The Lord Chief Baron Sir Archibald Macdonald was this time accompanied by Sir Beaumont Hotham. The juries for the county and liberty were the following honourable gentlemen:—
| FOR THE COUNTY | |
| Lord Viscount Brome. | Edward Studd, Esq. |
| Charles Berners, jun., Esq. | Anthony Collet, Esq. |
| B. G. Dillingham, Esq. | Joseph Burch Smith, Esq. |
| P. J. Thelluson, Esq. | John Farr, Esq. |
| George Wilson, Esq. | John Dresser, Esq. |
| Matthias Kerrison, Esq. | William Philpot, Esq. |
| Wolfran Lewis, Esq. | James Reeve, Esq. |
| Mileson Edgar, Esq. | Edmund Barber, Esq. |
| John Cobbold, Esq.. | James Stuttur, Esq. |
| FOR THE LIBERTY | |
| Sir T. C. Bunbury, Bart. | John Wastell, Esq. |
| Sir T. C. Cullum, Bart. | Robert Walpole, Esq. |
| Sir Harry Parker, Bart. | Richard Cartwright, Esq. |
| Barnard E. Howard, Esq. | Thomas Cocksedge, Esq. |
| N. Barnadiston, Esq.. | Thomas Mills, Esq. |
| Nathaniel Lee Acton, Esq. | James Oakes, Esq. |
| Capel Lofft, Esq. | Thomas Gery Cullum, |
| John Mosley, Esq. | Esq. |
| Joshua Grigby, Esq. | Abraham Reeve, Esq. |
| William Mannock, Esq. | George Archer, Esq. |
| William B. Rush, Esq., Sheriff. | |
The usual forms of the court having been gone through, Margaret Catchpole was again placed at the bar. Margaret was dressed, as formerly, in a plain blue calico dress. She appeared pale and thin, but perfectly free from any of that emotion which she formerly exhibited. There was a calmness of deportment without the least obduracy, and no obtrusive boldness nor recklessness. She did not look round the court with any of that anxiety she formerly exhibited, as if she wished to see any one there who knew her. She knew that Will Laud was gone, and that neither her father nor her brother was there. She was quite indifferent to the public gaze, and with her eyes cast down upon the bar, she saw not that piercing glance which the judge gave her as she took her station before him, though every person in court noticed it, and looked at the prisoner to see if she did not quail before it.
The indictment having been read aloud, once more the clerk of the court addressed her in these terms:
“How say you, prisoner at the bar, are you guilty or not guilty?”
Margaret lifted up her dark eyes once more, and looking her judge calmly in the face, said—
“Guilty, my lord.”
There was a perfect stillness in that crowded court, while the judge now addressed her in the following terms:—
“I cannot address you, prisoner at the bar, in the same strain I formerly did, since I am persuaded that you are hardened in your iniquity. I pitied you at that time for your youth; but though young in years, you are old in crime. I considered you then a person who, if you had the chance, would form, for the remainder of your days, an estimable character. In this, however, I have been greatly deceived, and I now look upon you as a person whom I believe to be dangerous to the morals of others, and therefore unfit to live. You have shown your sense of the past mercy extended to you by your bold and daring conduct in breaking out of prison. I had fully intended to have obtained your discharge from the Ipswich gaol at these very assizes, had I heard the good report I received last year confirmed. You may judge, then, of my surprise and indignation when I heard of your escape from the gaol.