AND TEE DUKES OF RICHMOND. 13 



The others were hanged at two o'clock p.m. on 

 the l8th of January at Chichester, or rather upon 

 the Broyle within its environs, in a field adjoin- 

 ing the barracks, where there is a stone erected to 

 mark the spot. Tapner's body was hanged in chains 

 on St. Roche's Hill, not far from the rubbing-house 

 built by the late Lord George Bentinck, and now 

 converted into cottages. 



In 1791 the gibbet was shattered during a violent 

 thunderstorm, when two millers, in a windmill not 

 far from the spot, were struck dead by the lightning. 

 A portion of the gibbet post, with a mound of soil 

 and turf around it, has been visible during my life- 

 time. 



The body of "William Carter was hung in chains 

 on the Portsmouth road, those of John Cobby and 

 John Hammond near Selsey Bill. 



I have entered fully into this smuggling atrocity, 

 as being one of the most desperate and abominable 

 crimes ever committed, and being planned upon the 

 Goodwood estate. 



About 1725 his Grace brought to Goodwood a 

 collection of wild beasts and birds, then very rare 

 in England. They were kept in dens with iron- 

 barred gates, and a vast number of persons came 

 to see them. 



This collection included a lion, tiger, bears, eagles, 

 ostriches, etc. The lion dying soon after his arrival, 



