Note 85 — Chapter V · a.d. 1758–1800.

The meat market there is reported to have been much injured long before this time, by the singular circumstance of a murderer, named Eli Hatton, having been gibbeted on Pingry Tump, a point on the Forest hills overlooking the town, the flies from the body being supposed to resort to the meat on the butchers’ stalls. The body was cut down in the night time, but the stump of the gallows is yet remembered by old inhabitants as “Eli’s Post,” and as a spot to be avoided, especially at night.