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Her housekeeper and hostler 

 gaw her take a '201. note of a 

 stranger the day before she paid 

 Mr. Bond. They could not swear 

 to the identity of the note. 



The following witnesses were 

 then called to her general charac- 

 ter : Sir James Jubilee, Geoige 

 Thornton, Esq Lawrence Rey- 

 nolds, Esq. Dr. Maltby, Gecrge 

 James Gora, Esq. banker. Dr. 

 Ala way, &c. 



Chief Jiistice Gibhs remarked 

 upon the strong testimony and 

 coincidence of ciicunsstances to 

 prove the prisoner guilty. Theie 

 was, howe\er, great allowance to 

 be made for peisons m lie)' situa- 

 tion not being able to acct)unt for 

 the pos-ession of notes v\hich 

 might be clianiicd at her house by 

 strangers jjassing or using her 

 house, and whom she could know 

 nothing of. The jury would say 

 to which side the evitleiice piepon- 

 derated, and return their verdict 

 accordingly. 



The jury retired till a late hour. 

 The judge having gone home to 

 his lodgings, waited to receive 

 their veidict. After several houis' 

 deliberation, they found the pri- 

 soner Guilty — Death. 



OXFORD CIRCL IT. M\RCH J. 



Setting Jire to Hay and Barley 

 Stackn. — W'dliair. Ar.her, an opu- 

 lent farmer, who had been out 

 upon hi.<i own recognizance, was 

 indicted cajiitally, foj- uialiciously 

 setting file to two ricks, on tlie 

 27th of July last, at the parish of 

 Great Bourton, the property of 

 Ann Bucki-tr ; and John Haycock, 

 aUo a considerable farmer, was 

 capitaUy indicted for feloniously 



setting the said ricks on fiie, or 

 wiih being an accessory thereto. 

 The trial is one of the greatest 

 importance. M'hen the piisoners 

 were put upon their trial, Mr. 

 Justice Park commented with 

 considerable force on the impro- 

 priety of Archer being admitted to 

 bail upon a charge of such a 

 heinous and im})ortant nature. 



John Buckett deposed, that he 

 is son to the prosecutrix, Mrs. 

 Ann Buckett, of Great Bourton : 

 she rented a sn;all farm there. 

 On the 27th July his mother had 

 the misfortune to have her ricks 

 burnt ; the fiie took place about 

 two o'clock in the morning ; they 

 wei e barley, ant! clover hay. The 

 barley was of the year 181,5 har- 

 vest, the hay was of the sunimer 

 1816. They stood about half a 

 mile from his mother's hou.se, be- 

 tween 18 and 20 yards from each 

 othei'. The clover rick was not 

 thatched : it had been put together 

 about ten days : it was put to- 

 gether dry : it was not at all heat- 

 ed. There is a footpath from 

 thence down 10 Great Bourton. 

 On the night before, at ten o'clock, 

 ^^^tness came home, and found 

 one Ward at his mother's house. 

 Witness went to bed a little before 

 eleven o'clock, and at two o'clock 

 he was awoke, and found the 

 clover rick nearly burnt down, 

 and the other about half burnt. 

 J he wind was noith-west, and 

 blew from the barley to the clo\er 

 nek, and if the clover rick was 

 Set on fire, the barley rick could 

 not have been burnt. U he barley 

 rick would have taken longer to 

 have been burnt. The outsides 

 of bolh risks were burnt. About 

 seven yards from the clover rick 

 there was some straw, which was 



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