HALF-HOURS WITH THE HIGHWAYMEN

PICTURESQUE BIOGRAPHIES AND TRADITIONS OF THE "KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD"

By CHARLES G. HARPER

VOL. II

Illustrated by Paul Hardy and by the Author, and from Old Prints

London

CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited

1908

PRINTED AND BOUND BY
HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

	Page
[ Nevison: "Swift Nicks"]	1
[John Cottington, alias Mulled Sack"]	26
[Thomas Rumbold]	35
["Captain" James Whitney]	41
[Twm Shon Catti]	65
[John Withers and William Edwards]	75
[Patrick O'Brian]	81
[Jack Bird]	86
[Will Ogden, Jack Bradshaw, and Tom Reynolds]	98
[Jack Ovet]	105
[John Hall, Richard Low, and Stephen Bunce]	110
["Mr." Avery and Dick Adams]	121
[Jonathan Wild]	126
[Nicholas Horner]	148
[Walter Tracey]	158
[Ned Wicks]	166
[Dick Turpin]	173
[William Parsons, the Baronet's Son]	241
[William Page]	249
[Isaac Darkin, alias Dumas]	264
[James Maclaine, the "Gentleman" Highwayman]	271
[John Poulter, alias Baxter]	301
[Paul Lewis]	316
[The Westons]	320
[Jack Rann: "Sixteen-string Jack"]	340
[Robert Ferguson—"Galloping Dick"]	353
[Jerry Abershaw]	361
[John and William Beatson]	370
[Robert Snooks]	376
[Huffum White]	384

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