large concourse of spectators ; the exception was in the case of William Jackson, who died the night before in prison.
To give the sentence greater effect their bodies were afterwards hung in chains.
The body of William Carter was hung in chains, in the Portsmouth Road, near Rake, in Sussex ; the body of Benjamin Tapner on Rook's Hill, near Chichester ; and the bodies ofJohn Cobby and John Hammond upon the sea coast near a place called Selsey Bill, in Sussex, where they are seen at a great distance both east and west. The bodies of the Mills's, father and son, having neither friend nor relation to take them away, were thrown into a hole, dug for that purpose very near the gallows, into which was like wise thrown the body of Jackson. Just by is now erected a stone, having the following inscription, viz. :
"Near this place was buried the body of William Jackson, a proscribed smuggler, who under a special commission of Oyer and Terminer, held at Chichester on the 16th day of January, 1748-9, was with William Carter, attainted for the murder of William Galley, a Custom-house officer ; and who likewise was, together with Benjamin Tapner, John Cobby, John Hammond, Richard Mills the Elder, and Richard Mills the Younger, his son, attainted for the murder of Daniel Chater ; but dying a few hours after sentence of death was pronounced upon him, he thereby escaped the punishment which the heinousness of his complicated crimes deserved, and which was the next day most justly inflicted upon his accomplices.
" As a memorial of posterity, and a warning to this and succeeding generations
" This stone is erected, " A.D. 1749. "
I am informed that this stone is now ( 1872) in existence.
