CONTENTS

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I.[Introductory: The General Declension from Outlaw to Highwayman, and thence to Footpad, Thief, and Burglar—Gamaliel Ratsey—Thomas Dun, of Dunstable]1
II.[Robin Hood and his Merry Men]23
III.[The "Hand of Glory"—Liability of Country Districts for Robberies—Exemption in Respect of Sunday Travelling]49
IV.[The Younger Sons—Judge Popham—Shakespearean Highwaymen—The "Cavalier" Brigands—A Seventeenth-Century Religious Tract]62
V.[Enormous Captures made by Highway Gangs—Bracy's Gang—Robberies on the Road to Newmarket—Advertisements of the Period—Augustin King—Plunder and Battle on the St. Albans Road—Soldiers as Highwaymen]75
VI.["Who Goes Home?" in the House of Commons—Footmen turn Highwaymen—Sir Simon Clarke—A Merry Freak and its Tragical Consequences—Amazing Poltroonery of Travellers—Advertisements of the Period—Highway Robbery in Piccadilly]92
VII.[The Highwaymen of Wiltshire and Salisbury Plain—Mr. Joseph Reader's Adventure—The Cherhill Gang—"Clibborn's Post"—Murder of Mr. Mellish—Close of the Highwayman Era]114
VIII.[The Literature of the Later Highwaymen]124
IX.[The Newgate Chaplains: Samuel Smith, Paul Lorrain, Thomas Pureney—The Prison Life]131
X.[The Watchman, and the Execution Bell of St. Sepulchre]148
XI.[Hangman's Highway: The Road to Tyburn]156
XII.[The Wayside Gibbets]199
XIII.[The Roads out of London]
[I. The Dover Road]213
[II. The Bath Road]221
XIV.[The Roads out of London (continued):]
[III. The Great North Road]245
[IV. The Oxford Road]255
[Moll Cutpurse: The "Roaring Girl"]262
[Captain Philip Stafford]269
[Captain James Hind, the "Prince of Prigs]273
[John Clavel, "Gentleman"]307
[William Davis, the Golden Farmer]317
[Thomas Simpson: "Old Mob"]333
[Claude Du Vall]342
[Francis Jackson, and his "Recantation"]356
[Captain Richard Dudley]387

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SEPARATE PLATES

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[Mulled Sack]Frontispiece
[The Footpads]4
[Robin Hood, under the Greenwood Tree]26
[Margaret of Anjou and the Bandit]37
[The "Hand of Glory": Beneath the Gallows Tree]50
["Open Lock, to the Dead Man's Knock"]53
[The Fight in Needwood Forest]78
["Who Goes Home?"]93
[Scandalous Scene at a Hertford Execution]143
[The Bellman]153
[Clever Tom Clinch going to Execution]169
[At the "Bowl"]181
[An Execution at Tyburn]187
[Execution of the Idle Apprentice at Tyburn]188
[Queen Henrietta Maria praying at Tyburn]191
["There he swings by the Roadside, in his Cage, in a contemplative Attitude, as though pondering on the Mysteries of Life and Death"]210
[Falstaff on Gad's Hill]218
[Exchange of Compliments]226
[John Hawkins and George Sympson robbing the Bristol Mail]235
[Murder of Mr. Steele on Hounslow Heath]243
[Spiggott pressed at Newgate]253
["Shelling the Peas"]261
[Moll Cutpurse]262
[Allen and Hind attack Oliver Cromwell's Carriage]281
[Hind robs Dr. Peters]289
[Hind shows his Disguise]301
[John Clavel]311
[The Golden Farmer and the Tinker]327
["Old Mob" robs the Duchess of Portsmouth]335
[Claude Du Vall dancing the Coranto on Hounslow Heath]348
[The Fight in the Hollow Road]360
[Captain Dudley on Hounslow Heath]388
[Captain Dudley and the Clergyman]392

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

["A Terrible and Seasonable Warning"]69
[The End of Wild Robert]70
[Dr. Newman and his Pills]107
[Eighteenth-Century Advertisement]108
[Lansdowne Passage]110
["Clibborn's Post"]119
[Decorative Headpiece from Pureney's "Life and Confession of Jonathan Wild and four other Malefactors"]139
[The "Execution Bell," St. Sepulchre]155
[The Road near Chester, 1675]200
[Caxton Gibbet]202
[Miles's Irons]211
[The "True Protracture" of Captain Hind]274
["Here now thou seest me as a Butcher's Boy"]276
[Captain Hind, the Cavalier Hero]284
["Next; here am I presented to thy view"]284
["Stand and Deliver! next in order comes"]287
["Behold! at last, the saddest sight of all"]301
[Execution of the Golden Farmer]329