dead-warrant

Updated: May 31, 2025

Know then, reader, that this dead-warrant did not affect Heartfree, who was to suffer a shameful death by it, with half the concern it gave Wild, who had been the occasion of it. He had been a little struck the day before on seeing the children carried away in tears from their father.

Henry Fielding - The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

The dead-warrant, as it is called, now came down to Newgate for the execution of Heartfree among the rest of the prisoners.

Henry Fielding - The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great