One of the Bodies was carried to the Lodging of his Wife, who not being in the way to receive it, they immediately hawked it about to every Surgeon they could think of; and when none would buy it, they rubb’d Tar all over it, and left it in a Field hardly cover’d with Earth. This is the best Description I can give you of a Scene that was no way entertaining to me, and which I shall not again take so much Pains to see. I am, dear Brother, Yours affectionately. Mandeville, writing some years earlier, gives an account, even more unfavourable, of the behaviour of the crowd.[212] The batch of convicts whose execution is described by Richardson did not happen to include a highwayman. Here is a portion of Swift’s account of “Clever Tom Clinch, going to be hanged,” a piece written in 1727:— His waistcoat, and stockings, and breeches, were white; His cap had a new cherry ribbon to tie’t. The maids to the doors and the balconies ran, And said, ‘Lack-a-day, he’s a proper young man!’ But, as from the windows the ladies he spied, Like a beau in the box, he bow’d low on each side. Richardson’s long description may be supplemented by the chaplain’s account of the last scene:— The rev. Paul Lorrain, Ordinary of Newgate, as has been said elsewhere, was in the habit of printing an account of the behaviour of criminals, after condemnation. He gives long accounts of his sermons. In the broadsheet relating to an execution at Tyburn on March 22, 1704, he describes the proceedings at Tyburn. The Ordinary exhorts the criminals to clear their consciences by making a free confession. The malefactors then address the people praying them to take warning from the example before them. Then the Ordinary proceeds to prayer: afterwards to the rehearsal of the Articles of the Christian faith: then comes the singing of penitential hymns[213]: then prayer again. “And so, taking my leave of them, I exhorted them to cry to God for Mercy to the last Moment of their Lives, which they did, and for which they had some time allow’d them. Then the Cart drew away, and they were turn’d off, as they were calling upon God.” [Illustration: THE TRIPLE TREE IN 1747.]