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Desperate Entry Attempt Led to Executions at Gaol
The first man to enter the gaol faced an immediate response from Robert Hadiley esq high sheriff who arrived a mile away. After failing to persuade the group to surrender, shots were fired wounding Theophilus Dean in the groin. The four assailants were executed. Bacon-Face was hanged on the arch of the sign iron and his companions were carted to the usual place of execution and hanged before seven o'clock that morning.
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Theophilus Dean
Hague
Louis d'Ors
France
Cardinal Joses
Cardinal Tencin
West-Indies
Rothersbridge
Sussex
Sergison
Massachusett’s Bay
New England
Belcher
West Indies
Cadiz
Carthagena
Honduras
Martinico
Barbadoes
Guernsey
Virginia
Hector
Hampton River
Hampton
Paxton
Cheshire
Shields
Rye
Archbishop of Canterbury
Christ Church
Oxfordshire
Lord North
Guilford
Grosvenor Square
Admiralty
William Lea
Treasury
Custom-House
William Russell
London
Anthony Torlefs
Ruffell
John Webb
Torlefs
Hillary
St. John’s, Cambridge
Dulwich College
Thorpe
Samuel Clarke
Filha
Southgate Chapel
John Richards
Ht Place
Edinburgh
Arriv
Guinea
Blifford
England
Abchurch Lane
Wright
New-England
Jamaica
Sidebotham
Birching Lane
Thomas Rivers
Cutlers Company
Carolina
John Strange
Katherine Lineham
Richard Eudes
John Rogers
John Scott
Benjamin Parish
Moncey
Redmayne
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Berardi
Franceschi
Leghorn
Naples
Medicis
Florence
Tuscany
Malta
Primrose
Bowman
Marseilles
Order of Malta
Tunis
Sunderland
Gibraltar
Colchester
Robert Martin
Customs
Beachy-Head
Jolly Boys
Hastings
Martin
St. Sebastian’s
Niumpher
Spain
Newfoundland