Excerpt from The Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 2
In the December Sessions following the number of trials was greater, although there were not so many capital convictions. Twenty-four received sentence of death, and ninety were convicted Of single felonies. Two such sessions, says a contemporary writer.
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