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52 SUSSEX SMUGGLERS. |
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in the murder of William Gaily, otherwise called William Galley.
Which indictment the clerk of the arraigns read aloud to them as follows : That you, William Jackson and William Carter (together with Samuel Downer, alias Howard, alias Little Sam, Edmund Eichards, and Henry Sheerman, alias Little Harry, not yet taken), not having the fear of God before your eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, upon the 15th of February, in the 21st year of his present Majesty's reign, with force and arms, at Rowland's Castle in the County of Southampton, in and upon one William Gaily, otherwise called William Galley, being then and there in the peace of God and his said Majesty, feloniously, wilfully, and out of your malice aforethought, did make an assault, and him the said William Galley, upon the back of a certain horse, then and there with force and arms, feloniously, wilfully, and out of your malice aforethought, did put and set, and the legs of him the said William Galley, being so put and set upon the back of the said horse as aforesaid, with a certain rope or cord made of hemp, under the belly of the said horse, then and there with force and arms, feloniously, wilfully, and out of your malice aforethought, did bind, tie and fasten ; and him the said William Gralley, being so put and set upon horseback as aforesaid, with his legs so bound, tied, and fastened under the horse's belly as aforesaid, with certain large whips, which you had then and there in your right hands, in and upon the head, face, neck, shoulders, arms, back, belly, sides, and several other parts of the body of him the said William Galley, then and there with force and arms, feloniously, wilfully, and out of your malice aforethought, for the space of one mile, did whip, lash, beat and strike: by |
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