Smuggling & Smugglers in Sussex: The Genuine History of the Inhuman and Unparalleled Murders of Mr. William Galley a Custom-house Officer, and Mr. Daniel Chater, a Shoemaker, by Fourteen Notorious Smugglers, with the Trials and Execution of Seven of the Criminals at Chichester, 1748-9Anonymous
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Smuggling & Smugglers in Sussex: The Genuine History of the Inhuman and Unparalleled Murders of Mr. William Galley a Custom-house Officer, and Mr. Daniel Chater, a Shoemaker, by Fourteen Notorious Smugglers, with the Trials and Execution of Seven of the Criminals at Chichester, 1748-9
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The morning of their execution they behaved very bold, shewing no signs
of fear of death, and about nine o’clock, Fairall and Kingsmill were
put into one cart, and Perrin in a mourning coach, and conveyed to
Tyburn under a strong guard of soldiers, both horse and foot.
At the tree they joined in prayers very devoutly with the rest of the
unhappy criminals who were executed with them, which being ended, and
a psalm sung, they were turned off crying to the Lord to receive their
souls.
The body of Perrin was delivered to his friends to be buried; and those
of Fairall and Kingsmill were carried to a smith’s shop in Fetter-lane,
near Holborn, where they were put into chains, and afterwards put into
two wooden cases made on purpose, and conveyed by some of the guards
and the sheriff’s officers for the county of Middlesex to Newcross
turnpike in the county of Kent; where they were received by the
officers to the sheriff of that county, who conveyed them to the places
where they were ordered to be hung up, viz., Fairhall on Horsendown
Green, and Kingsmill on Gowdhurstgore, at both which places they had
lived.
Richard Glover, who had received his Majesty’s pardon, was discharged
out of Newgate on Wednesday, the 3rd of May, 1749.
We can with pleasure inform our readers, that notorious wicked fellow,
Edmund Richards (so often named in this work, as being concerned in the
murder of Galley and Chater, and also in forcing Richard Glover to go
with him and the rest of the gang to break open Poole custom-house) is
taken, and in safe custody in Winchester gaol, so there is no doubt but
he will meet with a just reward for all his cruel and enormous crimes,
at the next assizes for the county of Sussex, to which county gaol he
will be removed by Habeas Corpus.
DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE PLATES.
PAGE
Galley and Chater on one horse, and the Smugglers
whipping them to face title
Galley and Chater falling off the horse at Woodash, to face 13
Burying of Galley „ 18
Chater cut across the face by Tapner, in Old Mills’s
Turf-house „ 24
Chater hanging in the Well in Lady Holt Park „ 27
Richard Hawkins whipped to death „ 150
The Smugglers breaking open Poole Custom-house „ 193
A SERMON
PREACHED
IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHICHESTER,
AT A SPECIAL ASSIZE HELD THERE, JANUARY 16, 1748–9,
BY WILLIAM ASHBURNHAM, A.M.,
DEAN OF CHICHESTER.
JOB xxix., 14, 15, 16.
“I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a
robe and a diadem.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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