass said she forgave all the World; and Mrs. Herdron reflected upon Miss Morris, on account (as she thought) of the Severity of the Prosecution. These two died in the Romish Communion Mr. Sefton appeared very penitent, weeping plentifully, and desiring me to pray for him, as did also Mr. Cobbs. All of them seemed very Penitent and Serious in their Devotion. As they were turned off, the Rope in which Sefton hung broke in two, and he fell down to the Ground, after he had hung about half a Minute; but in about 10 or 12 Minutes he was tied up again with the other Criminals. As I was attending at the Place of Execution, I was inform'd, that Isaac Aslien, alias Black Isaac stole 6 or 7 Handkerchiefs, on Sunday se'nnnight, whilst at Chapel, in the midst of Divine Service, which he acknowledg'd, saying, he must have something to subsist on. Altho' Crowder deny'd the Fact for which he suffer'd, to me, yet I am inclined to believe him Guilty, not only of this Fact, but of several others likewise; and the rather, because, I am credibly inform'd, that he acknowledg'd the same to a Gentleman, in the Chapel, the Morning before his Execution. Rawlins some few Days before his Execution, whilst at Chappel one Day, cut off the Tossels from the Pulpit Cushion.
This is all the Account given by me,
N. B. The particular Cases of Margaret Pendergrass and Mary Hendron, which they desired might be publish'd for the Publick, are too long to insert in this Paper, but will e inserted at large, in Applebee's Weekly Journal, on Saturday next.
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Net Weight: 1.4 oz./40 ml
Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Cyclopentasiloxane, Cyclohexasiloxane, Glyceryl Stearate,PEG-100 Stearate, Glycerin, Mica, Cetearyl Alcohol, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Dimethicone, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Triethanolamine, Ceteareth-6, Phenoxyethanol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Tocopheryl Acetate, Silica, Stearyl Alcohol, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Disodium EDTA, Hexylene Glycol, Retinyl Palmitate, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Butylene Glycol, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Camellia Oleifera Leaf Extract, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491)
Disclaimer: Ingredients are subject to change at the manufacturer's discretion. For the most complete and up-to-date list of ingredients, please refer to the product packaging.
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