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and an end put at last to his awful sufferings by heavy 

 stones being thrown on the top of him. 



This last act in this unparalleled atrocity was com- 

 mitted on the Wednesday night or Thursday morning. 

 The victims had set out for Chichester on the Sunday 

 before. This four days' murder was avenged at Chi- 

 chester shortly afterwards, when all the principals were 

 executed at Broyle, near the town, amidst the universal 

 execrations of a crowd drawn from two counties. The 

 body of Carter was hung in chains on the Portsmouth 

 Road on Rake Hill ; the bodies of the other murderers 



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The Jolly Drovers on Rake Hill. 



being distributed between Rock's Hill, near Chichester, 

 and the sea-coast, near Selsea Bill, whence they were 

 visible for miles. 



And that is the end of the story of the murders by 

 the smugglers ; and I am glad myself that I am at the 

 end of it. It is pleasant after such a horror to arrive 

 at last at Portsmouth, though I have nothing much to 

 say about the old town now that I have got there. The 

 usual number of kings and queens visited it by sea and 

 land, the latter sea-sick, the former inquisitive about 

 the state of their navy. Robert, Duke of Normandy, 



