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Survey of London Monograph
… the County of Essex, the wild legends locally current of highwaymen imprisoned in the cellars and hanged from a tree …
Justice in Eighteenth-Century Hackney
… case rested solely on identification evidence (both of the highwaymen and of the hat). A number of prosecution witnesses …
Old and New London
… towards Hackney Wick were low publichouses, the haunt of highwaymen and their Dulcineas. Dick Turpin was a constant …
Old and New London
… our grandfathers' memory, was so notoriously infested with highwaymen that few people would venture to peep into it even …
Old and New London
… confederacy with all the regular thieves, burglars, and highwaymen of the metropolis, whose depredations he prompted … the secrets of every notorious thief about London. All the highwaymen, shoplifters, and housebreakers knew that they … years past he had been a confederate with great numbers of highwaymen, pickpockets, housebreakers, shoplifters, and …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… make no Question but other Rogues, even Housebreakers and Highwaymen, would follow the Example of the Smugglers: While …
Old and New London
… a Committee of the House of Commons, on the decrease of highwaymen, and other questions connected with the police of …
Old and New London
… as it is almost certain that they were in league with the highwaymen who infested the road. As a proof of the former … adding, that he and his friend "had the appearance of highwaymen, for which the people of the house liked us all …
Old and New London
… the last century, in consequence of the numerous bands of highwaymen infesting the locality; and in the London Magazine …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… et al., for remainder of reward for conviction of two highwaymen read. To be considered when Mr. Paxton exhibits …