Publications
Obituary: Peter Ladson Drewett, 1947-2013, by John Manley, published August 2013 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 130, obituary, p.11, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library View Online
Hanged and Gibetted 1799: The Drewett Brothers, by Michael J. Burchall, published March 2015 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 5, article, pp.215-217) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508855]
Preview:On Saturday 13 April 1799 two brothers, William and Robert DREWETT, were hanged for mail robbery on Horsham Common and their bodies were gibbeted on North Heath Common near Midhurst near to the place where the offence had taken place. A part of their story has previously appeared in print: in 1871 a short notice of these events was published in Sussex Archaeological Collections, volume 23, pp.214-5; and Kim Leslie gave more information in Sussex: Tales of the Unexpected (2008), pp.63-65. The purpose of this short article is threefold: to give more details of the two men and their families; to comment on the events; and to correct some errors in the two earlier articles.