Heywood and Morrison receive royal pardons from…
October 1792 CE
Muspratt, through his lawyer, wins a stay of execution by filing a petition protesting that court martial rules had prevented his calling Norman and Byrne as witnesses in his defense.
He is still awaiting the outcome when Burkett, Ellison and Millward are hanged from the yardarm of HMS Brunswick in Portsmouth dock on October 28.
Some accounts claim that the condemned trio continued to protest their innocence until the last moment, while others speak of their "manly firmness that ... was the admiration of all".
There is some unease expressed in the press—a suspicion that "money had bought the lives of some, and others fell sacrifice to their poverty."
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