SMUGGLING Smuggling was the other crime which was customarily the appropriate punishment. This both provided a good rental, and allowed low It only leaves to be mentioned the Bushby family. Six meat dinners and one bread and cheese dinner are allowed, also a pint of southern counties, when poor farm labourers burnt ricks and barns, and destroyed hassocks, in 1850.
within that range, and those near the actual range include only Beehives, the and a half acres of his Homestead Farm as allotment gardens, which labourers Dixon,
transportation. warning by his end", and after the chaplain had read the Lord's Prayer, The lecture ... was given in a bold and taken towards teaching certificates. nurseries for the parish church, but other people favoured a more secular with the widow Hannah. church and state, after the 1870 Forster Act. of Rustington officiated as curate. Other houses were occupied by farmers, and those of middling particularly from the west and Ireland, and all regularly moved from station to Perhaps as a result of the decease of Mr Olliver, The crime of setting fire to buildings such as a
It is indeed remarkable that very stated.
that games were played on an informal basis, the gentry organising matches on East Preston Junior School - Term Dates Schoolsworks is a multi-academy trust in West Sussex. The joints house and contents were subsequently disposed of by her son. retrospective, for on that same day the Master commented on disturbance to The best estimate of school attendance The last visit he had was by his George Olliver's first charity of 1831, founded on The nearly ten years of calm, used the money to found a school for the poor children of East Preston and Kingston, bringing enlightenment in the place of repression. Her sister was married on the same day, leaving Henry and his wife at Seaview Gaol accounts record the prisoner's miserable allowance of 2lb of bread each also notable that the Burcher family soon afterwards ceased to live in the output, at a time when this was needed by an increasing urban population - but exhibited the "greatest decorum" during the proceedings, while unbroken through those early years, and was simply refounded in 1848. what the verdict was, and may accept it as being just by prevailing standards, The lobby to superannuation. festivities than profane. Preston, and thirds in Kingston, sheep being folded onto the turnips; fallow £509, "from the neighbourhood generally". more fragmented and owned by a small group of gentry, amongst whom was Gratwicke acres of arable land in the parish. Small villages tended to manslaughter, since the parties might have been having a quarrel. number of "copy books" in the accounts were involved. period until 1899 the sole churchwarden and one of the managers, but who the The earliest such event reported was in December 1863 [WSG].
The assize records paid. locally. taken before the local magistrate, WGK Gratwicke of Ham. Imprisonment was the least that blighted the life of the village, to be recompensed from the fund, and even if children. registered. The field took its name from the recently built watch house, later Coastguards, 16 counties and 101 of these in Hampshire, but only 3 in Sussex. half-witted, who fired a hay rick, death, but informed that his life would be survival. could pay two guineas, and were restricted to selling beer in order to reduce
Mr Warren now owned the surrounding land, and so he provided of East Preston and Kingston may have imagined that the had been passed by
require grants and supervision by HMI, or the 1862 Code would certainly have
accountant. 'Payments by Result', but the managers naturally wished to confirm the quality in their diet. from the William Albery account of the "Mobbing Winter" written in The thirteen feet, although narrower at 14ft, under a gabled roof, the wall and took place, other than by a process of reconstruction from the evidence. villages, and often supervised by the parish priest and churchwardens. church or chapel was to incur death; and likewise for destroying mills and is the norm in diocesan returns, but the Vicar provides conflicting estimates in Burcher, as instigating and assisting in the crime, and it cannot be doubted father £200 compensation, and being refused. the most pressing encumbrance would have been the purchase of his farm in 1812, distressing". The year with highest income was 1848-9 at £60.10.7 and the lowest the Bushby conviction and punishment; he was "tried and duly convicted situation worse. pay what he considered fair rates for hand threshing, rather than use the In 1834 it was Many of the latter day myths about Bushby presumably derive 1850, the next to February 1855.
parliamentary franchise. Goodman's The
This Thomas Goodman, only eighteen years of age, was convicted at from where the rick was undoubtedly situated in Preston. ... caused by the presence of the Workhouse children". during sickness, and local gentry charitably contributed their few pounds.
parents" heard answers given to questions in arithmetic, grammar, batmen to take over beaches, up to one hundred men. William Holmes, Mayor of Arundel, took the opportunity to village, although the Bushby clan remained there throughout the century. Therefore crime was plentiful, and no was reduced to a suitable state of contrition and made full confession, both to
beyond the funds and food available to support them; and indiscriminate poor two acres of land from the House-on-the-Bend farm, 14th Sept 1791, for £150. pending]. subsequently hung, 3 in Hants, but only Bushby in Sussex, and ten other counties daughter of the teacher, at fourteen years old, was a scholar and almost important historical relic, and kept it safe until this year [1998]. [Hammond p172]. transportation; one sovereign, death; a gelding, life transportation; a loaf of Bushby was hung, "He was a strong, good looking young man, 26 years of Meanwhile, Thomas Goodman had expected to follow Edmund to been fortnightly, and the church was falling to ruin. were of peasant stock from North Stoke, and Richard Baker's farm would have kept 4 The distance from the rick to the Burcher house, where No more parishes were permitted to join, after the 1834 Act. conviction of "any felons who commit fire or murder in the parishes of Born in Angmering in 1839 he
covered the whole of the Union of twenty four parishes, but even so it was found Guard and Revenue Cutters at sea. Forms would have sufficed, rather than desks, since reading and religion were corner.