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Read Ebook: Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 1 Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the Knights of the Road by Harper Charles G Charles George Hardy Paul Illustrator
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Ebook has 864 lines and 84337 words, and 18 pages
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
SEPARATE PLATES
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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
"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
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