[146] Louis Jeremiah Abershaw, hanged on Kennington Common, August 3, 1795. The Bald-faced Stag near Kingston was his headquarters.
[147a] See Introduction.
[147b] See Camden Pelham’s ‘Life and Adventures of Galloping Dick.’ Philadelphia, 1863.
[148] See p. 27, note.
[149] Gaol (cant).
[152] I.e., highwayman.
[161] John Broughton, pugilist (1705-1789).
[162a] April 11, 1750.
[162b] At Broughton’s funeral Johnson and Big Ben acted as his pall-bearers, with Humphries, Mendoza, Ward, and Ryan.
[163a] His real name was Francis Arden (Kn.).