[9] Knapp and Baldwin’s ‘Newgate Calendar,’ i. 160.
[10] See chap. viii. vol. i.
[11] By an act of William and Mary, £40 was offered for the apprehension and conviction of a highwayman; the same sum, by 6 and 7 William III. cap. 17, for conviction of a coiner or clipper; also, by 5 Anne, cap. 31, for conviction of a burglar or housebreaker. Ten pounds was the reward for the conviction of a sheep-stealer, or of a person uttering or paving away counterfeit money, or fabricating spurious copper coins.
[12] Evidence of John Vickery, a Bow Street runner, before committee on the police of the metropolis, 1816.
[13] The sobriquet of Gentleman Harry was also enjoyed by Henry Simms, a highwayman who frequented the Lewisham and Blackheath roads. On one occasion, when travelling into Northamptonshire on a rather fresh horse, a gentleman who was in a post-chaise remarked to him, “Don’t ride so hard, sir, or you’ll soon ride away all your estate.” “Indeed I shall not,” replied Simms, “for it lies in several counties,” and dismounting, he challenged the gentleman to stand, and robbed him of a hundred and two guineas.
[14] See ante, vol. i. p. 187.
[15] See ante, p. 29.
[16] See chapter iii., ‘Philanthropy in Newgate.’
[17] See ante, vol. i. p. 238, where there is an account of how Williams, Wilkes’ publisher, was put in the pillory.
[18] Grant’s ‘Newspaper Press,’ vol. i. 172.