There he laid his head on the block, and “it was chopt off at two blows.” The rest although condemned were all reprieved, except one, an English boy concerned in the murder, who was hanged at Tyburn.[62] Other distinguished inmates, a few years later, were Charles Lord Buckhurst, Edward Sackville, and Sir Henry Bellayse, K.B., who, being prisoners in Newgate, petitioned the Lord Chief Justice, March 10th, to be admitted to bail, one of them being ill of the small-pox. They were charged seemingly with murder. Their petition sets forth that “while returning from Waltham to London, on the 8th February, they aided some persons, who complained that they had been robbed and wounded in pursuit of the thieves, and in attacking the robbers wounded one who has since died.” Sir Thomas Towris, Baronet, petitions the king (Charles II.) “not to suffer him to lie in that infamous place, where he has not an hour of health, nor the necessaries of life. He states that he has been four months in the Tower, and five weeks in Newgate, charged with counterfeiting His Majesty’s hand, by the malice of an infamous person who, when Registrar Accountant at Worcester House, sold false debentures.” Sir Thomas “wished to lay his case before His Majesty at his first coming from Oxford, but was deceived, and the way to bounty stopped.” CHAPTER IV. NEWGATE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (AFTER THE GREAT FIRE). Newgate refronted in 1638--Destroyed in Great Fire of 1666--How rebuilt--Façade described--Account of interior by B. L. of Twickenham--Various parts or sides--The lodge and condemned hold--The master debtors’ side--The master felons’ side--The common debtors’ side--The common felons’ side--The press-yard and castle--The chapel--Miserable condition of inmates--Some few pleaded unhealthiness as an excuse for release--Suicides frequent--Mr. Norton--Newgate called by Recorder a nursery of rogues--Negligence of keepers--The gaoler Fells indicted for permitting escapes--Crimes of the period--Clipping and coining greatly increased--Enormous profits of the fraud--Coining within the gaol itself deemed high treason--Heavy penalties--Highway robbery very prevalent--Instances--Officers and paymasters with the king’s gold robbed--Stage coaches stopped--All manner of men took to the road, including persons of good position--Their effrontery--Whitney--His capture, and attempts to escape--His execution--Efforts to check highway robbery--A few types of notorious highwaymen--“Mulled sack”--Claude Duval--Nevison--Abduction of heiresses--Mrs. Synderfin--Miss Rawlins--Miss Wharton--Count Konigsmark--The German princess--Other criminal names--Titus Oates--Dangerfield--The Fifth Monarchy men--William Penn--The two Bishops, Ellis and Leyburn.