The Virginia Gazette

Bristol, Sept. 10. Yesterday ended the General Goal Delivery for this City and County, when Two Persons received Sentence of Death.

Thomas Hull, an old grey-headed Lecher, who has infested this Country upwards of Five Years; lurking for the Devil's Prey (like an old stinking Fox) under the different Characters and Disguises of a Solicitor, a Gentleman of an Estate, a Steward to a Nobleman, a Cook, a Tapster, and other Shapes; among the rest, he personated a Lady's Footman at one of our Fairs, to decoy a Jew from his Standing, under Pretence that a beautiful young rich Lady his Mistress, was enamoured of his Person; he got the Jew to a Publick House behind the Rose, where he told him, that he could not divulge the entire Secret, as to the Lady's Name, where she lived, &c. unless he would lie with him that Night at his Lodgings at the King David on St. Michael's Hill; and to make the Story more plausible to the poor Jew, he pull'd out a Handful of Money upon the Table, as if the Lady had Sent it for the Purpose of his Commission, and making Several other strange Offers, the honest Jew began to suspect him for a Villain, and inform'd the Mistress of the House of his vile Insinuations: But old Reynard (well known at Leicester, the Place of his Nativity) was at length catched in Sodomitical Practices with one Robert Rawlins, a young Soldier, at a Publick Inn in this City, who is to mount the Rostrum with this old Badger, according to their Sentence Yesterday.