mon, and tying large stones to it, sunk it in a pond, where it was some time afterwards found.
Seven of the notorious villains having been apprehended by the vigilance of the Government, the noble men and gentlemen of the county of Sussex, desirous to make public examples of such heinous offenders, and to terrify others from committing such horrible crimes, requested His Majesty to grant a special commission to hold an assize on purpose to try them ; and they re presented that as Chichester was a city large enough. to accommodate the judges and all their train, and as it was likewise contiguous to the places where the murders were committed, they judged it to be the properest place for the assize to be held. Accordingly a commission passed the seals, to hold a special assize there on the 16th day of January, 1748-9.
On Monday the 9th of January, Jackson and Carter were conveyed from Newgate, and Richard Mills , junior, from the new gaol in Surrey, under a strong guard to Horsham, on their way to Chichester. When they came to Horsham, Richard Mills, senior, Benjamin Tapner, John Hammond, John Cobby and William Combleach, were all put in a waggon and conveyed thence, with the others under the same guard, to Chichester, where they arrived on Friday the 13th of January.
The Judges set out from London on Friday the 13th, and arrived at the Duke of Richmond's house, at -
