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2. G. Smith, ‘Violent Crime and the Public Weal in England, 1700–1900’, in Richard McMahon (ed.), Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500–1900 (Cullompton, 2008), pp. 190–218; S. Devereaux, ‘Recasting the Theatre of Execution: the Abolition of the Tyburn Ritual’, Past and Present 202 (2009), 127–74.
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4. Thomas Yeakell and William Gardner, Sussex Great Survey Map (1778), WSRO, PM/48. The 1778 county map as annotated by Cavis-Brown in 1906 indicates that the coastline had changed and that the gibbet was now under sea level.