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Calendar of Treasury Books
… 13 last, being 40 l. each for reward for arresting four highwaymen: same to be by him distributed as follows as …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… of the Horse 66 13 4 to Mr. Argus et al. for arresting highwaymen 200 0 0 to Mr. Humfreys for the Pix dinner 89 9 0 …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… of Excise for co. Midd., which was taken from him by six highwaymen, in consideration that the same was vigorously …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… 4 last, in pursuance of the late Act for apprehending highwaymen; as by the certificate of Justice Rooksby. (Money …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… Thomas Chabenor alias Challenor and Michaell Purcell, two highwaymen convicted at Chelmsford assizes. They are entitled … Tho. Chabenor alias Challenor and Michael Purcell, two highwaymen, who were convicted at the General Gaol Delivery …
Old and New London
… as Mr. Larwood tells us in his "History of Sign-boards," "highwaymen, footpads, pickpockets, and low women beginning to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained steep and difficult, and was a haunt of highwaymen. 71 In 1810 the lower road through Farmoor to …
February 1650: An Act for removing all Papists, and all Officers and Soldiers of Fortune, and divers other Delinquents removed from London and Westminster, and confining them within five miles of their dwellings, and for encouragement of such as discover Priests and Jesuits, their Receivers and Abettors.
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… a late Act conferred and Ordained for the Apprehenders of Highwaymen; which each Sheriff where the Tryal and Conviction …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… wood until the 17th century 15 and later notorious for its highwaymen, it still contained more than a quarter of the … 1809. 38 The common's main claim to fame was as a haunt of highwaymen. It featured in literature from Tom Jones to Lord … roads around London reduced the robberies and by 1807 the highwaymen were already a legend. 57 The end, for highway …
Old and New London
… than three gallows-trees, bearing their ghastly fruit of highwaymen hung in chains. Then the road itself was very …