THIS stone is erected to the memory of Mr Samuel Stockton late of Ashley in the parish of Leigh and county of Lancaster who was most barbarously murdered near this place on the 8th Day of September 1768 for which murder one Philip Hooton was tryed and condemned at Lincoln Assizes and afterwards executed and hung in chains on the very place where the horrid deed was committed.
Friday 21 January 2011
A horrid deed at Surfleet...
At the foot of one of the trees in Surfleet churchyard is a grey slate stone. Closer inspection shows that it is not a gravestone but a memorial stone. It bears the following inscription:
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