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a confession, they hoped they should not be hung in chains but to this they received no answer. After conviction, the behaviour of Wood was uncommonly penitent and devout; but while in the condemned hole, he was seized with a violent fever, and being attended by a clergyman to assist him in his devotions, he confessed he was ready to suffer death, under every mark of ignominy, as some atonement for the atrocious crime he had committed however, he died in prison, and thus defeated the final execution of the law. At particular times Billings behaved with sincerity; but at others, prevaricated much in his answers to the questions put to him. On the whole, however, he fully confessed his guilt, acknowledged the justice of his sentence, and said no punishment could be adequate to the excess of the crime of which he had been guilty. The behaviour of Mrs. Hayes was somewhat similar to her former conduct. Having an intention to destroy herself, she procured a phial of strong poison, which being casually tasted by a woman who was confined with her, it burnt her lips; on which she broke the phial, and thereby frustrated her design. On the day of her death she received the sacrament, and was drawn on a sledge to the place of execution. Billings was executed in the usnal manner, and hung in chains not far from the pond in which Mr. Hayes's body was found, in Marybone-fields. When the wretched woman had finished her devotions, an iron chain was put round her body, with which she was fixed to a stake near the gallows. On these occasions, when women were burnt for petit treason, it was customary to strangle them, by means of a rope passed round the neck, and pulled by the executioner, so that they were dead before the flames reached

reached the body. But this woman was literally burnt alive; for the executioner letting go the rope sooner than usual, in consequence of the flames reaching his hands, the fire burnt fiercely round her, and the spectators beheld her pushing the faggots from her, while she rent the air with her cries and lamentations. Other faggots were instantly thrown on her, but she survived amidst the flames for a considerable time, and her body was not perfectly reduced to ashes in less than three hours. They suffered at Tyburn, May 9, 1726. Horrid and serious as the murder of Hayes was, it was notwithstanding rendered the subject of mirth by a humorous punster of those times, who, having very prudently concealed his name, published in the periodical prints the following ballad, to the tune of Chevy Chase :

IN Tyburn Road a man there liv'd
A just and honest life;

And there he might have lived still,
If it had pleased his wife.

But she to vicious ways inclin'd,
A life most wicked led;
With tailors and with tinkers too,
She oft defil'd his bed.

Full twice a day to church he went,
And so devout would be;
Sure never was a saint on earth,
If that no saint was he!

This vex'd his wife unto the heart,
She was of wrath so full;

That

That finding no hole in his coat,
She pick'd one in his skull.

But then her heart 'gan to relent,
And griev'd she was so sore;
That quarter to him for to give,
She cut him into four.

All in the dark and dead of night,
These quarters she convey'd ;
And in a ditch at Marybone,
His marrow-bones she laid.

His head at Westminster she threw,
All in the Thames so wide;
Says she, my dear, the wind sets fair,
And you may have the tide.

But heav'n, whose pow'r no limits k nows

On earth, or on the main,

Soon caus'd this head for to be thrown
Upon the land again.

This head being found, the justices
Their heads together laid:

And all agreed there must have been
Some body to this head.

But since no body could be found,
High mounted on a shelf;
They e'en set up the head to be

A witness for itself.

Next, that it no self-murder was,
The case itself explains;

For no man could cut off his head,

And throw it in the Thames.

Ere

Ere many days had gone and pass'd,
The deed at length was known;
And Cath'rine she confess'd at last,
The fact to be her own.

God prosper long our noble king,
Our lives and safeties all;

And grant that we may warning take,
By Cath'rine Hayes's fall.

END OF VOL. I.

J. Cundee, Printer,
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