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ERUPTION OF THE SOUFFRIER MOUNTAIN. 313
1735, William Sweet sent for him, and told him in the
prison that he (Sweet) was in the church when it was robbed,
but that Wilkinson his companion carried off the gold lace.
Sweet was in hopes of a reprieve, and charged the depo-
nent not to divulge this confession till he (Sweet) was
dead.
The bodies of the above two men, after execution, were
carried into the Castle Inn yard, and no particular account
was given of them afterwards. As Christian burial was re-
fused them, on account of the crime of sacrilege, of which
they had been convicted, it was not till above seventy years
afterwards that a discovery was made, which seems to clear
up this matter. August 25, 1807—As some workmen were
digging a hole in the garden of Mr. John Smallpiece the
butcher, near Clattern-bridge, (late Mr. Laming’s garden),
the skeletons of two men lying together were discovered.
These were conjectured to be the remains of Wilkinson and
Sweet. The garden in which they were found was a bowl-
ing green, and belonged to the Castle Inn, at the time when
the bodies of those two men were left in the yard, and there
is no reason to doubt that, as it was generally supposed,
they were buried in that bowling green.
DESCRIPTION OF THE REMARKABLE ERUPTION OF THE
SOUFFRIER MOUNTAIN, TN THE ISLAND OF ST. VIN-
CENT, ON THURSDAY NIGHT, THE 30TH OF APRIL,
1812.
The Souffrier Mountain, the most northerly of the lofty
chain running through the centre of the island of St. Vin-
cent, and the highest of the whole, as computed by the most
accurate survey that has yet been taken, had for some time
past indicated much disquietude; and from the extraordinary
frequency and violence of earthquakes, which are calculated
vol. iv. $ s
1735, William Sweet sent for him, and told him in the
prison that he (Sweet) was in the church when it was robbed,
but that Wilkinson his companion carried off the gold lace.
Sweet was in hopes of a reprieve, and charged the depo-
nent not to divulge this confession till he (Sweet) was
dead.
The bodies of the above two men, after execution, were
carried into the Castle Inn yard, and no particular account
was given of them afterwards. As Christian burial was re-
fused them, on account of the crime of sacrilege, of which
they had been convicted, it was not till above seventy years
afterwards that a discovery was made, which seems to clear
up this matter. August 25, 1807—As some workmen were
digging a hole in the garden of Mr. John Smallpiece the
butcher, near Clattern-bridge, (late Mr. Laming’s garden),
the skeletons of two men lying together were discovered.
These were conjectured to be the remains of Wilkinson and
Sweet. The garden in which they were found was a bowl-
ing green, and belonged to the Castle Inn, at the time when
the bodies of those two men were left in the yard, and there
is no reason to doubt that, as it was generally supposed,
they were buried in that bowling green.
DESCRIPTION OF THE REMARKABLE ERUPTION OF THE
SOUFFRIER MOUNTAIN, TN THE ISLAND OF ST. VIN-
CENT, ON THURSDAY NIGHT, THE 30TH OF APRIL,
1812.
The Souffrier Mountain, the most northerly of the lofty
chain running through the centre of the island of St. Vin-
cent, and the highest of the whole, as computed by the most
accurate survey that has yet been taken, had for some time
past indicated much disquietude; and from the extraordinary
frequency and violence of earthquakes, which are calculated
vol. iv. $ s