Godalming, in Surrey, the same evening ; the next day they set out for Chichester, and were met at Midhurst by the Duke of Richmond, who entertained them at his hunting-house near Charlton ; after which they proceeded to Chichester where they arrived about five o'clock the same evening.
On Sunday morning, the Judges, attended by the mayor and aldermen of the city, attended divine ser vice in the Cathedral, where an excellent sermon was preached, suitable to the occasion, by the Reverend Mr. Ashburnham, Dean of Chichester.
At the appointed time, the Judges, the Honourable Sir Michael Foster, Knight, one of the Judges of H.M. Court of King's Bench; the Honourable Edward Clive, Esq., one of the Barons of H.M. Court of Exchequer, and the Honourable Sir Thomas Birch, Knight, one of the Judges of H.M. Court of Common Pleas, opened the assize in due form, at the Guildhall.
Two bills of indictment were preferred, one for the murder of William Galley, and the other for the murder of Daniel Chater, to which the prisoners severally pleaded not guilty.
After a trial which lasted till the 18th of January, and after hearing evidence of the most conclusive kind, the prisoners were found guilty, and the whole of them condemned to be hanged, which sentence, with one exception, was carried out on the next day, at a place called the Broile, near Chichester, in the presence of a -
