London: Thomas Kelly, Paternoster Row.1824.I have a very considerable number of Weare pamphlets in my possession, one of them being a record of the trial by Pierce Egan, the author of _Life in London_ and _Boxiana_.

Walter Scott writes in his diary of being absorbed in an account of the trial, while he deprecates John Bull's maudlin sentiment over 'the pitiless assassin.' That was in 1826, but in 1828 Scott went out of his way when travelling from London to Edinburgh, to visit Gill's Hill, and describes the scene of the tragedy very vividly.

Lockhart's _Life_, ch.

lxxvi.
[73] Elstree had already had its association with a murder case, for Martha Reay, the mistress of John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, was buried in the church in 1779.

She was the mother of several of the Earl's children, one of whom was Basil Montagu.